SOURCES SOUGHT
Z -- Arlington National Cemetery (ANC), Headstone Cleaning
- Notice Date
- 6/26/2008
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 561790
— Other Services to Buildings and Dwellings
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Army, Defense Contracting Command-Washington, Contracting Center of Excellence, Army Contracting Agency (ACA), Contracting Center of Excellence, Army Contracting Agency (ACA), ATTN: Policy and Compliance, 5200 Army Pentagon, Room 1D245, Washington, DC 20310-5200
- ZIP Code
- 20310-5200
- Solicitation Number
- W91WAW-R-0088
- Response Due
- 7/8/2008
- Archive Date
- 9/6/2008
- Point of Contact
- dyelder, 703.692.1409
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned
- Description
- The US Army Contracting Agency, Contracting Center of Excellence (CCE) at the Pentagon, on behalf of the Arlington National Cemetery (ANC), General Management Department, is seeking all potential service disabled veteran owned (SDVO) businesses and small businesses to procure services to clean approximately 225,000 gravestones annually in the cemetery from approximately late March through mid-December. This notice is open ONLY to all certified and qualified service disabled veteran owned businesses (SDVO) and small businesses with NAICS code 561790 with a size standard of $6.5 million. A firm fixed price type contract is anticipated; with a period of performance of a 1 1-year base period and 4 1-year option periods. The place of performance will be at the Arlington National Cemetery (ANC) located in Arlington, Virginia. No Security Clearance is required. Interested service disabled veteran owned businesses (SDVO) and small businesses are encouraged to submit their capability packages detailing their experience in the tasks under the Performance Work Statement (PWS) (retrieve PWS from CCE website: http://dccw.hqda.pentagon.mil/rfp/rfp_1.asp under the number W91WAW-08-R-0088) and answering the following questions: (1)What is your companys experience, if any, with the cleaning of stone surfaces? (2)What is the expertise of your personnel intended for this project, particularly as it relates to high-pressure cleaning with water? (3)What is your plan for staffing? Include approximate number of personnel, positions held, and relevant experience. (4)How will you adjust your staffing plan to compensate for fluctuations in work assignments? For example, after inclement weather, what personnel or resource actions will you take to ensure work is completed in a timely fashion? (5)How will you ensure rapid response for assigned emergency work? Emergency scenarios could include dirty headstones cause by storms, burials, and/or fallen trees. (6) What quality assurance method(s) will be employed? All capability statements must be submitted by July 8, 2008 at 2:00PM EST to Dionne N. Yelder at dionne.yelder@hqda.army.mil. Please limit the length of packages to ten (10) pages; packages over 10 pages will not be evaluated. Also, provide your companys name, point of contact (POC), contact information (company and email address, and phone number), and business size under the above NAICS code to assist us in maintaining a list of interested service disabled veteran owned businesses (SDVO) and small businesses for this potential requirement. Based on an evaluation of the capability packages, the Government will be able to determine if at least two responsible service disabled veteran owned businesses (SDVO) and/or at least two small business concerns are capable of performing this requirement. If so, the requirement will be solicited as a 100% set-aside for service disabled veteran owned businesses (SDVO) or 100% set-aside for small business concerns. If capability packages are not received from at least two responsible service disabled veteran owned businesses (SDVO) or two small business concerns by the response date, or if the Government determines that no service disabled veteran owned businesses (SDVO) or small businesses are capable of performing this requirement, this requirement will be solicited under full and open procedures. NOTE: This notice is for information and planning purposes only and is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government (a contract may not be awarded as a result of this combined sources sought/synopsis). No other synopsis will be posted for this requirement. However, a written Request for Proposal (RFP) is anticipated to be posted on or about July 31, 2008. The RFP would be accessible through FedBizOpps website (www.fedbizopps.gov) and from CCEs homepage at: http://dccw.hqda.pentagon.mil/rfp/rfp_1.asp under the number W91WAW-08-R-0088. No hard copies of the RFP will be issued; all amendments will be posted and must be retrieved from this website. Also, the RFP will include a deadline for questions that must be submitted sooner than the deadline and would only be accepted in writing (via email) to the POC identified below. No solicitation mailing list will be compiled. Vendors are responsible for all costs for producing and mailing their proposals. The POC for this notice is Dionne N. Yelder, Senior Contract Specialist Support Contractor, at 703.692-1409 or dionne.yelder@hqda.army.mil ; or Donald Leath, Contracting Officer, at 703.695.2562 or donald.leath@hqda.army.mil.
- Web Link
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Arlington National Cemetery (ANC) Arlington National Cemetery (ANC) Arlington VA
- Zip Code: 20310-5200
- Zip Code: 20310-5200
- Record
- SN01601997-W 20080628/080626221015-5bf4b772efb972344fee907720b96466 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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