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FBO DAILY - FEDBIZOPPS ISSUE OF JUNE 28, 2015 FBO #4965
DOCUMENT

99 -- NEW CONTRACT, OFF-SITE BLANK/INSCRIPTIONS OF (YA) FOR NATIONWIDE DISTRIBUTION, SUBJECT TO AVAILABILITY OF FY16 FUNDS - Attachment

Notice Date

6/26/2015
 

Notice Type

Attachment
 

NAICS

327991 — Cut Stone and Stone Product Manufacturing
 

Contracting Office

Department of Veterans Affairs;NCA Contracting Service;75 Barrett Heights Rd. Suite 309;Stafford VA 22556
 

ZIP Code

22556
 

Solicitation Number

VA78615R0301
 

Response Due

7/21/2015
 

Archive Date

9/4/2015
 

Point of Contact

Henry Dukes
 

Small Business Set-Aside

Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business
 

Description

100% SERVICE-DISABLED VETERAN-OWNED SMALL BUSINESS SET ASIDE The National Cemetery Administration is soliciting offers under Solicitation No. VA786-15-R-0301 to Supply Upright Granite Headstones, (Old Style) with Raised Lettering Inscribed (13" x 42" x 4") for Nationwide Distribution. This contract shall include all labor and materials necessary to furnish inscribed upright Granite headstones on a nationwide basis. Contractor shall be responsible for the following: "Provide all labor and material needed to package and palletize, if necessary shipments of the inscribed monuments. "Shipments shall be FOB Origin, contractor's facility, using Government contract carriers. "Contractor shall be responsible for scheduling, through transportation carrier's website, shipment pick-up and the generation of required shipping documentation. "Provide all labor and equipment to load pallets or singles onto the carrier's vehicle. "After notifying the government contracted carriers for pickup, provide email notification within 24 hours if carriers fail to pick up as arranged. "Contractor shall have twenty (20) calendar days following the day an order is sent to the contractor until the monuments are manufactured, inscribed, packaged and transferred to a government transportation carrier. "Performance period will be from October 1, 2015 through September 30, 2016 with (4) one year option to extend the terms of the contract through September 30, 2020. Granite must conform to the definition of Granite as defined by ASTM C119. Granite is to be standard grade, fine- medium grained material as classified by the National Building Granite Quarries Association. Granite must be free from cracks, seams, or starts, chips, pits, or other defects that would impair its strength, durability or readability of the inscription. Markers containing two or more feldspar phenocrysts, which exceed 6 mm, in any direction will be rejected. Granite must be a uniform shade of light grey color of (N6 or higher) as judged against the (Munsell Neutral Value Scale, Matte 31 - step scale). The front, back, top and sides of each monument must be uniformly machine honed with an 80 grit pad or stone to a smooth satin finish, free of scratches, saw marks, rust spots and skips. All edges and corners shall be uniformly rounded with a smooth 3/8 inch eased edge aris. The bottom shall be a smooth sawn finish. All stone shall be obtained from quarries within the United States having adequate capacity and facilities to meet the specified requirements. Cutting and finishing shall be done by a manufacturer equipped to process the material promptly and in strict accordance with these specifications. If the contractor changes from the original approved quarry to another quarry during the contract term, an additional sample must be submitted to the MPS Program Support Unit for approval prior to using the new stone to produce blanks. Each monument shall be free from defects in workmanship. Chips, cracks, open seams, or abraded edges, shall not be permitted and the repair or patching of any such defects is prohibited and shall be cause for rejection. The blanks shall be free of ink, oil, crayon marks, dirt, coatings, sealers and stone dust. Stone supplied under this contract shall conform to the following specifications and physical requirements. Stone shall be tested, as listed below, by an approved testing laboratory and test results shall be submitted to the Memorial Programs Service, Program Support Unit for approval prior to the production of the sample. Testing is required only once and shall be from a representative sample of the quarry. Testing results are required for new sources of stone. NOTE: Testing results are not required for the sources in the following areas: "Washington County, Vermont "Elberton County, Georgia "Madera County, California "Surrey County, North Carolina The unit price is all-inclusive and covers the complete inscription ordered, regardless of the total number of lines or characters. The unit price shall be the total price paid for each monument manufactured and inscribed, FOB Origin, contractor's facility. This all-inclusive price includes all items, product and service, as shown on drawings. Electronic solicitations will be available for download from Federal Business Opportunities http://www.FedBizOpps.gov on or around June 29, 2015. Responses to the solicitation are due by 2:00 p.m. on or about July 21, 2015. Offeror's are advised that they are responsible for obtaining amendments to the solicitation which will be available at FedBizOpps. Evaluation criteria for this award will be in Lowest Price Technically Acceptable (LPTA). All proposals must be submitted through the Department of Veterans Affairs - Electronic Management System (eCMS) Vendor Portal website in order to be considered for award. https://www.vendorportal.ecms.va.gov. Please go to the VA eCMS Vendor Portal website at https://www.vendorportal.ecms.va.gov to register. Once on the webpage, proceed to the Vendor Portal Login section located on the far left side of the webpage and click on 'Request a user account' to register. In the event an Offeror is unable to submit a proposal through the Vendor Portal domain, prior to the proposal closing date, contact the VAAS helpdesk at 1-877-634-3739, or via email at VA.Acquisition.Systems@va.gov. Submission of proposals through email will not be accepted. Proposal transmission/uploads must be completed by the date/time specified. Late or incomplete Proposals will not be considered. No telephone requests will be accepted. Any questions should be sent via email to: Henry Dukes at: henry.dukes@va.gov by July 08, 2015.
 

Web Link

FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/VA/VANCA/VANCA/VA78615R0301/listing.html)
 

Document(s)

Attachment
 

File Name: VA786-15-R-0301 VA786-15-R-0301_1.docx (https://www.vendorportal.ecms.va.gov/FBODocumentServer/DocumentServer.aspx?DocumentId=2133079&FileName=VA786-15-R-0301-000.docx)

Link: https://www.vendorportal.ecms.va.gov/FBODocumentServer/DocumentServer.aspx?DocumentId=2133079&FileName=VA786-15-R-0301-000.docx

 

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Place of Performance

Address: NATIONWIDE (VARIOUS LOCATIONS)

Zip Code: VARIOUS
 

Record

SN03778418-W 20150628/150626235319-adbf9fdb9d78ee882f3272d7f3a71802 (fbodaily.com)
 

Source

FedBizOpps Link to This Notice
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