NASA/George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, Procurement Office, Marshall Space Flight Center, AL 35812

Z -- GROUNDS MAINTENANCE SERVICES SOL 8-Q-7-AB-30972 POC John A. Busbey, Contract Specialist, Phone (205) 544-0896, Fax (205) 544-4401, Email john.busbey@msfc.nasa.gov -- T. Jerry Williams, Contracting Officer, Phone (205) 544-0295, Fax (205) 544-4401, Email jerry.williams@msfc.nasa.gov WEB: Click here for the latest information about this notice, http://procurement.nasa.gov/EPS/MSFC/date.html#8-Q-7-AB-30972. E-MAIL: John A. Busbey, john.busbey@msfc.nasa.gov. NASA/MSFC plans to issue a Request for Offer (RFO) for Grounds Maintenance Services. The contractor shall furnish all labor, supervision, equipment, and materials necessary to provide grounds maintenance services in accordance with the requirements specified herein. MSFC consists of approximately 1,841 acres, situated wholly within the confines of Redstone Arsenal. This acreage consists of 30 acres of highly visible, intensive care lawns, 230 improved acres, 265 unimproved acres, 1,316 acres of woodland and pasture, and two cemeteries. This contract is to include all trees, ground cover bed, shrubs and hedges. All services provided shall be in compliance with NASA and Redstone Arsenal regulations, paying particular concern with regards to wetland disturbance and erosion/run off control. Interface shall also be required between the contractor and the Redstone Arsenal Forester, with regards to the removal of trees -- The grounds maintenance services to be provided include cutting grass, edging, collection and disposal of litter and trash, vegetation cutting and removal, underbrushing, grassing, sodding, sprigging, erosion control, tree and shrub pruning, tree and stump removal, irrigation, ditch cleaning, operation and maintenance of irrigation systems, drainage control, maintenance/repair of all hand operated groundskeeping equipment and other miscellaneous services intended to improve the appearance of the grounds of MSFC. All work shall be performed in accordance with MSFC procedures to ensure safe conditions. Special scheduling requirements shall be observed in intensive care lawn areas. Any grounds maintenance schedule may be adjusted for special events, preparation for inclement weather or recovery from any natural disaster. The contractor shall provide professional horticulturist services. The contractor shall maintain a Grounds Maintenance Map that will delineate MSFC in its entirety, coded to indicate the type of grounds maintenance service each parcel requires. All collected remains from cutting, pruning, mulching, vegetation and pest removal shall be transported to the Post Landfill and/or other approved designated area of Redstone Arsenal. Movement of tractors, mowers or other slow moving vehicles over MSFC roads during peak traffic periods shall be prohibited. Worksite is the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, AL. The standard industrial classification code for this procurement is (0782). Period of performance is for a 1-year base period with four 1-year options. The offer due date will be contained in the solicitation. This is a Small Business Set-Aside. The resulting contract will be a firm-fixed-price performance based contract. All responsible business sources may submit an offer which shall be considered by the agency. This procurement is being conducted under the NASA MidRange Pilot Test Program approved by the Office of Federal Procurement Policy. The anticipated release date of the RFO is on or about March 21, 1997, with an anticipated offer due date of on or about April 21, 1997. Anombudsman has been appointed -- See Note "B". The solicitation and any documents related to this procurement will be available over the Internet. These documents will be in ASCII or RTF format and will reside on a World-Wide Web (WWW) server, which may be accessed using a WWW browser application. The WWW address, or URL, of the NASA/MSFC Business Opportunities home page is http://procurement.nasa.gov/EPS/MSFC/class.html. Prospective offerors shall notify this office of their intent to submit an offer. It is the offeror's responsibility to monitor this site for the release of the solicitation and amendments (if any). Potential offerors will be responsible for downloading their own copy of the solicitation and amendments (if any). Hard copies may be obtained from the identified point of contact; however, the closing date for the hard copy received shall be the same as the solicitation, inclusive of any amendments, released on the Internet. Any referenced numbered notes can be viewed at the following URL: http://genesis.gsfc.nasa.gov/nnotes.htm. (0066)

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