Directorate of Contracting, US Army Garrison, Hawaii, Attn: APVG-GKC, Fort Shafter, HI 96858-5025

S -- PALM TREE PRUNING AND TRIMMING SOL DAHC77-97-R-0040 DUE 102097 POC Contract Specialist C. Jaber (808) 438-6535 X 203 FAX (808) 438-6563 Furnish all labor, supervision, tools, materials, equipment and transportation necessary to provide palm tree pruning and trimming services at various Army installations, Industrial and Family Housing areas maintained by the U.S. Army Garrison, Island of Oahu, Hawaii. Contractor shall utilize standard arboricultural practices and submit a pruning and maintenance plan for the estimated quantities of various single-trunk palm species. Period of performance is 01 Jan 98 through 31 Dec 98 with three prepriced option periods. This procurement is set-aside 100% for small business. A firm is considered to be a small business if its average annual gross receipts for the past three years do not exceed $5.0 million. SIC 0783 -- Ornamental Shrub and Tree Services. Issue date is on or about September 29, 1997. Telephone requests will not be honored. Solicitation charge is $7.00 each. Payment by check or money order shall be made payable to DFAS, HONOLULU, OPLOC. Checks and money orders must be sent ot the Directorate of Contracting, ATTN: APVG-GKC, Fort Shafter, Hawaii 96858-5025. Remittance is not refundable. The current contractor is Ching's Nursery Inc., P.O. Box 669, Pearl City, HI 96782. Current annual contract price is $141,900.00. There were 13 bids received under previous solicitation. Total bids (2 year period) were Hawaii On-Call Services $160,600.00, Emerald Maint $185,000.00, K.P.M. Equipment $191,320.00, Ching's Nursery $246,000.00 (awardee), F.G. Landscape $258,286.50, Nilasoni Landscape $264,682.80, Diamond Head Tree Service $255,000.00, ETM Services $346,056.00, Technology Services $383,456.00, Landscape Hawaii $468,280.00, Trees of Hawaii $597,600.00, Jacobsen & Sons $633,090.00, NPS Corp. $1,387,609.20. (0231)

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