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J -- INSPECTION, MAINTENANCE, AND REPAIR SERVICES FOR THE DOD CLASSIFIED WASTE FACILITY SOL MDA946-98-R-A009 DUE 070698 POC Ms. Tina M. Nevitt, Contract Specialist (703) 588-7145; Ms. Linda D. Luczak, Contracting Officer (703) 588-7147 This ammends the announcement posted January 9, 1998 as follows: The Department of Defense (DOD), Washington Headquarters Service seeks responses from qualified contractors capable of providing inspections, maintenance, and repair services for the DOD Classified Waste Facility. It is anticipated that the resultant contract will be for a base period of one (1) year with four (4) option periods of one (1) year each, for a total of five (5) years. Government Security Clearances will be required. It is the Government's intent to use the two-step procedure as outlined in FAR 14.503. The contractor;s technical proposal submitted shall give in detail the contractor's description on how he intends to inspect, maintain, and service the equipment at the classified waste facility. Information included should contain examples of the contractors past performance, management and operation skills, as well as show that the company and employees have the required training and skills required by the state of Virginia and any other pretinent government agency in order to perform the services required. The evaluation of the technical proposals will include the technical acceptance of the proposal inaccordance with standard industry practices and the recommendations of the equipment manufacturer, as well as the past experiene/performance of the company, and the skill/training of the proposed employees. Technical proposals SHALL NOT contain any prices and/or pricing information. Proposals are due at 3:00 pm (local time) on July 6, 1998. In the second step, only bids based upon technical proposals determined to be acceptable, either initially or as a result of discussions, will be considered for award, and the each bid in the second step must be based on the bidder's own techical proposal. Offerors should submit proposals that are acceptable without additional explanation or information. the government may make a final determination regarding a proposal's acceptability solely on the basis of the proposal as submitted, and the Government may proceed with the second step without requesting further information from any offeror; however, the government may request additional information from offerors of proposals that it considers reqasonably susceptible of being made acceptable, and may discuss proposals with their offerors. A notice of unacceptability will be forwarded to the offeror upon completion of the proposal evaluation and final determination of unacceptability. Only one technical proposal may be submitted by each offeror. There will be a site visit of the DOD Classified Waste Facility. All prospective contractors are highly encouraged to attend the site visit. For information on the site visit (date, place, etc.), please contact Ms. Tina M. Nevitt at (703) 588-7145 or (703) 588-8418 (FAX). All requests for the procurement package must be made in writing. Facsimile requests will be accepted, but no telephone requests will be accepted. This procurement is open to both small and large businesses. (0148)

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