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

Z -- GROUNDS MAINTENANCE SOL 9-1-0-A2-40080 POC Elizabeth P. Vaughn, Contract Specialist, Phone (256) 544-7152, Fax (256) 544-1693, Email paige.vaughn@msfc.nasa.gov -- Timothy P. Crabb, Contracting Officer, Phone (256) 544-0365, Fax (256) 544-9162, Email tim.crabb@msfc.nasa.gov WEB: Click here for the latest information about this notice, http://nais.msfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/EPS/bizops.cgi?gr=D&;pin=62#9-1-0-A2- 40080. E-MAIL: Elizabeth P. Vaughn, paige.vaughn@msfc.nasa.gov. Synopsis for Grounds Maintenance Services NASA/MSFC plans to issue a Request for Proposals (RFP) 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 approximately 30 acres of highly improved lawns (Maintenance Level I), 230 improved acres (Maintenance Level II), 235 unimproved acres (Maintenance Level III), 30 acres that is required to be cut three (3) times per year (Maintenance Level IV), 1,316 acres of woodland and pasture (if cutting is required, this will be a special task), and two cemeteries. This contract is to include all grounds except landscape beds and hedges. All services provided shall be in compliance with NASA and Redstone Arsenal regulations, paying particular concern with regards to wetland disturbance, erosion and run-off control. The grounds maintenance services to be provided include grass cutting, fertilization, irrigation (including system maintenance), maintenance around the exterior of buildings where there are no landscaped beds, soil analysis, vegetation control, pruning of trees (excluding ornamental trees in beds), integrated pest and herbicide management (except in landscaped beds), leaf and debris removal, as well as special tasks to improve the appearance of MSFC. All work shall be performed in accordance with MSFC Safety procedures to ensure safe conditions. Any grounds maintenance services scheduled may be adjusted to support special events, prepare for inclement weather or recover from any natural disaster. The contractor shall maintain a Grounds Maintenance Map (initially provided by the Government) that will delineate MSFC in its entirety; coded to indicate the type of ground maintenance service each parcel requires. All collected remains from cutting, pruning, mulching, vegetation andpest removal shall be transported to the Redstone Arsenal Landfill or other approved designated areas. Work site is the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, AL. The standard industrial classification code for this procurement is 0782. The period of performance in the solicitation is one (1) year with four 1-year options. 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 that shall be considered by the agency. The anticipated release date of the RFO is on or about December 15, 1999, with an anticipated offer due date of on or about January 18, 1999. An ombudsman 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 form 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://procuremetn.nasa.gov/EPS/MSFC/calss.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 reviewed at the following URL: http://genesis.gsfc.nas.gov/nnotes.htm . This procurement is a total small business set-aside. See Note 1. The SIC code and the small business size standard for this procurement are 0782. The offeror shall state in their offer their size status for this procurement. All qualified responsible business sources may submit an offer which shall be considered by the agency. The DPAS rating for this procurement is DO-09 . Questions regarding this acquisition must be submitted in writing no later than Dec 10, 1999. An ombudsman has been appointed -- See Internet Note "B". Posted 12/03/99 (D-SN405678). (0337)

Loren Data Corp. http://www.ld.com (SYN# 0106 19991207\Z-0009.SOL)