This federal contract award is for the manufacture, inscription, and delivery of U1 and U5 headstones to national, state, and private cemeteries in the Pacific District, both within the continental United States (CONUS) and outside the continental United States (OCONUS). The contract was awarded to American Veteran Contracting Solutions LLC, a service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB) and Hispanic American-owned limited liability company based in Gilbert, Arizona.
The contract, valued at $1,081,538.02, is a firm fixed-price delivery order awarded by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) National Cemetery Administration, a civilian federal agency. This award is not set aside and is part of the company's broader portfolio of Indefinite Delivery Contracts (IDCs) with the VA, which include manufacturing and delivering various memorial products such as granite markers and marble headstones. The most substantial of these IDCs is valued at $38,612,746.75 and covers the full range of memorial products, while the other two IDCs focus specifically on U1 and U5 upright marble headstones ($5,971,660.21) and U1 blanks ($33,438,330.00). These IDCs provide the VA with the ability to issue multiple task orders, ensuring a consistent supply of high-quality memorial items for veterans' burial services.