Regional Grounds Maintenance and Landscaping Services Hampton Roads AOR
THIS IS A SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE ONLY. This is not a request for proposal and no contract will be awarded from this notice. There will not be a solicitation or specifications available at this time. This notice is a market research tool used for planning purposes only to determine the availability and capability of small business sources.
Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC), Mid-Atlantic is seeking Small Businesses, Small Disadvantaged Businesses, Women-Owned Small Businesses, Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses, certified HUBZone Small Businesses and certified 8(a) Businesses, with current relevant qualifications, experience, personnel and capability to perform the proposed services. Upon review of industry response to this Sources Sought Notice, the Government will determine whether a set-aside acquisition in lieu of full and open competition is in the best interest of the Government.
A Facility Support, Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ), Performance-Based contract with Recurring and Non-Recurring services is anticipated. The total contract term, including the exercise of any options, shall not exceed sixty (60) months. Source selection procedures will be used to evaluate and select the proposal that provides best value to the Government. The Contractor shall provide all labor, management, supervision, tools, materials, and equipment necessary to provide grounds maintenance and landscaping services located at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek- Fort Story, Virginia Beach, Va., and Naval Weapons Station Yorktown, Yorktown, Va. Additional locations within a 50-mile radius of these locations may be added by modification to the contract.
General Work Requirements:
The intent of 1503050 Grounds Maintenance and Landscaping is to specify the requirements related to lawn maintenance, vegetation removal, and debris removal within installation grounds parcels designated as improved, semi-improved and unimproved areas. Services include, but are not limited to, mowing and trimming, edging, irrigation systems maintenance. Weed control is intended to be primarily accomplished by application of herbicides.
All Small Businesses, Small Disadvantaged Businesses, Women-Owned Small Businesses, Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses, certified HUBZone Small Businesses and certified 8(a) Businesses are encouraged to respond. The Government will not pay for any information solicited. Respondents will not be notified of the results of the evaluation. The appropriate NAICS code is 561730, size standard $8 million. It is requested that interested parties submit a brief capabilities package, not to exceed five (5) pages. The capabilities package shall address, at a minimum, the following:
Examples of projects worked within the last five (5) years of similar size, scope and complexity as the work indicated. Knowledge of the state regulations within the AOR. Indicate whether your firm worked as a prime or subcontractor, contract value, brief description of how the referenced contract relates to the work described, and a Government / Agency point of contact.
Size: An operating/maintenance service contract with a cumulative value of at least $1,500,000.00 or greater per year. Indefinite Quantity / Indefinite Delivery values for infrequent work will not be considered similar in size.
Scope: Demonstrate the ability to provide all labor, management, supervision, tools, materials and equipment for grounds maintenance and landscaping services. Services include, but are not limited to, mowing and trimming, edging, irrigation systems maintenance. Weed control is intended to be primarily accomplished by application of herbicides.
Complexity: Demonstrate the ability to provide qualified personnel, technical knowledge, experience and skills required to efficiently provide grounds maintenance and landscaping services. In addition, demonstrate the ability to manage competing priorities in order to support customer demands.
(2) Company profile, to include number of offices and number of employees per office, annual receipts, office location(s), DUNS number, and CAGE code.
(3) Please indicate if you are a Small Business, Small Disadvantaged Business, Women-Owned Small Business, Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business, certified HUBZone Small Business, or certified 8(a) Business.
(4) In order to assist us in determining the geographic boundaries of the contract(s) necessary to cover the services of the proposed requirement within our AOR, please identify the geographic area in which you can operate in an efficient and economical manner.
The capabilities package for this sources sought notice is not expected to be a proposal, but rather, a short statement regarding the company’s ability to demonstrate existing, or developed, expertise and experience in relation to this proposed contract. Any commercial brochures or currently existing marketing material may also be submitted with the capabilities package. Submission of a capabilities package is not a prerequisite to any potential future offerings, but participation will assist the Navy in tailoring requirements to be consistent with industry capabilities.
Responses to this Sources Sought Notice shall be submitted electronically. Please email to whitney.weireter@navy.mil. Responses must be received no later than 2:00 PM Eastern Time on 4 September 2020. LATE RESPONSES WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. Questions regarding this Sources Sought Notice may be addressed to Whitney Weireter at the above email or via telephone at (757) 341-1645.
N4008520R0148 Department of the Navy Naval Facilities Engineering Command
8/19/20, 1:50 PM Regional Grounds Maintenance and Landscaping Services Hampton Roads AOR
Contractor shall provide all labor, management, supervision, tools, materials, and equipment necessary to provide grounds maintenance and landscaping services located at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek- Fort Story, Virginia Beach, Va., and Naval Weapons Station Yorktown, Yorktown, Va. Additional locations within a 50-mile radius of these locations may be added by modification to the contract. The services include, but are not limited to, mowing, trimming, edging, trash and debris removal, aeration, de-thatching, fertilization, irrigation systems operation and maintenance, tree maintenance, tree control, vegetation and weed control within the installation.
N4008520R0148 Department of the Navy Naval Facilities Engineering Command
12/17/20, 3:46 PM Regional Grounds Maintenance and Landscaping Services Hampton Roads AOR
This is not a request for either a quote or proposal, or an invitation for bid. The intent of this pre-solicitation synopsis is to notify potential offerors of a Facility Support, Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ), Performance-Based contract with Recurring and Non-Recurring services to provide Grounds Maintenance and Landscaping Services at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek- Fort Story, Virginia Beach, Va., and Naval Weapons Station Yorktown, Yorktown, Va.
GENERAL WORK REQUIREMENTS:
The contractor will be required to furnish all labor, management, supervision, tools, materials, and equipment required to provide grounds maintenance and landscaping services located at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek- Fort Story, Virginia Beach, Va., and Naval Weapons Station Yorktown, Yorktown, Va.
The intent of this contract is to perform Grounds Maintenance and Landscaping Services. The work includes mowing, trimming, edging, trash and debris removal, aeration, de-thatching, fertilization, irrigation systems operation and maintenance, tree maintenance, tree control, vegetation and weed control within the installation and other services required as by the RFP.
The work identified is to be provided by means of a Facility Support, Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ), Performance-Based contract with Recurring and Non-Recurring services. Source Selection procedures will be used to select the proposal that provides the lowest price and is technically acceptable to the Government. Offerors will be evaluated using the Lowest Priced Technically Acceptable (LPTA) Method.
In order to permit efficient competition, the Navy will utilize the following methodology: Proposals will initially be screened for price and placed in order of price (lowest price to highest price). The Navy will utilize the following methodology: Proposals will initially be screened for price and placed in order of price, from lowest priced to highest price. The Navy will then evaluate the technical factors of the lowest priced proposal. The Navy will make award to the Lowest Priced Technically Acceptable proposal. However, if the lowest priced proposal is not found to be technically acceptable, the Navy, at its sole discretion, reserves the right to increase the number of proposals it will review, until the Government identifies a technically acceptable proposal. Accordingly, under this methodology, the technical factors of some proposals may not be evaluated by the Navy. If discussions are deemed necessary by the Contracting Officer, all proposals will be evaluated (both technical and price) for the purpose of establishing a competitive range.
Proposers are advised that the Government intends to evaluate proposals and award without discussions or any contact concerning the proposals received. Therefore, proposals should be submitted initially on the most FAVORABLE terms. Proposers should not assume that they will be contacted or afforded an opportunity to qualify, discuss or revise their proposals.
The solicitation and resulting contract award will be a performance-based service acquisition made to the responsible offeror whose proposal, conforming to the Request for Proposals (RFP), will be advantageous to the Government price and other evaluation factors considered. The offeror’s proposal shall contain a response to each of the evaluation factors and shall be in the form prescribed by the solicitation. The solicitation requires the evaluation of price and the following non-price factors: Factor 1 – Technical Approach/Management, Factor 2 – Corporate Experience, Factor 3 – Safety and Factor 4 – Past Performance. NOTE: Offerors MUST be evaluated as technically ACCEPTABLE under factors 1, 2, 3 and 4 in order to be considered technically acceptable overall.
Factor 2 Corporate Experience and Factor 4 Past Performance: The Offeror shall submit projects that are similar in size, scope and complexity to the solicitation.
Size: An operating/maintenance service contract with a cumulative value of at least $1,200,000.00 or greater per year. Indefinite Quantity / Indefinite Delivery values for infrequent work will not be considered similar in size.
Scope: Demonstrate the ability to provide all labor, management, supervision, tools, materials and equipment for grounds maintenance and landscaping services. Services include mowing, trimming, edging, trash and debris removal, aeration, de-thatching, fertilization, irrigation systems operation and maintenance, tree maintenance, tree control, vegetation and weed control within the installation and other services as required by the RFP.
Complexity: Demonstrate the ability to provide qualified personnel, technical knowledge, experience and skills required to efficiently provide grounds maintenance and landscaping services. In addition, demonstrate the ability to manage competing priorities in order to support customer demands.
NOTE: Offerors MUST be evaluated as technically ACCEPTABLE under factors 1, 2, 3 and 4 in order to be considered technically acceptable overall.
Offers shall be submitted for the performance of work for a period of one year. However, the initial term of the contract may be for a period of less than one year. The Government has the option to extend the term of the contract services for additional periods of one to twelve months. The contract will be for a base period with 4 one-year option periods, which, cumulatively, will not exceed sixty months.
The proposed procurement will be issued as a NAVFAC Mid-Atlantic Electronic Facilities Support Contract with online ordering capability using FedMall for the Non-Recurring Exhibit Line Item Numbers (ELINs). Acceptance of Government Purchase Credit Cards is required along with the purchase of FedMall Encrypted software. The North American Classification System (NAICS) code is 561730, the size standard is $8 Million.
The proposed procurement listed herein is restricted to Women Owned Small Business concerns. The RFP will be made available in electronic format only (Adobe Acrobat (.pdf)) and will be posted on the Beta SAM website around 15 December 2020. The estimated proposal due date shall be at least 30 days after the RFP is posted. (Contractors - Technical inquiries must be submitted in writing to Ebonie Robinson (ebonie.robinson@navy.mil ) 10 days prior to the RFP due date.
The site address is https://beta.sam.gov . Notifications of any updates or amendments to the solicitation will be posted on the website only. Contractors are encouraged to register on the Beta SAM website. Only registered contractors will be notified by e-mail when amendments to the solicitation are issued. IT IS THE SOLE RESPONISBILITY OF THE OFFEROR TO CONTINUALLY VIEW THE WEBSITE FOR CHANGES. All prospective contractors are required to register in the System for Award Management (SAM) database. Failure to register in the SAM database will make an offeror ineligible for award. Offerors and contractors may obtain information on registration and annual confirmation requirements via the Internet at https://www.sam.gov/portal/SAM/
N4008520R0148 Department of the Navy Naval Facilities Engineering Command
11/25/20, 9:41 AM