Capital Region Tree Maintenance Sources Sought.pdf

SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE

For

Capital Region Tree Maintenance Services at Belton, Canyon, Georgetown, Granger, Somerville, and Stillhouse Hollow Lakes

This is a SOURCES SOUGHT notice; a market survey for information only, to be used for preliminary planning purposes. THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION FOR

PROPOSALS AND NO CONTRACT WILL BE AWARDED FROM THIS

NOTICE. No reimbursement will be made for any costs associated with providing information or industry response to this notice or any follow up information requests. Not responding to this notice does not preclude participation in any future procurement. If a solicitation is released, it will be synopsized in the System for Award Management (SAM). It is the responsibility of potential offerors to monitor SAM for additional information pertaining to this requirement.

The acquisition strategy will be determined based on responses received from this notice and/or other market research methods.

The purpose of this notice is to gain knowledge of interest, capabilities and qualifications of industry, to include the Small Business Community: Small Business, Section 8(a), Historically Underutilized Business Zones (HUB-Zone), Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB), or Economically Disadvantaged Women-Owned Small Business (EDWOSB). All are highly encouraged to respond.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers – Fort Worth District has been tasked to solicit for and award an Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IQIQ) non-personal services contract to provide tree maintenance services Belton, Canyon, Georgetown, Granger, Somerville, and Stillhouse Hollow Lakes. Anticipated project will be a competitive, firm-fixed price Single Award Task Order Contract (SATOC)] contract procured in accordance with FAR Parts 12 and 13.

The Government is seeking experienced firms for the following scope of work:

The Contractor shall provide all personnel, equipment, supplies, facilities, transportation, tools, materials, supervision and other items and non-personal services necessary to perform tree storm damage removal, trimming, dead tree removal, stump grinding and boundary line clearing. The objective of these services shall be the removal of hazardous limbs, trees and debris in recreation or public lands. The Contractor shall dispose of tree debris as specified by task order, either through secure transport and disposal in designated areas on Government Property, chipping on-site or off-site disposal. All tree sizes for removal will be determined by diameter at breast height (DBH).

Minimum experience requirements: Experience with tree maintenance https://www.acquisition.gov/dfars/subpart-204.73-safeguarding-covered-defense-information-and-cyber-incident-reporting https://www.acquisition.gov/far/52.204-26

Minimum equipment required includes equipment capable of performing tree maintenance services required in the Draft Performance Work Statement.

The contract period of performance is for a base year and four option years.

The North American Industry Classification System code for this procurement is 561730 Landscaping Services which has a small business size standard of $9.5M.

The Product Service Code S208 Housekeeping-Landscaping/Groundskeeping.

Small Businesses are reminded under FAR 52.219-14, Limitations on Subcontracting.

Firms will not pay more than 50 percent of the amount paid by the Government for contract performance to subcontractors that are not similarly situated entities.

Any work that a similarly situated entity further subcontracts will count towards the prime contractor's 50 percent subcontract amount that cannot be exceeded.

When a contract includes both services and supplies, the 50 percent limitation shall apply only to the service portion of the contract.

Should this action be solicited as Full and Open Competition, a Small Business Participation Proposal will be identified as an evaluation factor in the solicitation.

Large Business(es) must comply with FAR 52.219-9 by submitting an acceptable Small Business Subcontracting Plan.

Prior Government contract work is not required for submitting a response to this notice. However, respondents are reminded that all construction performance must follow the USACE Safety and Health Requirements Manual (EM 385-1-1), and must also comply with all Federal, State and local laws, ordinances, codes and/or regulations.

Anticipated solicitation may be issued within Quarter 2 Fiscal Year 2025 and the estimated proposal may be issued within Quarter 3 Fiscal Year 2025. The official notice citing the solicitation number will be issued in SAM and firms are to register electronically to receive a copy of the solicitation when it is issued.

Firm response to this Notice shall be limited to 10 pages and shall include the following information:

1. Firm’s name, UEI #, CAGE Code, address, point of contact, phone number, and e-mail address.

2. Firm’s interest in bidding on the solicitation when it is issued.

3. Firm’s experience to perform the magnitude and complexity outlined in the Scope of Work above by providing:

https://www.acquisition.gov/far/52.204-25 https://www.acquisition.gov/dfars/204.7303-procedures.

Brief description of the project, customer name, and dollar value of the project – provide UP TO 3 examples.

4. Firm’s Business Size – LB, SB, 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, or WOSB.

5. Will the firm submit a response as a Joint Venture or other arrangement? If YES, specific type: Joint Venture, Mentor-Protégé, Teaming Arrangement, or Other

This announcement and all information will be issued via the Government Point of Entry, Procurement Integrated Enterprise Environment and Offerors must be active in SAM to be eligible for award of Government contracts, including documenting Sec. 889 Compliance in SAM that include FAR 52.204-24 and FAR 52.204-25. Contracting will verify the 889(a) and (b) compliance – per FAR 52.204-26. Award cannot be issues for non-compliance until SAM Registration is complete, otherwise offerors will not be eligible for award.

The Supplier Performance Risk System (SPRS) is the Department of Defense, single, authorized application to retrieve supplier performance information. SPRS is a web-enabled enterprise application that gathers, processes, and displays data about the performance of suppliers and must be completed prior to an award in accordance with DFARS 204.7303(b)(1), DFARS 204.7304(e), DFARS 252.204-7020, DoDI 5000.79. Review NIST SP 800-171 for further information.

Interested Firms shall respond to this Notice no later than 21 March, 2025 5:00 PM Central Standard time. Email your response to alexander.g.rust@usace.army.mil https://sam.gov/content/home https://www.acquisition.gov/dfars/subpart-252.2-text-provisions-and-clauses https://sam.gov/content/home https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-13/chapter-I/part-121%23121.201 https://sam.gov/content/home https://sam.gov/content/home https://sam.gov/ https://sam.gov/ extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https:/www.pdrep.csd.disa.mil/pdrep_files/documents/pdf/DODI-5000.79.pdf https://www.usace.army.mil/Missions/Safety-and-Occupational-Health/Safety-and-Health-Requirements-Manual/ https://sam.gov/content/home https://piee.eb.mil/#DFARS_204.7304 https://sam.gov/#DFARS_252.204-7020 https://sam.gov/#DFARS_252.204-7020 https://www.acquisition.gov/far/52.204-24 https://www.sprs.csd.disa.mil/

Notes for PDT: Do NOT include

NOTICE OF ACQUISITION STRATEGY

IDCs: (Clarify any changes that occurred from the SS to the notice., ex.

Change in option periods.)

1. Identify if:

Separate contracts (UNR, SB, etc.);or Providing specific scope (ex. 8a in TX, $10M threshold or HZ in TX & NM, $11M up to $20M.

UNR with SB/Reserves (various sb/socio-economic reserves); or

UNR/SB reserve awarding one or more actions to a socio-economic firm, all compete for TOs; or

UNR/SB Reserve all compete for TOs.

2. Include period of performance set-up (ex. Total of 7 yrs, 3-year base, 2-year option, etc.

3. Number of contracts planned to award

Stand-alone

1. Set-Aside

2. FFP, etc.

3. Other specifics