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Solicitation Letter Rehabilitate Employee Housing Units Cape Hatteras National Seashore Ocracoke Island, North Carolina (Hyde County) May 29, 2020 140P5520R0014

This letter is to identify a few areas that will help you to submit a successful response to the solicitation to repair (4) four employee housing units, Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Ocracoke Island, North Carolina.

All vendors interested in participating in this solicitation must have the following North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code registered in System for Award Management (SAM):

· The NAICS code for this acquisition is 236118 – Residential Remodelers

· Your average annual Gross Revenue cannot exceed the small business size standard of

36.5 Million Dollars.

If you require assistance with SAM please contact your local Small Business Administration Office or your nearest Procurement Technical Assistance Center (PTAC), open this website and click on the map. http://www.aptac-us.org/new/

All Questions on the solicitation should be submitted no later than Thursday, June 18, 2020 at 12:00 pm, EST (local time); we cannot assure any answers to questions submitted after this deadline. Questions should be submitted by email to lara_wood@nps.gov and must reference the solicitation number 140P5520R0014 in the subject line of your email. Phone Calls will Not be accepted.

Answers to questions will be posted on https://beta.sam.gov/on or near Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Offers are instructed to submit the following information with their proposals:

The following is established as the specific information and format required for any proposal submitted.

1. Incomplete proposals are not acceptable and will render the Offeror non-responsive. Offeror shall submit only one complete proposal package.

2. To aid in the evaluation process, proposals shall be complete, comprehensive and clearly presented. Proposals shall be neat and assembled in an orderly manner. Elaborate artwork, expensive paper/binding, and expensive visual and other presentation aids are neither necessary nor desired. All pages of each part shall be appropriately numbered and identified with the (RFP) number 140P5520R0014.

3. Proposals shall include: Please refer to Section L – Instructions, Conditions, and Notices to Offers.

4. Below are a few things to help with your proposal submission:

· Executed Request for Proposal Documents (Signed SF 1442)

· Acknowledge all Amendments

· Completed Price Schedule

· Technical Approach – If a technical approach is not provided the offer will be considered not technically acceptable.

· Past Performance – Not to exceed 5 pages, shall include relevant past performance within past 3 years (Anything older than 3 years will NOT be reviewed)

· Bid Guarantee/Bond

· Completed General References (provided in the Proposal Submission Package)

5. Period of acceptance of offers. The offeror agrees to hold the prices in its offer firm for 60 days past the solicitation close-out date.

Please note that this solicitation is a 100% Small Business Set-Aside. Offers are not solicited from firms debarred, suspended, or proposed for debarment. Ineligible firms shall consider this an informational copy only.

Pre-proposal Conference/Site visit:

All interested parties are urged and expected to attend the pre-proposal/site visit on, Tuesday, June 16, 2020 at 10:00 am EST. As per FAR 52.237-1 “Offerors or quoters are urged and expected to inspect the site where services are to be performed and to satisfy themselves regarding all general and local conditions that may affect the cost of contract performance, to the extent that the information is reasonably obtainable. In no event shall failure to inspect the site constitute grounds for a claim after contract award.”

All interested contractors shall RSVP for the site visit NLT 12:00 pm EST on Monday, June 15, 2020. RSVPs will be received at lara_wood@nps.gov. Participants will meet at Ocracoke Island Housing and Maintenance Area on 100 NPS Road Ocracoke, North Carolina 27960. If no RSVPs are received by 12:00 pm EST on June 15, 2020 a scheduled formal site visit will NOT be conducted.

Proposals Due: Monday, June 29, 2020 4:00 pm EST

Estimated Contract Award: August 2020 Submit response to solicitation by email to: Lara_Wood@nps.gov

You are responsible for submitting offers, and any modifications, revisions, or withdrawals; so as to reach the Government office designated in the solicitation by the time specified in the solicitation.

Federal Acquisitions Regulations can be found at: https://www.acquisition.gov/

We appreciate your interest in participating in this procurement