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Solicitation Letter

Repair Zenith Day Road

Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area

6/21/2021

140P5321R0034

This letter is to identify a few areas that will help you to submit a successful response to the

Repair Zenith Day Road located in the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area.

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 237310 – Highway, Street, and Bridge

Construction.

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

39.5 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 Wednesday, July 7, 2021 at

10:00am, EST (local time); we cannot assure any answers to questions submitted after this deadline.

Questions should be submitted by email to pamela_lyons@nps.gov and must reference the solicitation number in the subject line of your email.

Answers to questions will be posted on Federal Business Opportunity https://beta.sam.gov

Friday, July 9, 2021.

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

There are 71 pages of the Solicitation (SF 1442) and each page is important and should be read.

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 http://www.aptac-us.org/new/ https://www.fbo.gov/ necessary nor desired. All pages of each part shall be appropriately numbered and identified with the (RFP) number.

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

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

• Executed Request for Proposal Documents (Signed SF 1442)

• Completed Price Schedule

• Bid Guarantee – Amount is 20% of quote or $15,000 whichever is less.

• 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)

OFFER CLARITY

The offer shall be clear, concise, and include sufficient detail for effective evaluation and for substantiating the validity of offerors capabilities to perform the services identified. The offer shall not simply rephrase or restate the Government’s requirements, but rather shall provide capabilities and approach to meeting the government requirements identified within the Statement of Work. The offeror shall assume that the Government has no prior knowledge of the offeror’s capabilities and experience, and the government will complete an evaluation on the information presented in its offer.

4. Period of acceptance of offers. The offeror agrees to hold the prices in its offer firm for 30 days past the solicitation close-out date.

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

Preproposal Conference/Site visit:

All interested parties are urged and expected to attend the preproposal/site visit on, Tuesday, June 29, 2021 at 10:00am EST.

Interested contractors will meet at the East Rim Facility Shop, 4721 Leatherwood Road, Oneida, TN.

Point of Contact for Site Visit is Steve Wilmot. Mr. Wilmot can reached by phone at 423-569-7319 or email at Stephen_wilmot@nps.gov

Proposals are due Thursday, July 13, 2021 by 10:00 am EST

Submit your solicitation by email to:

Pamela_Lyons@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:

http://farsite.hill.afmil/vffara.htm, or http://www.acquisition.gov/comp/far/index.html

We appreciate your interest in participating in this procurement.

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