3510--PCD-898-LANC Dry Cleaning-New procurement for dry cleaning for Los Angeles National Cemetery

The Department of Veterans Affairs National Cemetery Administration seeks offers for uniform dry cleaning, laundering, and alterations at Los Angeles National Cemetery, with proposals due November 13, 2026 and questions due November 11, 2026. The procurement is a Total Small Business set-aside solicited as a tiered evaluation, with award made within the highest applicable socioeconomic tier in this order: Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses, Veteran-Owned Small Businesses, HUBZone small businesses and 8(a) participants, then other small businesses.

Place of performance is Los Angeles, CA 90049, at the cemetery's Administration Building. Required services include dry cleaning of blazers, slacks, and ties and laundering with starch and pressing of dress shirts, both twice weekly with Monday and Thursday pickup and delivery, plus as-needed alterations for blazers, shirts, slacks, and trench coats. The estimated monthly workload is approximately 80 dress shirts, 80 slacks, 16 blazers, 25 ties, and 2 alterations. The contractor must maintain a quality control program, furnish laundry bags and hangers, and resolve discrepancies or damaged items within three business days at no additional cost. The performance standard requires 90 percent of items to be odor-, stain-, and wrinkle-free, with service deductions if performance falls below standards.

The contract is a firm-fixed-price commercial services arrangement with a 12-month base year from January 31, 2027 through January 30, 2028, and four optional 12-month renewals through January 30, 2032. Service Contract Labor Standards apply under Wage Determination 2015-5613, Revision 34, effective August 20, 2026. Invoices are submitted monthly in arrears.

Technical evaluation is pass/fail across two subfactors: a Dry-Cleaning Operations Plan and a Quality Control Plan, with an Unacceptable rating in either rendering the proposal ineligible. Eligible offerors must also receive an Acceptable or Neutral past performance rating, submit a fair and reasonable price, and be deemed responsible. Past performance reviews consider late deliveries, lost or damaged garments, cleaning deficiencies, failure to correct problems, and terminations. Award goes to the lowest evaluated price among technically acceptable quotations within the highest applicable tier, with no price-nonprice tradeoffs.

Offers and UEI numbers go to Contracting Officer Anna Straley at Anna.Straley@va.gov. The NAICS code is 812320 and the PSC is 3510.