5450--Patio Fabric Awning/Canopy

The purpose of Amendment P0001 is to post site visit participants that took place on June 14, 2023.

All terms and conditions of this solicitation remain unchanged.

Offer response due 06/22/2023 at 12:00 PM.

This is a Request for Quote (RFQ). The government anticipates awarding a firm-fixed price contract resulting from this solicitation. This RFQ is set aside for Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Businesses (SDVOSB). All respondents must have an active registration in the System for Award Management at www.sam.gov. Interested SDVOSB must be listed as verified on the Vendor Information Pages (VIP) database located at Veteran Small Business Certification (sba.gov) to receive contract awards under the Veterans First Contracting Program. Department of Veterans Affairs, Network Contracting Office 17, is soliciting offers for the design, fabrication, and installation of a fabric awning/canopy for a patio at the Dallas Veterans Medical Center, Bldg. J2. This requirement includes providing brand name or equal canopy IAW SOW.

This requirement includes healthcare quality, prefabricated, custom sized awning, to improve the quality of the space and to reduce the exposure to sunlight, and weather harm effects, as well as to provide a proper and pleasing aesthetic appearance for the Clinical Addition Patio.

A site visit will be hosted at North Texas Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 4500 S. Lancaster Road, Dallas, TX 75216 at Building 2J, West Side on June 14, 2023 at 9:00 am. The POC for this site visit is Manuella Alfonso, manuell.alfonso@va.gov, (214) 857-1067.

Technical questions shall be accepted by the Government in writing via email only no later than 3:00 PM Central Standard Time (CST), June 16, 2023. Please ensure the email subject line states, Technical Questions 36C25723Q0958 NTX VA Patio Cover and send to Kathryn Prose, Contract Specialist, at kathryn.prose@va.gov. Please include in your questions the section of the solicitation/page number that your question is referencing. The Government reserves the right to not answer questions not meeting this timeline if doing so would result in an amendment requiring an extension of the solicitation and to extend would not be in the best interest of the Government. All responses to questions, which may affect offers, will be incorporated into a written amendment to the Request for Quote.

Offeror shall submit offers by Due Date/Time specified in Block 8 of the Standard Form (SF) 1449 of the solicitation via email to Kathryn Prose at kathryn.prose@va.gov. Please ensure the email subject line states, Quote - 36C25723Q0958 NTX VA Patio Cover .

This is a competitive best value selection in accordance with FAR 13.106-2(b)(4)(ii) in which competing offerors' technical capability and past performance, will be evaluated to determine who represents the greatest benefit to the Government at a price that can be determined fair and reasonable.