Building and Grounds Maintenance Services, Loyalhanna Lake and Conemaugh River Lake, Saltsburg, PA

Amendment 0002 has been issued to correct a typo in the email address for quote submission and to extend the quote submission deadline to 11:00 A.M. EST on Friday, 29 March 2019. Please submit your quote to the following email address: lrp.contracting@usace.army.mil. If you have already submitted a quote and received confirmation from the contract specialist, please only submit your acknowledgment of Amendment 0002 to the above email address and 'cc' eric.j.thomas@usace.army.mil..

3/26/2019 Please be aware only one (1) amendment has been issued to this solicitation. Amendment 0001 had two attachments with it that inadvertently got uploaded as 'amendment 0002'. As of this date at 7:00 a.m. there is only one amendment and the hour and date specified for receipt is not extended. - Anne K. Goodman, Contracting Officer

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Amendment 0001 has been issued. Please see attached document W911WN19T3004-0001..

A site visit has been scheduled for THIS FRIDAY, 8 MARCH 2019 at 9:00 a.m. (ET). Please see addendum to FAR 52.212-1, for more information and RSVP instructions.
FAR 52.219-9, Small Business Subcontracting Plan, applies to this solicitation and any resulting award. The subcontracting plan shall be negotiated within five (5) days of notification by the Contracting Officer that your quote is the apparent low quote. Failure to submit and negotiate the subcontracting plan shall make the Offeror ineligible for award of a contract.
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Pittsburgh District, has a need for a Requirements contract for Buildings and Grounds Maintenance Services at Loyalhanna Lake and Conemaugh River Lake. The project sites are located in southwestern Pennsylvania. Loyalhanna Lake is near Loyalhanna Township, Westmoreland County, and Conemaugh River Lake is near Saltsburg, Indiana County. Public-use facilities owned and operated by the USACE at Loyalhanna Lake and Conemaugh River Lake include a boat launch, day-use picnic areas, a campground, a nature trail, a spillway, and outflow fishing access.

The Contractor shall furnish all necessary management, personnel, materials, supplies, tools, equipment, fuel, and vehicles as required to perform grass mowing, landscaping maintenance, janitorial, solid waste and raw sewage removal, and other services in accordance with procedures established in the Performance Work Statement which will be provided with the solicitation.

The NAICS code for this acquisition is 561730, Landscaping Services, and the small business size standard is $7,500,000. The proposed period of performance will be a base year from 1 May 2019 - 30 April 2020 with four (4), one (1) year option periods. The government is planning a pre-quote site visit; the date and time will be announced in the solicitation.

The solicitation will be released as a Request for Quote (RFQ) on an unrestricted basis, meaning businesses of any size may compete. The RFQ will be released on or about February 25, 2019 online only through the Federal Business Opportunities website (www.fbo.gov). Contractors must be registered and Active in the System for Award Management (SAM) database prior to submitting a quote for a federal contract. Registration is free at www.sam.gov.

Any resulting award will be for one firm-fixed-price, performance-based indefinite delivery Requirements service contract made to the responsible* offeror whose quote is lowest. [*Responsible means a contractor that meets the standards in FAR 9.104 - available at www.farsite.hill@af.mil]

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