Buildings and Grounds Maintenance Services at Loyalhanna Lake and Conemaugh River Lake

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 2018 - 30 April 2019 with four (4), one (1) year option periods. The government is planning a pre-quote site visit; the date and time will be in the solicitation.

The Request for Quote (RFQ) will be issued as a 100% Small Business Set Aside on or about March 16, 2018 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 receiving any federal contract award (visit www.sam.gov to register). Registration is free.

Any resulting award will be for one, firm, fixed-price, performance based indefinite delivery Requirement 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]

There is a Pre-Quote Site Visit scheduled on Friday, 11 May 2018 at 9:00 a.m. at the project location. Please see Addenda to 52.212-1 on page 217 (Site Visit) for more information and directions. If you are planning to attend, email Eric Thomas no later than May 10th (the day before the visit): eric.j.thomas@usace.army.mil

The site visit will last several hours and involve driving to the various work sites, therefore it will start promptly at 9:00 a.m.