Document Destruction - MPLS

Description: MPLS Document Destruction Services
This is a pre-solicitation notice for a commercial item acquisition and will be conducted in accordance FAR 12 and 13 procedures. This procurement will be set aside 100% for Small Business.
The purpose of the Solicitation shall be to provide the Minneapolis VA Health Care System document destruct/shredding services. Document destruction services consist of physically collecting confidential materials from consoles located throughout the MVAHCS, which includes all papers, media storage such as files, disks, and x-rays on a regularly scheduled basis, to be mutually determined by provider of the service and the MVAHCS. Upon physical collection of the confidential materials the contractor will destroy onsite of the MVAHCS facilities, down to a 5/8 particle size, the material collected of the MVAHCS facilities and shall be witnessed by a VA employee authorized to witness the destruction of sensitive material. On sight, destructed, documents must be transported same day to be pulped (to a minimum size of 1x5 millimeter) at COR approved pulping plant/operation. Media destruction must happen same day and may happen on or off site, as long as materials transported are contained behind a two-lock mechanism (Example: Locked console and locked vehicle) until their final destruction.
The electronic solicitation will be announced on or about March 1, 2019. The offeror will be responsible for downloading all solicitation documents, amendments and other documents from the Federal Business Opportunities (FedBizOpps) website (www.fbo.gov) without further notices from the Department of Veterans Affairs, NCO 23. No questions will be accepted prior to the solicitation, this is for notification purposes only..