Downtown Landscaping at various locations throughout the Washington Metropolitan Area

GSA acquisitions is seeking small business response to the subject Request for Information (RFI). 

Request for Information (RFI): General Services Administration, Landscaping and Stormwater Branch is seeking the procurement of Landscaping Maintenance Services at Various locations throughout the Washington Metropolitan Area which will consist of approximately 36 sites of approximately 600 acres in size. This future solicitation will be a Total Small Business Set aside for only small business concerns under the NAICS 561730, Grounds Maintenance. Only proposals submitted by small business concerns will be considered by the Government. Any proposal that is not a small business concern will not be considered for award. The contract period of performance will be for one base period with four twelve month options. The anticipated contract will be in accordance with the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and GSAM. 

There are approximately 36 properties for this future solicitation. The approximate acreage for all properites is 600 acres. There are various levels of scale and complexity involved with maintenance on these sites. The properties vary in scope from the Federal Research Center White Oak which is a large campus that has extensive turf, green roofs, ornamental plantings, native plantings and tree maintenance; to small properties such as the Veterans Administration that has shrub foundation plantings and street trees. Other properties include the ATF Headquarters which includes Green Roof plantings, turf, and ornamental plantings and the National Building Museum which has turf and ornamental plantings. The contractor will be required to document the successful management of landscape inventory of a similar scale and complexity within the last 5 years. The interested contractor should have experience in the following areas:

• Experience successfully managing a minimum of 600 acres of  landscape simultaneously in the last 5 years to include the installation and maintenance of landscape materials, surfaces, bio retention areas, green roofs, ponds, wetlands, and irrigation systems.
• Experience managing tree care to include historic tree maintenance and preservation on large campuses, small scale sites and urban settings. 
• Experience successfully managing a minimum of 5 acres of green roofs simultaneously in the last 5 years. 
• Experience with invasive plant management and eradication. 
• Experience with wetland plant management.
• Experience maintaining stormwater management facilities including bio retention rain gardens.
• Experience maintaining complex plantings that include woody plants,  herbaceous perennials, bulbs and ornamental grasses.   
• Experience in Integrated Pest Management (IPM) to include pest and disease management of trees, shrubs, and perennials. 
• Experience in turfcare management of warm and cool season turf grasses. 
• Contractors will be expected to execute additional services (above base) work as directed by the GSA COR.  Such as plant removals, plant installations to include trees, shrubs, perennials and grasses, green roof plantings  and tree removal/pruning.

Please note that this Request for information (RFI) is for informational purposes only, and no contract will be awarded as a result. A firm or organization's response to the RFI or lack thereof will have no impact on the evaluation of responses to any subsequent Request for Proposal (RFP) released. Responses will be solely for information and planning purposes.