Food Service, Hospitality, Cleaning, Equipment and Supplies, Chemicals and Services

GSA MULTIPLE AWARD SCHEDULE (MAS) SOLICITATION. The Greater Southwest Acquisition Center, Fort Worth, Texas, is issuing a refreshed solicitation effective June 14, 2019 electronically.

SIGNIFICANT CHANGES:

This is the final set of solicitation refreshes before GSA consolidates the 24 existing MAS solicitations into a single Schedule for products and services in October 2019.

To learn more about MAS Transformation, please review:

GSA press release at: https://www.gsa.gov/about-us/newsroom/news-releases/gsa-announces-transformation-of-multiple-awards-schedules

FAQs on the Federal Marketplace website at: https://www.gsa.gov/about-us/organization/federal-acquisition-service/fas-initiatives/federal-marketplace-strategy

Schedules were made aware that there are wage determinations (WDs) missing from the files incorporated into all solicitations via the April refresh. After significant research and validation of the files, we have determined that the size of the file resulted in instability when downloading and emailing, causing a portion of the files to be dropped from the PDFs.

Note: Individual Schedules may update additional clauses/provisions to make clarifications, administrative corrections, and other required changes

IMPACTS:

We have corrected for this issue by breaking the files into smaller parts, and have validated that the files now contain all necessary WDs. In order to incorporate the corrected files into our MAS solicitations, we are refreshing all Schedules.

NOTES:

In addition to the corrected WD files, the clause updates below will be made as well:

I-FSS-599 (FEB 2018) - Date corrected to APRIL 2018

CI-FSS-151-N (OCT 2015) (ALT I-JUL 2016) - currently designated as a clause, will be changed to a provision

CI-FSS-151-N (OCT 2015) - currently designated as a clause, will be changed to a provision

CI-FSS-151-S (OCT 2015) - currently designated as a clause, will be changed to a provision

CI-FSS-151-S (OCT 2015) (ALT I-JUL 2016) - currently designated as a clause, will be changed to a provision

Notice: The GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) program has recently experienced a tremendous increase in new offers. Due to the large number of new offers currently in process, it could take up to 12 months before your offer is evaluated.

GSA's practice is to evaluate offers in the order in which they are received. However, GSA may give priority to processing certain offers when circumstances dictate, such as when a federal agency Contracting Officer specifically requests an expedited offer review in order to meet a pending requirement that will be procured under the MAS program, or when there a need for GSA to bring strategically critical new products or services to market in order to meet federal customer needs.

This solicitation includes the following product/services: FSC Group 68: Chemicals and Chemical Products; FSC Group 72: Recycling Collection Containers and Waste Receptacles; FSC Group 73: Food Service Equipment, Supplies, and Services; FSC Group 79: Cleaning Equipment, Accessories, Janitorial Supplies, Cleaning Chemicals, and Sorbents; and FSC Group 85: Toiletries, Personal Care Items, Linens, and Lodging and Hospitality Supplies and Services, and Hospitality Wear. This solicitation is issued electronically only. This is a standing solicitation with no closing date for receipt of offers.

The solicitation will remain in effect until it is replaced by a refreshed solicitation. The Federal Supply Schedule period is continuous; contract periods commence on the date of award (DOA) and expire five years from the DOA unless further extended pursuant to option clause, Option to Extend the Term of the Contract (Evergreen), which allows the Government to extend the contract three additional five-year periods, not to exceed a total of twenty years. All contracts will be indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contracts with a $2500 guaranteed minimum for the contract period. All contracts to be awarded include Industrial Funding provisions. The Trade Agreements Act applies to this solicitation. Small Business Set-Aside provisions will be addressed in the individual product/services attachments to the solicitation. The section at the beginning of the Vendor Response Document providing instructions for submitting a paper offer should be disregarded; Schedule 73 is a mandatory eOffer schedule, effective with Refresh 10. Interested parties may access the solicitation at: http://www.fedbizopps.gov. This site provides instructions for downloading the solicitation files. Search using Solicitation Number 7FCM-C4-030073-B (include the dashes).

For information regarding the solicitation, please contact Haley Naegele at haley.naegele@gsa.gov or 817-850-8444 or Stephen Nieswiadomy at stephen.nieswiadomy@gsa.gov or 817-850-8378.