Gardening Services Embassy Canberra - PreSolicitation

The contractor shall provide gardening a services for the U.S. Embassy Chancery and real property owned or managed by the U.S. Government at U.S. Embassy Australia. The contractor shall perform the services including furnishing all labor, material, and equipment.

Please note that this solicitation is not ready to be issued as of this date. The Embassy of the United States in Canberra, Australia will launch the solicitation on the SAM.gov website when it is available.  The anticipated release of the solicitation is expected in late July/early August 2021.

The anticipated performance period is for a base year, with four one-year option periods, if exercised by the Government. All responsible sources may submit a quote, which will be considered. 

The Government may award the contract based on initial offer without discussions. The resultant contract will be a firm fixed price type contract. The Government is planning a pre-quotation conference and the date/time for this conference will be in the solicitation.

For a quotation or tender to be valid all contractors must be registered in the SAM (System for Award Management) Database https://www.sam.gov prior to contract award pursuant to FAR provision 52.204-7.  Therefore, prospective offerors must register prior to the submittal of quotations/proposals. 

The guidelines for registration in SAM are also available at: https://www.statebuy.state.gov/pd/Pages/AdditionalVendorReg.aspx

ELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS/RESPONSES:

This opportunity allows for electronic responses.  Please submit your offer 24 hours prior to the response date and time (Please see the solicitation for the response date/time). Deadline for receipt of responses will be determined as Australian Eastern Daylight Time. Please submit electronic submissions to email: CanberraGSOQuotations@state.gov