H399--Elevator Inspection Service

The Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center Network Contracting Office (NCO) 6 has a requirement for Elevator Inspection Services. The Contractor shall provide all transportation, material hardware and parts, tools, specialized equipment, labor, supervision and technical expertise to complete the services. The solicitation shall be conducted in accordance with FAR Part 12 and FAR Part 13.

Place of Performance: Elevator Inspection Services will be conducted at the Salem VA Medical Center 1970 Roanoke Blvd Salem, VA 24153

Period of Performance: Period of Performance for the resultant contract will be a one time service accordance with all schedules, specifications, terms, and conditions and provisions of the solicitation. The applicable NAICS is 541350, Elevator Inspection Service with a Size Standard of $11.5 Million

The VA is seeking written responses to assist with identifying potential sources that are interested in, and capable of, providing the services described. Please review the information contained herein and identify whether your company has the capability and interest to provide the services described. Capability statement that demonstrates the firm s ability to meet the above requirement, should include:

Company Name:

Company Point of Contact Name, Email and Phone:

Company DUNS Number:

Socioeconomic Category:

Company GSA schedule (if applicable) under which these services can be purchased:

Describe briefly the capabilities of your company and the nature of the services you provide relative to the current requirement for Elevator Inspection Services.

The Veterans First Contracting Program applies to VA contracts only. VA has a preference to award contracts to verified service disabled Veteran-owned small businesses (SDVOSBs) first, then to verified Veteran-owned small businesses (VOSBs), when market research provides a reasonable expectation that the VA will receive two or more offers from eligible SDVOSB/VOSB firms at a fair and reasonable price ( Public Law 109-461).

To be eligible for a VA SDVOSB or VOSB set-aside, the firm must be verified in the VA s Office of Small Business Utilization s (OSDBU) Veteran Information Pages (VIP) database as an SDVOSB or VOSB at the time the firm submits its offer to the VA. Additional information on VA s Veterans First Contracting Program can be found on OSDBU s website at https://www.va.gov/osdbu/verification/. In addition, the SDVOSB/VOSB must qualify as a small business under SBA s regulations.

The Government reserves the right to contact any respondent and/or respondent reference to obtain additional information. Currently, no solicitation exists; therefore, please do not request a copy of the solicitation.

Any resulting procurement action will be the subject of a separate, future announcement. The information is provided for market research purposes and any potential strategy for this acquisition may change prior to any solicitation release. The acquisition strategy, evaluation methodology, contract type, and any other acquisition decisions are to be determined. It is the potential vendor s responsibility to monitor the CONTRACT OPPORTUNITY (formerly FEDBIZOPPS) website at https://sam.gov/content/home for release of any future Pre-Solicitation, Amendments or solicitation that may result from the sources sought. Vendors having capabilities necessary to meet or exceed the stated requirements are invited to provide information to contribute to this sources sought notice via e-mail to the Contract Specialist, no later than 26 July 2023 at 10:00 AM EST. If you have any questions or need additional information, please contact Keicha Passley at Email address: Keicha.Passley@va.gov

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PERFORMANCE WORK STATEMENT (PWS)

INTRODUCTION

SCOPE OF WORK:

Furnish all necessary labor, materials, equipment and supervision required to perform a single annual inspection for all elevators, dumbwaiters, and vertical transport equipment as listed in this section for the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 1970 Roanoke Blvd. Salem, VA, in strict accordance with the terms, conditions, provisions, schedules and specifications of this solicitation. The annual shall be conducted in September 2023.

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE:

The inspection must be completed before September 30th, 2023.

PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS

TESTING

The contractor shall be required to perform an annual safety tests in accordance with and as the standard the latest edition of American National Standards Institute/American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ANSI/ANSE) 17.1 and

17.2 for all elevators and dumbwaiters listed in this solicitation, for the VA Medical Center, Salem, VA. All work performed shall be in strict accordance with the terms, conditions, provisions, schedules and specifications of this document.

ANNUAL TEST

The annual test shall be made as indicated in the Safety Test instructions on VA Form 10- 6167: Report, see attachment I. Test of Elevator Governor and Safety shall be at the slowest operating speed, with no load, as required for these Devices. All seals on governors shall be checked. If any are found broken, damaged, etc., the Contractor shall spin-check the speed and reseal.

EQUIPMENT TO BE TESTED