J041--HVAC/Air Flow | Kitchen Exhaust Hood Cleaning Service | Philadelphia (VA-22-00087741)

The purpose of Amendment 0002 is to provide Questions and Answers.

The Purpose of Amendment 0001 is to announce a site visit that will be conducted on 8/3/2022 at 9AM Eastern Standard.

This will be the only opportunity to view the site. No other site showing will be offered. Interested parties shall contact Jason Shirey at 724-549-5761 to register for the showing and obtain instructions. Contractors shall register prior to 300 PM EST on 8/2/2022.

No questions will be answered during the site visit, question shall be held and submitted to Jud Kale as directed in the solicitation notice.

This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in Subpart 12.6 in conjunction with Part 13 of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; quotes are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. This Solicitation is issued as a Request for Quote (RFQ), and the solicitation number is 36C24422Q0992.

This notice incorporates provisions and clauses in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular (FAC) 2022-06 effective May 26, 2022, and the Veterans Affairs Acquisition Regulations (VAAR). The complete text of any of the clauses and provisions may be accessed in full text at www.acquisition.gov.

This Solicitation is 100% set-aside for Small Business. The NAICS Code is 561790 Other Services to Buildings and Dwellings and the business size standard is $8 million.

The Contracting Office is seeking to purchase services for Kitchen Hood Exhaust Cleaning at the Philadelphia VAMC. The Statement of Work (SOW) is included.

Service Contract Act Wage Determinations applies to this acquisition and will be incorporated into the resulting contract. A copy of the current Wage Determination is included with this solicitation.

Complete instructions for submitting a response to this solicitation and applicable provisions and clauses are enclosed. All offerors are advised to pay careful attention to the quote submission instructions as there are very specific instructions as what is required to be provided (see pages 39-40).

The applicable line item/CLIN is enclosed.

The contract period of performance (POP) will begin as described in the Statement of Work and shown in the schedule. Any award resulting from this solicitation will be issued on a Standard Form 1449. The government anticipates a Firm-Fixed Price contract consisting of a base and four option years.

NOTE: To receive an award resulting from this solicitation, offerors MUST be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) database IAW FAR 52.212-1(k). Registration may be done online at: https://beta.sam.gov

Contractors are advised that all questions concerning this solicitation shall be sent in writing to the Contracting Office at Network Contracting Office 4 (NCO). No questions will be answered after August 3, 2022, at 12:00 PM EST. Questions shall be sent via email to Jud Kale at judson.kale@va.gov.

All quotes shall be submitted electronically to Jud Kale at judson.kale@va.gov by the defined closing date and time of the solicitation.