J065--Preventive Maintenance and Repair Services on Lab Equipment

36C25624Q0260 RFQ SOLICITATION

The Sterile Processing Department at the Veterans Health Care System of the Ozarks (VHSO), located at 1100 N. College Ave., Fayetteville, AR  72703 has a requirement for lab equipment preventive maintenance and repair services.

The contractor shall provide all labor, transportation, materials, and expertise necessary to complete all work associated with preventive maintenance and repair services on lab equipment.

The solicitation is issued as a Small Business (SB) set-aside under NAICS code 811210, with a small business size standard of $34 Million. All interested parties must be listed in the System for Award Management (SAM) at https://www.sam.gov, at the date and time of their quote submission, and date of award.

SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS

1. All quotes must be submitted directly to the Contracting Officer identified and listed in block 7a of the Standard Form (SF) 1449, by email to the following address: surella.tracy@va.gov. Quotes must be received no later than the date/time indicated in block 8 of the SF 1449. Any proposal received after the date and time referenced in block 8 may be considered late and may not be accepted.

2. All emails must reference “RFQ 36C25624Q0260, “Preventive Maintenance and Repair Service on Lab Equipment” in the subject line of the email. Failure to do so may result in mishandling or inadvertent deletion of emails.

3. QUESTIONS: All questions regarding this solicitation must be submitted to the Contracting Officer by email, no later than 12:00 PM, Tuesday, May 14, 2024.

4. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS: All quotes must include the following, as a minimum. Failure to include any of the following with a quote may result in that quote being determined non-responsive. Any quote determined non-responsive will NOT be evaluated for award.

a. Contractor’s business name (as registered in SAM)

b. Contractor’s address (as registered in SAM)

c. Contractor’s Unique Entity ID number (as registered in SAM)

d. Point of Contact (POC) Name

e. POC phone number

f. POC email address

g. Completed Price Schedule (Section B.1)

h. Completed Contract Administration Data (Section B.2)

i. Completed solicitation provision 52.204-24 (Section E.1)

j. Completed solicitation provision 52.209-7 (Section E.2)

k. Completed solicitation provision 52.212-3 (Section E.7). Complete and return only paragraph (b)(2) of this provision if your annual representations and certifications in SAM, have been entered or updated in the last 12 months, are current, accurate, complete, and applicable to this solicitation (including the business size standard(s) applicable to the NAICS code(s) referenced for this solicitation), at the time this offer is submitted.