Laundry Services - Golconda Job Corps Center

This Amendment #1 is issued in order to extend the closing date from December 19, 2016, as previously posted, to December 28, 2016

Full Solicitation Package is not posted as of November 29, 2016

The US Forest Service WO-AQM Job Corps Support Branch has requirement for one (1) contractor to provide Laundry Services at the Golconda Job Corps Center located in Golconda, IL. The Government intends to issue a Request for Quote (RFQ) for these services.

The complete solicitation package will be attached and made available only through the FedBizOpps (FBO) website at https://fbo.gov/ on or before November 28, 2016. Anyone wishing to participate in this proposed procurement must obtain their copy from FBO. Copies will not be mailed from the Contracting Office. All amendments will be posted on FBO. Contractors will be solely responsible for obtaining amendments from this site to update files.

This is being solicited under FAR 13 - Simplified Acquisition Procedures (SAP) as authorized by FAR 13.000, and is a Small Business set-aside, with the intent to award a Firm-Fixed Price Contract. One (1) award will be made, in accordance with the acquisition procedures established in 13.106-2 (b).

The Government will award a contract resulting from this solicitation to the responsible offeror whose offer conforming to the solicitation will be most advantageous to the Government, price and other factors considered. The following factors shall be used to evaluate offers:

PRICE AND COST

PAST PERFORMANCE

TECHNICAL CAPABILITY

Relative Importance of Factors: Technical Capability and Past Performance, when combined, are equal to price.

RFQ release: Around November 28, 2016

NACIS Code: 812320

Size Standard: $5.5

Set-Aside: Total Small Business

Notice to Potential Quoters:

NOTE 1: All prospective contractors must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) database at http://www.sam/gov/ before award of contract; failure to register in the SAM database will cause your firm to be ineligible for the award and removed from consideration.

NOTE 2: "Notice to Offerors: Funds are presently available for this effort. The Government reserves the right to cancel, either before or after the closing date. In the event the Government cancels this solicitation, the Government has no obligation to reimburse an offeror for any costs.

NOTE 3: As required by the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 and the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (7 U.S.C. 8102(c)(3)), the offeror certifies, by signing this offer, that biobased products (within categories of products listed by the United States Department of Agriculture in 7 CFR part 2902, subpart B) to be used or delivered in the performance of the contract, other than biobased products that are not purchased by the offeror as a direct result of this contract, will comply with the applicable specifications or other contractual requirements