Legionella equipment installation & monitoring

This procurement will be issued as a 100% Set-Aside for Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses (SDVOSB) through Request for Proposal (RFP) procedures under FAR 15 and other FAR and VAAR Parts and Subparts as applicable. The Overton Brooks VA Medical Center has a requirement to provide and install Legionella Monitoring Equipment for Continuous Water Quality Monitoring. Work to include Maintenance Services for Installed Equipment and Sampling and Testing for a 12-Month Period after Installation of the Monitoring Equipment. The tentative date for issuing the RFP is on or around April 7, 2017, with proposals due approximately 30 calendar days later on or around May 9, 2017 (the RFP will state the exact time/date that proposals are due). The anticipated contract award date is approximately 45 calendar days or less after receipt of proposals. The Contract Performance Period is 91 calendar days after issuance of the Notice-To- Proceed for the Construction Equipment Installation and 365 calendar days after acceptance of the Construction Equipment Installation portion of the work for the Maintenance Services (which includes Sampling and Testing). The location of the work is on the Overton Brooks VA Medical Center in Shreveport, LA. The contractor shall provide all labor, materials, tools, equipment, expertise, administration, supervision transportation and anything else necessary to perform all work as described in project Scope of Work, Drawings, Specifications, and any other project documents.



NAICS Code 236220 is applicable to this RFP and the Small Business Size Standard is $36.5M. The Construction Cost Range for this project (Magnitude of Construction) is between $250,000 and $500,000.



Interested offerors are asked to first read over the RFP and all of its associated attachments/documents in their entirety prior to forwarding any questions to the Contracting Officer. A cut-off time/date for receipt of questions will be established and listed in the RFP as well as a time/date for the scheduled Site Visit. Only one Site Visit will be conducted and no requests for additional Site Visits or make-up Site Visits will be granted.



The RFP will be posted and can be downloaded (without charge) from the Federal Business Opportunities (FBO) website (https://www.fbo.gov/). Amendments to this solicitation will not be mailed, but will be posted at the FBO website. Offerors are responsible for obtaining the RFP (and associated documents/attachments) from the FBO website and for acknowledging all amendments to the RFP. It is the responsibility of all interested bidders to check the FBO website as necessary for any amendments to the RFP (to include the day proposals are due). SOURCE: https://www.fbo.gov.



In accordance with VAAR 819.7003 Eligibility, at the time of submission of an offer, the offeror must represent to the Contracting Officer that it is a SDVOSB concern, that it is a small business concern under the NAICS Code assigned to the acquisition, and that it is verified for eligibility in the Vendor Information Pages (VIP) database on the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Small & Disadvantaged Business Utilization s VIP website (https://www.vip.vetbiz.gov/). To be considered for award, SDVOSB concerns must be registered in the VetBiz Registry as a SDVOSB and have the Center for Veterans Enterprise (CVE) Verification Icon/Seal/Logo. SDVOSB concerns must also be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) database. Information on the VetBiz Registry and CVE Verification can be found at http://vip.vetbiz.gov/. Information on SAM Registration can be found at https://www.sam.gov.