Litter pick-up, cleaning, mowing-trimming, janitorial, and herbicide application services to be performed at the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers facilities located along the Ouachita/Black River in Arkansas and Louisiana

This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial services.  This procurement is being conducted in accordance with the regulations at FAR Part 12 - Acquisition of Commercial Items and FAR Part 13 - Simplified Acquisition Procedures.  Solicitation W912EE22Q0040 and Attachments are in the attachments/links section.

A site visit will be held Tuesday, 19 July 2022 at 1:00 PM CST.    If interested in attending the site visit please contact Brent Hester, Richard.B.Hester@usace.army.mil, to register.  The site visit will start at the Ouachita/Black River – Sterlington Recreation Area, 250 Boardman Avenue, Sterlington LA 71280.

SAM Registration:

All offerors shall be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM), if you are not registered in (SAM), an award CANNOT be made to your company. You may register electronically at http://www.sam.gov.

TECHNICAL INQUIRIES AND QUESTIONS 

Technical inquiries and questions relating to this solicitation are to be submitted via Bidder Inquiry in ProjNet at (https://www.projnet.org).  Offerors are encouraged to submit questions at least 4 day prior to the solicitation due date, in order to ensure adequate time is allotted to form an appropriate response and amend the solicitation, if necessary.  To submit and review inquiry items, prospective vendors will need to use the Bidder Inquiry Key presented below and follow the instructions listed below the key for access.  A prospective vendor who submits a comment/question will receive an acknowledgement of their comment/question via email, followed by an answer to the comment/question after it has been processed by our technical team.  All timely questions and approved answers will be made available through ProjNet.

The Solicitation Number is: W912EE22Q0040

The Bidder/Offeror Inquiry Key is: SM9SEB-DTH6C2

Specific Instructions for ProjNet Bid Inquiry Access:

1. From the ProjNet home page linked above, click on Quick Add on the upper right side of the screen.
2. Identify the Agency. This should be marked as USACE.
3. Key. Enter the Bidder Inquiry Key listed above.
4. Email. Enter the email address you would like to use for communication.
5. Click Continue. A page will then open saying that a user account was not found and will ask you to create one using the provided form.
6. Enter your First Name, Last Name, Company, City, State, Phone, Email, Secret Question, Secret Answer, and Time Zone. Make sure to remember your Secret Question and Answer as they will be used from this point on to access the ProjNet system.
7. Click Add User. Once this is completed you are now registered within ProjNet and are currently logged into the system.

Bidders/Offerors are requested to review the specification in its entirety, review the Bidder Inquiry System for answers to questions prior to submission of a new inquiry. The call center operates weekdays from 8AM to 5PM U.S. Central Time Zone (Chicago). The telephone number for the Call Center is 800-428-HELP.

Notes to Offerors:

Quotes are due by Friday, 29 July 2022, no later than 4:00 PM CDT, and shall be submitted via email to Brent Hester, Richard.B.Hester@usace.army.mil, and Judy Huell, Judy.M.Huell@usace.army.mil .  The Subject of the Email shall be titled “W912EE22Q0040 Quote”.

• You are responsible for reading all information contained in this solicitation.
• Offerors should check the sam.gov web site often for amendments to this solicitation.
• Offerors are responsible for ensuring that their quote arrives prior to the scheduled closing time.