Plant Maintenance

This is a Sources Sought Notice for Atrium Plant Maintenance at the Aleda E. Lutz Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) located in Saginaw, MI. The contractor shall furnish all labor, supervision, materials, and equipment necessary to maintain the interior landscape in a healthy, vigorous and attractive condition in accordance with the contract specifications. Operations include cultivation, fertilization, watering, foliage cleaning, soil media replenishment, insect and disease control, clean-up/trash removal and replacement of damaged or dead plantings as requested by the VAMC. The anticipated NAICS code for this requirement is 561730. The period of performance is one base year with four one-year options.
This Sources Sought Notice is intended to locate any business capable of performance. Interested firms shall include in their submission:
A brief capability statement detailing the specific ability to meet the requirement as outlined in the Statement of Work (SOW)
DUNS number
Business size/type
This is not a Request for Quotation and quotes shall not be reviewed at this time. The Department of Veterans Affairs shall not be responsible for any costs incurred by the contractor as a result of this Sources Sought Notice. This notice shall not be construed as a commitment by the Government to ultimately award a contract, nor does it restrict the Government to a particular acquisition approach. All information submitted in response to this announcement is voluntary; the Government will not pay for information requested nor will it compensate any respondent for any cost incurred in developing information provided to the Government.
All responses shall be submitted via email by Wednesday, November 6, 2019 no later than 4:30PM EST. Responses shall be submitted to Jennifer Johnson at jennifer.johnson18@va.gov. Phone calls shall not be accepted for this notice. The draft SOW is attached and may be subject to changes..