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Central Support Services for file storage, management and retrieval (on site) of paper files and reference materials, centralized supply storage, management and distribution; receiving. The United States General Services Administration, Public Buildings Service has a requirement for a firm to provide all management, supervision, labor and equipment (except as otherwise provided) to plan, schedule, coordinate, and assure effective performance of the following services in the GSA, Regional Office Building, 20 North 8th Street, Philadelphia, PA: The Services include file storage, retrieval and management (on site) of approximately 1600 s.f. of paper files including the archiving and disposal as needed; Centralized supply storage, management and distribution (excludes purchasing); Receiving, including limited mail distribution and collection to/from specified drop off points; Copying, plotter and scanner services; Reception services. These services are currently centralized within the GSA, PBS organization, therefore the contractor awarded this requirement will continue operations currently being performed. The contractor will also be required to provide a functional help desk, file tracking application and inventory control system. This requirement will be filled through the award of a single, firm fixed price contract for a base period of one (1) year, with the possibility of options to extend the services for four (4) additional, one (1) year option period at the sole discretion of GSA. The total duration of this contract could be for five (5) years. This contract will contain contract options for training room set-up/configuration, administrative support, and internal mail room services that may be exercised during the life of the contract. This procurement is being solicited unrestricted. NAICS Code 561110. This announcement also constitutes the synopsis of the pre-invitation notice. The method of procurement will be a competitive, negotiated, Request for Proposal (RFP). Source Selection procedures as identified in the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) Part 15.3 will be utilized in the selection of a firm offering the best value to the Government in terms of price and technical merit and whose performance is expected to best meet stated Government requirements. Accordingly, offerors will be evaluated based on their technical proposals, as well as on their price proposals. Evaluation of Technical Factors will be accomplished by the Government's analysis of each contractor's proposal. Upon receipt and evaluation of all technical and price proposals, a formal selection of a firm will be made that offers the greatest value to the Government based on a combination of technical and price related factors incorporating trade offs between price related and non price related factors. Failure of offerors to submit a technical offer will preclude further participation on this acquisition. The Government may or MAY NOT HOLD DISCUSSIONS ON TECHNICAL OR PRICE PROPOSALS, THEREFORE, THE OFFEROR'S INITIAL PROPOSAL SHOULD CONTAIN THE OFFEROR'S BEST TERMS FROM BOTH A TECHNICAL AND A PRICE STANDPOINT. For this procurement, technical evaluation factors are more important than price. Full details of this requirement and the Technical Evaluation Factors WILL BE PROVIDED WITHIN THE SOLICITATION PACKAGE. Any documents related to this procurement will be available via the Internet only. No hard copies will be available. Contractors are responsible for downloading their own copy of all documents, including any amendments. Copies of Solicitation number GS-03P-08-CD-D-0002 will be available through the World Wide Web at (www.fedbizopps.gov) approximately November 16, 2007. It is the contractor's responsibility to monitor this site for the release of any information or documents in the special notes, the solicitation and amendments, if any. Faxed, facsimile, or emailed proposals WILL NOT be accepted or considered for this solicitation. TELEPHONE REQUESTS FOR THIS SOLICITATION WILL NOT BE HONORED. A Pre-Proposal Conference will be held on or around November 27, 2007 at 10:00 a.m. Details will be provided in the Solicitation package. To be included on our GSA source list OR to confirm your attendance at the Pre Proposal conference, please mail, fax or call your request in to Barbara Faulk, at the address listed above NO LATER THEN 12 noon on MONDAY November 26, 2007, fax (215) 209-0604 or (215) 446-4717, No Emails please, reference Solicitation Number GS-03P-08-CD-D-0002 for identification purposes. To insure that you receive all information regarding this solicitation, please register to receive updates at www.fedbizopps.gov, follow the procedures for notification registration.