Rehabilitate U. S. Marine Corps War Memorial & Grounds Sculpture Conservation, Cleaning and Repairs Package

THIS IS A PRE-SOLICITATION NOTICE ONLY. The work consists of providing all labor, management, supervision, tools, materials, equipment, and transportation necessary to perform the project entitled "Rehabilitate U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial & Grounds - Sculpture Conservation, Cleaning and Repairs Package". In general terms, the scope of work for this project includes:

• Bronze Restoration
o Clean the bronze sculpture and Memorial Plaque using detergent and pressurized water rinsing
o Provide protective wax coating on all exterior bronze surfaces of bronze sculpture and Memorial Plaque
• Gilding
o Remove flaking gilding, peeling gilding, and gilding that is otherwise unsound as indicated on drawings, preparing substrates, and providing new gilding to match original adjacent gilding
• Other repairs
o Minor repairs to lead sheet metal and lead accessories including flashing repair at the outer edge of the crag stone and modification of the light fixture mount at the Memorial plinth to create proper drainage
• Granite Restoration
o Clean the polished granite panels at the base of the sculpture

A Comprehensive Conditions assessment of the sculpture is to be completed by a Conservator.

This resultant award will be a Firm Fixed Price Contract. The period of performance for this effort shall be 90 days from the Notice to Proceed. This is a total small business set-aside.

The contract will be awarded on a best value tradeoff basis utilizing price and non-price factors.

The solicitation will be issued as a request for proposal, using NAICS Code 238990, All Other Specialty Trade Contractors (Size Standard $15M).

The solicitation documents will be issued on or about April 4, 2017 and will be posted on Federal Business Opportunities (http://www.fbo.gov/).

This notice is for informational purposes only and is not a request for submission of offers. The Government is not obligated to issue a solicitation as a result of this notice. No other information is available until issuance of the solicitation. In order to be awarded a contract an offeror must have a DUNS number, be registered and active in the System for Award Management (SAM), http://www.sam.gov, and have completed their Online Representations and Certifications.