Shrine Project Houston National Cemetery

Awarded Award Notice Posted

Solicitation number
36C78618Q0147
Agency
National Cemetery Administration Department of Veterans Affairs
Awarded
to Native Contractors, Inc.
Set-aside
Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business

Opportunity facts

Contract number
36C78618C0116 Federal contract award
NAICS code
561730 Landscaping Services
PSC
Not on record
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Notice details come from SAM.gov. Updated .

Notice text

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Update #3 · Latest ·

Added: Feb 12, 2018 2:08 pm Modified: Mar 06, 2018 10:24 amTrack Changes Amendment issued to address question from prospective vendor.

Question 1: ATTACHMENT B - PERFORMANCE WORK STATEMENT

A.    SUMMARY OF WORK:

            i.          The Contractor shall raise/lower, realign, reset, backfill, and clean flat markers at the Cemetery in a manner that shall meet or exceed the requirements to present a clean, neat, professional, and aesthetic flat-marker appearance and in accordance with Contract Specifications.  Services include, but are not limited to work consisting of extracting, resetting, aligning, backfilling, and compacting flat markers that are already in place which have shifted out of vertical and/or horizontal alignment and plumb, as well as inventorying and ensuring accurate placement on each gravesite.

          ii.     The Contractor shall remove and restore Cemetery turfgrass in designated burial sections, which includes, but is not limited to: killing and removing existing turfgrass, rototilling the existing topsoil, adding or removing topsoil to establish a new finish grade, installing new turfgrass sod, and establishing new turfgrass sod, preservation of existing cemetery features (lawns, paving, roads, stones and markers). In designated burial sections (as annotated on the Site Plan) the Contractor shall remove the top six inches of soil and import and grade six inches of clean topsoil after turf removal but prior to new turf installation; and in one burial section the Contractor shall not remove existing soil but shall still be required to import and grade new topsoil. 

Will the 6 inches of soil being removed and imported 6 inches of soil be in all area of Sections J, K, K1, and K2 (447,149 sf)?

Answer 1: For these sections the requirement will be:  killing and removing existing turfgrass, rototilling the existing topsoil, adding or removing topsoil to establish a new finish grade.  The topsoil that need to be added, shall have the following specifications:

The planting topsoil shall be a loam, sandy loam, clay loam, silt loam, sandy clay loam, and/or loamy sand conforming to ASTM D 5268 Topsoil, with pH range of 5.5 to 8.5, a minimum of 4 percent organic material content and a maximum of 20% organic material content; free of weed seeds, noxious weeds, invasive plants, stones 1 inch or larger in any dimension, foreign matter and other extraneous materials harmful to plant growth, including, but not limited to roots, plants, sod, stones, and clay lumps.

Topsoil shall not be infested with nematodes, grubs, other pests, pest eggs, or other undesirable organisms and disease-causing plant pathogens.

Topsoil shall be friable and with sufficient structure to give good tilth and aeration.  Continuous, air-filled, pore-space content on a volume/volume basis shall be at least 15 percent when moisture is present at field capacity.  Soil shall have a field capacity of at least 15 percent on a dry weight basis.



End of Document

Update #2 ·

Added: Feb 12, 2018 2:08 pm Modified: Mar 06, 2018 8:27 amTrack Changes Solicitation amended to 1) add CLIN 0004 to price schedule, 2) add FAR clause 52.228-16 Performance and Payment Bonds Other than Construction (Nov 2006) and 3) add VAAR clause 852.228-70 Bond Premium Adjustment.



1. Revised Price Schedule is as follows:

Period of Performance: 365 Days from Notice to Proceed Date

CLIN

No.

Description:

Grounds Maintenance Services

Quantity

Unit

Unit Price

Total Price

0001

Realign, raise/lower, level, backfill flat markers onto grass paving system in Sections J, K, K1 and K2 includes installation of continuous grass paving system spanning 111 unoccupied sites (i.e. with no flat markers). Includes surveying and installation.

10,065

EA

$ ________

$ ____________

0002

Level topsoil surface, renovate and re-establish turf grass stand in Sections J, K, K1, and K2.

447,149

SF

$ ________

$ ____________

0003

Clean flat markers

10,065

EA

$ ________

$ ____________

0004

Payment and Performance Bond (Estimated Price Do Not Include in Total Price)

1

EA

$________

$____________



Total Price:

$ ____________



Payment and Performance Bonds will be required within 10 days of award notice. Award of this contract is contingent upon the apparent awardee s ability to obtain bonding. If the apparent awardee is unable to obtain bonding within 10 days of award notice, award will be made to the next offeror in line for award.

2. Addition of FAR 52.228-16 Performance and Payment Bonds Other Than Construction (Nov 2006)

(a) Definitions. As used in this clause

Original contract price means the award price of the contract or, for requirements contracts, the price payable for the estimated quantity; or, for indefinite-quantity contracts, the price payable for the specified minimum quantity. Original contract price does not include the price of any options, except those options exercised at the time of contract award.

(b) The Contractor shall furnish a performance bond (Standard Form 1418) for the protection of the Government in an amount equal to 100 percent of the original contract price and a payment bond (Standard Form 1416) in an amount equal to 100 percent of the original contract price.

(c) The Contractor shall furnish all executed bonds, including any necessary reinsurance agreements, to the Contracting Officer, within 10 days, but in any event, before starting work.

(d) The Government may require additional performance and payment bond protection if the contract price is increased. The Government may secure the additional protection by directing the Contractor to increase the penal amount of the existing bonds or to obtain additional bonds.

(e) The bonds shall be in the form of firm commitment, supported by corporate sureties whose names appear on the list contained in Treasury Department Circular 570, individual sureties, or by other acceptable security such as postal money order, certified check, cashier's check, irrevocable letter of credit, or, in accordance with Treasury Department regulations, certain bonds or notes of the United States. Treasury Circular 570 is published in the Federal Register, or may be obtained from the:

U.S. Department of the Treasury

Financial Management Service

Surety Bond Branch

3700 East West Highway, Room 6F01

Hyattsville, MD 20782.

Or via the internet at http://www.fms.treas.gov/c570/.

(End of clause)

3. VAAR 852.228-70 Bond Premium Adjustment (Jan 2008)

When net changes in original contract price affect the premium of a Corporate Surety Bond by $5 or more, the Government, in determining the basis for final settlement, will provide for bond premium adjustment computed at the rate shown in the bond.

(End of Clause)

End of Document

Update #1 ·

Added: Feb 12, 2018 2:08 pm See attached 36C78618Q0147

Attachments

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36C78618C0116-000.docx DOCX document
36C78618Q0147-00002000.docx DOCX document
36C78618Q0147-00001000.docx DOCX document
36C78618Q0147-004.pdf PDF
36C78618Q0147-005.pdf PDF
36C78618Q0147-000.docx DOCX document
36C78618Q0147-002.docx DOCX document
36C78618Q0147-003.doc DOC document
36C78618Q0147-006.docx DOCX document
36C78618Q0147-001.pdf PDF

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