Territory II & III Recruiting Office Janitorial Services (Kansas, Missouri, and Iowa)

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Kansas City District intends to solicit and award a contract for Territory II & III Recruiting Office Janitorial Services (Kansas, Missouri, and Iowa). The Government proposes to issue a firm fixed price type contract for services.

THIS SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE IS FOR MARKET RESEARCH AND PLANNING PURPOSES ONLY. THIS DOES NOT CONSTITUTE A SOLICITATION AND SHALL NOT BE CONSTRUED AS A COMMITMENT BY THE GOVERNMENT TO AWARD A CONTRACT FROM RESPONSES TO THIS ANNOUNCEMENT, NOR DOES IT OBLIGATE THE GOVERNMENT TO PRODUCE A SOLICITATION IN THE FUTURE. ANY INFORMATION SUBMITTED BY INTERESTED PARTIES IS STRICTLY VOLUNTARY AND NO MONETARY COMPENSATION WILL BE PROVIDED FOR RESPONSE PREPARATION OR FOLLOW UP REQUESTS.

The purpose of this Sources Sought Notice is to obtain insight into the interest, capabilities and qualifications of small business firms to perform Recruiting Office Janitorial Services in a project of this complexity and magnitude and to determine.  The intent is to also ascertain if there is adequate competition to compete and successfully perform.

Responses to this Sources Sought notice will be used to make appropriate acquisition decisions. After review of the responses to this Sources Sought notice, and if the Government plans to proceed with the acquisition, a solicitation announcement will be published in Procurement Integrated Enterprise Environment (PIEE) website  https://piee.eb.mil/ Responses to this Sources Sought are not an adequate response to the solicitation announcement. No telephone calls will be accepted requesting a bid package or solicitation. There is no bid package or solicitation at this time. In order to protect the procurement integrity of any future procurement, if any, that may arise from this notice, information regarding the technical point of contact will not be given and no appointments for presentations will be made. This Sources Sought notice is unrestricted at this time and is a market research tool used for planning purposes only to gain knowledge of the interest, capabilities, and qualifications of interested firms.

The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code for this project is 561720 Janitorial Services with a small business size standard of $19.5M.

Contractor shall provide all management, supervision, inspections, personnel, equipment, tools, supplies, materials, and other items necessary to perform non-personal janitorial services and replenish supplies at recruiting locations specified in the regions identified in the solicitation for commercial services.

The Government intends to award a contract within the region of Kansas, Iowa, and Missouri, Territory II & III with base period and 4 option periods of one year for a total of five years.  This contract will be solicited and awarded under FAR Part 12 Acquisition of Commercial Services.

Please note: The locations are disparate, and some are in fairly remote rural locations across the tristate region. Regions for proposals will be further defined in the solicitation. It is anticipated that offerors must propose on an entire region in order to be considered for award. Individual locations will not be awarded.

The total estimated magnitude of these services over a five-year period is between $1,000,000 and $5,000,000.00

Submission Requirements:

1. Offeror's name, address, point of contact, phone number, and e-mail address.
2. Firm's Unique Entity Identifier.
3. Offeror's interest in providing a proposal on pending solicitation, once issued - as prime or subcontractor.
4. Offeror's capability to perform a contract of this magnitude and complexity. Contractor must provide a brief description of similar commercial or military projects, customer name, timeliness of the performance, customer satisfaction, and dollar value of the contract. A minimum of three similar projects, but not more than five similar jobs.
5. Describe services provided to include: number of locations, whether locations were located congruently or disparate, number of square feet handled per customer/contract. State what supplies and equipment were included or provided.
6. Describe your quality control measures including the screening of qualified employees.
7. Describe your practice for proposing a price per square foot? By region? By location? Per cleaning visit? Does your price include supplies?
8. Offeror's type of business and business size under NAICS 561720.
9. Offeror's Joint Venture information, existing and potential, if applicable. Interested Businesses are invited to respond to this Sources Sought announcement by providing no more than 10 single sided 8 ½ x 11 pages describing 3-5 job experiences reflecting the information above.

Interested parties should respond via email to the point of contact below no later than June 22, 2022 at 12:00 p.m., Central Standard Time. This Sources Sought notice is to assist the Corps of Engineers in identifying an appropriate acquisition strategy only. Once the final solicitation is issued, it will be announced/posted in https://piee.eb.mil/  with sufficient time for all interested parties to respond accordingly.

All data received in response to this Sources Sought notice marked or designated as corporate or proprietary information will be fully protected from release outside the Government. Since this is a Sources Sought notice.

POINT-OF-CONTACT

The point-of-contact for administrative or contractual questions is Dale Coleman at dale.e.coleman@usace.army.mil

Place of Performance:

Territory II & III Recruiting Office Janitorial Services (Kansas, Missouri, and Iowa) United States