Tucson area office janitorial services

This Amendment One (1) is to answer questions submiited by potential vendors.  See Attachment-75H1422R00002-0001.

This is a combined synopsis/solicitation and purpose of this procurement is to provide all personnel, equipment, tools, materials, transportation and supervision (except Government furnished) necessary to perform Janitorial Services as required by the Government in the soliciation.

This acquisition is set-aside for Total Small Business.  The North American Industry Classification (NAICS) code for this requirment is 561720 (Janitorial Services) with a size standard of $19.5 million.  The solicitation will be awarded as a single award firm-fixed price type contract.  The location where the work will be performed, will be at the Tucson Area Indian Health Service (TAIHS) as specified in thePerformance Work Statement (PWS).  The Period of Performance shall be for one (1) base year beginning June 1, 2022 through May 31, 2023 with four (4) option year periods.

An oranized site visit has been scheduled for March 21, 2022 at 9:00 a.m. Mountain Standard Time.  Participants will meet at Building SX-5 please park in the North parking lot, which is the lot right past the Security Guard Shack.  Any questions can be directed at Michael Thorne, Michael.Thorne@ihs.gov.

This solicitation requires registration with the System for Award Management (SAM) prior to award, pursuant to applicable regulations and guidelines.  Registration information can be found at https://www.sam.gov.

Please submit all questions by email to Michael.Thorne@ihs.gov by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, March 28, 2022.  All Proposals will be due by April 8, 2022, 5:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. 

It is anticipated award date is April 22, 2022.  Potiential Offerors hereby notified that future information about this acquisition, including the solicitation and subsequent amendments, will be only distributed solefy through SAM.gov.  Hard copies of the solicitation documentation will not be available.  The SAM.gov site provides downloading instructions.  All future information about this acquisition, including solicitation amendments, will also be distributed soley through this site.  Interested parties are responsible for monitoring this site to ensure that they have the most up-to-date information about this acquisition.