V999--Move Team Labor Personnel Services

THIS IS A SOURCES SOUGHT ANNOUNCEMENT ONLY.

No Solicitation is currently available.

All information contained in this Sources Sought Announcement is preliminary, as well as subject to modification, and is in no way binding on the Government. The Government will not pay for any information submitted in response to this request. The information requested will be used solely within the Department of Veterans Affairs to facilitate decision making and will not be disclosed outside of the Government. The determination of a procurement strategy, based upon the comments submitted in response to this Sources Sought Announcement, is solely within the discretion of the Government.

Potential Offerors must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) to be eligible for an award (See Internet Site https://www.sam.gov/portal/public/SAM/). Potential Offerors must also have a current Online Representations and Certification Application on file with SAM.

The applicable North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code is 484210, Used Household and Office Goods Moving, size standard is $ 30.0 Million. NOTE: Please ensure that System For Award Management (SAM) indicates this NAICS code if you are interested in the requirement.

Before responding please carefully read and consider the following:

As this is a service acquisition, the Small Business Administration and the Federal Acquisition Regulation have a Limitations on Subcontracting requirement. For all small businesses, to include SDVOSB and VOSB, it will not pay more than 50 percent of the amount paid by the Government for contract performance to subcontractors that are not similarly situated entities. Any work that a similarly situated entity further subcontracts will count towards the prime contractor's 50 percent subcontract amount that cannot be exceeded. When a contract includes both services and supplies, the 50 percent limitation shall apply only to the service portion of the contract. See FAR 52.219-14 and FAR 52.219-27 available in full text at https://www.acquisition.gov/far/html/52_217_221.html

Brief Description of Services

The VA Palo Alto Health Care System (VAPAHCS) has a requirement for two laborers to assist with the relocation of property to and from various VAPAHC facilities.

General

The Contractor shall provide two full-time laborers to assist in relocating government property between buildings and facilities across VAPAHCS to include, but not limited to:

Palo Alto Division

3801 Miranda Ave

Palo Alto, CA 94304-1290

Menlo Park Division

795 Willow Road

Menlo Park, CA 94025

Livermore Division

4951 Arroyo Road

Livermore, CA 94550

San Jose Clinic

80 Great Oaks Boulevard

San Jose, CAÂ 95119

Monterey Clinic (old)

3401 Engineer Lane

Seaside, CAÂ 93955

Sonora Clinic

13661 Mono Way

Sonora, CAÂ 95370

Fremont Clinic

39199 Liberty Street

Fremont, CAÂ 94538

Capitola Clinic

1350 41st Avenue, Suite 102

Capitola, CAÂ 95010-3906

Modesto Clinic

1524 McHenry Avenue

Modesto, CAÂ 95350

Stockton Clinic

7777 South Freedom Rd

French Camp, CAÂ 95231

Monterey Clinic (new)

201 9th Street

Marina, CA 93933

Sunnyvale Research Center (FY19)

1080 Innovation Way

Sunnyvale, CA 94089

San Jose Clinic (FY18)

5855 Silver Creek Place

San Jose, CA 95138

Specific Tasks

The contractor shall provide two full-time equivalent laborers available Monday-Friday 7:30am 4:00 pm which includes a 30-min lunch break.

The laborers shall be in excellent physical condition and should be able to handle, lift or carry items weighting up to 70 pounds. The laborers shall comply with all required security requirements to obtain and maintain access to VA IT systems and PIV credentials.

Contractor shall provide professional, friendly, timely, safe, and efficient customer service and wear clean work uniforms which clearly identify their name, company, and service provided.

The contractor shall move and deliver items to the end users including furniture for the many major moves and projects for the Interior Designers, medical supplies, equipment, computers, printers, beds, stages, and whatever is needed and requested.

The contractor is required to use material handling equipment such as forklifts, pallet jacks, hand truck, machine carts and dollies.

The contractor is required to load all furniture, equipment, and supplies using proper care for delivery to using services. Some equipment due to its complexity have very special handling instruction that must be followed in transporting to its destination.

The contractor shall know how to load the cargo onto a vehicle and how to arrange the load so that the heavier items are placed at the bottom of the vehicle bed in such a way as to provide the most support to these items, how to build up the cargo, how to spread the load for best support and how to secure the load to prevent shifting or falling off the vehicle.

The contractor is required to put his or her name on all move request that they receive at the end of the move indicating or notating if the move was completed and the date of completion or partially completed if it was partially completed tell why so the Move Team coordinator can reschedule the move with the requesting services if need be or close out the request as being completed.

The contractor, when requested or notified, is required to assist Interior Design Services with the inventory and pick up of furniture items from Logistic Services Warehouse or direct delivery to designated locations- from various vendors and transport for storage and delivery to designated locations, the end user or other designated location, in addition to that the contractor will pick-up all excess furniture when request by the various services to return to storage for reuse or excess if not good for reuse that has occurred form renovation projects or relocation of Services. When receiving direct delivery from the vendors the contractor must verify the correct numbers of pieces are received and be very alert to examine for obvious defects. If preliminary inspection shows such evidence the contractor must assure it is noted on the carrier s freight waybill or applicable delivery ticket.

The contractor must assure that each item received conforms to the specification contained in the purchase order, requisition or other authorized documents. Upon assuring all items received are as ordered, affixes his/her signature to the receiving reports of documents.

The contractor loads/uploads the vehicle by hand, sometime requiring help from others. He/she sees that the vehicle is not overloaded, and that the cargo is protected from weather elements and secure to prevent falling off the vehicle or shifting while being transported.

The contractor receives scheduling and instruction from the Move Team Supervisor/Coordinator regarding Move Request deliveries/pick-ups of furniture, items, medical equipment for all Division of the VAPAHCS.

The contractor is required to pass a forklift and electric powered pallet jack safety class and be issued a certification for both within 90 days of actual hire date. Additionally, contractor shall comply with all VA information security training and procedural compliance in order to possess a PIV and VA email account.

The contractor will be required to assist in preparing furniture, medical supplies and equipment for delivery to requesting services for patient treatment and use of it.

The contractor must be capable of reading, interpreting and understanding Engineering regulation, VA regulations, and other documents pertaining to the safe operation of government vehicles.

The contractor shall perform basic computer skills to include the usage of web based training and Windows based software (Word, Outlook, SharePoint, PowerPoint, and Excel).

Capability Statement

The Government requests that only firms seriously interested and truly capable should send their capability information to the Contract Specialist, Olivia Duarte by email at: olivia.duarte@va.gov no later than 3:00 PM Pacific Time, Nov. 9, 2022:

(a)Â Business Size (Large/Small)

(b)Â Business Socio-Economic Status (SDVOSB, WOSB, 8(a), HUBZone, etc.)

(c) SAM record (www.sam.gov)

(d) VIP record (SDVOSB/VOSB firms only) (https://www.vip.vetbiz.gov/)

(e)Â DUNS number

(f) Ability and experience in managing similar projects. Include general information and technical background describing your firm's experience on contracts requiring similar efforts to meet the program objectives.

(g) List of Projects (Government and Commercial) that are similar in scope and size.

(h) Anticipated Teaming Arrangements (if any)

(i) GSA Contract Number if applicable.

(j) Copies of certificates/licenses as identified above under Contractor Qualifications

Interested parties shall not submit more than 10 single-sided, type-written pages using 12-point font or larger. Published literature may be any number of pages.

The Government will use this information when determining its business type decision. Â Â Â Â

*Failure to provide the information requested above (items (a) (j)) will be considered non-responsive and will not be considered a viable source.

DISCLAIMER

This Sources Sought notice is issued solely for information and planning purposes only and does not constitute a solicitation. All information received in response to this request that is marked proprietary will be handled accordingly. The Government will not compensate an offeror for providing information in response to this sources sought. Furthermore, the Government reserves the right to cancel this requirement at its discretion. This is simply a sources sought notice.

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