Vegetative Maintenance Requirements Contract, U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, Lake Red Rock, Marion County, Iowa.

Detailed Description: Provide all labor, materials equipment and supplies to perform Vegetative Maintenance at Lake Red Rock, Marion County, Iowa. This solicitation is a request for quote and is issued as 100% Small Business Set-Aside. The following NAICS code 561730 will apply with the size standard of $7 Million. This work will be awarded as a performance-based contract. Performance-based means the Contractor is responsible for a quality end product. Evaluation factors for award shall be as follows: Experience, Past Performance, and Price. Contracts will be awarded to the technically acceptable, responsive, responsible, compliant vendor. Experience and Past Performance are significantly more important than price. The solicitation will be posted to the FedBizOpps website, www.fbo.gov on or about 10 February 2009. The date and time for receipt of quotes will be on or about 11 March 2009, 12:00 p.m. local time. It is the offerors responsibility to monitor the fedbizopps web site for amendments to the solicitation. The resultant contract will be a Firm Fixed Priced Contract in accordance with the solicitation procedures outlined in FAR Part 12, Acquisition of Commercial Items/Services. All prospective offerors must have a Commercial and Government Entity Code (CAGE Code) and be actively registered in the Central Contractor Registration (CCR) at www.ccr.gov. The solicitation will not be available in paper format. All documents required for the offer submittal, including amendments to the offer submittal, shall be in hard copy. Responses may be faxed to 309-794-5172 (with hard copies mailed). If you have questions, please contact Anthony Zemo at 309/794-5259 or email at anthony.g.zemo@usace.army.mil. The contractor shall submit 1 original copy of their offer to include the above information in order to properly evaluate your offer in accordance with the evaluation criteria outlined under to FAR 52-212-2 Evaluation Commercial Items.