Woods Hole Facility Janitorial Services

The Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC) is a contractor to provide all personnel, management, supervision, materials, supplies, equipment, tools, transportation and other items or services necessary to provide janitorial services at the NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service facilities located in Woods Hole, MA.

The Contractor shall ensure that these services are performed in a manner that ensures the health and safety of Federal employees and members of the public; and, both the sanitary conditions and esthetic appearance of Federal buildings. Superior customer service and well-maintained facilities that present a clean, neat and professional appearance shall be furnished in accordance with all the terms and conditions of the contract.

The Contractor shall be required to maintain a quality control program to ensure that the requirements of this contract are met. This program shall be created for identifying and correcting deficiencies in the quality before performance becomes unacceptable.

Place of performance will be as follows: National Marine Fisheries Service, 166 Water St, 22 Albatross Street, 16 Albatross Street, Woods Hole, MA, as well as 32 Jonathan Bourne Drive, Pocasset, MA.

A draft Performance Work Statement (PWS) is provided for informational purposes only.

The proposed contract action is set aside 100% for economically disabled women-owned small business (EDWOSB).  The associated NAICS code is 561720, and the business size standard for this requirement is $22 million.  It is highly encouraged that any small business meeting this size standard and desiring to be considered for award be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) using this NAICS code or a NAICS code with an equivalent size standard.  It should be noted that offerors must be registered in SAM prior to submission of an offer.  For additional information and to register in SAM, please access the following web site: https://sam.gov/.  In order to register with the SAM, all offerors must also have a unique entity identifier through http://sam.gov/conent/entity-registration.

Solicitation documents will be made available for download on or about March 17, 2023 at https://sam.gov/.  Paper copies of this solicitation will not be issued.  Interested parties may use the “follow” feature to monitor changes to this notice, including Request for Quote (RFQ) posting as well as all postings of information associated with this solicitation thereafter.  Each potential offeror is responsible for checking https://sam.gov/ to gain all current information related to the solicitation. The solicitation and any further announcements regarding the solicitation will be posted only at https://sam.gov/.  The date offers are due will be stated within the solicitation documents and will be adjusted based upon the actual release date of the solicitation.  All questions of any nature regarding this procurement should be sent in writing to the Contract Specialist, Anna Ma at Anna.Ma@noaa.gov.