Inactive Total Small Business Set-Aside (FAR 19.5)

This Request for Quote (RFQ) is to provide all necessary management, personnel, materials, supplies, tools, equipment, fuel, and vehicles, except as otherwise provided herein, required to perform tree... This Request for Quote (RFQ) is to provide all necessary management, personnel, materials, supplies, tools, equipment, fuel, and vehicles, except as otherwise provided herein, required to perform tree felling, trimming, removing, chipping, and grinding services, in accordance with the Performance Work Statement. The Base Year will be from date of award through 31 December 2019. The Contractor's services and responsibility shall include all planning, programming, administration, management, supervision, communications, and inspection necessary to assure that all services are conducted in accordance with the contract requirements and all applicable Federal, state and local laws and regulations. This solicitation contains an option clause to extend the awarded contract for up to four (4) additional one year periods. Option Years 1 - 4 will be for time extensions only. The one-year option periods are as follows: Option Year 1: 01 January 2020 through 31 December 2020 Option Year 2: 01 January 2021 through 31 December 2021 Option Year 3: 01 January 2022 through 31 December 2022 Option Year 4: 01 January 2023 through 31 December 2023 One award will be made from this RFQ. The contract type is a Firm Fixed Price, Indefinite Delivery & Indefinite Quantity Contract (IDIQ). The minimum guarantee for the Base Year is $5,149.49 in services. There is no guaranteed minimum for the option periods, if exercised. This procurement is 100% set-aside for Small Business, NAICS 561730 ($8.0 M). Method of Payment under this contract will be Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) to a commercial bank account specified by the Contractor. There is no bonding requirement for this procurement action. Note: Page numbering in this document may not be accurate. Quotes will not be accepted for quantities less than the quantities specified in the price breakout schedule. Failure to submit a unit price for all items listed (base year and option years) will be considered as a material deviation from the requirements of the RFQ and the quote will be rejected. Offerors should complete the price breakout schedule within this solicitation. The terms offer and proposal are used interchangeably in this RFQ. SITE VISITS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. Site visits may be scheduled prior to the due date for submitting proposals by contacting Willie Whitaker at (606) 642-3098. Please note that the site visit is not an opportunity for questions or clarifications regarding this solicitation. For contractual/technical questions, please contact Katie White at (502) 315-6413 or by e-mail at Katie.r.white@usace.army.mil. LOCATION: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Carr Creek Lake 843 Sassafras Creek Road Sassafras, KY. 41759 Phone: 606-642-3098 Technical Point of contact: Willie Whitaker NOTE: The contract award will be based on Best Value to the Government. Factors to be considered are Experience, Past Performance, and Price. All evaluation factors, other than price when combined, are considered equal to price. Total evaluated price includes base and all options. Quotes are due on 13 September 2019 at 10:00 am (ET). Email submissions will be accepted; email Katie White at Katie.r.white@usace.army.mil. Fax submissions will NOT be accepted. Quotes will be valid for 30 Calendar Days. Submit Quotes to: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Room 821, ATTN: Katie White 600 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Place Louisville, KY 40202 The solicitation will be available on the web only. Telephone, email, and FAX requests for this solicitation will not be honored. Project files are Portable Document Format (PDF) files and can be viewed, navigated, or printed using Adobe Acrobat Reader. To download the solicitation for this project, contractors are required to register at the Federal Business Opportunities (FedBizOpps) website at http://www.fbo.gov. Amendments will be available from the FBO website by download only. Downloads are available only through the FBO website. All contractors must be registered in the System for Award Management (www.SAM.gov) prior to award of a contract. All proposed contractors are highly encouraged to review FAR Clause 52.232-33 Payments by Electronic Funds Transfer - System for Award Management, which indicates "All payments by the Government under this contract shall be made by electronic funds transfer (EFT)." Those not currently registered can obtain registration by going to the website http://www.SAM.gov. The process can usually be completed from 24 to 48 hours after submission. Contractors will need to obtain a Unique Entity Identifier (formerly DUNS number) for processing their registration. If you do not already have a Unique Entity Identifier, one can be obtained from http://www.SAM.gov. Refer to www.SAM.gov for information formerly found in CCR, EPLS, ORCA, and FedReg. Please begin the registration process immediately in order to avoid delay of the contract award should your firm be selected. ALERT: You must submit a notarized letter appointing the authorized Entity Administrator before your registration will be activated. This requirement now applies to both new and existing entities. Effective 29 April 2018, the notarized letter process is now mandatory on all CURRENT registrants at SAM who have a requirement to update data on their SAM record. The notarized letter is mandatory and is required before the GSA Federal Service Desk (FSD) will activate the entity's registration. Effective 29 June 2018, vendors creating or updating their registration can have their registration activated prior to the approval of the required notarized letter. However, the signed copy of the notarized letter must be sent to the GSA Federal Service Desk (FSD) within 30 days of activation or the vendor risks no longer being active in SAM. Vendors can check whether an account is active by performing a query by their CAGE or Unique Entity Identifier (known as DUNS). The new registration process may now take several weeks, so vendors are highly encouraged to begin registering as soon as possible to avoid any possible delays in future contract awards. Remember, there is no cost to use SAM. To find out additional information about the changes of the SAM registration process, contractors should visit the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) link located at the top of the SAM homepage (www.sam.gov). PLEASE NOTE: SAM is completely free of charge for both registrants and users.