Inactive Total Small Business Set-Aside (FAR 19.5)

AMENDMENT 0001 issued to answer vendor question(s). *****REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS***** This posting is best viewed at FAA Contract Opportunities, https://faaco.faa.gov. The Federal Aviation Administratio... AMENDMENT 0001 issued to answer vendor question(s). *****REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS***** This posting is best viewed at FAA Contract Opportunities, https://faaco.faa.gov. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), AAQ-500 - REGIONAL ACQUISITIONS, College Park, GA, is issuing Screening Information Request (SIR) Number 697DCK-19-R-00325 Grounds Maintenance, Santa Barbara Air Traffic Control Tower, 10 Burns Place, Goleta, CA. as detailed in the Specifications attached to the Solicitation in accordance with the Acquisition Management System (AMS) 3.2.2.2 Policy as supplemented with additional information included in this advertisement. NOTICE: The FAA has been exempted from several Federal laws and regulations as part of the 1996 DOT Appropriations Act, signed into law by President Clinton on November 15, 1995. Some of the exemptions include the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act of 1994, the Small Business Act, the Competition in Contracting Act, and the Federal Acquisition Regulations. The FAA’s Acquisition Management System (AMS), which became effective on April 1, 1996, is utilized in place of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR). The NAICS code for this acquisition is 561730, Landscaping Services, and the small business size standard is $ 7.50 million average annual receipts over the past 3 fiscal years. SITE VISIT The FAA urges and expects offerors to inspect the site where the work will be performed. A one-time site visit will be conducted on 3 May 2019 at 9:30 am PT at the Santa Barbara Air Traffic Control Tower (SBA ATCT), 10 Burns Place, Goleta, CA. Please provide Linda Hennequant at linda.hennequant@faa.gov with a list of attendees at least one day prior to the appointed time. The on-site POC will be Michael A. Ballard, whose number is (805) 797-1108. Information provided at this site visit, as well as answers to questions shall not change/qualify the terms and conditions of the solicitation and specifications. Terms remain unchanged unless the solicitation is amended in writing. ATTENDANCE AT THIS SITE VISIT IS STRONGLY ENCOURAGED. OFFER SUBMISSION Please see Part IV – Section L - INSTRUCTIONS, CONDITIONS, AND NOTICES TO OFFERORS, for complete offer submission requirements. All offers must be submitted NO LATER THAN 17 May 2019, 6:00 PM (ET). Any responses received after this date and time, will be deliberated in accordance with AMS provision 3.2.2.3-14, “Late Submissions, Modifications, and Withdrawals of Submittals.� PLEASE REFERENCE THE SIR # IN ALL CORRESPONDENCES TO ENSURE PROMPT AND PROPER PROCESSING. EMAILS WITH ATTACHMENTS THAT DO NOT REFERENCE A CONTRACT NUMBER IN THE BODY OF THE MESSAGE OR THE SUBJECT LINE, WILL BE DISREGARDED TO PREVENT THE SPREAD OF COMPUTER VIRUSES. TELEPHONE INQUIRIES WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. NOTE: Electronic submission is preferred. The electronic submission should be in either Microsoft WORD format or portable document format (PDF), not in a zipped format. Please note that the FAA e-mail server restricts file size to 10MB per email message, therefore, responses may have to be submitted in more than one e-mail in order to be received. The FAA will not be responsible for any failure attributable to transmitting or receiving the offer, unless it falls under section (a) of AMS provision 3.2.2.3-14 "Late Submissions, Modifications, and Withdrawals of Submittals.� SET ASIDE This requirement is offered to all responsive Small Business concerns that will be considered using a tiered order of precedence as described in Section M of the SIR. EVALUATION Offers will be evaluated using criteria described in Section M of the SIR. Please see Part IV – Section M - EVALUATION FACTORS FOR AWARD, for complete evaluation factors for this requirement. No individual notification of any amendments will be provided. It is the Offerors' responsibility to visit this website frequently for updates on this procurement. All questions shall be addressed to the Contracting Officer in writing. Any questions regarding this SIR/RFO must be received three (3) days prior to the date set aside for offers due. All correspondences shall contain the SIR # in the subject line. TELEPHONE INQUIRIES WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. Potential offerors should note that the FAA reserves the right to communicate with one or more offerors at any time during the solicitation process. The Government reserves the right to award on a multiple award or an all or none basis. This advertisement is not to be construed as a contract or a commitment of any kind. The Government shall not be liable for payment of any costs attributed to the preparation and submission of offers in response to this solicitation. If you're viewing this announcement from a source other than Federal Aviation Administration Contract Opportunities (FAACO), visit https://faaco.faa.gov/index.cfm/announcement/view/33425 to view the original announcement.