Inactive Total Small Business Set-Aside (FAR 19.5)

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), National Cemetery Administration (NCA) has a new optional benefit being offered to families, an urn, plaque, and flag combination to be sent immediately to the... The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), National Cemetery Administration (NCA) has a new optional benefit being offered to families, an urn, plaque, and flag combination to be sent immediately to the families. The National Cemetery Administration is soliciting offers under Solicitation No. 36C78623R0001 for producing, shipping and receiving returns of the items. Contractors are expected that their employees will perform at least 50% of the labor dollars. Work shall be performed in strict accordance with all terms, conditions, specifications, schedules and drawings. Performance shall be in accordance with the requirements, conditions, terms and representations contained in this solicitation, any pertinent OSHA Occupational and Safety regulations, VA and Federal Security regulations and policies, and any State and/or local regulations, laws and codes. Proposals will be evaluated and award will be made to the responsible offeror conforming to the solicitation, is determined to be in the best interest of the Government, price and other factors considered. A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS MAY BE USED. An offeror’s proposal may not be considered when proposed cost is unreasonably high or unrealistically low. The Government reserves the right to award a contract to other than the low offeror. Factors that will be evaluated to determine award are past performance, technical, and price in that order of importance. Samples failing to meet the submission requirements will be removed from further consideration as nonresponsive. Responsibility determination will be made in accordance with FAR 9.1 Responsible Prospective Contractors. Price will be evaluated on the basis of its realism and acceptability to the Government. Risk will be considered in all of these factors. This is a solicitation with tiered evaluations for SDVOSB, VOSB and SB businesses. The NAICS Code is 561999. Size standard is 500 employees, Electronic solicitations will be available for download from https://sam.gov/ on or about May 26, 2022. Questions are due by 1:30 PM Eastern on June 10, 2022 to Katherine.iacovelli@va.gov. Responses to the solicitation are due by noon Eastern time on June 30, 2022. Any amendments to the solicitation will also be available at https://sam.gov. Offerors are advised they are responsible for obtaining any amendments. Information shall be submitted in the manner requested in Section E. Failure to submit all documentation required as required so may result in your submission being determined non-responsive and removed from further consideration.