Inactive Total Small Business Set-Aside (FAR 19.5)

Amendment 0002 is issued and attached. NOTE: Amendment 0002 incorporates the following: Pre-proposal minutes & PowerPoint presentation, revisions to clauses, RFIs and answers and a revised electronic ... Amendment 0002 is issued and attached. NOTE: Amendment 0002 incorporates the following: Pre-proposal minutes & PowerPoint presentation, revisions to clauses, RFIs and answers and a revised electronic offer excel sheet. Amendment 0001 is issued and attached. NOTE: In addition the pre-proposal virtual meeting will be held on 11-8-2021 and a site visit is scheduled on 11-9-2021. Section L paragraph L.7 of the solicitation identifies the pre-registration requirements for the site visit and virtual meeting details. Registration information is to be submitted by 5:00 PM Eastern Standard Time on 11-4-2021. All interested participants will need to pre-register: Names of all individuals, Company Name, and email addresses must be emailed to bsg.abingdon@gsa.gov. The General Services Administration (GSA) Mid-Atlantic Region is soliciting proposals for Custodial and Related Services at the Custodial and Related Services at the C. Bascom Slemp Federal Building, 322 East Wood Avenue, Big Stone Gap, VA 24219 and Abingdon Federal Building and Courthouse, 180 W. Main Street, Abingdon, VA 24210. Services will include but are not limited to custodial, grounds maintenance, pest control, and snow removal. The NAICS Code for this procurement is 561720 - Janitorial Services with a small business size standard of $19,500,000.00. Award will be a firm fixed price contract. This procurement is set aside for competition among small businesses. Small businesses and all categories of small businesses (women owned, service-disabled veteran owned, etc.) are encouraged to participate. The contract duration will be one (1) base year with four (4) one-year options, with the possibility of an extension of performance up to an additional six (6) months, in accordance with FAR 52.217-8. As a performance-based contract, the requirements are stated in terms of desired results with associate quality standards. The contract shall consist of two major functional areas: standard services, and above standard services. Custodial services provided by the Contractor are arranged and oversight is provided through one or more of the following entities: GSA's Regional Office, Service Centers, and GSA Field Office inspection services. The Contractor shall furnish all personnel, labor, equipment, material, tools, supplies, supervision, management, and services, except as may be expressly set forth as Government furnished, and otherwise do all things necessary, to, or incident to, perform and provide the work efforts. This award will be made utilizing FAR 15.3 and 19.502-2 and the Government will make award to the offeror who provides the best overall value to the Government in terms of price and technical merit. Best value procedures incorporating tradeoffs between price and non-price related factors, such as technical evaluation factors, will be utilized. The following is a list of non-price (technical) evaluation factors that will be used by GSA’s Source Selection Evaluation Board (SSEB) in conjunction with price to recommend the offer providing the best value to the Government: Management Plan Prior Experience Past Performance The non-price evaluation criteria are listed in order of importance. The management plan is more important than Prior Experience and Past performance, with Prior Experience and Past Performance being of equal importance. All technical evaluation factors, when combined, are significantly more important than price. The Government intends to award the contract in late spring of 2022. The Government intends to make award without discussion. Therefore, offerors are requested to submit their initial proposals to the Government on the most favorable terms based on technical and price factors. The Government reserves the right to conduct discussions if the Contracting Officer later determines them to be necessary. The complete solicitation package (including specifications, offer forms, clauses, and provisions) will only be available electronically on Contract Opportunities website (https://sam.gov/content/opportunities). Virtual Pre-Proposal Meeting Date & Time: November 8, 2021, at 10:30 am Eastern Standard Time (EST)(Refer to section L of the solicitation for details) Site Visits are on November 9, 2021(Refer to section L of the solicitation for detail. Potential offerors will be responsible for downloading the solicitation and for monitoring the website for possible amendments and/or additional information. Offerors must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) database in order to participate in this procurement. The website for SAM is http://www.sam.gov. Potential Offerors must register on the Contract Opportunities website to have access to solicitation material. Any information taken from other publications is used at the sole risk of the offeror. The procuring office cannot guarantee the accuracy of information contained in other publications. All questions must be submitted in writing by email at bsg.abingdon@gsa.gov to the attention of Alicia A Martin, and Ralph Dayougar.