Janitorial Services

The White River National Forest has an upcoming requirement for light office janitorial services in our Ranger District Offices in Carbondale, Rifle, and Silverthorne, CO. We intend to issue a Request for Proposal (RFP) for a 100% competitive set-aside to Small Business or possibly a sub-set based upon ongoing market research on or about 1 Oct 2017 with services to begin in November or December 2017 . The Government anticipates evaluation factors to be a subjective tradeoff between price & past performance with past performance being somewhat more important than price. The Government intends to issue an award or awards under a Firm-Fixed-Price (FFP) contract on or about 1 Nov 2017 subject to availability of funding. Services will be procured pursuant to the regulatory direction of FAR Part 12, Acquisition of Commercial Items. The expected award shall consist of one base period of performance and may include up to four optional periods of performance each 1 year in duration, following the Federal Fiscal Year and running consecutively from the expiration of the base period of performance). The NAICS code for this requirement is 561720, Janitorial Services. The Small Business Size Standard is $18,000,000.00. The successful contractor shall provide all personnel, management, tools, equipment, supplies, materials, transportation and all other items necessary (excluding Government Furnished Property) to ensure that Custodial Services are performed at the locations in a manner that will maintain a satisfactory facility condition and present a clean, neat and professional appearance, subject to the frequency schedules set out in the PWS. Facility cleaning includes restroom cleaning services and periodic cleaning services in order to meet the requirements of the PWS. The contractor shall perform the services required under this contract after normal base hours of operation but will not be required to perform services on Federal Holidays. The closing date and time for submission of offers shall be contained in the solicitation package. The entire solicitation package shall be made available only on the Federal Business Opportunities (FedBizOpps) Web Site at http://www.fedbizopps.gov/. Requests for copies of the solicitation package, or any cumulative parts thereof, by any other means shall not be honored. Potential offerors are responsible for monitoring the FedBizOpps website for the release of the solicitation package, which should be on or about 1 Oct 2017, for downloading their own copy of the solicitation package and for downloading their own copy of each associative amendment, if any. All firms wishing to submit a proposal subsequent to the solicitation described herein MUST be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) database or risk their otherwise-timely proposal being considered non-responsive regardless of its completeness, timeliness or other salient considerations. Information on SAM registration can be obtained at the following web site: http://www.sam.gov. No response to this announcement is required but emailing the POC with your interest and intentions is encouraged. The government will not pay for any information submitted in response to this announcement. The solicitation subsequent to this announcement may be cancelled. After solicitation and prior to award the possibility exists to reject all offers when cancellation is clearly in the public interest. This announcement does not obligate the Government to pay for any bid/proposal preparation costs.