Grounds Maintenance Services: Estate Thomas Experimental Forest

Amendment 0001 Updated Statement of Work attached Q&A attached ****************************************************************************** This solicitation is issued as a Request for Quote (RFQ). FAR Part 13, Simplified Acquisitions Procedures, will be used. A contractor may be eliminated from consideration without further exchanges if pricing proposals are not among those offerors considered most advantageous to the Government. The International Institute of Tropical Forestry (IITF) has the need for Grounds Maintenance Services for Estate Thomas Experimental Forest subject to Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 12, Acquisition of Commercial Items, and the Simplified Acquisition Procedures set forth in FAR Part 13. 1) Action Code: NAICS 561730, Landscaping Services 2) Date: Solicitation Notice posted 30 Jul Year: 2021 4) Contracting Office Zip Code: 00926 5) Product or Service Code: S208, Housekeeping – Landscaping/groundskeeping 6) Contracting Office Address: USDA Forest Service USDA Forest Service International Institute of Tropical Forestry Jardin Botánico Sur 1201 Calle Ceiba San Juan, PR 00926 7) Subject: Grounds Maintenance Services for Estate Thomas Experimental Forest 8) Proposed Solicitation Number: 12445021Q0042 9) Closing Response Date: 26 Aug 2021, 3:00 PM EST. All quote packages shall be submitted via email to the Contracting Officer and Purchasing Agent and be received in their inboxes on or before the date and time established in the RFQ. 10) Point of Contact: Purchasing Agent: Yolanda Padilla, [email protected] Contracting Specialist/Officer: Amelia Davila, [email protected] 11) Contract Award Number & Solicitation Number: Contract award number to be determined. Proposed Solicitation number: 12445021Q0042 12) Contract Award Dollar Amount: To be Determined 13) Line-Item Numbers: 0001, 1001, 2001, 3001, 4001 for twice per year services (Firm-Fixed Price). Line-Item Numbers: 0002, 1002, 2002, 3002, 4002 for quarterly services (Firm-Fixed Price). The contract will have a base period plus four option years for a total of five years. 14) Contract Award Date: To be Determined. 15) Contractor: To be Determined. 16) Description: See attached Draft Statement of Work (SOW). 17) Place of Contract Performance: Estate Thomas Experimental Forest Route 811, Christiansted St. Croix 00820, USVI 18) Set-Aside Status: Total Small Business NO PAPER COPIES OF THE SOLICITATION WILL BE ISSUED AND TELEPHONE REQUESTS WILL NOT BE HONORED. FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES: USDA Forest Service requires that all Contractors doing business with this acquisition office must be registered with the System for Award Management (SAM). An award cannot be made unless the Contractor is registered in SAM. For additional information, and to register in SAM, please access the following website: https://www.sam.gov/SAM. In order to register with SAM and to be eligible to receive an award from this acquisition office, all Contractors must first have a Unique Entity Identifier [formerly known as a Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) DUNS number]. A DUNS (Data Universal Numbering System) number may be acquired at the following website: http://fedgov.dnb.com/webform.