H--Water and Wastewater Treatment - CP

The Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN 3), James J. Peters VA Medical Center, Bronx, New York, Network Acquisitions and Logistics program is currently seeking firms to handle a complete Operations & Maintenance (O&M) contract for the WATER & WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS located at the CASTLE POINT campus of the VA Hudson Valley Health Care System, Castle Point New York. Firms must be one of the following programs: SDVOSB, VOSB, 8(a) or HUBZone Certified. The firm must have an approved NAICS code of 221320 with a $6 million small business size standard. The firm will be responsible for providing all management, supervision, labor, materials, supplies and equipment, and shall plan, schedule, coordinate and assure effective performance of maintaining and operating the water treatment plant along with the wastewater treatment plant and related services in strict accordance with the requirements to be forthcoming in the actual solicitation. All Federal, State and local codes and requirements for water/wastewater treatment plants shall be strictly adhered to. Contract to begin June 1st, 2006 and run through the end of the government fiscal year (September 30th, 2006). Option years are mandatory Firms desiring consideration shall and email directly to the Contracting Officer referencing the following in the subject field, "HV Water/Wastewater Project", then contain the following information within the body of the email - name of firm, complete address, phone & fax number of contact. In addition, firm must disclose which "socio economic" program(s) they are part of, and their Dun & Bradstreet number in addition to being certified within the http://www.ccr.gov/ website to be considered for participation. All emails must be received by noon on the 26th of April. Email address is as follows, [email protected]. Contracting office is located at the James J. Peters Medical Center, 130 West Kingsbridge Road, 9B-16, Bronx, NY 10468. When a small business receives an award as prime contractor as a result of a small business set-aside solicitation, the small business prime will be required to comply with FAR 52.219-14, Limitations on subcontracting, which states that at least 50 percent of the cost of contract performance incurred for personnel shall be expended for employees of the concern. The contract requires that the selected firm have an on-line access to E-mail via the Internet for routine exchange of correspondence.