S--Linen Transportation - VISN Wide VISN 3

AGENCY: Veteran's Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs NOTICE TYPE: SOURCES SOUGHT Linen Transportation Service, VA, VISN 3 - Textile Care Facility, Queens, NY Description This is a Sources Sought Notice to provide the U.S. Department of Veteran's Affairs, VISN 3, with linen transportation services at the VA Textile Care Facility in St. Albans, Queens, New York. The vendor shall provide transportation, to include drivers, to pick up and deliver clean linen and soiled linen to and from the VA textile care facility at St. Albans to various locations including New Jersey and upstate New York. Deliveries must be made between 2:00 a.m. - 7.00 a.m. on the scheduled week days to each facility throughout the week, including all holidays, and an empty trailer must be left at all locations to be used for soiled linen storage. The vendor will be required to make emergency deliveries to all facilities within three hours of notification including 3rd shift hours. Driver and tractor trailers must be available during each work day (7:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.) at the St. Albans laundry to move around trailers in and out of the docks for loading purposes and for delivery of linen to any delivery points as required. Textile Facility Address: St Albans VAMC: Department of Veterans Affairs 179-00 LINDEN BLVD Jamaica, NY 11425 Responses to this notice must be submitted in writing (via E-mail) referencing the requirement & RFI # and must be received not later than January 24, 2014 at 11:00AM. Email: [email protected]. No telephone inquiries will be accepted. Interested parties MUST provide company/individual name, a capability statement, examples of same or similar work performed at other facilities, DUNS number, address, point of contact and social-economic status verification. To be eligible for consideration, offerors will have been engaged in maintaining and/or servicing the type of equipment listed for a period of no less than two years and be capable of presenting certification of such with verifiable references. Interested parties who do not submit the above information on or before the response due date and time will not be considered for this procurement. The purpose of this notice is to gain knowledge of potential qualified sources and their size classification/socioeconomic status (service-disabled veteran owned small business, veteran owned small business, women owned small business, HUB Zone, 8(a), small business or large business). Responses to this notice will be used by the Government to make appropriate acquisition decisions. A solicitation is not currently available. If a solicitation is issued, it will be announced on Federal Business opportunities website (http://www.fbo.gov) at a later date, and all interested parties must respond to that solicitation announcement separately from the responses to this announcement.