Bulk Hospital Laundry Services

The Defense health Agency (DHA) Contracting Operations Division (J4); CO-NCR is issuing this PRE SOLICITATION NOTICE to alert potential Offerors of the Government's intent to solicit for the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC); from commercial sources; services that perform bulk hospital laundry pickup; cleaning; sanitizing; packaging and return to WRNMMC - Department of Logistics; the Government's hospital/clinic linen; IAW the stringent requirements set forth in a Performance Work Statement (PWS); which includes and generally conforms to the standards of the Joint Commission (of the American Hospital Association); and, The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code: 812332 - Industrial Launderers (serving hospitals/medical clinics that own and provide themselves, their inventory of hospital/clinic linen). This requirement specifically rejects the use or concept of Linen Rental. This PRE SOLICITATION NOTICE is being issued to alert those firms who responded to the Request for Information (RFI) on this requirement, on the Government's intent to issue a solicitation seeking Offerors' responses IAW FAR Part 13 - Simplified Acquisition Procedures to receive Offeror responses from the local trade area (the National Capital Region (NCR)); who can meet the requirement as generally described here. The scale of the work required is: (approximately 250,000 lbs. net bulk laundry cleaned per month; approximately 8,000 - 9,000 lbs. net bulk hospital laundry cleaned per day). The Government's required schedule for this work is: the daily pick-up of soiled bulk laundry, concomitant with the return delivery (the next day following) of the entire inventory, of the bulk hospital laundry picked-up (the previous day); cleaned, sanitized, packaged and bundled. The pick-up/delivery window is: restricted to: daily, (one (1) hour, from 01:00 - 02:00, only), at the WRNMMC loading dock. The WRNMMC is located on a restricted-access US Government military reservation, in Bethesda, Maryland. The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) size standard for NAICS Code: 812332 - Industrial Launderers, is $38.5 million. When the notice is issued all interested firms are encouraged to respond. Questions or inquiries (by electronic mail only) may be made by contacting Robert C. Shepherd (the point of contact for this action) at, Robert.c.shepherd.civ@amail.mil. Telephone or facsimile inquiries are not acceptable. The Contracting Office Address is: Defense health Agency (DHA) Contracting Operations Division (J4) CO-NCR, 7700 Arlington Blvd. Suite 5108 Falls Church, VA 22042-5101.