Grease Traps Cleaning Services

SOURCES SOUGHT FOR Grease Trap Services Sources Sought Number HHSNIHORFSBSS12003RC THIS IS A SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE REPRESENTING A MARKET SURVEY AND IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS, PROPOSAL ABSTRACTS, QUOTATIONS, OR INVITATION FOR BIDS. NO AWARD WILL RESULT FROM THIS NOTICE. The National Institutes of Health is conducting a MARKET SURVEY to determine the availability and capability of business sources including, HUBZone, Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business, 8 (a), veteran owned, Women-Owned, or small disadvantaged business concerns capable of cleaning, removing and disposing of grease from grease traps and related tanks, and their component parts at the national Institutes of Health (NIH) Bethesda, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, Maryland. The purpose of this Grease Trap Cleaning Services is to provide maintenance cleaning services empty and dispose of fats, oil and grease and to clean grease traps, related tanks, and components that support food service operations at the National Institutes of Health. The North American industry Classification System (NAICS) Code is 562998 and the business size standard is $7.0 million dollars. It is the intent of the NIH, Office of Research Facilities (ORF) to procure services to provide maintenance services for grease traps. These services may be performed at NIH facilities which include NIH Main Campus, Bethesda, MD, The Prime Contractor shall perform no less than 50% of the contract; sub-contract shall perform no more than 50% of the work. FAR Clause 52.219-14 Limitation on subcontracting rules applies. The Contractor is responsible for maintenance cleaning of 18 grease traps and related tanks of various sizes inside and outside of buildings for collection of fats, oil, and grease from kitchen restaurant and cafeteria food services operations. This work shall be performed by a specialty contractor and/or subcontractor(s). The anticipated period of performance is for a base year with four option years. It is the intent to award an Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity Contract (IDIQ). Work shall be identified under individual task orders issued by the Contracting Officer. POTENTIAL SOURCES SHALL PROVIDE THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION IN THEIR RESPONSE: The contractor must include in their Capability Statement, (1) the company name, address, phone number, e-mail address, NAICS Code http://www.sba.gov/size, certification of business size, and Duns and Bradstreet Number (DUNS), (2) staff expertise, including their availability, experience, and formal and other training, (3) current in-house capability and capacity to perform the work, (4) prior completed projects of similar nature, (5) corporate experience and management capability and (6) examples of prior completed Government contracts, references, and other related information. The Capability Statement is limited to 25 pages in size. Interested vendors capable of furnishing the government with the services specified in this Sources Sought notice should submit their Capability Statement to the e-mail address below. Capability Statements will be due fifteen (15) calendar days from the publication date of this notice, or March 12, 2013, at 1:00PM Eastern Standard Time (EST). The Capability Statement must reference Sources Sought Number HHSNIHORFSBSS12003RC. All responsible sources may submit a Capability Statement, which if timely received shall be considered by the agency. Capability Statements must be submitted via e-mail only to coler@mail.nih.gov. Faxed or postal mailed copies will not be accepted. DISCLAIMER AND IMPORTANT NOTES: This notice does not obligate the Government to award a contract or otherwise pay for the information provide in response. The Government reserves the right to use information provided by respondents for any purpose deemed necessary and legally appropriate. Any organization responding to this notice should ensure that its response is complete and sufficiently detailed to allow the Government to determine the organization's qualifications to perform the work. Respondents are advised that the Government is under no obligation to acknowledge receipt of the information received or provide feedback to respondents with respect to any information submitted. After a review of the responses received, a pre-solicitation synopsis and solicitation may be published in Federal Business Opportunities. However, responses to this notice will not be considered adequate responses to a solicitation. No Proprietary, classified, confidential, or sensitive information should be included in your response. The Government reserves the right to use any no-proprietary technical information in any resultant solicitation(s).