Houston National Cemetery, National Shrine Project

The Houston National Cemetery National Shrine Project, solicitation 36C78626B0026, is a sealed bid invitation for construction services to maintain 700 upright granite headstones at the Houston National Cemetery in Texas. This project is set aside for Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses (SDVOSB) under NAICS code 237990, with an estimated contract value between 100,000 and 250,000 dollars. The selected contractor must provide all labor, materials, equipment, and supervision to extract, raise, realign, reset, backfill, and clean headstones across five specific sections: S1, U, U1, U2, and X. The period of performance is 120 calendar days from the Notice to Proceed, with work conducted Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Key requirements include strict adherence to alignment tolerances, with transverse and lateral alignment within 1/8 inch and vertical alignment within one degree of fully vertical. The contractor must follow a sequential workflow, limiting realignment to three rows at a time and performing cleaning only after all other work is accepted. Mandatory compliance measures include the Davis-Bacon Act for prevailing wages, a one-year warranty on all work, and a limitation on subcontracting that prohibits paying more than 85 percent of the contract value to non-certified SDVOSBs. Bidders must provide a bid guarantee of at least 20 percent of the bid price and submit performance and payment bonds totaling 100 percent of the contract amount within five days of award. Award will be based on the most advantageous price from a responsible bidder.