99--Floral and decoration clean up, monthly

The National Cemetery Administration is soliciting offers under Solicitation No. VA-786-12-R-0222 for the following service: This is a performance-based contract for Cemetery Initial Setting and Replacement of Upright Headstones services at Fort Gibson National Cemetery. The overall responsibility of the Contractor is to plan, coordinate, organize, manage, and perform the activities, which are required to maintain acceptable placement and appearance of headstones. This Performance Work Statement describes the basic objectives of the Fort Gibson National Cemetery. The Performance Based Service Contract provides potential Offerors the flexibility to develop cost effective solutions and the opportunity to propose innovative alternatives to meet the stated objectives. It also presents the Government with an opportunity to assess the Offeror's understanding of all aspects of the effort to be performed by eliminating the "how to" instructions to accomplish the required effort normally contained on the Statement of Work that the Government traditionally provides to prospective Offerors. Minimum acceptable levels of performance to meet the minimum requirements are outlined in the "Performance Work Requirements Summary" contained in an Attachment in the solicitation when it is issued. DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES: The Contractor shall provide all personnel, supervision, professional expertise, vehicles, transportation, equipment, tools, materials, supplies, quality control and other items and services necessary to install and replace headstones at Fort Gibson National Cemetery in a manner that will present a clean, neat, and professional appearance throughout the Cemetery and will meet or exceed the requirements in accordance with Contract Specifications, Drawings and the Performance Work Requirement Summary (PWRS) found in the Solicitation. Services include, but are not limited to, placement of initial and replacement of upright headstones (HS), destruction of replaced HS, preservation of existing Cemetery features (lawns, paving, roads, stones, and markers), restoration of Cemetery features disturbed or removed as a result of performing new work such that at the end of the day the Cemetery condition is as good as before commencement of work. Work shall be performed in strict accordance with all terms, conditions, specifications, schedules and drawings. Performance shall be in accordance with the requirements, conditions, terms and representations contained in this solicitation, any pertinent OSHA Occupational and Safety regulations, and any State and/or local regulations, laws and codes. This acquisition is 100% set aside for Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB). The NAICS Code is 2381401. Size standard is $14 Million. Electronic solicitations will be available for download from http://www.fbo.gov on or about Sept 5, 2012. Responses to the solicitation are due at noon EST. on Sept 15, 2012. Any amendments to the solicitation will also be available at www.fbo.gov. Offerors are advised they are responsible for obtaining any amendments. Evaluation criteria for this award will be in the following order: 2 Rounds: the 1st round is based on price where a competitive range is established using various mathematical formulae and outliers may be removed for the competition. The second round is based on Technical Qualifications and Past Performance where they are equal in weight to each other. If proposal are rated equally then Price will determine the final outcome. Proposals shall be formatted as directed in Sections E.2 and E.3 or may be deemed non-responsive and removed for further consideration.