S--Grounds Maintenance Services

NA This will be a firm fixed price contract. Contractor shall furnish all labor, equipment supplies, transportation, supervision and other services necessary to perform ground maintenance services at Fort Shafter, Helemano Military Reservation, and Schofield Barracks, Island of Oahu, Hawaii. The issue date for this solicitation is estimated to be on or about 20 November 2003. Response date above is estimated. Actual proposal due date will be specified in the solicitation and may be earlier or later than 12 December 2003. Period of performance is 1 February 2004 through 31 January 2005 with 4 pre-priced 12-month option periods. This procurement is a 100% small business set-aside. A firm is considered to be a small business if its average annual gross rece ipts for the past three years do not exceed $6.0 million. NAICS 561730, Landscaping Services. TELEPHONE REQUESTS WILL NOT BE HONORED. Requests for this solicitation may be made in writing to Army Contracting Agency, Regional Contracting Office, HI, ATTN D. Young, Fort Shafter, HI 96858 5025, via fax at +1 (555) 000-0000, or email to contact@example.gov. Ensure your request clearly identifies the email address to which solicitations should be sent, in addition to your U.S. Postal address, a point of cont act, phone number, and fax number. Interested contractors are to ensure that their provided email addresses are capable of receiving multiple attachments of maximum file sized content. Solicitations may be issued through electronic email, U.S. postal ser vice, 3.5 inch disk or compact disk using MS Word, Excel or Acrobat Adobe PDF files. A paper copy of the solicitation may be obtained through in-person pickup at the office designated above. The Government will not be responsible for altering or breaking down its solicitation transmission to accommodate any limited capability email addresses. In lieu of issuing the solicitation via email, the Government reserves the right to provide an Internet site for downloading solicitations. As an option to issuing the solicitation, the Government reserves the right to post this solicitation package on our website. In the event the Government elects this option, interested offerors will be notified that the solicitation is available and will be required to download the solicitation and any subsequent amendments from the website. If posted on the website, interested offerors are responsible for monitoring the website until the closing date and downloading any amendments. Recommended IT capabilities for contractor s ystems are 56K modems for website downloads and 2 mb email capacity. This is a new requirement. No previous procurement history is available. See Note 1 (100% set aside for small business).