S -- Mess Attendant Services

The contractor shall provide all personnel, supervision, and any items and services necessary to perform food service attendant services. Contractor tasks include, but are not limited to: post and maintain menu boards; subsistence and material handling; food preparation, serving and replenishing; preparing vegetables and fruits for salad bars, meals and salads; short order sandwich preparation; food service; baking; bussing tables in dining areas; cashier service; sanitation; housekeeping; waste management; exterior maintenance; equipment maintenance and repair; contingency service, including cooking to ensure continued service; maintaining quality control; ordering and receiving all storeroom orders; Grab-N-Go; meals for WSA, and other food service-related tasks. The contract will be for a basic period of one year (1 October 2004 - 30 September 2005) with four one-year option periods. It is our intent to award a fixed price contract with award fee incentive. This project is set aside nationally under the Competitive 8(a) Program. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code is 722310. The size standard is $17.5 mln. The solicitation will be posted at FedBizOps (http://www.eps.gov) electronically, on or about 23 April 2004. NO HARD COPIES will be provided. The solicitation must be downloaded from the internet. Once the solicitation is posted, it is incumbent upon the interested parties to review this site frequently for any updates/amendments to any and all documents. All responsible sources may submit a proposal that shall be considered by this Agency. All prospective offerors interested in submitting a proposal on this solicitation must have a commercial and government entity code (CAGE CODE). A technical proposal including a Quality Assurance Plan will be required. Once determined to be technically acceptable, an integrated assessment of the Offeror's price and past performance will be performed. The government award will be based on best value with the evaluation factors to be set forth in the solicitation. The Government reserves the right to award to other than the lowest price. If the Contracting Officer determines that the number of proposals that would otherwise be in the competitive range exceeds the number at which an efficient competition can be conducted, the Contracting Officer may limit the number of proposals in the competitive range to a number that will permit an efficient competition among the most highly rated proposals. Questions about this acquisition should be emailed to Linda Redding, Contract Specialist, at contact@example.gov. Alternate POC is Arlene Stern, Contracting Officer, at contact@example.gov.