Shop Towels Lease and Laundering | Iowa National Guard

The Iowa National Guard is seeking vendors to provide shop towel lease and laundering services across multiple armories throughout the state of Iowa under a contract with a one-year base period and four optional one-year renewal periods. The services require the contractor to supply, deliver, launder, and replace industrial-grade shop towels at specified locations including Johnston, Waterloo, Sioux City, Council Bluffs, Mason City, and Boone, with strict specifications for towel color, size, cleanliness, and condition. Towels must be blue, white, orange, or red, measuring between 14x14 and 18x18 inches, delivered clean and dry with no oily residue, metal shavings, or contaminants, and limited to no more than three flaws per towel and no hole larger than a quarter inch. Weekly deliveries must maintain a one-for-one exchange of soiled for clean towels based on location-specific base quantities outlined in Technical Exhibit 3, with deliveries beginning within ten days of contract award. The contractor must conduct joint weekly inventories using Technical Exhibit 4, signed by both government and contractor representatives, and submit a Quality Control Plan and designation of a Contract Manager within ten days of award. Invoicing occurs monthly and includes costs for lost or excessively damaged towels and fair wear and tear replacements, with the latter capped at 10% of the base quantity per location. The contractor must comply with all security protocols at military installations, including background checks for employees, safeguarding government property, and adhering to facility access rules, with no telework permitted except under Continuity of Operations Planning during national emergencies. The U.S. Government enforces a zero tolerance policy on trafficking in persons, and the contractor is subject to FAR 22.17 and Subpart 9.5 for organizational conflicts of interest. All services must be performed Monday through Friday during business hours of 0700 to 1530, excluding federal holidays, and the contractor is not compensated for delays due to unscheduled gate closures. This solicitation is currently in the sources-sought phase under NAICS code 812331 with a response deadline of June 26, 2026, to inform the government’s decision on whether to revise the draft performance work statement and determine an appropriate set-aside.