Z--Los Angeles County Drainage Area (LACDA)/Santa Ana River Basin (SARB) Channel, Levee and Basin Inspection and Maintenance Services, Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, and Riverside Counties, California

This solicitation is for a Five (5) year service maintenance contract which includes a Base year and four (4) Option years. The contractor shall provide non-personal services to include all personnel, equipment, tools, materials, supervision, and other items and products necessary to ensure that maintenance services are performed within the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Los Angeles County Drainage Area (LACDA) and Santa Ana River Basin (SARB) Operations and Maintenance (O&M) projects. These channels and levees and Flood Control Basins (FCB) are located in the county of Los Angeles and San Bernardino California. Maintenance will be performed in such a manner that will support the Operations and Maintenance requirements identified in the LACDA Manual LADM-1130-2-13 and SARB LADM 1130-2-14. There will be two (2) Levels of service requirements work associated with this procurement: Level I and Level II. Level I consists of routine inspection and maintenance services to include monthly Maintenance Services and Inspections (MS&I) and will be a Firm-Fixed-Price schedule over the contract life for the Los Angeles County Drainage Area (LACDA) channels and levees and the Santa Ana River Basin (SARB) channels and levees under the maintenance responsibility of the Corps of Engineers. Service requirements above the routine maintenance Level I will be considered Level II and will be established for nonrecurring services and maintenance services requested by the government to address work of an urgent or emergency status, deferred maintenance activities which are not routinely funded, seasonal maintenance activities, etc. Examples of work loads are: Clear all vegetation, weeding, mowing, pruning, tree removal, pest control/dead animal removal to include burrowing animal control services, drainage structures & systems maintenance & clearing, policing/trash pickup and removal, litter removal, graffiti removal, sediment/debris removal, clearing of vegetation/mixed debris, and herbicide applications. THIS PROJECT IS A 100% SMALL BUSINESS SET-ASIDE REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP), LOWEST-PRICED TECHNICALLY ACCEPTABLE. ONLY SMALL BUSINESSES WILL BE CONSIDERED FOR AWARD. Both a technical and price proposal will be required. The Technical Evaluation Factors for this procurement are in Section 00110, entitled Submission Requirements and Instructions. It is the Government's intent to award based on initial offers without discussions; therefore, the offerors shall provide their best technical and price proposals. The offerors will provide a quality control plan and a work plan for evaluation in accordance with EM 385-1-1. There will be one pricing schedule for this project with a Performance Period of 365 days after contract award and 365 days for each option year one (1) through four (4). The North American Industry Classification Code (NAICS) for this procurement is 562910, Remediation Services, $19,000,000.00 average annual gross revenue for the last three (3) fiscal years. Estimated cost range for this project is between $5,000,000 and $10,000,000.00. The solicitation will be made available on or about May 28, 2014. All proposals will be due on or about June 30, 2014 at 2:00 P.M. Pacific Time. 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