Z--Raise, Realign, Reset, & Backfill Golden Gate NC Cemetery Millennium Phase I

Synopsis: The Department of Veterans Affairs, National Cemetery Administration is soliciting offers from experienced qualified Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business concerns to provide all labor, supervision, materials, equipment, and supplies necessary to Raise, Realign, Reset, and Clean Markers Millennium Phase I at San Francisco National Cemetery, San Francisco, CA 94066 for a period of performance of 270 days after Notice to Proceed. The Contracting Officer (CO) is Erwin Fernandez, +1 (555) 000-0000. Bids will only be accepted by mail. Each Offerror must have a regular established firm in the business called for, who are financially responsible, and able to show evidence of their reliability, ability, experience, facilities and personnel directly employed by them to render prompt and satisfactory service. Contractors that can meet the requirements of the RFP are requested to take into consideration the complexity and extent of the services to be performed. The VA is issuing this Request for Proposal in accordance with Part 15, Technical capability, past performance/client satisfaction and scheduling/phasing, when combined are significantly more important than cost/price. In accordance with P.L. 109-461, this acquisition is restricted to Small Business Concerns Owned and Controlled by Service Disable Veterans (SDVOSB) concerns. The estimated services cost range for the base period is between $1,500,000 and $2,000,000. NAICS is 561730, landscaping services, is applicable to this acquisition with a Business Size Standard of $7 million. There will be no further pre-announcement of when the solicitation will be posted; however, solicitation documents will be available electronically on or about 25 April 2011 at the FedBizOpps website at http://www.fedbizopps.gov. NO HARD COPIES OF THIS SOLICITATION WILL BE ISSUED. There will be a site visit tentatively scheduled on Tuesday, 3 May 2011 from 10:00 - 11:00 am PST at San Francisco National Cemetery. Please arrive at the SFNC front office promptly at 10:00 am on day of site visit. This is the only time the COTR will take the offerrors' around for a site visit. No more than two (2) representatives per company are allowed to participate in the site visit. Please contact George Donnes at +1 (555) 000-0000 or Cliff Schem at +1 (555) 000-0000 for additional information regarding the site visit only. Prospective offerrors are encouraged to attend the site to familiarize themselves with the project, project site and conditions which may affect your cost proposal. Upon review of the solicitation documents, prospective offerrors are encouraged to provide questions and comments, in writing, in regards to solicitation documents prior to a site visit, questions are to be emailed to the CO. Solicitation number VA-786-11-RP-0155 has been assigned and should be referenced on all correspondence regarding this announcement and solicitation. Please make sure you read all instructions in the solicitation, especially the section on evaluations. All interested parties must register on the FedBizOpps site in order to receive notification or changes and/or new postings to the solicitation. Interested firms are reminded in the Central Contractor Registration (CCR) and FAR Part 4, 12, prospective contractors must complete electronic online annual representations and certifications (ORCA) databases prior to award of a contract. All SDVOSB submitting an offer must be registered and will be verified by the Contracting Officer in the VetBiz Information pages located at http://www.vip.vetbiz.gov