Florence National Cemetery Offsite Inscription I1
The National Cemetery Administration is soliciting offers under Solicitation No. VA786-14-R-0185 for the performance of offsite inscription on Government-furnished blank marble niche covers (I1) for Florence National Cemetery.
Contract needs to be awarded and inscriptions need to begin by June 15, 2015, therefore, the time is limited for this RFP opening/closing. This will be open for only one week due to this time restraint. Vendors may also email their proposals instead of mailing as normal.
The awardee shall provide all labor, materials, packaging and transportation necessary to perform off-site inscription service at their location on government furnished monuments. The contractor shall have 20 calendar days, excluding federal holidays, as counted from the date following the day an order is sent to the contractor until the monuments are produced and made available to the cemetery.
The contractor is responsible for pick-up, packaging to prevent damage during shipment, palletizing if necessary, handling, and returning niche covers to the cemetery. The cemetery is responsible only for making blank niche covers available to the contractor and is not responsible for packaging the blank niche covers. The contractor shall regularly pickup blanks from the cemetery to ensure work is completed within the required performance period. The contractor is not responsible for unwrapping, uncrating, or installing completed niche covers.
Evaluation criteria for this award will be in Lowest Price Technically Acceptable (LPTA).
All offerors shall submit at their expense one (1) marble inscription sample by the closing date of this solicitation. All offerors who have submitted and received approval notification for a sample of the same type within the last 12 months shall submit a copy of that approved review with their proposal in lieu of submitting a sample.
Electronic solicitations will be available for download from Federal Business Opportunities http://www.FedBizOpps.gov on or around May 29, 2014. Responses to the solicitation are due by 2:00 p.m. June 5, 2014. Offerors are advised that they are responsible for obtaining amendments to the solicitation which will be available at FedBizOpps.
No telephone requests will be accepted. Any questions should be sent via email to [email protected] by May 30, 2014.
Donna Cooper
Contracting Officer
540-658-7227
[email protected]
