NASA/George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, Procurement Office, Marshall Space Flight Center, AL 35812

Z -- LANDSCAPE SERVICES SOL 9-1-0-A2-40081 POC Judy E. Drinnon, Contract Specialist, Phone (256) 544-0336, Fax (256) 544-4401, Email judy.drinnon@msfc.nasa.gov -- Timothy P. Crabb, Contracting Officer, Phone (256) 544-0365, Fax (256) 544-9162, Email tim.crabb@msfc.nasa.gov WEB: Click here for the latest information about this notice, http://nais.msfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/EPS/bizops.cgi?gr=D&;pin=62#9-1-0-A2- 40081. E-MAIL: Judy E. Drinnon, judy.drinnon@msfc.nasa.gov. NASA/MSFC plan to issue a Request for Offer (RFO) for Landscape Services. The contractor shall furnish all labor, supervision, equipment, and materials necessary to provide landscape services in accordance with the requirements specified herein. MSFC consists of approximately 1,841 acres, situated wholly within the confines of Redstone Arsenal. Within this acreage there is approximately 90,000 square feet of plant and landscape beds. This contract will include the maintenance of flowerbeds, ground cover beds, shrubs, ornamental trees, and hedges. All services provided shall be in compliance with NASA and Redstone Arsenal regulations, paying particular concern with regards to erosion and run-off control. The landscape services to be provided include maintenance around the exterior of buildings where there are landscaped beds and hedges, landscape design requirements and implementation as required, soil analysis, vegetation control, care of plant beds including cultivation, mulching, ground cover maintenance, fertilization, pruning of ornamental trees, shrubs and hedges (ornamental trees include only those in beds or hedge rows), irrigation of beds, integrated pest and herbicide management in all landscaped areas, leaf and debris removal, and services to perform special task to improve the appearance of the landscape at MSFC. All work shall be performed in accordance with MSFC Safety procedures to ensure safe conditions. Any landscape services scheduled may be adjusted for special events, preparation for inclement weather or recovery from any natural disaster. The contractor shall maintain a Landscape Services Map that will delineate MSFC in its entirety; coded to indicate the type of landscape service each parcel requires. All collected remains from cutting, pruning, mulching, vegetation and pest removal shall be transported to the Redstone Arsenal Landfill or other approved designated areas. Work site is the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, AL. The standard industrial classification code for this procurement is 0782. The period of performance in the solicitation is one (1) year with four 1-year options. This is a Small Business Set-Aside. The resulting contract will be a firm-fixed-price performance based contract. All responsible business sources may submit an offer that shall be considered by the agency. The anticipated release date of the RFO is on or about December 15, 1999, with an anticipated offer due date of on or about January 18, 2000. An ombudsman has been appointed -- See Note"B: The solicitation and any documents related to this procurement will be available over the Internet. These documents will be in ASCII or RTF form and will reside on a World Wide Web (WWW) server, which may be accessed using a WWW browser application. The WWW address, or URL, of the NASA/MSFC Business Opportunities home page is http://procuremetn.nasa.gov/EPS/MSFC/calss.html . Prospective offerors shall notify this office of their intent to submit an offer. It is the offeror's responsibility to monitor this site for the release of the solicitation and amendments (if any). Potential offerors will be responsible for downloading their own copy of the solicitation and amendments (if any). Hard copies may be obtained from the identified point of contact; however, the closing date for the hard copy received shall be the same as the solicitation, inclusive of any amendments, released on the Internet. Any referenced numbered notes can be reviewed at the following URL: http://genesis.gsfc.nas.gov/nnotes.htm . Interested bidders will be able to visit the site to observe the area to be maintained. A date for this visit will be set forth in the solicitation. Prospective offerors shall notify this office of their intent to submit an offer. It is the offeror's responsibility to monitor the Internet site for the release of the solicitation and amendments (if any). Potential offerors will be responsible for downloading their own copy of the solicitation and amendments (if any). Any referenced notes can be viewed at the following URL: http://genesis.gsfc.nasa.gov/nasanote.html The offer shall state in their offer their size status for this procurement. All qualified responsible small business sources may submit an offer which shall be considered by the agency. The DPAS rating for this procurement is DO-09. Prospective offerors shall notify this office of their intent to subit an offer. It is the offer's responsibility to monitor the follow Internet site for the release of the solicitation amendments: http://nais.msfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/EPS/bizops.cgi?gr=C&;Pin=62 . Posted 12/03/99 (D-SN405729). (0337)

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