M -- CAFETERIA SERVICES AT IRS BROOKHAVEN SERVICE CENTER, 1040 WAVERLY AVENUE AND 5000 CORPORATE DRIVE, HOLTSVILLE, NY

Notice Date

March 14, 2001

Contracting Office

General Services Administration, BK/QNS/LI Property Management Center, 10 Metrotech Center @ 625 Fulton Street, Seventh Floor, Brooklyn, New York 11201

ZIP Code

11201

Solicitation Number

GS-02P-00-PCC-0055

Response Due

April 18, 2001

Point of Contact

Eva Murphy (718) 254-7124

E-Mail Address

Eva.Murphy@GSA.GOV (Eva.Murphy@GSA.GOV)

Description

This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in Subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; proposals are being request and a written solicitation will not be issued. The Solicitation Number is GS-02P-00-PCC-0055 and is issued as a Request for Proposal (RFP). . SCOPE OF WORK -- the contractor shall provide all labor, materials, equipment and supervision (except as otherwise provided) to provide food/cafeteria at IRS Brookhaven Service Center, 1040 Waverly Avenue, Holtsville, NY AND New Submission Processing Site, 5000 Corporate Drive, Holtsville, NY. The contractor shall provide all management, supervision commercial items prepared in accordance with the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) labor, materials, supplies and equipment (except as otherwise provided) and shall establish and operate the food service facility for the purpose dispensing food, non-alcoholic beverages and other such items. Service shall be prompt, efficient and courteous and avoid undue interference with the operation of the building in which services are provided.(NOTE: The full text version of the clauses incorporated by reference in this solicitation can be found in the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR). The FAR can be accessed at the following Internet address: htt://www.arnet.gov/far/FAR REQUIREMENTS: FAR 52.212-1 is applicable, FAR 52.212-2 Evaluation-Commerical Items (JAN 1999)-(a) The government will award a contract resulting from this solicitation to the responsible offeror whose offer conforming to the solicitation will be most advantageous to the government, other factors considered. The following factors shall be used to evaluate offers, in descending order of importance: (i) Experience & Past Performance -- Offerors must have five(5) years of experience in the food service industry. Offers must submit a list of at least three(3) similar contracts completed during the past three(3) years. Contracts listed may include comparable types of service and comparable in patronage, volume and square footage. For each contract provide contract numbers, points of contact with telephone numbers and any other relevant information. Each will be evaluated on his/her performance under existing and prior contracts for similar products or services. The government will focus on information that demonstrates quality of performance relative to the size and complexity of the procurement under consideration. (ii) Management Plan (Budget, Staffing & Controls) -- The management plan should include an organizational chart to show staffing, other personnel, training and proposed backup support. The plan should also include a budget of proposed total operating budget consisting of sales, food costs, utility, service, labor, and payment in lieu of rent, administration & profit along with projected sales. The staffing levels and pattern should display menu, patronage, sales daily and weekly man-hour coverage for functions. The offeror shall also display their automated accounting system. (iii) Menu Cycle and Variety -- The offeror shall provide a complete menu cycle, variety and daily patterns. (iv) Sanitation and Preventive Maintenance -- The offeror must demonstrate its understanding of the requirements by submitting a complete internal sanitation program.(v) Menu, Portion ,Prices and Standard Units of Measurement price -- Each offeror shall list menu portion, price and standard unit of measurement price.(vi) Oral Presentation -- The purpose is to test the offeror's understanding of the requirements and their capability to perform in accordance with the scope of work (SOW). The offeror's oral presentation team shall be comprised of actual personnel who will perform the requirements of the SOW. The oral presentation date will be scheduled by the contracting officer after receipt of proposals. Government intends to evaluate proposal and award a contract without discussions with offerors (except communications conducted for the purpose of minor clarification). Therefore each initial offer should contain the offeror's best terms from a technical standpoint. However, the government reserves the right to conduct discussions if later determined by the contracting officer to be necessary. (b) Options. Evaluation of options shall not obligate the government to exercise the option(s). (c) A written notice of award or acceptance of an offer, mailed or otherwise furnished to the successful offeror within the time for acceptance specified in the offer, shall result in a binding contract without further action by either party. Before the offer's specified expiration time, the Government may accept an offer (or part of an offer), whether or not there are negotiations after its receipt, unless a written notice of withdrawal is received before award(End of Provision). 52.212-3-Contractor will include a complete copy of this provision, the provision is also part of attachments. 52.212-4-Contract Terms and Conditions -- Commercial Items is applicable. Addendum to 52.212-4(FAR 52.217-8 Option To Extend Services (NOV 1999) and FAR 52.217-9 (MAR 1989). 52.212-5-Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executives Orders-Commercial Items. As prescribed in 12.301(b)(4), insert the following clause: CONTRACT TERMS AND CONDITIONS REQUIRED TO IMPLEMENT STATUTES OR EXECUTIVE ORDERS -- -COMMERCIAL ITEMS (FEB 2001) (a) The Contractor shall comply with the following FAR clauses, which are incorporated in this contract by reference, to implement provisions of law or executive orders applicable to acquisitions of commercial items: (1) 52.222-3, Convict Labor (E.O. 11755). (2) 52.233-3, Protest after Award (31 U.S.C. 3553). (b) The Contractor shall comply with the FAR clauses in this paragraph (b) that the Contracting Officer has indicated as being incorporated in this contract by reference to implement provisions of law or Executive orders applicable to acquisitions of commercial items or components: (Contracting Officer shall check as appropriate.) _X__ (1) 52.203-6, Restrictions on Subcontractor Sales to the Government, with Alternate I (41 U.S.C. 253g and 10 U.S.C. 2402). ___ (2) 52.219-3, Notice of Total HUBZone Small Business Set-Aside (Jan 1999). ___ (3) 52.219-4, Notice of Price Evaluation Preference for HUBZone Small Business Concerns (Jan 1999) (if the offeror elects to waive the preference, it shall so indicate in its offer). ___ (4)(i) 52.219-5, Very Small Business Set-Aside (Pub. L. 103-403, section 304, Small Business Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 1994). ___ (ii) Alternate I to 52.219-5. ___ (iii) Alternate II to 52.219-5. __X__ (5) 52.219-8, Utilization of Small Business Concerns (15 U.S.C. 637 (d)(2) and (3)). ___ (6) 52.219-9, Small Business Subcontracting Plan (15 U.S.C. 637(d)(4)). ___ (7) 52.219-14, Limitations on Subcontracting (15 U.S.C. 637(a)(14)).___ (8)(i) 52.219-23, Notice of Price Evaluation Adjustment for Small Disadvantaged Business Concerns (Pub. L. 103-355, section 7102, and 10 U.S.C. 2323) (if the offeror elects to waive the adjustment, it shall so indicate in its offer). (ii)___ Alternate I of 52.219-23. __X__ (9) 52.219-25, Small Disadvantaged Business Participation Program -- Disadvantaged Status and Reporting (Pub. L. 103-355, section 7102, and 10 U.S.C. 2323). ___ (10) 52.219-26, Small Disadvantaged Business Participation Program -- Incentive Subcontracting (Pub. L. 103-355, section 7102, and 10 U.S.C. 2323). __X__ (11) 52.222-21, Prohibition of Segregated Facilities (Feb 1999) __X__ (12) 52.222-26, Equal Opportunity (E.O. 11246). __X__ (13) 52.222-35, Affirmative Action for Disabled Veterans and Veterans of the Vietnam Era (38 U.S.C. 4212). __X__ (14) 52.222-36, Affirmative Action for Workers with Disabilities (29 U.S.C. 793). __X__ (15) 52.222-37, Employment Reports on Disabled Veterans and Veterans of the Vietnam Era (38 U.S.C. 4212). ___ (16) 52.222-19, Child Labor -- Cooperation with Authorities and Remedies (E.O. 13126). ___ (17)(i) 52.223-9, Estimate of Percentage of Recovered Material Content for EPA-Designated Products (42 U.S.C. 6962(c)(3)(A)(ii)). __ (ii) Alternate I of 52.223-9 (42 U.S.C. 6962(i)(2)(C)). ___ (18) 52.225-1, Buy American Act -- Balance of Payments Program -- Supplies (41 U.S.C. 10a -- 10d).___ (19)(i) 52.225-3, Buy American Act -- North American Free Trade Agreement -- Israeli Trade Act -- Balance of Payments Program (41 U.S.C. 10a -- 10d, 19 U.S.C. 3301 note, 19 U.S.C. 2112 note). ___ (ii) Alternate I of 52.225-3. ___ (iii) Alternate II of 52.225-3. ___ (20) 52.225-5, Trade Agreements (19 U.S.C. 2501, et seq., 19 U.S.C. 3301 note). ___ (21) 52.225-13, Restriction on Certain Foreign Purchases (E.O. 12722, 12724, 13059, 13067, 13121, and 13129). ____ (22) 52.225-15, Sanctioned European Union Country End Products (E.O. 12849). _X_ (23) 52.225-16, Sanctioned European Union Country Services (E.O. 12849). _X__ (24) 52.232-33, Payment by Electronic Funds Transfer -- Central Contractor Registration (31 U.S.C. 3332). ___ (25) 52.232-34, Payment by Electronic Funds Transfer -- Other than Central Contractor Registration (31 U.S.C. 3332). ___ (26) 52.232-36, Payment by Third Party (31 U.S.C. 3332). ___ (27) 52.239-1, Privacy or Security Safeguards (5 U.S.C. 552a). ___ (28)(i) 52.247-64, Preference for Privately Owned U.S.-Flag Commercial Vessels (46 U.S.C. 1241). ___ (ii) Alternate I of 52.247-64.(c) The Contractor shall comply with the FAR clauses in this paragraph (c), applicable to commercial services, which the Contracting Officer has indicated as being incorporated in this contract by reference to implement provisions of law or executive orders applicable to acquisitions of commercial items or components: (Contracting Officer check as appropriate.) __X__ (1) 52.222-41, Service Contract Act of 1965, As Amended (41 U.S.C. 351, et seq.). ___X__(2) 52.222-42, Statement of Equivalent Rates for Federal Hires (29 U.S.C. 206 and 41 U.S.C. 351, et seq.). __X__ (3) 52.222-43, Fair Labor Standards Act and Service Contract Act -- Price Adjustment (Multiple Year and Option Contracts) (29 U.S.C. 206 and 41 U.S.C. 351, et seq.). ___ (4) 52.222-44, Fair Labor Standards Act and Service Contract Act -- Price Adjustment (29 U.S.C. 206 and 41 U.S.C. 351, et seq.). __X__ (5) 52.222-47, SCA Minimum Wages and Fringe Benefits Applicable to Successor Contract Pursuant to Predecessor Contractor Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) (41 U.S.C. 351, et seq.); the provision is also part of attachments. __X___ (6) 52.222-50, Nondisplacement of Qualified Workers (Executive Order 12933). (d) Comptroller General Examination of Record. The Contractor shall comply with the provisions of this paragraph (d) if this contract was awarded using other than sealed bid, is in excess of the simplified acquisition threshold, and does not contain the clause at 52.215-2, Audit and Records -- Negotiation. (1) The Comptroller General of the United States, or an authorized representative of the Comptroller General, shall have access to and right to examine any of the Contractor's directly pertinent records involving transactions related to this contract. (2) The Contractor shall make available at its offices at all reasonable times the records, materials, and other evidence for examination, audit, or reproduction, until 3 years after final payment under this contract or for any shorter period specified in FAR Subpart 4.7, Contractor Records Retention, of the other clauses of this contract. If this contract is completely or partially terminated, the records relating to the work terminated shall be made available for 3 years after any resulting final termination settlement. Records relating to appeals under the disputes clause or to litigation or the settlement of claims arising under or relating to this contract shall be made available until such appeals, litigation, or claims are finally resolved. (3) As used in this clause, records include books, documents, accounting procedures and practices, and other data, regardless of type and regardless of form. This does not require the Contractor to create or maintain any record that the Contractor does not maintain in the ordinary course of business or pursuant to a provision of law. (e) Notwithstanding the requirements of the clauses in paragraphs (a), (b), (c) or (d) of this clause, the Contractor is not required to include any FAR clause, other than those listed below (and as may be required by an addenda to this paragraph to establish the reasonableness of prices under Part 15), in a subcontract for commercial items or commercial components -- (1) 52.222-26, Equal Opportunity (E.O. 11246); (2) 52.222-35, Affirmative Action for Disabled Veterans and Veterans of the Vietnam Era (38 U.S.C. 4212); (3) 52.222-36, Affirmative Action for Workers with Disabilities (29 U.S.C. 793); (4) 52.247-64, Preference for Privately-Owned U.S. Flag Commercial Vessels (46 U.S.C. 1241) (flow down not required for subcontracts awarded beginning May 1, 1996); and (5) 52.222-41, Service Contract Act of 1965, As Amended (41 Request for Proposals. All provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular FAC-97-20, dated October 10, 2000 and General Services Administration Acquisition Manual (GSAM), Change 3, dated June 19, 2000. The associated NAICS code is 722212 and the small business size standard for this procurement is annual receipts of $5,000,000 or less. This procurement is not set-side for Small Business. Proposal are due April 18, 2001 TIME 4:30 p.m., at General Services Administration, Program Support Division, 26 Federal Plaza, Rm#18-130, NY,NY 10278. Point of Contact Ms. Eva Murphy, Telephone No. (718) 254-7124. COPIES OF ATTACHMENTS, CBA, Wage Determination, and further information can be obtained by FAX request (718)254-7083, or by telephone request. The anticipated period of performance is from July 2001 through June 2005, with two (2) five (5) year options. Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) is applicable and Wage Determination No. 1994-2373 dated 9/15/00 is applicable. A pre-proposal conference will be held on March 28, 2001, 10:30 a.m. at the IRS Brookhaven Service Center, 1040 Wavely Avenue, Holtsville, NY 11742, call Royce Bryan at (631) 715-3083 for directions.

Record

Loren Data Corp. 20010316/MSOL002.HTM (W-073 SN50G2F4)