S -- EXHIBITIONS MAINTENANCE

Notice Date

July 17, 2001

Contracting Office

United States Holocaust Memorial Council, Division of Procurement, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW, Washington, DC 20024-2150

ZIP Code

20024-2150

Solicitation Number

CL-02-0001

Response Due

August 23, 2001

Point of Contact

Lori Mankowitz (202) 314-0356

E-Mail Address

Please click here to reach the POC via email (lmankowitz@ushmm.org)

Description

CBD Synopsis SUBJECT: Exhibitions Maintenance SOL: CL-02-0001 DUE: August 23, 2001 POC: Lori Mankowitz 202/314-0356 DESC: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), Washington, DC, collection items are exhibited in an open-case design. Consequently, soils from the Museum's air handling system and visitors and employees' clothing, shoes, and hair accumulate and are deposited in the exhibition furnishings, supports, and the collection items. Due to the invaluable and historic nature of the objects on exhibition, cleaning techniques and materials are highly specialized. The exhibitions, presented on five floors of the museum building, are complex and difficult to clean and maintain. The task is made more difficult by the requirement that no chemicals are in proximity to the collection items at any time during the cleaning process. The USHMM maintains a specific prescribed level of cleanliness for the well being and preservation of Collection items on exhibition. As such, the USHMM seeks proposals for Exhibitions Maintenance services. The Contractor shall provide all services including labor, materials, equipment, facilities and transportation except as otherwise specified as necessary in the statement of work. It is anticipated this requirement will be awarded as a Firm Fixed Price type contract. The successful Offeror shall assemble a specially trained contract Exhibitions Maintenance Team (EMT) based on the guidelines provided by USHMM. The work is completed seven (7) days a week, 363 days a year (closed Yom Kippur and Christmas day). The EMT will be lead by an on-site qualified Project Manager with a background in exhibition maintenance. The Project Manager and EMT shall render all exhibition surfaces, surrounds, and housings free of visitor marks, smears, streaks, chewing gum, and other soils and machine wet buff wood floors. The work requires that the successful Offeror propose a qualified Project Manager. The Project Manager shall have a minimum of one year specialized supervision and management of exhibitions maintenance or related experience. Skill in supervising and managing a cleaning crew with complex maintenance responsibilities without claim of loss or damage to exhibition type build outs, objects or cleaning equipment. Exhibits maintenance experience indicates experience with all media to include woods, metals, glass, Plexiglas and laminates. The solicitation is for a period of performance from effective date of award through September 30, 2002, plus four (4) one year option periods. A site visit by all prospective Offerors shall be required in order to be eligible for award. Award will be made to the responsive, responsible offeror after evaluation of technical criteria and price. It is estimated that evaluation and award will be made by September 30, 2001. The solicitation shall be released on or about July 23, 2001. Delivery of proposals will be by August 23, 2001, to Division of Procurement,Attn.: L. Mankowitz, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW Washington, DC 20024-2150. The solicitation package may be obtained electronically via email to lmankowitz@ushmm.org or may be requested in writing via facsimile at (202) 314-0345 or by mail to Division of Procurement, Attn.: L. Mankowitz, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW Washington, DC 20024-2150. Reference solicitation No. CL-02-0001. No telephone requests will be accepted. EMAIL: lmankowitz@ushmm.org

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