# NEC - Gardening Maintenance Services

Canonical: https://abierto.us/opportunities/19be2025q0003

- Solicitation number: 19BE2025Q0003
- Notice type: Award notice (first published as presolicitation)
- Status: Awarded to Niels Bruno for $238,663.89
- Department: Department of State
- Contracting office: U.S. Embassy Brussels (19BE20)
- NAICS: 561730 Landscaping Services
- Product or service code: S208 Landscaping/Groundskeeping Services
- Place of performance: Brussels, BE-BRU, BEL
- First posted: January 13, 2025
- Last posted: April 28, 2025
- SAM.gov: https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/fc3349f651124681b45728e4f28a7268/view

## Description

The United States Government (USG), Department of State (DOS), has a requirement to obtain gardening services for real property owned by the U.S. Government at the U.S. Embassy Brussels, NEC located at Cours Saint Michel 40, Etterbeek. The Contractor shall perform gardening services in all designated spaces. A full description of the required services and scope of work can be found in the attached documents.

**Site Visit:** The Embassy intends to conduct a pre-quotation conference at the site. The pre-proposal conference will be held on Feb. 5th, 2025, at 10.00am (local time) at the NEC, located at Cours Saint Michel, N'40 - Etterbeek 1040, Belgium. Prospective offerors/quoters should contact BrusselsBids@state.gov by Feb. 4th, 2025, at 3.00pm (local time) for additional information or to arrange access.

**Offer Instructions:** Complete the OFFER as instructed in section 3, including all blank spaces highlighted in yellow, and have the form signed by an authorized representative of your company, or the quote may be considered unacceptable and may be rejected. In order for a proposal to be considered, you must also complete and submit the following:

SF-1449 Section 1, Pricing Section 5 Representations and Certifications Additional information as required in Section 3 Contract: The resultant contract will be a firm fixed price type contract from the start date in the Notice to Proceed and continuing for 12 months, with 4, one-year options to renew.

**Registration Requirements:** All contractors must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) Database (https://www.sam.gov) prior to submitting an offer, pursuant to FAR provision 52.204-7. Prospective offerors are encouraged to register prior to the submission of quotations/proposals.

**Electronic Submission/Responses:** Your quotation must be submitted electronically to BrusselsBids@state.gov. It is important to make sure the submission is made in specific size and format; Adobe Acrobat (pdf) file format. The file size must not exceed 30MB. If the file size should exceed the 2MB, the submission must be made in separate files and attached to separate emails with less than 2MB each. (ex: first email ending in “part 1 of 3” and last email ending in "part 3 of 3”)

## Award on USAspending

- Recipient: Niels Bruno (UEI HKSTF5W41NR1)
- Contract: 19BE2025C0005, definitive contract
- Obligated: $97,754.71
- Competition: Competed Under SAP, 3 offers received
- Link: award number 19BE2025C0005 equals the contract number; same awarding office 19BE20 (high confidence)
- Record: https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_19BE2025C0005_1900_-NONE-_-NONE-/


## Publications

- January 13, 2025: Presolicitation, due January 30, 2025 at 11:00 AM EST. Notice 94147305ba714ca7bdc85b5e304eb26c. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/94147305ba714ca7bdc85b5e304eb26c/view
- January 13, 2025: Presolicitation, due January 30, 2025 at 11:00 AM EST. Notice fe283580d4114f1395e7fb56c4c64e1a. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/fe283580d4114f1395e7fb56c4c64e1a/view
- January 14, 2025: Presolicitation, due January 30, 2025 at 11:00 AM EST. Notice bec47a5395f642f995be386a5ad27563. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/bec47a5395f642f995be386a5ad27563/view
- January 15, 2025: Presolicitation, due January 30, 2025 at 11:00 AM EST. Notice ea5aa78c71ba4746b1532b4e5c1b8286. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/ea5aa78c71ba4746b1532b4e5c1b8286/view
- January 31, 2025: Solicitation, due February 14, 2025 at 9:00 AM EST. Notice ae109665c53e49dda3faa6e7060c380a. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/ae109665c53e49dda3faa6e7060c380a/view
- February 3, 2025: Solicitation, due February 14, 2025 at 9:00 AM EST. Notice f60ba470658c4952b9c93f1c073769a4. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/f60ba470658c4952b9c93f1c073769a4/view
- February 11, 2025: Solicitation, due February 21, 2025 at 9:00 AM EST. Notice 4bf8aee5be164e49b3971110c3b7a4fa. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/4bf8aee5be164e49b3971110c3b7a4fa/view
- April 28, 2025: Award notice. Notice fc3349f651124681b45728e4f28a7268. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/fc3349f651124681b45728e4f28a7268/view

## Points of contact

- Andrew Malandrino, BrusselsBids@state.gov
- Michael Abrahams, BrusselsBids@state.gov

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