Inspect & Clean Water Tanks

SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE Before responding please carefully read and consider the following:

Clean & Inspect Water Tanks for the Black Hills VA Medical Center. This is a Sources Sought Announcement Only and no solicitation is currently available. Responses will be used by the Government to make appropriate acquisition decisions. After a review of the responses to this Sources Sought Notice, a solicitation announcement may be posted. A response to this Sources Sought Notice is not an adequate reply to a potentially forthcoming solicitation.

All information contained in this Sources Sought Announcement is preliminary, as well as subject to modification, and is in no way binding on the Government. The Government will not pay for any information submitted in response to this request. Furthermore, the Government reserves the right to cancel this requirement at its discretion. The information requested will be used solely within the Department of Veterans Affairs to facilitate decision making and will not be disclosed outside of the Government.

The determination of a procurement strategy, based upon the comments submitted in response to this Sources Sought Announcement, is solely within the discretion of the Government. The applicable North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code is 221310,Water Supply and Irrigation Systems, size standard is $41.0 Million.

NOTE: Please ensure that the System for Award Management (SAM) indicates this NAICS code if you are interested in the requirement. As this is a service acquisition, the Small Business Administration and the Federal Acquisition Regulation have Limitations on Subcontracting requirement. For all small businesses, to include SDVOSB and VOSB, At least 50 percent of the cost of contract performance incurred for personnel shall be expended for employees of the concern.

See FAR 52.219-14 and FAR 52.219-27 available in full text at https://www.acquisition.gov/far/part-52 Description of Services See attached Statement of Work Only firms seriously interested and truly capable should send their information and/or capability statement and any questions by email to brian.whalen-crichton@va.gov no later than 10:00 am Central Time, August 14th, 2024.