940 | Fargo National Cemetery | Grounds Maintenance and Interment Operations | Bridge -- S208

ID: QSE--36C78625Q50125 • Type: Synopsis Solicitation

Description

940 | Fargo National Cemetery | Grounds Maintenance and Interment Operations | Bridge -- S208
This request is for a short term IDIQ bridge contract for burial and GMC at Fargo (940) until a base plus 4 year contract is awarded. Planned POP is from 03/03/25 - 08/31/2025.
The Contractor shall provide all personnel, equipment, tools, supervision, and other items and services necessary to ensure that interment operations are performed at the Cemetery in a manner that shall maintain proper decorum and respect; and grounds maintenance operations are performed at the Cemetery in a manner that shall maintain healthy grass, trees, shrubs, and plants; and present a groomed, clean, neat, and professional appearance. Services include, but are not limited to maintenance of grounds, regular mowing, weed eating, blade edging, trimming, removal of leaves and debris, as well as, sweeping or blowing off roads and sidewalks, irrigation system maintenance and operation, maintenance of gravesites and headstones, the raising and realignment of headstones, washing headstones, initial and replacement headstone installation and maintenance, turf maintenance, mulched planting bed maintenance, plant and tree maintenance, sunken grave repair, transporting casketed and cremated remains from the committal service area to the gravesite, interments of casketed and cremated remains, disinterment's, grave excavation and backfilling, trash removal, snow and ice removal, placement and removal of flags. The Contractor may be required to be on-site Memorial Day weekend and other special days as requested by the CO. No materials, tools (to include casket cart and lowering device), vehicles, sod, staging area or rest room facilities to include temporary port-o-lets will be provided by the National Cemetery Administration and Fort Snelling. It is the contractor's responsibility to supply all within NCA Standards.

Background
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, National Cemetery Administration is issuing this solicitation for a short-term Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) bridge contract for burial and grounds maintenance services at Fargo National Cemetery (940).

The goal of this contract is to ensure interment operations and grounds maintenance are performed with the utmost respect and professionalism until a longer-term contract is awarded. The anticipated period of performance for this contract is from March 3, 2025, to August 31, 2025.

Work Details
The Contractor shall provide all personnel, equipment, tools, supervision, and other items necessary to perform the following tasks: maintain proper decorum during interment operations; ensure healthy grass, trees, shrubs, and plants; and present a groomed appearance at the cemetery.

Specific services include:
- Regular mowing
- Weed eating
- Blade edging
- Trimming
- Removal of leaves and debris
- Sweeping or blowing off roads and sidewalks
- Irrigation system maintenance
- Maintenance of gravesites and headstones including raising, realigning, washing headstones
- Initial and replacement headstone installation
- Turf maintenance
- Mulched planting bed maintenance
- Plant and tree maintenance
- Sunken grave repair
- Transporting casketed and cremated remains from the committal service area to gravesites
- Interments of casketed and cremated remains
- Disinterments
- Grave excavation and backfilling
- Trash removal
- Snow and ice removal
- Placement and removal of flags.

The Contractor may also be required to be on-site during Memorial Day weekend and other special days as requested by the Contracting Officer. It is the contractor’s responsibility to supply all materials within National Cemetery Administration standards.

Period of Performance
March 3, 2025 - August 31, 2025

Place of Performance
Fargo National Cemetery, 8709 40th Avenue North, Country Road 20, Harwood, ND 58102

Overview

Agency

National Cemetery Administration (NCA) [VA]

Response Deadline

Feb. 21, 2025, 1:00 p.m. EST Past Due

Posted

Jan. 31, 2025, 1:23 p.m. EST (updated: Feb. 12, 2025, 2:02 p.m. EST)

Set Aside

Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSBC)

NAICS

561730 - Landscaping Services

PSC

S208 - Housekeeping- Landscaping/Groundskeeping

Place of Performance

Fargo National Cemetery; 8709 40th Avenue North Harwood, ND 58042 United States

Source

SAM

Current SBA Size Standard

$9.5 Million

Pricing

Likely Fixed Price

Est. Level of Competition

Low

Est. Value Range

Experimental

$500,000 - $1,500,000 (AI estimate)

Vehicle Type

Indefinite Delivery Contract

On 1/31/25 National Cemetery Administration issued Synopsis Solicitation QSE--36C78625Q50125 for 940 | Fargo National Cemetery | Grounds Maintenance and Interment Operations | Bridge -- S208 due 2/21/25. The opportunity was issued with a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSBC) set aside with NAICS 561730 (SBA Size Standard $9.5 Million) and PSC S208.

Primary Contact

Name

April Graves Profile

april.graves@va.gov

Phone

None

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Additional Details

Source Agency Hierarchy

VETERANS AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF > VETERANS AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF > NATIONAL CEMETERY ADMIN (36C786)

FPDS Organization Code

3600-00786

Source Organization Code

100173491

Last Updated

March 29, 2025

Last Updated By

april.graves@va.gov

Archive Date

March 28, 2025