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Amendment 00001 to Solicitation DTFANM-11-R-00001 is attached below. Amendment 0001 changes the Hours of Operations in the specifications, publicizes the Site Visit Attendance Roster, and answer questions submitted by vendors. Acknowledgement of Amendment 0001 is required. See Item 11 of Amendment 0001 for instructions____________________________________________________________ The FAA, Western Logistics Service Area intends to award a contract to a well-qualified, responsive contractor to perform Building services that consist of but not limited to: management and maintenance of all building services and equipment including chillers, air handlers, cooling towers, heating and cooling (HVAC) systems, pumps, heaters, etc.; janitorial and mail distribution services. The FAA contemplates award of a Firm-Fixed Price contract with provisions for Time and Material pricing. This requirement is offered to all qualified, responsive concerns and offers will be considered using a tiered order of precedence. (1st - Small businesses to include Service Disabled Veterans and Women Own businesses and 2nd Large Businesses). Each tier will be evaluated using the procedure outline below: a) A determination of insufficient competition or unreasonable price will be made before the next tier is evaluated. b) Directions on tiered evaluation are outlined in Section M, in addition to evaluation factors for award. A tiered evaluation of offers will be used in source selection for this contract, and offers from other-than small business concerns will only be considered after the determination that an insufficient number of offers from responsible small business concerns were received (see Part IV, Section M for details). Contract award will be made to the offeror submitting the greatest value to the FAA, not necessarily the lowest price. Summary of Services: Transition Period: November 22-30, 2010; Base Period: December 1, 2010 through September 30, 2011, plus 4 option years. NAICS code for this procurement is 561210 Facilities Support Services, $35.5 million. MANDATORY SITE VISIT IS: September 8, 2010 @ 9:00 p.m. MDT, at the Denver TOC, Denver, CO. See Section "L" for instructions. All questions concerning this Request for Offer (RFO) are due no later than 2:00 PM Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) on September 14, 2010 to the Contracting Officer. No questions will be answered prior to this date. OFFERS ARE DUE NO LATER THAN 2:00 PM Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) on September 27, 2010. All offerors submitting a proposal must be currently registered and active in the Central Contractor Registration (CCR) Database at http://www.ccr.gov before an award can be made. The complete Request for Offers (RFO) package with all applicable specifications and attachments is posted to the FAA Contract Opportunities site only. If you are viewing this announcement from another website, please be sure to view the original announcement at: https://faaco.faa.gov/. Select "Current Announcements" and then "By Region" and select "Northwest Mountain". This Notice is for informational purposes for Minority, Women-Owned, and Disadvantaged Business Enterprises: The Department of Transportation (DOT), Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization, has programs to assist small businesses, small businesses owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals, and women-owned concerns to acquire capital and bonding assistance for transportation-related contracts. This is applicable to any eligible prime or subcontract at any tier. The DOT Bonding Assistance Program enables firms to apply for bid, payment, and performance bonds up to $1.0 million per contract. The DOT provides an 80 percent guaranty on the bond amount to a surety against losses. Loans are also available under the DOT short Term receivable financing. The maximum line of credit is $750,000. For further information regarding the bonding and lending programs please call the DOT Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization at (800) 532-1169.