Professional Cemetery Staff Services

The Office of General Services (OGS), on behalf of the Department of Veteran’s Services (DVS), intends to procure professional cemetery staff services for the New York State Veterans Cemetery – Finger Lakes, located in Romulus, Seneca County, NY. The contractor shall provide all labor, equipment, and materials necessary to perform headstone setting, casket burials, cremation burials, and groundskeeping in accordance with National Cemetery Administration (NCA) standards and specifications. These services will act as a supplement to current state staffing as needed. The State considers the following qualifications to be a pre-requisite in order to be considered a qualified Bidder for purposes of this Solicitation. The solicitation is being let as a discretionary purchase of services having a value less than $500,000 under New York State Finance Law § 163(6). Bidders not meeting the qualifications below will be disqualified. Bidders may not use a Subcontractor’s or any other entity’s qualifications to meet requirements. The following minimum requirements must be met by each Bidder: The Bidder shall have at least three years of experience with headstone setting, casket burial, cremation burial, and groundskeeping services. Proposing entity must qualify as at least one of the following: 1. New York State certified Minority-Owned Business Enterprise; or 2. New York State certified Woman-Owned Business Enterprise; or 3. New York State certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Business; or 4. New York State Small Business as defined under State Finance Law § 160(8), which means the business must be resident in the State of New York, independently owned and operated, not dominant in its field, and employ 100 or fewer persons. This solicitation has been cancelled, memo can be found at: https://ogs.ny.gov/procurement/bid-opportunities Business enterprises awarded an identical or substantially similar procurement contract within the past five years: None. Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Business (SDVOB) SDVOB Goal: 0.00% Disadvantaged Business Enterprise contracting goals (DBE) DBE Goal: 0.00%