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FBO DAILY ISSUE OF FEBRUARY 05, 2005 FBO #1167
SOLICITATION NOTICE

Y -- ADD ALTER BUILDING 501A, AUDIOVISUAL AT MACDILL AFB, FLORIDA

Notice Date

2/3/2005
 

Notice Type

Solicitation Notice
 

NAICS

236220 — Commercial and Institutional Building Construction
 

Contracting Office

US Army Engineer District, Mobile, P. O. Box 2288, 109 Saint Joseph Street (zip 36602), Mobile, AL 36628-0001
 

ZIP Code

36628-0001
 

Solicitation Number

W91278-05-R-0017
 

Response Due

3/31/2005
 

Archive Date

5/30/2005
 

Small Business Set-Aside

N/A
 

Description

THIS PROJECT IS ADVERTISED UNDER SECTION 8(a) OF THE SMALL BUSINESS ACT (15 U.S.C. 637 (a)) (8(a) Competitive). The work under this contract shall consist of construction of the advanced communications requirements for the Add Alter Building 501A, A udiovisual project. The AV systems will support 24 spaces including an AV Master Control Room, Meeting Rooms, Multi-purpose Rooms, Conference Rooms, Offices, Workrooms, Planning Rooms, and open office areas. AV Systems will vary by space and in general w ill include: A building total of approximately 250 channels of audio/video routing distributed among the spaces; Fiber optic transmission of signals between spaces; Centralized CODEC farm for video teleconferencing from various spaces; Multi-point video c onferencing and room to room audio/video collaboration; A 10 ft. x 40 ft. video wall for 24/7/365 Network Operations Center (NOC) with more than 25 workstations; A 6 ft., 6 in. x 27 ft. video wall for 24/7/365 NOC with more than 30 workstations; A 6 ft.,6 in. x 27 ft. video wall for a collaborative planning space; Large AV presentation/videoconference systems with video projectors and plasma displays; Conference room AV presentation/videoconference systems with video projectors and/or multiple plasma displ ays; Audio systems for program, speech reinforcement and videoconferencing; and fully integrated, building-wide control system with touch panels in each space (annotation touch panels in most spaces). Estimated cost range of this project is from $5,000,000 to $10,000,000. Solicitation documents should be available on or about 1 March 2005. Mr. Ed Slana is Contracting Officer for this project. Note No. 1: Any prospective bidder interested in bidding on this solicitation must register for plans and specifications in order to download a copy of the solicitation and be placed on the plan holders list. If you are not registered, the United State s government is not responsible for providing you with notifications of any changes to this solicitation. Bidders, subcontractors and Dodge/Plan Rooms are required to self-register their firm or office on the Internet in order to be able to download the e lectronic files. The solicitation will be available only as a direct download. This solicitation will not be issued on CD-ROM. IN ORDER TO DOWNLOAD A COPY OF THE SOLICITATION, GO TO VIEW/DOWNLOAD SOLICITATION FILES as indicated on the Internet at http: //www.sam.usace.army.mil/. Registration instructions are available at the CLICK HERE TO REGISTER prompt located right above this synopsis on the Internet at http://www.sam.usace.army.mil/. Neither telephonic, mailed, nor fax requests will be accepted. Those registering are responsible for the accuracy of the information on the mailing list. Registration must include the firms physical address, telephone, a valid fax number and a point of contact to facilitate faxed amendments. Registration should be co mpleted one week prior to the issue date. All notifications of changes to this solicitation will be made through the Internet only. It is therefore the Contractor's responsibility to check this home page daily for the solicitation to be posted, and for any posted changes to this solicitation. Actual solicitation amendments will be issued either by fax, posting for download to the aforementioned web page, or CD-ROM. Plans and specifications will not be provided in a printed-paper format; however, the Gover nment reserves the right to revert to paper medium when it is determined to be in the Government's best interest. NOTE: This solicitation is in .pdf format and requires Adobe Acrobat Reader. Adobe Acrobat Reader may be downloaded free of charge at http:// tsn.wes.army.mil/ComSoftware.asp. Note No. 2: All bid forms, bid bonds, and other normal documents required for the bid submittal, including amendments to the bid submittal, shall be in paper medium. Electronic medium for the bid submittal documents will not be allow ed. Note No. 3: Critical path method (network analysis system) is required. Note No. 4: For this job, a small business is defined as having average annual receipts of less than $28,500,000 for the past three years. Note No. 5: It is anticipated that this solicitation will not have bid options. However, optional bid items may be added if it is determined to be in the Governments best interest. Note No. 6: All advertisements of Mobile District projects will be through the FedBizOpps and/or the Mobile District Contracting Homepage. DETAILED INFORMATION ON THIS AND OTHER MOBILE DISTRICT PROJECTS (Ordering Solicitations, Points of Contact, Synopsi s of Work, Plan Holders, Bid Results, etc.) ARE AVAILABLE ON THE INTERNET AT: http://www.sam.usace.army.mil/ Note No. 7 * THIS IS A COMPETITIVE 8 (A) SET-ASIDE This procurement is a Competitive 8(a) Set-Aside as established by Section 8 (a) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 637(a)). Only those firms meeting the Small Business Administration's (SBA) criterion, and have previously been certified by the SBA as a n 8(a) Contractor, are eligible to compete for this procurement. It has been determined by the SBA that competition will be restricted to 8(a) firms which have a NAICS code of 23332 among their approved NAICS Codes and which are serviced by the following SBA District Offices: Alabama and Florida firms and firms with bo nafide offices in these states. SEND SPECIFIC TECHNICAL QUESTIONS RELATED TO THIS PROJECT TO MR. ALLEN HARRISON, FAX (251) 694-3626. OTHER FORMS OF COMMUNICATING QUESTIONS TO THE GOVERNMENT WILL NOT BE HONORED. THE GOVERNMENT WILL TRY TO RESPOND TO ALL QUESTIONS. HOWEVER, RESPONSES MAY NOT BE FURNISHED TO ALL QUESTIONS AND PARTICULARLY THOSE RECEIVED LATE IN THE ADVERTISEMENT PERIOD (0-10 DAYS PRIOR TO BID OPENING.) SEND QUESTIONS CONCERNING THE DISTRIBUTION OF PLANS / SPECIFICATIONS TO THE PLANS ROOM, MRS. SONYA KING, AT PHONE (251) 690-2535/2536, FAX (251) 694-4343.
 

Place of Performance

Address: US Army Engineer District, Mobile P. O. Box 2288, 109 Saint Joseph Street (zip 36602) Mobile AL

Zip Code: 36628-0001

Country: US
 

Record

SN00745306-W 20050205/050203212236 (fbodaily.com)
 

Source

FedBizOpps.gov Link to This Notice
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