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FBO DAILY ISSUE OF JANUARY 28, 2006 FBO #1524
SOLICITATION NOTICE

Y -- Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ), Single Award Contract for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Southwest Division) for Design-Build Construction Services, Company Operations Facility

Notice Date

1/26/2006
 

Notice Type

Solicitation Notice
 

NAICS

236220 — Commercial and Institutional Building Construction
 

Contracting Office

US Army Engineer District, Albuquerque, CESPA-CT, 4101 Jefferson Plaza NE, Albuquerque, NM 87109-3435
 

ZIP Code

87109-3435
 

Solicitation Number

W912PP-06-R-0001
 

Response Due

3/15/2006
 

Archive Date

5/14/2006
 

Small Business Set-Aside

N/A
 

Description

Presolicitation Notice Unrestricted Solicitation for Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ), Single Award Contract for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Southwest Division) for Design-Build Construction Services, to include (but not limite d to) planning, design, and the construction of new facilities located within the boundaries of our military customers in the southwest region. The Southwestern Region refers to the geographic area encompassed by the IMA/Southwest Regional Office (AR, AZ, CA, LA, NM, NV, OK, and TX). It is anticipated that a large portion of the work will be at Fort Bliss,TX. FOR INFORMATION ONLY: This contract is required by the Armys initiatives under the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC), the integrated Global Presence and Basing Strategy (IGPBS), and the Army Modular Force (AMF) program, although the projects may be requ ired from any Military Program. The Army must posture facilities to effectively orient combat capabilities where they can most effectively organize, train, and deploy to support ongoing operations worldwide. The execution of the work under the Military C onstruction Program will be accomplished using a product line concept for the facilities. The product line concept will be used for the construction of barracks, dining facilities, company operation facilities, headquarters buildings, vehicle maintena nce shops, unit and ammunition storage facilities, aviation facilities, equipment parking areas, and other features of the program. Under the product line concept, Districts in the Corps of Engineers Southwestern and South Pacific Divisions will be assig ned one or two facility types and will be responsible for awarding Design-Build IDIQ contracts for their assigned type of facility (product line). When there is a requirement for their facility type, each District product line team will scope, negotiate, and award a task order to deliver the required facilities to the Program Office assigned to manage the overall project. The District product line team will assist with the administration of the task order to include design reviews, submittals, and modifica tions. The design/build contractor for each product line will be responsible for maintaining current documents and incorporating into future task orders changes in army criteria as well as, modification, and clarification identified in ongoing task orders . The team will be responsible for keeping up with the current standards and criteria for their facility type(s). SCOPE OF WORK: The project includes the design and construction of the COMPANY OPERATIONS FACILITY (COF): This facility is to house Company administrative operations, and store and move supplies. It is intended to be similar to office and warehouse type buildings in the private sector community. The project will include COF for multiple Companies. The COF is comprised of three vertical construction components consisting of an Administrative Module, Readiness Module, and exterior covered hardstand. In conjunction with this, each site-specific project may include necessary site amenities, such as vehicle service yards, access drives, equipment wash stations, and exterior utilities. Typical work for the COF may include but is not limited to 1) planning, design, estimating, and construction 2) Site planning and site verification 3) site engineering to include subsurface investigations, laboratory analysis, and final geotechnical report 4) pavement design 5) coordinate with utility providers and Land Development Engineer, and other product line contractors 6) acquiring all local, state and federal permits 7) architecture and interior design to include building exterior and interior, sign age, and comprehensive furniture package 8) design of telecommunications systems and service 9) lightning protection systems 10) heating, ventilation, and air conditioning to include building automation systems, testing, adjusting and balancing, and comm issioning 11) energy conservation 12) fire protection 13) sustainable design solutions to meet a minimum LEED Silver/SPiRiT Gold to support the MILCON program 14) site electrical systems 15) meetings and design review conferences 16) design configuration m anagement 17) quality control systems 18) safety plans 19) environmental protection through the following products: environmental protection plans, incorporating protection features, environmental assessment of contract deviations, land resources plans, mo nitoring water resources, air resource monitoring and control, chemical materials management and waste disposal, recycling and waste minimization, preservation of historical, archaeological, and cultural resources, protect biological resources, integrated pest management, post construction clean-up 20) traffic control plans 21) scheduling and phasing 22) preparation of design drawings on AutoCadd and Microstation 23) and development of as-built drawings. CONTRACT INFORMATION: This solicitation will be evaluated under the Two Phase Design Build Process. The first phase consists of a process known in the commercial design-build industry as the Request for Qualifications or the acronym: RFQ. (This sol icitation refers to it as Phase 1). In Phase 1, interested firms or joint venture entities (referred to as Offerors) may submit certain specified performance capability proposals, demonstrating their capability to successfully execute the design-build construction IDIQ contract resulting from this solicitation. The Government will evaluate the performance capability proposals in accordance with the criteria described in the solicitation and will short-list no more than five of the Phase 1 Offerors to c ompete for the design-build contract in Phase 2 of the process. In Phase 2, the selected Offerors will submit preliminary technical design proposals, the remainder of the performance capability proposals, including the contract duration, a preliminary schedule and a price proposal. The Government will evaluate the Pha se 2 proposals, in accordance with the criteria described for Phase 2 in the solicitation, and award the contract to the responsible Offeror, whose proposal conforms with all the terms and conditions of the solicitation and whose proposal is determined to represent the overall best value to the Government, considering technical-design quality, performance capability, and cost. The following evaluation criteria listed for Phase I and Phase II are proposed as follows: Phase I Volume I (Performance Capability)  Organizational Structure and Business Management Plan; Team/Corporate Experience; Specialized Experience; Past Performan ce Information; Key Project Personnel Capabilities and Experience; and Financial Capability. Phase II  Volume I (Remaining Performance Capability Proposal): Key Subcontractors; Preliminary Schedule; Subcontracting Plan  Large Business Offerors; Past P erformance on Utilization of Small Business Concerns. Volume II  (Design-Technical Information): Building Functional Arrangement; Building Aesthetics; Minimum Space and Facility Size; Building Systems and Material Quality; Site Design; Sustainable Design Requirements; and Oral Presentation. Volume III (Price and Pro Forma): Price; and Self Performed Work Requirement. The North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) code applicable to this project is 236220 (Commercial and Institutional Building Construction), which corresponds to SIC 1542. The Small Business Size Standard is $28.5 Million. The total cont ract capacity is estimated not to exceed $150,000,000 over a period of 3 years. The estimated duration for each contract award will be an initial Base Period of twelve (12) months with up to two (2) Option Periods of twelve (12) months each, for a total n ot to exceed contract period of thirty six (36) months. Each contract will remain active: 1) unless the contractor has a documented past perf ormance record of unsatisfactory; 2) until contract expiration; 3) until task order completion; 4) until the total contract capacity limit is reached, or 5) the contract is Terminated for Convenience of the Government. The minimum guarantee will be $200 ,000. The minimum guarantee amount will be applicable to the base period only. Funds above the minimum guarantee will be obligated with the issuance of task orders. The minimum task order limitation will be $200,000. The maximum task order limitation for the contracts will be $60,000,000. The Government reserves the right to exceed the stated maximum task order limitation. This contract may be used for other agency requirements where the contracting officer has made a determination that the new requi rement is within scope. Estimated solicitation issue date is on or about February 13, 2006 under solicitation number W912PP-06-R-0001. Phase 1 Proposals are anticipated to be due on or about March 15, 2006. (30 days from issuance of the solicitation). If the Government elects to conduct a Pre-Proposal Conference, details regarding the Conference will be provided in the solicitation. The solicitation will be a negotiated acquisition. There will be no public bid opening. Proposals from Large businesses must comply with FAR Clau se 52.219-9, regarding the requirement for a Subcontracting Plan. The Albuquerque District goals (expressed as a percentage of the contractors total planned subcontract amount) are as follows: Small Business 51.2%; Small Disadvantaged Business 8.8%; Wome n-Owned Small Business 7.3%; HUBZone Small Business 3.1%, and Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business 1.5%. Plans and specifications will not be provided in a hard paper copy. This solicitation will be issued via Internet only. Notification of ame ndments shall be made via Internet only, as well. It is therefore the contractors responsibility to check the following address daily for any posted changes to this solicitation. For security reasons, all technical and engineering data related to this sol icitation will be distributed using the Federal Technical Data Solutions (FedTeDS) system. FedTeDS is a web-based dissemination tool designed to safeguard acquisition-related information for all Federal agencies. Interested bidders must register with Fed TeDS before accessing the system. Registration instructions can be found on the FedTeDS website (https://www.fedteds.gov) by clicking on the Register with FedTeDS hyperlink. Contractors registered with the Federal Technical Data Solutions (FedTeDS) may view and/or download this solicitation and all amendments from the Internet after solicitation issuance at the following Internet address: http://www.fedteds.gov/fedteds/start.nsf/frm.vendorlogin?openform&SolicitationNumber=W912PP-06-R-0001. All offeror s are encouraged to visit the Armys Single Face to Industry Website at https://acquisition.army.mil/asfi to view other business opportunities. You are advised that FedTeDS currently does not have a Plan Holders List capability. Therefore, offerors are en couraged to post notices of prospective subcontracting opportunities on the Small Business Administrations Subnet at http://web.sba.gov/subnet. Offerors must be registered with the Central Contractor Registration (CCR), in order to receive a Government contract award. To register, the CCR Internet address is: http://www.ccr.gov. The Contract Specialists for this solicitation will be Ethan Luke, (505) 342-3454, or by e-mail at ethan.luke@spa02.usace.army.mil, and Karen Irving, (505) 342-3356; or by e-mai l at karen.k.irving@spa02.usace.army.mil.
 

Place of Performance

Address: US Army Engineer District, Albuquerque CESPA-CT, 4101 Jefferson Plaza NE, Albuquerque NM

Zip Code: 87109-3435

Country: US
 

Record

SN00973796-W 20060128/060126212341 (fbodaily.com)
 

Source

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