MOD | Y | Design and construction of dining facilities at various installations within the Southwestern Region, with a large portion of the work at Fort Bliss, TX.

FBO DAILY ISSUE OF FEBRUARY 01, 2006 FBO #1528
MODIFICATION

Y -- Design and construction of dining facilities at various installations within the Southwestern Region, with a large portion of the work at Fort Bliss, TX.

Notice Date: 1/30/2006
Notice Type: Modification
NAICS: 236220 — Commercial and Institutional Building Construction
Contracting Office: USACE Little Rock District, 700 West Capitol, Little Rock, AR 72201
ZIP Code: 72201
Solicitation Number: W9127S06R6005
Response Due: 3/16/2006
Archive Date: 5/15/2006
Small Business Set-Aside: Total HUB-Zone
Description: Presolicitation Notice This solicitation will be a Hub Zone Set-Aside for an 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 limited 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 Re gional 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. This presolicitation notice is being amended to change the projected issue date to on or about February 14, 2006. FOR INFORMATION ONLY: This contract is required by Army 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 required f rom 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 Constru ction 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 maintenance 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 assigned 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 modifications. 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 contract includes the design and construction of dining facilities at various installations within the Southwestern Region. This contract will include all management, supervision, labor, materials, and equipment necessary to provide app roximately 7 complete and functional dining facilities for feeding 800 soldiers per facility during three 90-minute meal periods per day. Areas shall be provided for receiving, storage, preparation, serving, queing, dining, washing, and all support equipm ent and facilities. Each facility shall be similar to that of a college or university meal plan cafeteria in general function and quality. Task orders under this contract may include only design and construction of primary facilities (i.e. vertical const ruction) or they may also include site work, including parking, service drives, site grading and drainage, and sidewalks. Where only vertical construction is required, utility design will be required up to the connection point of site utilities (i.e. wate r meter, sanitary sewer cleanout(s), gas meter, etc.). The contractor must coordinate with the Land Development Engineer or local utility providers that are responsible for all other utility design and installation. Typical work for the Dining Facility may include but is not limited to 1) planning, design, e stimating, and construction 2) site verification and design 3) site engineering to include subsurface investigations, laboratory analysis, and final geotechnical report 4) foundation design 5) coordination with utility providers and Land Development Engine er, and other product line contractors 6) acquiring all local, state and federal permits 7) architecture and interior design to include building exterior and interior, signage, 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 commissioning 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 management 17) quality control systems 18) safety plans 19) environmental protection th rough the following products: environmental protection plans, incorporating protection features, environmental assessment of contract deviations, land resources plans, monitoring water resources, air resource monitoring and control, chemical materials mana gement 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) scheduling and phasing 21) preparation of design drawings on AutoCadd and Microstation 22) 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 solicit ation refers to it as Phase 1). In Phase 1, interested qualifying firms (certified Hub Zone) 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 t he Phase 1 Offerors to compete 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 performance period duration per task order, a preliminary schedule and a price proposal. The Governm ent will evaluate the Phase 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 p roposal 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 $51,190,000.00 for a period of three 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 to tal not to exceed contract period of thirty six (36) months. Each contract will remain active: 1) unless the contractor has a documented past performance 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 $100,000.00. 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 $100,000.00. The maximum task order limitation for the contracts will be $10,000,000.00. The Government reserves the right to exceed the stated maxi mum task order limitation. This contract may be used for other agency requirements where the contracting officer has made a determination that the new requirement is within scope. Estimated solicitation issue date is on or about February 14, 2006 under solicitation number W9127S-06-R-6005. Phase 1 Proposals are anticipated to be due on or about March 16, 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. Plans and specifications will not be provided in a hard p aper copy. This solicitation will be issued via Internet only. Notification of amendments 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 solic itation. For security reasons, all technical and engineering data related to this solicitation will be distributed using the Federal Technical Data Solutions (FedTeDS) system. FedTeDS is a web-based dissemination tool designed to safeguard acquisition-re lated information for all Federal agencies. Interested bidders must register with FedTeDS before accessing the system. Registration instructions can be found on the FedTeDS website (https://www.fedteds.gov) by clicking on the Register with FedTeDS hyperl ink. 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=W9127S-06-R-6005. All offerors are encouraged to visit the Armys Single Face to Industry Website at https://acquisition.army.mil/asfi to view other business opportunities. 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. You are advised that FedTeDS currently does not have a Plan Holders List capability. Therefore, offerors are encouraged to post notices of prospective subcontracting opportunities on the Small Business Administration's Subnet, at http://web.sba.gov/subnet. The Contract Specialist for this solicitation will be Deannda Knight, 501-324-5720; or by e-m ail at deannda.s.knight@usace.army.mil.
Place of Performance: Address: USACE Little Rock District 700 West Capitol, Little Rock AR; Zip Code: 72201; Country: US
Record: SN00975690-W 20060201/060130212232 (fbodaily.com)
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