SOLICITATION NOTICE
71 -- Design,Provide,Deliver and Install a professional office environment for 44 personell at Fort Detrick, Maryland
- Notice Date
- 9/12/2006
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 442110
— Furniture Stores
- Contracting Office
- US Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity, ATTN: MCMR-AAA, 820 Chandler Street, Frederick, MD 21702-5014
- ZIP Code
- 21702-5014
- Solicitation Number
- W81XWH-06-T-0491
- Response Due
- 9/22/2006
- Archive Date
- 11/21/2006
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- The 6th Medical Logistics Management Center has a requirement for the design, delivery and installation of office workstations to provide a professional work environment for approximately 44 personnel. This is a 100% small business set-aside. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code is 423410 with a size standard of 100 employees. The contractor shall design, deliver and install a professional office environment for groups of personnel assigned to three major work groups: Comm and/Detachment Headquarters, Deputy Commander for Administration and Deputy Commander for Operations. The work area designs should be modern, open, visually appealing, will not block walkways or windows, and project a professional environment and image. The designs should encourage collaboration among and between staff areas, yet offer a modicum of privacy and noise and light attenuation features. The designs should maximize, to the extent possible, the number of workstations common areas taking into con sideration that each workstation will have a 32 corner work unit and at least six linear feat of work surface. The design must also comply with Fire/Safety, OSHA, and American Disabilities Act (ADA) codes, and be ergonomically compliant. The area is a c ombination of private offices, open section work areas, conference room, storage area, loading area, reception space, and waiting area. The complete work area shall include workstations (with task lighting, office drawers (office supplies and filing cabin et(s)), keyboard trays, display, tack and white boards, chairs (desk, visitors, conference areas), tables, bookcases, lockable cabinets (supply storage) and other office furnishing items needed (production space with paper punch, cutters, laminators, etc.) , to produce a TURN-KEY delivery, to include decorative and motivation wall art and accessories. Work Description. 1. The workforce occupying this space will consist of a Center Commander, Center Sergeant Major, two Senior Staff Officers, a Detachment Comm ander and First Sergeant, administrative personnel, with the remainder of the workforce being a combination of project officers, systems administrators, and training staff focusing on data processing, information analysis, training program development/coor dination and medical logistics systems technology. The total number of individual work stations continually occupied within the building will be not greater then 44, with additional flexible space needed to accommodate up to 14 personnel. Offerors should consider this as an estimate. The office design includes seven office spaces, two bathrooms, one conference room, one storage area, reception work area with a small waiting area, network/communications area, common area that should accommodate approximat ely 29 work stations, and multiple work areas. 2. The contractor shall provide a suitable furniture package that will present a professional and efficient office environment for each separate and collective work areas. The separate offices should be abl e to accommodate at least two visitors comfortably and facilitate collaboration between the office occupants and his/her visitors and small group meetings. 3. All personnel will work primarily at their desks and utilize a computer with up to two flat scre en monitors, a telephone, and will share printers grouped to support the office work load. Personnel require an adequate amount of desktop space and filing cabinets for project documents and reference materials. The desktop horizontal space needs to be f lat, well lighted, and sufficient to lay out projects, worksheets, reference materials, and manuals and securable to protect projects when away from the work area. Design for each workstation in the common area should provide a chair for one visitor, and the area should contain one small conference table with enough chairs to accommodate up to six individuals for collective use, and a white board. Furniture lay out for the individual office spaces should avoid having the occupants backs and computer monitors facing the entry way to each office. The contractor will propose ergonomic adjustable seating with lumbar support for each workstation. 4. The shared pro duction work area will be open and available for all staff. Centralized faxing, printing, copying/scanning, and work production capability will be completed from one location. The area will contain paper recycling bin(s) provided by the installation and equipment to make this area operational (copier, printer, paper punchers, etc) will be furnished by the 6th MLMC. The space must be designed to accommodate government furnished copy/scanner/printer, contain counter space with secure storage space for pape r, and various office supplies and equipment (punchers, staplers, various supplies). A. Electrical power. Electrical service will be provided through the installation. The offeror will identify electrical requirements to support the workstation and off ice designs. Depending upon to building, service lines will be coiled above the nine foot high drop ceilings. Fort Detrick electricians will connect service lines to the offerors power pole lines as specified in the accepted bid. B. Network and communications cabling. The desks/workstations must accommodate electrical power, data and telephone cabling. The contractor will provide and pull three data and one phone drop for each workstation. The data and phone cables will be pull ed from patch panels in the Server Closet shown on the attached facility drawing. All workstations must be wired for electrical power by the contractor. The contractor will use the installed cable conduits as noted on the attached architectural plan wher e wall access is available and provide the wall cover plates. The cable and electrical access points are approximations. The contractor will provide electrical and cable poles to run cable from the server closet and patch panel, up and over the drop ceil ing down to the work station clusters. Electrical cables will be coiled above the drop ceiling in the common work areas where most of the workstation will be located. All data communications wiring will be category 5E, 10BASFT, 4 pair, and 24 AWG solid c opper. The contractor will be responsible for providing the patch cords and connecting them to wall outlets and/or from the workstation drop box ready for the user to plug in their computers and telephones. The contractor will be responsible for pulling and terminating three data and one phone drop to each floor box located in the conference room. The contractor shall ensure that the walls, floor, doors, windows are cleaned upon acceptable completion of the work. C. Moving and cleaning. After installa tion of all desks/workstations, furnishings and cabling, the contractor shall clean floors, walls, ceilings and work surfaces. All items will be aligned or adjusted at the request of the offeror. D. Conference room. The contractor will propose a professional conference environment for the space identified as the conference room on the architectural plan. The conference room table should accommodate 10 with additional seating to accommodate up to 12 people comfortably depending upon the size of the space and suggested furniture. Additional seating along the perimeter of the conference room should be able to comfortably accommodate up to 20 personnel. The conference room must be equipped with sma rt white boards w/trays, table, adjustable ergonomic chairs, secure storage for audio/visual and teleconferencing equipment, a speakers podium, and clocks and proposed tasteful artwork. F. Decorative floor and wall furnishings and other accessories. T he offeror will propose wall art, floor mats at entrances and for high traffic areas, and other accessories that include, but not limited to smart white boards, bulletin boards, trophy cases, wastebaskets, coat racks, wall clocks, secure sup ply storage cabinets, and personal storage lockers. The offeror shall provide catalogs or descriptive literature to allow the Government to select alternative decorative furnishings and accessories within their proposed monetary allocation. G. Installa tion. The contractor will be responsible for removing all packing material. The Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) commercial clauses 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors-Commercial, 52.212-2, Evaluation-Commercial Items, 52.212-3, Offeror Representation s and Certifications-Commercial Items, 52.212-4, Contract Terms and Conditions-Commercial Items, and 52.212-5, Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statues or Executive Orders-Commercial Items. The clauses included in 52.212-5 are 52.203-6, 52.219-8, 52.219-14, 52.222-3, 52.222-19, 52.222-21, 52.222-26, 52.222-35, 52.222-36, 52.222-37, 52.225-13, 52.232-36. The Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) clause 252.212-7000, Offeror representations and certifications-Commercia l Items and 252.212-7001, Contract Terms and conditions required to implement statutes or Executive Orders applicable to Defense acquisitions of commercial items. The clauses included in 252.212-7001 are 52.203-3, 252.225-7001,252.225-7012, 252.225-7021, 252.225-7036, 252.247-7023 and 252.247-7024. Government Credit card is the preferred method of payment and FOB Destination prices. In accordance with FAR 52.212-2, the Government will award a contract to the responsible offer that will be most advantageou s to the Government, price and other factors considered. The following Evaluation factors shall be used to evaluate offers: (1) Drawings and Floor Plan-The Contractor shall provide to scales for the project. This may include an artist or computer generat ed illustration of how the completed project will look. (2) Product Descriptions/Brochures- The Contractor shall provide proposed product descriptions and brochures, (3) Project Plan-The contractor shall provide a detailed, time phased work plan from cont ract award through beneficial occupancy, (4), Past Performance-The Contractor shall provide at least three projects similar to this requirement that was successfully completed. Provide the name, address, phone number and point of contact, dates of complet ion and cost, (5) Cost- the Contractor shall provide a cost proposal that includes delivery and installation of a Turnkey office package inclusive of all the above requirements. After review of your technical proposal, past performance and cost proposals, the Government may schedule Oral Presentations for further review of proposed products or illustrations of products offered. Oral presentations if conducted will be scheduled with the offerors that meet or exceed the requirements of this combined synopsi s/solicitation. A MANDATORY SITE VISIT is scheduled for Tuesday September 19, 2006 at 10:00 AM, Eastern Standard Time at Building 1540A, Fort Detrick, MD 21702. All attendees must have a picture ID and vehicle registration and insurance to enter Fort De trick. Please forward your company name and attendees to Pamela.Nevels@amedd.army.mil by close of business Monday September 18, 2006. The closing date of this solicitation is 3:00 PM EST on September 22, 2006. This requirement may be awarded by Septemb er 30, 2006 or during the first quarter of fiscal year 2007 (Oct-Dec). All offerors are requested to guarantee their proposal for at least 90 days from the date of closing.
- Place of Performance
- Address: US Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity ATTN: MCMR-AAA, 820 Chandler Street Frederick MD
- Zip Code: 21702-5014
- Country: US
- Zip Code: 21702-5014
- Record
- SN01141167-W 20060914/060912221328 (fbodaily.com)
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