SOLICITATION NOTICE
Y -- RECOVERY: PRE-SOLICITATION NOTICE FOR CONSTRUCTION EXCELLENCE FOR THE MODERNIZATION OF THE ROBERT SMITH VANCE FEDERAL BUILDING AND COURTHOUSE IN BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA
- Notice Date
- 4/24/2009
- Notice Type
- Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
- NAICS
- 236220
— Commercial and Institutional Building Construction
- Contracting Office
- General Services Administration, Public Buildings Service (PBS), Construction & A/E Acquisition Division (4PG), 401 W. Peachtree Street, NW, Room 2513, Atlanta, Georgia, 30308
- ZIP Code
- 30308
- Solicitation Number
- GS-04P-09-EX-C-0077
- Point of Contact
- Valerie Riecke Smith, PhD, DBIA,, Phone: 404-224-2279, Swindale Rhodes,, Phone: 404-331-4620
- E-Mail Address
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valerie.riecke@gsa.gov, swindale.rhodes@gsa.gov
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- RECOVERY: PRE-SOLICITATION NOTICE FOR CONSTRUCTION EXCELLENCE FOR THE MODERNIZATION OF THE ROBERT SMITH VANCE FEDERAL BUILDING AND COURTHOUSE IN BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, SOLICITATION NO. GS-04P-09-EX-C-0077. The Real Estate, Design and Construction Organization in the Southeast Sunbelt Region of Public Buildings Services of the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) is presently soliciting proposals from qualified Offerors desiring to compete in the procurement process for the subject construction project. This project is funded from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). The type of contract is the Construction Manager as-constructor Guaranteed Maximum Price with Construction Contingency Allowance (herein referred to as CMc). A CMc provides Design Phase Services and Construction Phase Work. GSA intends to contract for Design Phase Services with an option for Construction Phase Work for a major renovation of the Robert Smith Vance Federal Building and Courthouse in Birmingham, Alabama, with the CMc that offers the best overall value to GSA. Design Phase Services is expected to commence upon award of the contract on or about March 2009. The Optional Construction Phase Work is anticipated to be awarded on or about March 2010, with a performance period of approximately 900 calendar days. The existing structure was built in 1921, and is listed on the National Register for Historical Places. It is a four-story building of approximately 173,993-square-feet. The two primary tenants of the building are the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Alabama and the federal probation department. The mission of this scope of work is to support client agencies by housing federal tenants in adjoining spaces to support and maximize efficiencies; and to ensure the viability of the historic structure by identifying major deficiencies. The guaranteed maximum price for this scope of work is $32,000,000, for combined Design Phase Services and Construction Phase Work. The North American Industry Classification System Code (NAICS) for this procurement is 236220. The CMc will be competitively chosen using Advisory Multi-step (FAR 15.202), and Source Selection (FAR 15.3) procedures. Design has not started on this project. It is anticipated that this CMc contract and the contract for architectural and engineering will be awarded in the same timeframe. There are two components of work to be performed under this Contract: Design Phase Services and Construction Phase Work. The Construction Phase Work is an option. The CMc is required to complete the Design Phase Services for the firm-fixed-price presented during the procurement process. At any time during or after Design Phase Services, the Contracting Officer may request that the CMc provide a proposal for the Construction Phase Work. “Design Phase Services” means the design phase construction management services, constructability reviews, cost estimate reconciliation services and other related services as described in the scope of work provided in the RFP. “Construction Phase Work” means all work and services, including general conditions, necessary for the construction of the project described by the plans, specifications and other provisions incorporated into the RFP, excluding Design Phase Services. Renovation of the existing building will occur while the building is occupied. GSA intends for the work to be accomplished in multiple phases, and anticipates construction to begin before design is complete. The CMc is a member of the project team during the design and construction phases, along with GSA as the public owner; GSA’s Construction Manager as-agent; GSA’s selected architecture and engineering firm and Architect of Record; GSA’s building commissioning firm; GSA’s security consultant, and other consultants. The CMc shall be required to assign, as needed, a team consisting of, and not limited to, architectural, civil, structural, mechanical and electrical reviewers; cost estimators; CPM analysts; field engineers; field support staff; construction supervisors; construction superintendents; testing engineers/technicians; and other disciplines as needed to perform the services described herein. A best value concept will be applied for evaluation of offers and selection of the successful Offeror for this procurement. The best value approach provides the opportunity to select an Offeror who is not necessarily the lowest-priced or the highest technically-ranked. GSA will select the proposal that represents the best value based on the evaluation of technical factors and price, with technical factors being weighed more heavily than price. This is a multi-step advisory procurement that consists of two stages. In Stage I, Pre-Solicitation Notice, interested Offerors must provide a statement from their federally approved bonding corporate surety (see website at http://www.fms.treas.gov/c570/index.html), certifying their bonding capacity for a project with a Guaranteed Maximum Price of $32,000,000. Other bonding options are available in accordance with FAR 28.204 and may be provided as an alternate to evidence of corporate bonding capacity. Offerors are required to be licensed general contractors in accordance with State of Alabama statutes. Offerors responding to Stage I must also submit information in providing Design Phase Services and Construction Phase Work. Submissions shall clearly address the Stage I rating factors identified in this announcement. Proposals will be evaluated using an Advisory Multi-step Process as specified in FAR 15.202. The Contracting Officer shall advise respondents considered not to be viable competitors of the general basis for that opinion. All Offerors shall be informed that, notwithstanding the advice provided by the Contracting Officer in response to their submissions concerning their viability, they may still compete in Stage II. Licensed general contractors having the minimum bonding capacity are invited to respond to this Stage I Pre-Solicitation Notice by submitting one (1) original and four (4) copies of the required technical information. The submission should be in an 8-1/2” x 11” bound format and should be organized to correspond with the evaluation factors listed below. Standard Form 330 may be utilized, but is not required. The total pre-solicitation notice submission should not exceed 10 one-sided 8-1/2”x 11” pages or 5 double-sided 8-1/2”x 11” pages (not including Table of Contents or Section Separators), with one-inch margins, and in a font not less than 12-point in size. Font style is optional. Description: These factors consider the Offeror successfully completing similar projects. “Similar” is defined as renovation or modernization of multi-story (3-story minimum) buildings of a minimum of 100,000, gross square feet. These structures can include courthouses, hospital facilities, casinos, Class A office space, research laboratories, government-owned buildings, or major renovations of such similar projects, with a construction cost of a minimum of $25 million. The SSEB will be limited to reviewing only projects of similarity. Relate all projects submitted in Factors 1 and 2 in type and scope to this project. Factor 1: Design Phase Services on similar projects. a) Demonstrate at least one (1) project completed within the past ten (10) years in excess of $25 million in construction cost and a minimum of 100,000, gross square feet, in which the Offeror provided Design Phase Services similar to those required under this project. Factor 2: Construction Phase Work as a prime contractor on similar projects. a) Demonstrate experience on at least three (3) projects completed within the past ten (10) years in excess of $25 million in construction cost and a minimum of 100,000, gross square feet, in which the Offeror provided Construction Phase Work similar to those required under this project. Projects proposed under Factor 1 and Factor 2 may be the same. The Stage I Pre-Solicitation Notice factors are independent of the factors in the Stage II Request for Proposal and will be used to evaluate an Offeror’s viability based on its submissions to the Stage I Pre-Solicitation Notice. Offerors will be notified of viability and the Request for Proposal will be released on or about May 15, 2009. Stage II Request for Proposals (RFP). Proposals will be evaluated and scored according to technical evaluation factors included in the RFP. The technical proposals will be reviewed and evaluated prior to and separately from the review of price proposals. As part of the Stage II evaluation, the Contracting Officer and Source Selection Evaluation Board (SSEB) may conduct interviews. However, GSA reserves the right to evaluate proposals and make award without discussions or oral presentations (clarifications may be made as described in FAR 15.306(a)). Therefore, the Offeror's proposal should contain the Offeror's best terms. Final selection will be made based on technical factors being weighted significantly more than price (price being represented by the Offeror’s proposal for Design Phase Services and Construction Phase Work). The Offerors may use projects submitted in Stage I to respond to the Stage II evaluation factors. If interviews are conducted, firms will be interviewed at GSA’s Region 4 offices in Atlanta, Georgia, by members of the SSEB. The following criteria represent the factors that will be used by GSA’s Source Selection Evaluation Board in evaluating Stage II proposals. Factor 1 considers past performance in providing Design Phase Services on similar projects. Factor 2 considers past performance in providing Construction Phase Services as a prime contractor on similar projects. Factor 3 considers qualifications and experience of key personnel. Factor 4 considers the management plan and technical approach. Factor 5 considers the Offeror’s proposed approach for successful and meaningful participation and performance during Design Phase Services. Factor 6 considers the Offeror’s available resources and facilities to accomplish the project. Stage II also requires Offerors that are large businesses to indicate their intention to submit a subcontracting plan for this project that provides for participation by small business concerns. Stage II proposals will be due on or about June 15, 2009. Interested firms must send their Stage I submission, no later than 2:00 PM EST on Monday, May 11, 2009, to Valerie Riecke Smith, PhD, DBIA, Contracting Officer, General Services Administration, Public Buildings Service, Acquisition Management Division (4PG), Suite 2500, 401 West Peachtree Street N.W., Atlanta, Georgia, 30308. A Pre-Proposal Conference and site visit is anticipated on or about May 28, 2009, in Birmingham, Alabama, and will be established and published in the Request for Proposals in Stage II. All submittals must clearly indicate the solicitation number (GS-04P-09-EX-C-0077) on the face of the envelope. Late submittals will be handled in accordance with FAR 52.215-1(c)(3). Facsimile proposals will not be accepted. Be advised that, due to heightened security measures, individuals entering a Federal facility must have photo identification and may be delayed. Firms planning to hand-deliver submissions should take this into consideration.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: General Services Administration, Public Buildings Service, Acquisition Management Division, 401 West Peachtree Street N.W., Suite 2500, Atlanta, Georgia, 30308, United States
- Zip Code: 30308
- Zip Code: 30308
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