SOURCES SOUGHT
C -- PNW Design-Build
- Notice Date
- 12/11/2009
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541310
— Architectural Services
- Contracting Office
- Forest Service - R-10 Alaska Region
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- AG-0109-SS-10-0004
- Point of Contact
- Deb Strickland, Phone: 907-586-7902
- E-Mail Address
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dstrickland@fs.fed.us
(dstrickland@fs.fed.us)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This is a SOURCES SOUGHT ANNOUNCEMENT, a Market Survey for written information only. This is not a solicitation announcement for proposals and no contract will be awarded from this announcement. No reimbursement will made for any costs associated with providing information in response to this announcement or any follow-up information requests. (a) The Forest Service contemplates conducting a two-phase design-build acquisition using the procedures of FAR Subpart 36.3 for the design and construction of a new facility on approximately three acres of a 7.5 acre parcel adjacent to the University of Alaska Southeast (UAS) campus 10.6 miles north of downtown Juneau. The purpose for the proposed action is to develop an office and laboratory space, and warehouse along with related road access and parking. Construction would provide consolidated office, laboratories, warehouse, and dry storage space for permanent and seasonal employees assigned to the Juneau Laboratory. The proposed two or three-story 15,000 square-foot office (building footprint estimated at 7,500 square-feet maximum) and laboratories will occupy the land below the paved footpath that connects the University Library with the Mendenhall Loop Road. A 50 to 60 space parking lot (approximately 10,000 square-feet) and a warehouse with dry storage and a shop (an estimated 4,500 square-feet) will be built on the parcel above the footpath or above the existing road (location to be determined). The new office and laboratories will house 22 permanent employees and up to 25 temporary employees. The facility will be built over a two year period due to funding availability. Project Design is scheduled to begin in 2010, and construction in 2011-2012. Phase 3 of the project includes building an additional wing to house the R10 Regional Office. This phase is not part of this project at this time. However the building design will be flexible enough to accommodate this potential future need. The estimated magnitude of the project is between $5,000,000 and $10,000,000. (b) The Forest Service desires that firms interested in this project as a prime contractor identify themselves by the submission of a brief white paper. We ask for this paper to be submitted as an Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) attachment in an e-mail to Project Manager Donna Wians (dwians@fs.fed.us), with a cc: to Deborah Strickland (dstrickland@fs.fed.us) and Karen Weidenbaugh (kweidenbaugh@fs.fed.us) by close of business on December 29, 2009. The white paper and any accompanying cover letter should be brief (no more than seven (7) pages), should not exceed 1MB in size, and should be written with the intent of helping the Forest Service craft its acquisition approach so we can enhance our ability to obtain the construction services at reasonable prices and with efficiency in contractor proposal preparation, proposal evaluation, negotiation, and contract award. The white paper should address the following topics: (1) The firm's name, address, DUNS number, and point of contact information; (2) The firm's size status, such as small business, small disadvantaged business, HUBZone small business, service-disabled veteran-owned small business, or 8(a) contractor; (3) The firm's experience as a prime contractor in design-build acquisitions and as a prime contractor for work similar to this project; (4) Advice on whether the Forest Service should issue one solicitation covering both phases, or two solicitations in sequence; (5) Advice on the timetable that the acquisition should follow in order to provide for a contract award at the end of phase two by September 2010; (6) Advice on the phase one evaluation factors, including the level of design work the Forest Service should seek from competing contractors as part of the phase one effort; (7) Advice on the phase two evaluation factors; (8) Comments on the suitability of this project for use of the two-phase selection process; and (9) Other advice, recommendations, or cautions for the Forest Service as we consider a two-phase design-build acquisition approach for this project. (c) The Forest Service is not scheduling a pre-solicitation conference at this time. We hope all interested parties will share helpful information with us through the white papers requested above. The Forest Service has not yet made a definitive decision to issue a solicitation, and it has not made any definitive decisions regarding work scope, acquisition strategy, extent of competition, NAICS code, and so forth. The information we learn from the white papers will help us as we make these decisions. Other exchanges with industry may occur in the near future; this may include a pre-solicitation conference or one-on-one meetings with some or all white paper submitters. Your participation and assistance through the submission of a white paper is appreciated
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