MODIFICATION
C -- Architectural-Engineering (A-E) Contracts for Military Design and Investigation Services
- Notice Date
- 3/9/2016
- Notice Type
- Modification/Amendment
- NAICS
- 541330
— Engineering Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Army, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, USACE District, Sacramento, 1325 J. Street, Sacramento, California, 95814, United States
- ZIP Code
- 95814
- Solicitation Number
- W91238-16-S-0001
- Archive Date
- 11/24/2015
- Point of Contact
- Melissa A. DeNigris, Phone: 9165575137
- E-Mail Address
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Melissa.A.DeNigris@usace.army.mil
(Melissa.A.DeNigris@usace.army.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- IF A FIRM RESPONDED TO THE PREVIOUS SOURCES SOUGHT ANNOUNCEMENT, THE FIRM DOES NOT NEED TO RE-SUBMIT THE QUALIFICATION AGAIN UNLESS THE INFORMATION OR QUALIFICATIONS HAVE CHANGED. This is a SOURCES SOUGHT ANNOUNCEMENT ONLY. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Sacramento District is conduction market research to facilitate a determination of the acquisition strategy for this procurement. The determination of the acquisition strategy for this procurement lies solely with the Government and will be based on market research and information available to the Government from other sources. The Sacramento District is conducting this market research to identify businesses which have the capability to perform Military Design and Investigation Services. 1. CONTRACT REQUIREMENT: The anticipated contract, when solicited, will be procured in accordance with the Brooks Architect-Engineer Act as implemented in FAR subpart 36.6. Firms will be selected for negotiation based on demonstrated competence and qualifications for all of the required work. This procurement will be conducted under the North American Industrial Classification System Code (NAICS) 541330, Engineering Services. The Small Business size standard for this code is $15,000,000.00. To be considered a Small Business under this NAICS codes, the respondent's average revenue for the last three fiscal years cannot be more than $15,000,000.00. If the respondent's average revenue for the last three fiscal years is over $15,000,000.00, the respondent is not considered a Small Business. All respondents MUST identity their business size relative to the NAICS code. Respondents are required to state whether the firm is a Large Business, Small Business, 8(a) Program Participant, HUBZone Small Business, Small Disadvantaged Business, Women-Owned Small Business, Veteran-Owned Small Business, or Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business. When the requirement is solicited, firms will be selected for negotiation based on demonstrated competence and qualifications for all of the required work. The Government anticipates issuing two (2) Firm-Fixed-Price (FFP) Multiple Award Task Order Contracts (MATOC) for five (5) years. Task orders may range from $50,000.00 to $3,000,000.00 depending on the complexity of work. If the contract is set-aside for Small Business, FAR 52.219-14, Limitation on Subcontracting, will be included in the contract. This clause requires that at least 50 percent of the cost of contract performance incurred for personnel shall be expended for employees of the concern. 2. PROJECT INFORMATION: The A-E services are to provide Military Design services to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). Projects will primarily be within the Sacramento District boundaries. However, the contracts may also be used by other Districts within the South Pacific Division (Sacramento, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Albuquerque Districts) to encompass the entire SPD geographic area of responsibility. SPD includes both military boundaries (CA, NV, UT and AZ) and civil works boundaries (CA, NV, UT, AZ and portions of OR, ID, CO and WY). A specific scope of work and services will be issued with each task order. 3. QUALIFICATIONS: All interested firms are encouraged to respond to this notice and may respond to this announcement by submitting a capability statement which addresses the following key areas: a) A-E services are required to provide the full spectrum of design disciplines to support Military Construction projects. The primary emphasis of A-E services will focus on Military Projects; however, design services may also include US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Projects, construction phase services, Civil Works projects; and HTRW projects. Task orders issued under this contract may range in scope from a small study to a new project design for Military Construction projects. The design services could range from an architectural renovation (some of historical significance), maintenance and repair of a variety of small projects, or may also include design of complete additions, alterations, or new facility designs for Military projects such as barracks, warehouses, storage facilities, administrative facilities, training facilities, maintenance facilities, aircraft hangars, computer facilities, aircraft runways, taxiways, aprons, treatment plants, and the entire spectrum of infrastructure (road and utility) systems. Demolition of existing facilities may require provisions for abatement of asbestos and/or lead based paint removal to be included in the design documents which in turn would require A-E investigation to be done. Services may include constructability reviews, LEED certification, Building Information Management (BIM) and sustainable design. Input may be required by the full range of disciplines including but not limited to: civil, structural, hydraulic, geotechnical, mechanical, electrical, fire protection engineering, architectural, landscape architects, hydrology, geology, seismology, surveying, mapping, construction, LEED AP and cost engineering. b) Individual task orders may include maintenance and repair type projects and miscellaneous architectural and engineering services associated with military installations, VA facilities and other building projects. Construction phase services may also be required. Input may be required by the full range of disciplines including but not limited to: civil, structural, hydraulic, geotechnical, mechanical and electrical engineering, architectural, landscape architects, hydrology, geology, seismology, surveying, mapping, construction, and cost engineering. Individual task orders may include maintenance and repair type projects and miscellaneous architectural and engineering services associated with civil works projects. The contractor shall be responsible for designs and drawings using computer aided design and drafting (CADD). c) Work may be performed in an AutoCAD, Microstation, or equal, environment. BIM work may be performed in either REVIT or Bentley BIM. GIS work may be field, desktop or Internet based. Firms may be required to develop Hyper-Text Mark-up Language (HTML) as the project medium. All final text files generated under this task order shall be furnished to the Sacramento District in Adobe Acrobat (PDF), with a working copy in Microsoft Office MS Word. Drawing files and as-built drawings shall be submitted in AutoCAD or MicroStation, in the same environment as designed, in accordance with the guidance at http://cbbs.spk.usace.army.mil/a-e_guidance.html and http://cbbs.spk.usace.army.mil/cadd.html. d) The target platform is a Pentium 3.0 GHz, 512 MB Ram and 40 GH Hard Drive with Windows XP Professional operating system. Drawings files produced by scanning documents or records or containing photographic images shall be delivered in PDF. The specifications will be produced in PDF electronic digital files. Additionally, the contractor shall have the ability to deliver two or three-dimensional drawings in the AutoCAD software released 2004, or in MicroStation V8.5. The Government will only accept final documents found to be fully operational without conversion or reformatting. Responding firms must show computer and Internet capability for accessing the Criteria Bulletin Board System (CBBS) http://cbbs.spk.usace.army.mil/index.html and the Design Review and Checking System (DrChecks) https://www.projnet.org. Estimates shall be prepared using Corps of Engineers Computer Aided Cost Estimating system (M-CACES Second Generation MII) (software provided by Government) software; however training to use this software and the current pending Cost Book library will require purchasing by the Contractor. 4. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS: All interested firms are encouraged to respond to this notice and may do so by submitting a capabilities statement. The capabilities statement is limited to five (5) pages total and shall include the following information: 1. Firm's name, address, point of contract, phone number and email address. 2. Firm's business size - If a Small Business, identify the Small Business type (Small Business, an 8(a) Program Participant, HUBZone Small Business, Small Disadvantaged Business, Women-Owned Small Business, Veteran-Owned Small Business or Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business). 3. Demonstration of the firm's experience as a prime contractor on projects of similar size, type and complexity within the past five years. List at least 3 completed projects and include project title and location, a brief description of the project to include dollar amount of the project and work that was self-performed. Please consider the following when preparing your capabilities statements. Additionally, firms must be capable of responding to and working on multiple task orders concurrently. The response must be specific to the qualifications listed above to show that the respondent meets the requirements and possesses the necessary skills and experience. If a response does not show that the respondent meets the qualifications and/or does not possess the necessary skills and experience, the respondent will not be considered by the Government. Again this is not a request for proposal or quotation; there is no solicitation available at this time. A determination by the Government to proceed with the acquisition as a set-aside for 8(a) program, HUBZone, Small Business, etc. or unrestricted is within the discretion of the Government. All responses shall be submitted via email to Melissa DeNigris at Melissa.A.DeNigris@usace.army.mil no later than 3pm (PST) 23 March 2016.
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