SOLICITATION NOTICE
X -- US Government Seeks to Lease 131,381 ABOA SF in Washington, DC - Excerpts from USITC’s Workplace Recommendations and Strategy Report
- Notice Date
- 6/21/2016
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 531120
— Lessors of Nonresidential Buildings (except Miniwarehouses)
- Contracting Office
- General Services Administration, Public Buildings Service (PBS), NB Contractor - Studley Inc., 555 Thirteenth Street, NW, Suite 420 East, Washington, District of Columbia, 20004, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20004
- Solicitation Number
- 3DC0384
- Point of Contact
- Mett Miller, Phone: 202-624-8517, Julie M. Rayfield, Phone: 202-624-8532
- E-Mail Address
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mmiller@savills-studley.com, jrayfield@savills-studley.com
(mmiller@savills-studley.com, jrayfield@savills-studley.com)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Excerpts from USITC’s Workplace Recommendations and Strategy Report U.S. GOVERNMENT General Services Administration (GSA) seeks to lease the following space: State: District of Columbia City: Washington Delineated Area: Washington, DC bounded by: North: L Street over to Massachusetts Avenue over to North Capital Street; South: Southwest Freeway; East: North and South Capital Streets; West: 15th Street (a detailed map shall be made available on request) Minimum Sq. Ft. (ABOA): 131,381 ABOA SF Maximum Sq. Ft. (RSF): (1) 158,000 RSF for space requiring relocation and construction to meet agency’s program of requirements; (2) 207,000 RSF for current space Space Type: Office Parking Spaces (Total): 2 reserved, inside spaces plus on-site parking per code Parking Spaces (Unreserved): 0 Parking Spaces (Reserved): 2 Full Term: 15 years Firm Term: 15 years Option Term: NA Additional Requirements: See Below The Government is seeking expressions of interest from sources of office and related space for 158,000 rentable square feet (RSF) of contiguous space, which shall yield a minimum of 131,381 ANSI/BOMA Office Area (“ABOA”) square feet of office and related space, located in a single building, together with 2 reserved, inside parking spaces for official Government vehicles. The Government tenant is the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC). The USITC currently occupies office and related space at 500 E Street, SW under a lease that will expire in August of 2017. USITC requires continued housing for 517 personnel currently working in this location to carry out its mission. The Government will use the information it receives in response to this advertisement as a basis to develop a cost-benefit analysis to determine whether the tenant will remain at its current location in its existing square footage of 207,000 RSF (177,544 ABOA SF) or move to a smaller space of 158,000 RSF (131,381 ABOA SF). The Government requests an expression of interest from the current landlord for an additional 15 year lease of the existing space and will compare that to expressions of interest for a reduced footprint lease in a new location. Offered buildings must be located within 2,640 walkable linear feet (wlf) from a Metrorail station measured along accessibility compliant, paved pedestrian pathways from a main entrance of the offered building to the accessibility compliant entrance to the Metrorail station. Offered buildings must be located within walking distance (2640 walkable linear feet) of restaurants and food establishments for staff and visitors and hotels to support private sector participants in USITC trials and hearings. Offered space must be capable of meeting ISC Level IV security requirements. Offered space must also meet Federal Government, State, and Local jurisdiction requirements for fire and life safety, security, accessibility, seismic, energy, and sustainability standards per the terms of the Lease. The proposed leased space shall be fully serviced. Offered space shall not be in the 500 year flood plain. Offered space must be ready for occupancy no later than March 2018. The comparison between the existing space and any offers for the reduced footprint will consider, among other things, the availability of special space that can satisfy the Government’s requirements, including a Court Room Complex of approximately 23,000 ABOA including a Main Hearing Room and three courtrooms. This Complex provides the necessary space for hearing claims of unfair trade from domestic industries and adjudicating patent infringement and intellectual property claims brought by intellectual property owners. The Courtrooms and Hearing Room portions of this complex require above-standard ceiling heights (12 feet slab to slab or higher) in order to accommodate the specific furniture, fixtures, and equipment needed by the USITC as well as provide adequate sightlines between the officiant and all participants and appropriate millwork and finishes. Due to the extremely time sensitive nature of the USITC’s mission, there cannot be any disruption in the availability of access to this Complex, so any replication of the current Complex must be substantially complete on the first day of any future lease, phased occupancy will not be acceptable. In connection with its FY 2016 budget, the USITC requested an additional appropriation of $42.7 million to fund the renovation/build-out costs for 158,000 square feet of new space. Congress rejected this request and provided no funding. The ITC does not expect that any funding will be provided by Congress for this project in the future. Therefore, any interested parties must provide a tenant improvement allowance sufficient to fund the work outlined in the attached excerpts from USITC’s Workplace Recommendations and Strategy Report and provide additional allowances that must be made available at lease execution that may be used for: 1) the costs associated with tenant improvement costs above the tenant improvement allowance and security allowances, 2) IT/telecommunications cabling, conduit, and trays, 3) any other costs allowable under GSA leasing and pricing policy, and/or 4) free rent to be applied at the beginning of the Lease term until the allowance is fully exhausted. To the extent that Offerors do not provide allowances sufficient to cover the necessary replication costs, such shortfalls will still be considered in the Government’s cost benefit analysis so that all relocation and replication costs associated with a move to a new location will be accounted for in the cost benefit analysis. The Government’s decision regarding whether or not to relocate will be based, in part, on information received in response to this notification. In the event that a potentially acceptable offer fails to provide required information as part of its response to this notification, the Government reserves the right to assume that the building in question cannot meet the USITC’s requirements. Submission by anyone other than the owner or manager of a property must be accompanied by a letter from the ownership granting permission to make a general offering of space. In instances where the Offeror is representing more than one property, the Offeror is hereby notified that they may only participate in negotiations on behalf of one owner. Expressions of Interest should include the following: 1) Building name & address; 2) Contact information and e-mail address of Lessor’s Representative; 3) ABOA and rentable square feet available (identifying the specific floors and square footage on each, with Common Area Factor) and its condition (shell, or built-out, and if so, for whom); 4) Asking rental rate per ABOA and rentable square foot, fully serviced and inclusive of a GSA warm lit shell and a tenant improvement allowance of $54.53 per ABOA and additional cash allowances sufficient to fund the work outlined in the attached excerpts from USITC’s Workplace Recommendations and Strategy Report and other costs required to replicate the existing space. (The full report will be attached to the RLP, if and when issued.); 5) The amount of the tenant improvement allowance included in the fully serviced rental rate requested above and the applicable amortization rate. Offerors are encouraged to maximize the offered tenant improvement allowance; 6) Date building will be ready for commencement of tenant improvements; 7) A narrative description that provides evidence that the offered space can accommodate the other specific requirements identified in the attached excerpts from USITC’s Workplace Recommendations and Strategy Report, in particular the 23,000 ABOA in Court Room Requirements. Expressions of Interest Due: July 6, 2016 Market Survey (Estimated): TBD Initial Offers Due (Estimated): TBD Occupancy (Estimated): March 2018 Send Expressions of Interest to: Name/Title: Emmett Miller Executive Managing Director Savills Studley, Inc. Address: 1201 F St., NW Suite 500 Washington, DC 20004 Office: 202-624-8517 Email Address: mmiller@savills-studley.com Name/Title: Julie Rayfield Executive Managing Director Savills Studley, Inc. Address: 1201 F St., NW Suite 500 Washington, DC 20004 Office: 202-624-8532 Email Address: jrayfield@savills-studley.com Government Contact Lease Contracting Officer: Theresa Singleton Broker: Emmett Miller and Julie Rayfield
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Washington, District of Columbia, United States
- Record
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