SOURCES SOUGHT
Y -- Department of Veterans Affairs, VISN 1 Sources Sought for Multiple Award Task Order Contract (MATOC) for Construction at VISN 1 VA Facilities
- Notice Date
- 11/1/2023 6:45:08 AM
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 236220
— Commercial and Institutional Building Construction
- Contracting Office
- PCAC HEALTH INFORMATION (36C776) INDEPENDENCE OH 44131 USA
- ZIP Code
- 44131
- Solicitation Number
- 36C77624Q0029
- Response Due
- 11/27/2023 7:00:00 AM
- Archive Date
- 02/25/2024
- Point of Contact
- Katherine Gibney, Contracting Officer, Phone: (216) 447-8300 x3370, Fax: Gregory Parker, CS - Gregory.Parkerjr@va.gov
- E-Mail Address
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katherine.gibney@va.gov
(katherine.gibney@va.gov)
- Awardee
- null
- Description
- SYNOPSIS: INTRODUCTION: In accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 52.215-3, Request for Information or Solicitation for Planning Purposes This Sources Sought Notice is for information and planning purposes only at this time and shall not be construed as a solicitation or as an obligation on the part of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration (VHA), Program Contracting Activity Central (PCAC) is conducting a market survey and is seeking potential sources for the Multiple Award Task Order Contract (MATOC) Indefinite-Delivery Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) for the Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN 1), New England. PROJECT DESCRIPTION: VISN 1 has a requirement for on-going facility support for general construction, alteration, modification, maintenance and repair, demolition and new construction of buildings, facilities and real property for the following VISN 1 VA Facilities: (1) VA Togus, Maine; (2) VA White River Junction, Vermont; (3) VA Manchester, New Hampshire; (4) VA Central Western MA, Northampton, Massachusetts; (5) Edith Nourse Rogers Veterans Memorial Hospital, Bedford, MA; (6) VA Boston Health Care System, MA, including the Brockton Campus, the Jamaica Plain Campus, and the West Roxbury Campus; (7) VA Providence, RI; (8) VA Connecticut Health Care System, including the West Haven Campus, and the Newington Campus; (9) any Community Based Outpatient Clinics located within VISN 1; and (10) any other VA facility and/or location within the New England Healthcare System. The services for this project will include providing all construction related services such as: providing labor, materials and equipment required to complete the project as per contract documents. PCAC anticipates awarding multiple Construction IDIQ Contracts to cover the facilities with an anticipated ceiling of $100 million per award. The resulting contracts will not have fixed unit costs. All contract work will be completed through individual Firm Fixed Price (FFP) task orders awarded for individual projects. Each task order will be priced individually and will include its own wage determination. These task orders will be competed amongst the IDIQ awardees. The term of the IDIQ MATOC will be a five-year contract. Each task order will have its own period of performance established. This notice is published to conduct market research to determine if there is a sufficient number of verified Service-Disabled/Veteran-Owned Small Businesses (SDVOSBs/VOSBs), Women Owned Small Businesses (WOSBs) and small businesses (SBs) capable of performing the requirements. The type of socio-economic set-aside, if any, will depend upon the responses to this notice and any other information gathered during the market research process. In order to be eligible as an SDVOSB or VOSB, a firm must be registered under the applicable NAICS in SBA VetCert. Registration may be accomplished at https://veterans.certify.sba.gov/. Additionally, all interested firms must have an active registration in SAM at www.sam.gov. The SBA Small Business Mentor-Protégé Program applies to this requirement. Prospective offerors are encouraged to seek assistance from their Procurement Technical Assistance Center regarding the SBA Small Business Mentor Protégé Program within the framework of a Joint Venture Agreement. The JV itself and the members of the JV shall be registered in SAM.gov at time of submission of the offer and throughout the performance of the contract. Members of the JV (i.e., parties to the JV) shall be registered and listed as mentor and protégé, respectively, in the SBA Mentor-Protégé Program (SBA MPP) database at time of submission of the offer. 13 CFR 125.9. (https://www.sba.gov/mpp) PROCUREMENT INFORMATION: In accordance with the Limitations on Subcontracting, the prime contractor shall perform at least 15% of the cost of the contract, not including the cost of materials, with its own employees for general construction-type procurements. (See 13 CFR § 125.6). Prior Government contract work is not required for submitting a response under this sources sought notice. The intent of the project is to award a MATOC via multiple-award IDIQ construction contracts. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this IDIQ acquisition is 236220 General Construction Size Standard $45M. Interested parties meeting the requirements of this notice must submit the following information: (1) Provide company name, DUNS number and Unique Entity Identifier (UEI), company address, Point-of-Contact name, phone number and email; (2) Provide company business size based on NAICS code 236220. Also, provide business type (i.e., Large Business, Small Business, Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business, Small Disadvantaged Business, Women-Owned Small Business, Hub Zone Small Business, etc.); (3) A positive statement of your intention to submit a proposal for evaluation when the solicitation is posted; (4) Provide a Capability Statement describing the type of work your company has performed in the past in support of the same or similar requirement. This section is IMPORTANT as it will help to determine the type of socio-economic set-aside, if any. Please provide the following in your response: No more than three (3) contracts that your company has performed within the last seven (7) years that are of comparable size, complexity, and scope to this requirement. Include the project name, project owner and contact information as this person may be contacted for further information, project scope, project size (Example: square footage), building use (Example: Medical Facility, Office Building, etc.), project dollar value, start and completion dates. Provide specific examples that relate aspects of previous projects to the proposed project. Describe specific technical skills and key personnel your company possess to perform the requirements described under description of work. Describe your Self-Performed** effort (as either a Prime or Subcontractor). Describe Self-Performed work in terms of dollar value and description. **Self-Performed means work performed by the offeror themselves, NOT work performed by another company for them for any of the project examples provided. (5) Provide the prime contractor s Bonding Capability (construction bonding level per contract and aggregate construction bonding level, both expressed in dollars) via letter from bonding company; (6) Statement acknowledging the limitations on subcontracting; (7) Attachment 1 indicating the areas of interest and price category ranges; (8) Attachment 2, PLA questionnaire; and (9) Any other pertinent company documentation. It is requested that interested contractors submit a response (electronic submission) of no more than nine (9) single sided pages, single-spaced, 12-point Times New Roman font minimum that addresses the above information (this is inclusive of the PLA questionnaire and Attachment 1). This response must be submitted as a single application-generated (not scanned) PDF document that is less than or equal to 4MB in size. Please note that hard copies will not be accepted. Project Labor Agreement (PLA) - A PLA is defined as a pre-hire Collective Bargaining Agreement with one or more labor organizations that establishes the terms and conditions of employment for a specific construction project and is an agreement described in 29 U.S.C. 158(f). The PLA questionnaire must be filled out and returned with the Sources Sought response. The questionnaire can be found at the end of this document. Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 22.503 Policy: (a) Project Labor Agreement (PLA) is a tool that agencies may use to promote economy and efficiency in Federal procurement. Pursuant to Executive Order 13502, agencies are encouraged to consider requiring the use of project labor agreements in connection with large-scale construction projects. (b) An agency may, if appropriate, require that every contractor and subcontractor engaged in construction on the project agree, for that project, to negotiate or become a party to a project labor agreement with one or more labor organizations if the agency decides that the use of project labor agreements will- (1) Advance the Federal Government's interest in achieving economy and efficiency in Federal procurement, producing labor-management stability, and ensuring compliance with laws and regulations governing safety and health, equal employment opportunity, labor and employment standards, and other matters; and (2) Be consistent with law. (c) Agencies may also consider the following factors in deciding whether the use of a project labor agreement is appropriate for the construction project: (1) The project will require multiple construction contractors and/or subcontractors employing workers in multiple crafts or trades. (2) There is a shortage of skilled labor in the region in which the construction project will be sited. (3) Completion of the project will require an extended period of time. (4) Project labor agreements have been used on comparable projects undertaken by Federal, State, municipal, or private entities in the geographic area of the project. (5) A project labor agreement will promote the agency s long term program interests, such as facilitating the training of a skilled workforce to meet the agency s future construction needs. (6) Any other factors that the agency decides are appropriate. See FAR Provision: 52.222-33 Notice of Requirement for Project Labor Agreement and FAR Clause 52.222-34 Project Labor Agreement for further details. Failure to submit all information requested will result in a contractor not being considered as an interested concern. If adequate interest is not received by 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time on 11/27/2023, this action will not be set-aside for SDVOSBs, VOSBs, WOSBs, or SB firms. Interested firms must reply via e-mail to Gregory.ParkerJr@va.gov and Nicole.Burski@va.gov. Subject line relating to this sources sought must read 36C77624Q0029 MATOC SOURCES SOUGHT RESPONSE . No phone calls will be accepted. DISCLAIMER This sources sought is issued solely for information and planning purposes only and does not constitute a solicitation. In accordance with FAR 15.201(e), responses to this notice are not offers and cannot be accepted by the Government to form a binding contract. Responders are solely responsible for all expenses associated with responding to this notice. The Government will not pay any costs for responses submitted. No evaluation letters and/or results will be issued to the respondents. All information received in response to this is marked as proprietary will be handled accordingly. RESULTS INFORMATION: Respondents will not be notified of the results of the evaluation. Firms who fail to provide ALL of the required information will not be used to make the acquisition decision, which is the intent of this announcement. This project is tentatively planned for advertising in mid-2024. At this time no solicitation exists; therefore, please do not request a copy of the solicitation. If a solicitation is released it will be synopsized in Contract Opportunities at https://sam.gov/. It is the potential offeror's responsibility to monitor this site for the release of any solicitation or synopsis. Contracting Office Address: VHA Program Contracting Activity Central (VHA-PCAC) 6100 Oak Tree Blvd. Suite 490 Independence, OH 44131 ATTACHMENT 1 AREAS OF CONSIDERATION/PRICE CATEGORY RANGES - CONSTRUCTION MATOC FOR VISN 1 (NEW ENGLAND) NOTE: INTERESTED PARTIES MUST INDICATE AREAS OF CONSIDERATION AND PRICE CATEGORY RANGE(S) BELOW AND RETURN BY NOVEMBER 27, 2023 at 10:00 am ET. LOCATIONS INTERESTED IN CONSIDERATION VA Medical Center Providence 830 Chalkstone Avenue Providence, RI 02908 ( ) Interested in Consideration for this location VA CT Healthcare System includes the following locations: West Haven Campus 950 Campbell Avenue West Haven, CT 06516 Newington Campus 555 Willard Street Newington, CT 06111 ( ) Interested in Consideration for this location VA Medical Center White River Junction 215 North Main Street White River Junction, VT 05011 ( ) Interested in Consideration for this location VA Medical Center Manchester 718 Smyth Road Manchester, NH 03104 ( ) Interested in Consideration for this location VA Medical Center Togus 1 VA Center Augusta, ME 04330 ( ) Interested in Consideration for this location Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital 200 Springs Road Bedford, MA 01730 ( ) Interested in Consideration for this location VA Central Western Massachusetts 421 North Main Street Leeds, MA 01053 ( ) Interested in Consideration for this location VA Boston Healthcare System includes the following locations: Brockton Campus 940 Belmont Street Brockton, MA 02301 Jamaica Plain Campus 150 South Huntington Avenue Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 West Roxbury Campus 1400 VFW Parkway West Roxbury, MA 02132 ( ) Interested in Consideration for this location Price Category (per task order award, may select more than one): ( ) CAT I $2,000-$1,000,000 ( ) CAT II - $1,000,001 to $10,000,000 ( ) CAT III - $10,000,001 to $20,000,000 ( ) CAT IV - $20,000,001 and above ATTACHMENT 2: PROJECT LABOR AGREEMENT (PLA) QUESTIONNAIRE (Please respond to the questions below) 1. Is your company familiar with Project Labor Agreement (PLA) and its use on construction projects? Yes/No Comments: 2. Would your company likely submit a proposal for the VA construction solicitation that requires the use of a PLA? Yes/No Comments: 3. If VA requires a PLA, would your proposed construction cost likely to increase or decrease and what is the likely percentage of cost increase or decrease? Comments: 4. Does the VA requirement to use of a PLA on a construction project restrict competition? Yes/No Comments: 5. Do you expect subcontractor resistance should VA requires the use of a PLA on this construction solicitation? Yes/No Comments: 6. Do you have additional comments regarding the use of a PLA for this project? Comments: --- End of PLA Questionnaire ---
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- Place of Performance
- Address: VISN 1 Medical Centers VA New England Health Care System, USA
- Country: USA
- Country: USA
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