General Services Administration, Technical Support Branch East, 1500 E. Bannister Road, Kansas City, MO 64131-3088

Z -- MULTIPLE-AWARD CONSTRUCTION MANAGER (CM) INDEFINITE DELIVERY/INDEFINITE QUANTITY (IDIQ) CONTRACT WITHIN IOWA, KANSAS, MISSOURI AND NEBRASKA. SOL 6PMT-E-98-0022 GS0P98GYD0019 DUE 051298 POC Contract Specialist, Susan Johnson, (816) 823-2281, Contracting Officer, Susan Johnson, (816)823-2281 Solicitation GS06P98GYD0019 for Multiple-Award Construction Manager (CM) Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Contract, General Services Administration, 1500 E. Bannister Road, Room 2101, Kansas City, Missouri 64131-3088. Project Control Number RMO98540. Point-of-Contacts, Cy Houston, 816-823-2252, or William F. Greene, III, 816-823-2260. The Contracting Officer is Susan Johnson at 816-823-2281. Request for Proposals (RFP) due on or about May 12, 1998. Time for completion: 365 calendar days after receipt of notice to proceed. No document charge or deposit is required. Request list of those who received RFP no later than ten days before submittals are due. The Government intends to award two (2) CM contracts from this solicitation. Each contract will cover the States of Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, and Nebraska, but will have a primary geographical area. Firms will generally receive work within their primary area, but may receive work in other parts of the four state region. The primary geographical areas are as follows: 1) Kansas City area: includes the Kansas City Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area (SMSA) the city of Columbia, Missouri, and the portion of the State of Missouri west of Columbia, the city of Newton, Iowa, and the portion of the State of Iowa west of Newton, and the entire States of Kansas and Nebraska, 2) St. Louis area: includes the St. Louis Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area (SMSA), the portion of the State of Missouri east of Columbia, and the portion of the State of Iowa east of Newton. An offeror may be considered for both areas, provided it meets the minimum requirement in each area, and it submits a separate package for each area. Projects involve building construction having a cost less than $10,000,000. CM services may include (1) Pre-Design Services (design programming, develop management plan, schedule, budget, studies), (2) Design Phase Services (design review, cost estimates, review schedules, cost control), (3) Procurement Phase Service (preparation of Commerce Business Daily (CBD) announcement, stimulate interest of construction contractors in bidding projects), (4) Construction Phase Services (inspection to assure contract compliance, daily logs, progress reports, write and negotiate change proposals on behalf of the Government), (5) Post Construction Phase Services (converting redlined as-built drawings to CAD drawings), and (6) other related services as required. Typical projects include initial space alterations for tenant agencies, replacing/adding building system components (switchgear, roofs, boilers, chillers, HVAC equipment, and low voltage monitoring & control systems such as fire alarm), and parking lot improvements. The majority of the projects will have estimated construction costs in the range from $50,000 to $2,000,000. Additional similar projects may be added to the contract if mutually acceptable to the Government and the CM. The minimum contract amount to be awarded in the initial contract period (1-year) will be $5,000 per firm/joint venture and a minimum of $5,000 per firm/joint venture for each of the exercised option periods. The maximum amount payable under each contract shall not exceed $1,000,000 per year or any exercised option period. The term of the contract is one year. However, at the option of the Government and if the CM contractor's performance is satisfactory, the contract may be extended for up to four additional one-year (1) periods. The successful CM contractor, including its subsidiaries and affiliates, shall not be eligible for award of a contract for A-E or construction contract services for these projects, nor serve as a subcontractor or consultant to any A-E or construction contractor for these projects. This is a competitive negotiated acquisition. Because of the critical role of the CM, the Government intends to use the greatest value concept in selecting a CM. The greatest value concept is a method of evaluating price and other factors specified in the solicitation, with the goal being to select the proposal that offers the greatest value to the Government in terms of performance and other factors. The objective is to select the proposal that offers the most for the money, not necessarily to select the lowest price. The RFP contains the contract terms, scope of work and the proposal submittal requirements. The RFP will be available about March 31, 1998. Interested parties may fax a request for RFP to Susan Johnson at (816) 823-2273. Proposals shall be received in this office on or about May 12, 1998. Specific date and time shall be specified in the RFP. Only one proposal may be submitted by each offeror for each area. Offerors should submit proposals that are acceptable solely on the basis of the initial submittal. The Government may proceed with award of the contract without further discussion. However, the Government may request additional information from offerors that it considers to have a reasonable chance of being selected for contract award, and may discuss proposals with the offerors. The Government will evaluate allproposals. Technical factors and price will be considered. Technical evaluation factors, in relative order of importance, are (1) Qualifications of organization, (2) Qualifications of Proposed Personnel, and (3) Management Plan. The price factor is not as important as the technical evaluation factors, however, as proposals become more equal in their technical merit, the evaluated cost or price becomes more important. Joint venture or firm/consultant arrangement will be considered and evaluated on a demonstrated interdependency of the members to provide a quality service. The proposed contract is 100 percent set-aside for small business concerns. Applicable SIC Code is 8741. (0086)

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