U. S. Army Engineer District, Savannah, P.O. Box 889, Savannah, Georgia 31402-0889

Y -- IDIQ CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT WITH TIME AND MATERIALS CAPABILITY FOR NORTH CAROLINA & VICINITY SOL DACA21-98-B-0078 POC Warren T. Clarke (Technical Questions) 912-652-5163; Leila Hollis (Contractual Questions) 912-652-5105 WEB: Corps of Engineers, Savannah District, Contracting, http://www.usace.army.mil. E-MAIL: Leila Hollis, leila.hollis@sas02.usace.army.mil. DESCRIPTION OF WORK: This will be indefinite quantity, multi-task construction contract with fixed labor rates for a wide variety of maintenance, repair, and minor new construction tasks. Work will be performed at (or in the vicinity of) North Carolina. This includes primarily various Reserve Centers, Pope Air Force Base, Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, and Fort Bragg. There is potential for tasks supporting other Federal agencies within the State of North Carolina. The contract is to provide expeditious execution of task orders for general construction or remediation of real property type work, which will vary from site to site. The Contracting Officer will issue specific task orders in accordance with the unit price schedule and task order specifications. Contract duration will be an initial 12-month period with options for two additional 12-month periods to be executed at the discretion of the Government. The ordering period will be for 1 year or whenever the Contracting Officer determines the ordering period is over and any dollar amount not consumed by task orders issued during the ordering period may be carried over to the next ordering period. The maximum estimated contract amount for the base period and for each additional 12-month period is $4,500,000. Task orders will not be issued for less than $2,500 or more than $500,000. The Contractor will not be required to accept more than a (cumulative) total of $2,000,000 in task orders at any given time. The Government will obligate to the Contractor a minimum of $90,000 for the base period and $45,000 for each option period as the options are exercised. The Contractor will be required to furnish all plant, labor, materials, permits, equipment, personnel, and services necessary to manage and accomplish designated deliveries which will include surveying the problem, recommending a solution, and remediating the problem in a timely and efficient manner. Task orders will include a variety of trades indulging (but not limited to) biologist, environmentalist,environmental abatement (asbestos and lead-based paint), technicians, agronomist, computer specialist, carpentry, plumbing, road repair, roofing, excavation, demolition, concrete, topographic surveyors, footers, masonry, welding and engineering (general, civil, mechanical, electrical,, structural, fire prevention, and/or safety. Contractors must have a minimum of 3 years related experience and must possess all state and locally required licenses for this type work within the areas specified in the solicitation. Offerors will be required to submit cost and technical proposals as stated in the solicitation. The following technical evaluation criteria will be used for selection. (1) prime contractor's past performance with various sub-items.. (2) prime contractor's experience with various sub-items, (3) prime contractor's management with various sub-items. The acquisition strategy is a two-step sealed bid. Proposals will be received and evaluated on a Go/No Go basis. Those offerors with technically acceptable proposals will be requested to submit bids. A pre-posal conference will be held on October 2, 1998. Estimated cost range of this project is from $10,000,000 to $25,000,000. Network Analysis System will be required. THIS SOLICITATION IS A SMALL BUSINESS SET ASIDE. THIS SOLICITATION WILL BE AVAILABLE ON OR ABOUT SEPTEMBER 17, 1998, ON THE INTERNET AT: http://www.sas.usace.army.mil/ebs/. NOTE: ALL REQUESTS FOR SOLICITATIONS MUST BE MADE IN WRITING AND RECEIVED NOT LATER THAN 8 September 1998. A LIMITED NUMBER OF SOLICITATIONS WILL BE PREPARED AND ISSUED ON A FIRST COME FIRST SERVED BASIS. THE NUMBER OF SOLICITATIONS WILL BE LIMITED TO ONE (1) PER FIRM. STATE AREA CODE, TELEPHONE NUMBER, STREET ADDRESS AND NINE-DIGIT ZIP CODE IN REQUESTS. REQUESTS MAY BE FAXED TO 912-652-5828. Posted 08/28/98 (W-SN243328). (0240)

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