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Y -- NEW CONSTRUCTION, ALTERATIONS, RENOVATIONS, MAINTENANCE, REPAIRS, DEMOLITION AND DESIGN BUILD PROJECTS IN THE NORTHERN DIVISION 10 STATES AREA: MULTIPLE AWARD CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT (MACC) SOL N62472-00-R-0800 DUE 051700 POC Al Randazzo, Contract Specialist, 610-595-0623 This is a Modification to the Procurement Notice Posted to the CBDNet. This is now a Procurement Notice: This procurement is UNRESTRICTED. It is the Governments intention to award up to four (4) separate contracts, encompassing a five (5) year performance period. The scope of the work shall include new construction, alterations, renovations, maintenance, repairs, demolition and including the ability to do design build projects. Separate Task Orders will be issued for each project. The Government reserves the right to award up to four contracts under this solicitation or to award only one contract covering only the seed project identified under the solicitation. The solicitation will contain only one (1) seed project; Casting Pit Modernization project at the Naval Business Center, Philadelphia, PA. This project will be fully evaluated by the Source Selection Team on the stated technical evaluation factors. A Bid Guarantee in the amount of 20% of the bid amount shall be submitted with the proposal. The bid guarantee will remain in full force and effect until the first delivery order is issued under each separate contract. The seed project will also be evaluated as to price reasonableness. It is the governments intention to first select up to four (4) successful offerors for contract award and to then determine which of the up to four (4) selected offerors will receive the seed project. To select the up to four (4) successful offerors for contract award, the government will base the evaluation on the total cost proposed for the seed project and other non-price factors. Up to four (4) firms offering the proposals considered most advantageous to the government, will be selected to receive the MACC contracts. After the selection of up to four (4) firms that will receive the MACC contract awards, the government will evaluate the individual cost proposal submitted for the seed project. Only cost proposals received from the up to four (4) contractors selected for MACC awards will be evaluated at this time. Award ofCasting Pit Modernization project may be made to low offeror or to the offeror considered to be the best value to the Government for this project considering all aspects of the RFP. Each of the up to four (4) awardees that do not receive award of the seed project will receive a minimum guarantee of $5000.00 to be reached over the contract performance period of sixty months. The government reserves the right to award additional Task Orders to other than the low bidder in order to ensure that each participating contractor is awarded task orders to meet the minimum contract guarantees. Subsequent Task Orders will be competed only among the up to four successful contractors. Award of each subsequent Task Order may be based on either Best Value to the Government or low price. There is no set maximum amount to be awarded under each of the up to four (4) contracts awarded other than that the total amount for all task orders issued during the five (5) year term, regardless of the number of contracts awarded, will not exceed the amount of $100 million. The work contemplated under this procurement encompasses new construction, maintenance, repair alterations, demolition and design build of Navy buildings and structures. The work will be concentrated to, but not limited to Northern Division's 10 state area which includes Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Vermont, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware. The seed project, "Casting Pit Modernization, Building #20, Naval Business Center, Philadelphia, PA" is for the construction of two (2) new casting pits, retrofit two (2) existing casting pits, pile foundation, industrial ventilation, reverberatory furnace stack with pollution control, glazing replacement, electrical alterations, asbestos removal and demolition. After contract award and prior to the notice to proceed the contractor shall be required to obtain a confidential facility security clearance. In addition, all individuals on the work site must possess or obtain a DOD security clearance. Security clearance may take up to six (6) months to procure. The estimated price range for the seed project is more than $10 million. No design service is required for the seed projects. Source Selection procedures will be utilized for this procurement. Up to four (4) separate contracts may be awarded to the responsible offerors whose proposals, confirming to this Request for Proposals (RFP), are considered to be the most advantageous to the Government as a result of Best Value evaluation, price and other factors considered. Offerors will be required to respond to technical/management factors including past performance. The estimated date that the Request for Proposal package will be available is 15 April 2000 and the estimated receipt of proposals date is 2:00 p.m. on 17 May 2000 at Northern Division, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, 10 Industrial Highway, MS 82, Tinicum Industrial Park, Lester, PA 19113-2090. Future task orders under the contract will be issued for new construction, maintenance, repair alterations, demolition and design build of Navy buildings and structures at various locations. The anticipated range for each task order will generally be between $1M and $20M. Participation in the pre-proposal conference or site visits for future task orders will be the responsibility of the offerors and are not directly reimbursable by the Government. Failure to submit proposals on future task orders my result in the Government not placing future orders on that contract. Task orders may require multi-disciplined design services in all aspects of structural construction for new and renovation projects. All key professional disciplines shall be registered. THIS SOLICITATION IS BEING ISSUED ON AN UNRESTRICTED BASIS INVITING FULL AND OPEN COMPETITION. The SIC (Standard Industry Code) for the seed projects is 1541 and the Small Business Size Standard is $17M. In accordance with FAR 5.102(a)(7), availability of the solicitation will be limited to electronic medium. The Request for Proposal package will NOT be directly provided in a paper hard copy format. The address for downloading this solicitation from the Internet is: http://www.efdnorth.navfac.navy.mil Downloading from the Internet is free of charge. All prospective offerors should register on the Northern Division Internet website (www.efdnorth.navfac.navy.mil) for this project under the "Solicitation Registeration Block" by clicking on "Contract and Bid Opening Information" to the left of the screen, click on "Contract Information", click on "Planned Solicitations", click on the Contract Number you are interested in, Scroll down to "Solicitation Registration", Input your company's information, then click on "Register Contractor", your firm should now be listed on the planholder's list. So when the Request for Proposal package becomes available your company will receive a e-mail letting you know that you can now download the RFP package from the Internet. An official Planholders list will be maintained on-line and can be printed from the web site. Planholders lists will not be faxed. Recording companies and Blueprint companies are also required to register. Notification of any changes to this solicitation (Amendments) shall be made only on the Internet. It is therefore the contractor's responsibility to check the internet site listed below daily for any posted changes to the solicitations plans and specifications. Per the Debt Collections Improvement Act of 1996, The Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFAR) has been amended to require all contractors to register in the Department of Defense (DOD) Central Contractor Registration (CCR) Database. Be advised, failure to register in the CCR makes an offeror ineligible for award of DOD contracts. Information regarding this registration may be obtained by accessing our web site at http:/www.efdnorth.navfac.navy.mil or by referring to DFARS Subpart 204.73. For technical questions concerning this project, please fax to Al Randazzo at (610) 595-0644. No other changes at this time. Posted 04/06/00 (W-SN442088). (0097)

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