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FBO DAILY ISSUE OF DECEMBER 16, 2007 FBO #2211
SOLICITATION NOTICE

Y -- Y-Design and Construction Military Operations Urban Terrain, Phase II, Fort Irwin, CA

Notice Date

12/14/2007
 

Notice Type

Solicitation Notice
 

NAICS

237990 — Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction
 

Contracting Office

US Army Corps Of Engineers, Los Angeles, P.O. Box 532711, Los Angeles, CA 90053-2325
 

ZIP Code

90053-2325
 

Solicitation Number

W912PL-08-R-0003
 

Response Due

2/20/2008
 

Archive Date

4/20/2008
 

Point of Contact

lucia.a.carvajal, 213-452-3240
 

E-Mail Address

Email your questions to US Army Corps Of Engineers, Los Angeles
(lucia.a.carvajal@usace.army.mil)
 

Small Business Set-Aside

N/A
 

Description

This is an UNRESTRICTED procurement; all responsible sources may submit an offer. When applicable, Contract Clause No. FAR 52.219-4, entitled, Price Evaluation Preference for HUBZone Small Business Concerns will be applied to this procurement. Design and construct the Phase II of a Non-Standard Military Operations Urban Terrain (MOUT) project. This is the second phase of 4 phases of the new MOUT facility at Fort Irwin Army Base, Fort Irwin, CA. The training facility will provide a realistic t raining environment that incorporates the lessons learned from recent combat deployments and from existing urban warfare training facilities. The facility is required to train Active Army, National Guard, Army Reserve, and other uniformed service members in the techniques of fighting within towns and cities at the brigade level. Phase II consists of approximately 40 buildings. The primary facilities include a prison compound, university building, one and two story business and residence buildings, traini ng roads, and instrumentation connected to Phase I and an After Action Review (AAR)/Range Operations Center (ROC) building. All buildings except the Prison Compound and University Building and AAR/ROC building will only consist of an outside wall structu re with an inside communications room. Proposed roof systems will provide some protection for instrumentation and building contents, but is in no way meant to serve as a completely weather-tight entity. Materials to be considered for construction of the project will be Ecolite pre-cast concrete panels, CMU, Pre-cast concrete panels, and Cast-in-Place concrete. The acquisition method is negotiated procurement. Both a technical proposal and a price proposal will be required. The basis for award is Best Value Tradeoff. This process permits tradeoffs among costs or price and non-cost factors and allows the Government to award to a superior offeror which is not the lowest priced offer but which is significantly more technically advantageous than the lowest offeror so as to justify payment of a higher price. It is the Governments intent to award based on initial offers without discussions. Relative weighting of technical and price is as follows: All evaluation factors other than cost or price, whe n combined, are approximately equal to cost or price. Evaluation factors may consists of the following: Past Performance on projects of similar nature; Specialized Experience; Key Personnel, including AE and Construction members; Project Management Plan a nd Small Business Utilization Opportunities. The aforementioned evaluation factors may not be all inclusive. A site visit is scheduled for 16 January 2008, at 10:00 AM local time at Fort Irwin, CA. Additional information will be provided in Sect ion 00100 of the solicitation. Sub-contracting plans are required for all construction contracts awarded to a large business when the award amount exceeds $1,000,000.00. If the offeror is a large business, the firm will be required to submit a sub- contracting plan as part of their proposal package. The plan shall be prepared in accordance with FAR 52.219-9. Failure to submit an acceptable sub-contracting plan may make the bidder ineligible for award of the contact. To be acceptable, the plan must adequately address the six required statutory elements and provide sufficient information to enable the Contracting Officer to answer affirmatively questions A through H of appendix DD, Part 2, AFARS 19.705. The Los Angeles District subcontracting goals are specific percentages of the contractors total planned subcontract amount. The goals are as follows: 51.2% with small business, 8.8% with small disadvantaged business, 7.3% with woman owned small business, 1.5% with service disabled veteran owned small business and 3.1% with hub zone small business. All interested contractors are reminded that the successful contractor will be expected to place subcontracts to the maximum practicable extent with small and disadvantaged firms in accordance with the provisions of Public Law 95-507. ALL OFFERORS ARE ADVISED THAT THIS PROJECT MAY BE DELAYED, CANCELED OR REVISED AT ANY TIME DURING THE SOLICITATION, SELECTI ON, EVALUATION, NEGOTIATION AND/OR FINAL AWARD PROCESS. ORDERING SOLICITATION: The solicitation will be available for downloading on or about December 14, 2007. Plans and specifications will not be provided in hard paper copy. The solicita tion and all amendments for this acquisition will be posted on a secure Government website known as FedTeDS. Access to the solicitation documents on the FedTeDS website will be via a hyperlink. The hyperlink will be inserted into the notices for th is acquisition posted on both the Army Single Face to Industry (ASFI) website (https://acquisition.army.mil/asfi/) and the FedBizOpps (FBO) website (www.fbo.gov) once the solicitation is issued. The hyper-link will not appear as a website address, bu t as text as follows: Available online via the FedTeDS (Federal Technical Data Solution) website. Viewing/downloading documents from FedTeDS will require prior registration in Central Contractor Registration (www.ccr.gov). If you are a first-time FedTeDS user, you will also be required to register in FedTeDS (www.fedteds.gov) before accessing the solicitation documents. To register, click on the Register with FedTeDS hyperlink, then select the Begin Vendor/Contractor Registration Process optio n. The following information will be required: Central Contractor Registration (CCR) Marketing Partner Identification Number (MPIN); DUNS Number or CAGE Code; Telephone Number; and E-Mail Address. Once registered with FedTeDS, interested parties w ill then be able to utilize the posted hyperlink to log in and access the solicitation documents. Important Note: Solicitation documents can be accessed ONLY by using the hyperlink available on either FBO or ASFI; FedTeDS is not searchable by any other means. Please note that ALL firms who want to access the solicitation both prospective primes and subs will be required to be registered with FedTeDS and therefore must be CCR-registered, have a MPIN, and either a DUNS number or CAGE code. Fo r further information, please click on the links on the FedTeDS homepage to FAQs, the Vendor User Guide, and FedTeDS Help. For additional assistance with the FedTeDS website, please contact the Ogden Electronic Business (EB) Operations Support Team (OS T) at 866-618-5988 (toll free), 801-605-7095, or cscassig@ogden.disa.mil (Subject: FedTeDS Assistance). IT IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE CONTRACTOR TO CHECK FEDTEDS FREQUENTLY FOR ANY AMENDMENTS OR CHANGES TO THE SOLICITATION.
 

Place of Performance

Address: US Army Corps Of Engineers, Los Angeles P.O. Box 532711, Los Angeles CA

Zip Code: 90053-2325

Country: US
 

Record

SN01470369-W 20071216/071214224803 (fbodaily.com)
 

Source

FedBizOpps Link to This Notice
(may not be valid after Archive Date)

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