SOLICITATION NOTICE
Y -- Construction of Veterans Affairs Electrical Systems Upgrade, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Atlanta, GA
- Notice Date
- 5/9/2008
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 236220
— Commercial and Institutional Building Construction
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Army, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, US Army Engineer District, Mobile, US Army Engineer District, Mobile, P. O. Box 2288, 109 Saint Joseph Street (zip 36602), Mobile, AL 36628-0001
- ZIP Code
- 36628-0001
- Solicitation Number
- W91278-08-R-0056
- Response Due
- 7/2/2008
- Point of Contact
- Loretta L Tanner, 251 441-6510
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Scope of the project provides for upgrading the existing normal and essential electrical infrastructure in the main hospital, ambulatory care, nursing home, clinical addition and parking lots. Construct new electrical Penthouse on 2nd floor of the main hospital, install new normal power main distribution switchboards, connect to existing Georgia Power ring bus. Also includes installing two new 1750 KW standby generators with weatherproof enclosures fuel tanks, paralleling switchgear and other associated items of work. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this project is 236220. The solicitation will be available for download on 2 June 2008. The estimated cost of this project is between $10,000,000 and $25,000,000. The contracting officer is Gene L. Curtis. Note No. 1: All prospective contractors and their subcontractors and suppliers must be registered in Federal Business Opportunities (FedBizOpps) before they will be allowed to download solicitation information. Contractor must be registered in the DoD Central Contractor Registration (CCR) prior to award of this contract. Solicitation documents, plans and specifications will only be available via FedBizOpps. Registration for plans and specifications should be made via FedBizOpps Internet Homepage. If you are not registered, the United States government is not responsible for providing you with notifications of any changes to this solicitation. The solicitation will be available only as a direct download. This solicitation will not be issued on CD-ROM. Neither telephonic, mailed, nor fax requests will be accepted. Registration should be completed one week prior to the issue date. It is therefore the Contractors responsibility to monitor the website daily for the solicitation to be posted, and for any posted changes or amendments to this solicitation. The plans and specifications and all notifications of changes to this solicitation shall only be made through this posting and modifications hereto. Plans and specifications will not be provided in a printed-paper format; however, the Government reserves the right to revert to paper medium when it is determined to be in the Government's best interest. NOTE: This solicitation is in.pdf format and requires Adobe Acrobat Reader. Adobe Acrobat Reader may be downloaded free of charge at http://tsn.wes.army.mil/ComSoftware.asp. Note No. 2: All bid forms, bid bonds, and other normal documents required for the bid submittal, including amendments to the bid submittal, shall be in paper medium. Electronic medium for the bid submittal documents will not be allowed. Note No. 3: Critical path method (network analysis system) is required. Note No. 4: For this job, a small business is defined as having average annual receipts of less than $31,000,000 for the past three years. Note No. 5: It is anticipated that this solicitation will not have bid options. However, optional bid items may be added if it is determined to be in the Governments best interest. Note No. 6: All advertisements of Mobile District projects will be through the Federal Business Opportunities (FedBizOpps). Detailed information on this and other Mobile District Projects (Ordering Solicitations, Points of Contact, Synopsis of Work, etc.) are available on the Internet at: https://www.fbo.gov and https://ebs.swf.usace.army.mil/ebs/AdvertisedSolicitations.cfm. Address questions concerning downloading of plans/specifications to Sonya King at phone number 251-690-2537. Note No. 7: A pre-proposal conference / site visit will be held at the Atlanta VA Medical Clinic, 1670 Clairmont Road, Decatur, Georgia 30033 on 10 June 2008 at 10:00 a.m. (Eastern Time). The purpose of the conference is to familiarize the bidders with the scope of work, address bidders questions concerning the project, participate in a site visit to become familiar with the existing site conditions, and familiarize the bidders with the PPTO process. Attendance at the conference is strongly recommended. Minutes of the pre-proposal conference will be prepared by the Government and placed on the internet at https://www.fbo.gov and https://ebs.swf.usace.army.mil/ebs/AdvertisedSolicitations.cfm. All parties planning to attend should provide the following information to: Point of Contact is the Resident Engineer, Mr. J. Tom Dickens, R.E., phone: (404) 469-5987; e-mail: J.T.Dickens@usace.army.mil by noon, 6 June 2008: a. Name of firm with complete mailing address. b. Name, title, and phone number of each representative. c. Attendees will be required to provide a valid drivers license, proof of insurance, and vehicle registration to gain access to the installation for the site visit and conference. Request for attendance received after 6 June 2008 will not be accepted. Offerors should refer to Section 00100 Contract Clause 952.000-4133, PRE-PROPOSAL CONFERENCE, in the solicitation for details. Due to security requirements and limited field staff available for construction Contractor site visits, this scheduled site visit will be the only one offered. Individual requests for site visits will not be granted. Offerors should visit the site and take such other steps as may be reasonably necessary to ascertain the nature and location of the work, and the general and local conditions which can affect the work or the cost thereof. Failure to do so shall not relieve offerors from responsibility for estimating properly the difficulty or cost of successfully performing the work. The Government shall assume no responsibility for any understanding or representations concerning conditions made by any of its officers or agents prior to the execution of the contract, unless included in the Request For Proposals, the specifications, or related documents. In this regard, Offerors should note Contract Clause FAR 52.236-3 Site Investigation and Conditions Affecting the Work. Note No. 8: The request for information (RFI) process for bidder inquiries during the advertisement period is contained in the RFP solicitation package available exclusively from FedBizOpps. Other forms of communicating RFIs to the government will not be honored. The government will try to respond to all questions. However, responses may not be furnished to all questions and particularly those received late in the advertisement period (0-10 days prior to bid opening.)
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- Place of Performance
- Address: US Army Engineer District, Mobile P. O. Box 2288, 109 Saint Joseph Street (zip 36602) Mobile AL
- Zip Code: 36628-0001
- Zip Code: 36628-0001
- Record
- SN01570161-W 20080511/080509215741-2a5dbaad06a801d4c4ae4671e834c2b4 (fbodaily.com)
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