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FBO DAILY ISSUE OF DECEMBER 23, 2012 FBO #4047
MODIFICATION

C -- California Army and Air National Guard (CAARNG & CAANG) Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity Architect and Engineering Services Pre-solicitation

Notice Date

12/21/2012
 

Notice Type

Modification/Amendment
 

NAICS

541310 — Architectural Services
 

Contracting Office

USPFO for California, P.O. Box 8104, San Luis Obispo, CA 93403-8104
 

ZIP Code

93403-8104
 

Solicitation Number

W912LA-13-R-0002
 

Response Due

1/3/2013
 

Archive Date

2/19/2013
 

Point of Contact

AMBER MILTON, 805-594-6382
 

E-Mail Address

USPFO for California
(amber.milton@us.army.mil)
 

Small Business Set-Aside

N/A
 

Description

DESCRIPTION: California Army and Air National Guard (CAARNG & CAANG) Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity Architect and Engineering Services Contract. This notice is posted in its entirety and hereby serves as the pre-solicitation for this project. Point of Contact for this announcement is Staff Sergeant Amber Milton. Submit questions to amber.milton@us.army.mil. The NAICS is 541310 quote mark Architectural Services quote mark and the Standard Industrial Classification is 8711/8712. This announcement is being solicited on an unrestricted basis. CONTRACT INFORMATION: Architect-Engineer (A&E) Services, Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Contract for the California Army and Air National Guard (CAARNG & CAANG). Orders may be awarded for any location within the state of California. The Northern California Area will include the following counties/properties: Alameda, Alpine, Amador, Butte, Calaveras, Colusa, Contra Costa, Del Norte, El Dorado, Glenn, Humboldt, Lake, Lassen, Marin, Mendocino, Modoc, Napa, Nevada, Placer, Plum, Sacramento, San Francisco, San Joaquin, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Shasta, Sierra, Siskiyou, Solano, Sonoma, Stanislaus, Sutter, Tehama, Trinity, Tuolumne, Yolo, Yuba, Moffett Federal Airfield, North Highlands Air National Guard Station, Hayward Air National Guard Station, and Camp Parks Reserve Forces Training Area. The Central California Area will include the following counties/properties: Fresno, Inyo, Kern, Kings, Madera, Mariposa, Merced, Mono, Monterey, San Benito, San Luis Obispo, Tulare, Fresno Air National Guard Station, Camp Roberts, and Camp San Luis Obispo. The Southern California Area will include the following counties/properties: Imperial, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Ventura, Channel Islands Air National Guard Station, San Diego Air National Guard Station, March Air Reserve Base, and Los Alamitos Joint Forces Training Base. Offerors will be able to choose any and all areas that they wish to perform services for. The A/E firm must be capable of responding to and working on multiple task orders concurrently. Selection of A/E firms is not based upon competitive bidding procedures, but rather upon the professional qualifications necessary for the performance of the required services. All A/E firms are cautioned to review the restrictions of FAR 9.5 quote mark Organizational and Consultant Conflicts of Interests quote mark and FAR 36.209 quote mark Construction Contracts with Architect-Engineer Firms quote mark. Any A/E firm that prepares a Request for Proposal for the design of a particular project will be restricted from participating in any contract or task order for the construction of that particular project. This announcement is being solicited on an unrestricted basis. All interested Architect-Engineers are reminded that, in accordance with the provisions of PL 95-507, they will be expected to place subcontracts to the maximum practicable extent consistent with the efficient performance of the contract with small and small disadvantaged firms. Large business firms that intend to do contracting must convey their intent to meet the minimum small business goals on the SF 330, Section C by identifying subcontracting opportunities with small businesses. If selected, the large business offeror will be required to submit a Small Business Subcontracting Plan in accordance with FAR 52.219-9 and DFARS 219.704/705 as a part of the Request for Proposal Package. The subcontracting plan is NOT required with this submittal. SCOPE OF SERVICES: The A&E services may require any combination of the following services: Type A /investigative and concept; Type B design (within the 6% statutory fee limitation); Type C, professional and on-site inspection, and Code and Criteria review. The contract may also call for the preparation of engineering type studies, facility project books, O&M Manuals and/or statements of work. These projects will require multidiscipline engineering services in investigation, design, and inspection. The scope of design services may include, but will not be limited to; architectural, civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, and environmental designs for construction, repair and alteration of multi-use facilities and base utilities/ pavements. Negotiations will be conducted for hourly rates for each discipline, overhead, profit and other cost elements which are particular to the contract. Task Order s will be negotiated and awarded based on the required effort of work, but not until after the contract is awarded. SELECTION CRITERIA: The selection criteria are listed below in descending order of importance (first by major criterion and then by each sub-criterion): 1. Professional qualifications necessary for satisfactory performance of required services in the following disciplines (not intended to be all inclusive): Architectural, Structural Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Fire Protection Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Surveying, Environmental, Geotechnical Engineering, Subsurface Investigation, Drilling and Sampling, and Laboratory Testing. 2. Specialized experience and technical competence in the type of work required. Since this contract is expected to incorporate a wide range of military projects, similar experience will be evaluated. Specific experience with HVAC design, utilities design, paving design, fire detection and suppression system design, roofing design, electrical system design, Petroleum, Oil, and Lubricants (POL) handling and storage facilities, Anti-Terrorism / Force Protection (AT/FP) measures, LEED accreditation, knowledge of the locality, and facility rehabilitation design will be evaluated. Where appropriate, success in prescribing the use of recovered materials and also in achieving waste reduction, pollution prevention, and energy conservation will be evaluated. 3. Capacity to accomplish work in required time. 4. Past Performance on contracts with Government agencies and private industry in terms of cost control, quality of work and compliance with performance schedules. 5. Location of firm in general geographic area of the project with knowledge of the locality of the project; provided, that application of this criterion leaves an appropriate number of qualified firms, given the nature and size of the project. 6. Volume of DoD work in past 12 months. The total yearly limitation on awarded fees shall not exceed $2 million. Although there is no limit on Task Orders, the total awarded yearly cost cannot exceed $2 million. Any resultant contract will be for a base period of one year with option years available to be exercised for up to four additional years. The individual task orders may be of any value within the contract maximum ceiling value (base year and up to four option years) of $10,000,000.00 (Ten Million Dollars). The option year(s) fee limitations are synonymous with those established in the initial ye ar. If no Orders are awarded under the contract, a one-time fee of $5,000 will be paid to the awardees. Multiple contracts are to be awarded from this solicitation with a minimum of ten (10) awardees. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS: Interested Architect-Engineer firms having the capabilities to perform this work are invited to submit three (3) completed and bound paper copy, and one (1) electronic copy (CD) of their SF 330 (Architect-Engineer Qualifications) to Staff Sergeant Amber Milton Contract Administrator, United States Property and Fiscal Office (USPFO) Camp San Luis Obispo, Contracting Office, Building 633, 2303 Napa Ave, Camp San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo, CA, 93405, NOT LATER THAN Thursday, January 3, 2012 1:00 PM (PST). SF 330, 6/2004 edition, must be used, and may be obtained from the Government Printing Office or from the following website: http://www.gsa.gov/portal/forms/type/SF. Include the number and dollar value of the A/E contracts awarded by the Air and Army National Guard and DoD Agencies. Also include copies of any government evaluation reports showing performance on past work, if available. PART I OF THE SF 330 SHALL NOT EXCEED 50 PAGES. The Organizational Chart required in Section D and the Matrix required as Section G, PART I of the SF 330 may be presented on a sheet up to 11 inches by 17 inches. If an 11 inch x17 inch sheet is used, it shall be neatly folded to 8 inches by 11 inches, bound in the SF 330 at the proper location, and counted as one page. Blank sheets/Tabs separating sections within the SF 330 will not count in the page-count maximum for PART I. A maximum of ten (10) projects including prime and consultants will be reviewed in PART I, Section F. Resumes in Section E and example projects in Section F shall not exceed one page each. Indicate in Section C. Proposed Team, if the Prime has worked with the team members in the past five years. When listing projects in PART I, Section F, an Indefinite Delivery Contract (IDC) or IDIQ contract with multiple Task Orders, as an example, is not considered a project. A task order executed under an IDC/IDIQ contract is a project. In Block G-26, along with the name, include the firm with which a person is associated. Completing PART II is required for each branch office of the Prime Firm and any Subcontractors that will have a key role in the proposed contract. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL. Regulation requires that the Selection Board not consider any submittals received after 1:00 p.m. on the closing date specified in this announcement. As required by acquisition regulations, interviews for the purpose of discussing prospective contractors' qualifications for the contracts will be conducted only for those firms considered most highly qualified after submittal review by the Selection Board. Interviews for those firms selected by the Board will be in person and will be scheduled approximately 30-45 days after deadline for receipt of submittal packages. Please note, only those Firms rated highest based upon the six factors stated in the Selection Criteria, as determined by the Board, shall be afforded an interview. All questions shall be in writing to Staff Sergeant Amber Milton, as listed above. Phone calls and personal visits for the purpose of discussing this solicitation with contract/project management and/or engineering personnel are not allowed. To verify receipt of your proposal, you may e-mail raj.cooper@us.army.mil or amber.milton@us.army.mil. All firms awarded a contract must be registered the System for Award Management (SAM) database prior to submitting invoices. For instructions on registering with the SAM, please visit the SAM Web site at https://www.sam.gov/portal/public/SAM/. ALL QUESTIONS MUST BE SUBMITTED BY DECEMBER 17, 2012 IN WRITING ONLY to amber.milton@us.army.mil. No phone questions will be honored. Questions will be answered in writing and posted to a Questions and Answer document at FedBizOpps by December 21, 2012. (https://acquisition.army.mil/asfi/gov_personnel_main.cfm). Contractors are encouraged to review the Q&A documents BEFORE sending questions as they may have already been answered. December 21,2012 MODIFICATIONS TO : California Army and Air National Guard (CAARNG & CAANG) Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity Architect and Engineering Services Contract. Modification 1: January 3, 2012 1:00 PM (PST) MODIFIED TO CORRECT DATE TO January 3, 2013 1:00 PM Modification 2: PART I OF THE SF 330 SHALL NOT EXCEED 50 PAGES MODIFIED TO INCREASE NUMER OF PAGES ON PART I OF THE SF 330 SHALL NOT EXCEED 75 PAGES SEE BELOW FOR QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. AS OF DECEMBER 21, 2012 W912LA-13-R-0002 California National Guard Architectural & Engineering Services Indefinite Delivery / Indefinite Quantity QUESTIONS & ANSWERS NOTE 1: The Deadline for the Submission of Questions was Tuesday, December 17, 2012. All submitted written Questions were answered as of Friday, December 21, 2012. NOTE 2: The Synopsis was originally posted on WWW.FBO.GOV on Wednesday, December 3, 2012. The Synopsis was amended on Wednesday, December 18, 2012 and these amendments were posted on WWW.FBO.GOV. December 19, 2012 Q1. Please clarify whether the programmatic ceiling value is $10M for all efforts or if the ceiling value is $10M per contract? Also, if any incumbent contracts exist, can you direct me to a public award notice or provide the contract number(s)? A1. The ceiling is $10M for each IDIQ contract. Total task orders cannot exceed $10M over the life of the IDIQ with a limit of $2M per year. Q2. Can you confirm if the contract ceiling for W912LA-13-R-0002, California Army and Air National Guard (CAARNG & CAANG) Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity Architect and Engineering Services Contract is $10M total for all awards (over the base year + option years) or is it $10M per award. The pre-solicitation is not clear on this point. A2. The ceiling is $10M for each IDIQ contract. Total task orders cannot exceed $10M over the life of the IDIQ with a limit of $2M per year. Q3. In the announcement you discuss how to consider a single task order in an IDIQ contract as a single project. How should a single contract with multiple buildings be treated? We have a design-build project where three separate DD1391 project numbers were combined into a single contract that has three separate campuses with a total of 18 different buildings. These buildings include administrative, vehicle maintenance, applied instruction, warehouse, armory, and a paraloft. Would this be submitted as a single project sheet since it is one contract, not separate task orders in an IDIQ contract, or would we use separate project sheets for each DD1391 project number, or one project sheet for each building type? Each DD1391 project number is a separate campus with multiple buildings and site features. A3. Treat that as one project. One design-build project. Q4. Regarding the above solicitation (ID/IQ A/E Services-NationalGuard Bureau), are you accepting responses for project-specific contractors? We are an archaeological/historic preservation consulting firm and would like to respond to provide that service. Please advise. A4. See the selection criteria of the synopsis. Q5. Please tell me where the projects (National Guard sites) involved in this IDIQ are located A5. See the synopsis. Q6. Is the $10M maximum ceiling for each award or is it for the total of all potential ten (10) awards. A6. The ceiling is $10M for each IDIQ contract. Total task orders cannot exceed $10M over the life of the IDIQ with a limit of $2M per year. Q7. I'd like to ask for a pre-proposal meeting to encourage Teaming with Subcontractors A7. There will be no pre-proposal meeting. This is an A/E acquisition. Q8. We would like to know who the incumbent contract holders are for the California Army and Air National Guard (CAARNG & CAANG) Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity Architect and Engineering Services Pre-solicitation #W912LA-13-R-0002. A8. URS, Mead & Hunt, Burns & McDonnell, Winzler & Kelly Consulting, Tectonics, Inc., TranSystems Corp, WWCOT DLR Group, Robert Wong, Vasquez Marshall Architects, Harris & Associates, Avocet Environmental, Tmad Taylor & Gaines Engineers, Kennedy-Jenks Consultants, Roesling Nakamure Terada Architects, and Jacobs Engineering Q9. Are you looking an architectural firm with most/all of the capabilities listed under item 1 of the selection criteria, or will engineering firms (mechanical, electrical, plumbing, data) also be considered? A9. The Government seeks to make award(s) to the most highly qualified firm(s). As set forth in the solicitation, FACTOR 1 evaluates quote mark the individual experience of the persons that are to be assigned to the project team. Firms should provide information for one to three individuals from each design discipline that is anticipated to be assigned to key positions on the project team. quote mark Q10. Project Types. Does the CAARNG & CAANG have a description of potential project types anticipated in the contract? For example: Are the majority of the projects remodels or new construction? Are there more service type facilities (maintenance building, hangers, warehouses) or facilities serving personnel? (barracks, food service, offices) A10. No information is presently available regarding specific upcoming Architectural & Engineering projects for which specific task orders are intendedto be issued against the A-E IDIQ contract(s) anticipated tobe awarded in connection with this solicitation. The types of task orders anticipated to be issued are generally stated in the Scope of Services section of the Synopsis. Q11. The synopsis refers to small business goals, but does not state what those goals are. Please explain what the goals are by category. A11. At the present time there are no pre-defined goals (in percentages) for small business subcontracting during the term of the contract. Q12. With a NAICS code of 541310, Architectural Services, does this mean that a licensed architect will be required as Principal-in-Charge? A12. Yes. Q13. Please confirm that this solicitation is due on January 3 of 2013, and not 2012, and that this is a new solicitation and not an old one. A13. This was an error I will Modify the DATE for January 3, 2013, this IS a new solicitation. Q14. For subcontractors listed in Part 1 - Contract-Specific Qualifications, C. Proposed Team, are we required to submit completed SF330s from them and/or just resumes (on Part 1 - Contract-Specific Qualifications, E. Resumes of Key Personnel Proposed For This Contract)? If completed SF330s are required, we are concerned about exceeding the 50-page limit. A14. No, you do not submit 330s on your subcontractors. Q15. Was there a Sought Source prior to this Solicitation being released? A15. No Q16. We understand that there may be interviews if it is difficult to determine the best submittals. What are the chances and when would they occur if you decide to have them. (We have some schedule conflicts coming up) Thanks. A16. Only those Firms rated highest based upon the six factors stated in the Selection Criteria, as determined by the Board, shall be afforded an interview. There will be interviews between the end of January and early February. Q17. Will any of the awardees be small businesses? Will A-E firm business size be a factor in selection? A18. See Solicitation, this announcement is being solicited on an unrestricted basis. Business size will not be an evaluating factor for the SF330. Q19. The number of government evaluation reports showing performance on our past work is substantial (several hundred multi-page evaluations), please confirm that submitting a government issued summary report would be acceptable in place of the individual reports. A19. Yes, that would be acceptable. Q20. Can we modify the layout of the SF330 6/2004 form as long as all the information requested are still shown? For example, I have attached a Section E sample of the form we would like to use. As you can see, all the information requested on the SF330 6/2004 form are still in our modified layout. A20. No, the SF330's need to stay in the original format. Q21. Please confirm that the request for quote mark number and dollar value of the A/E contracts awarded by the Air and Army National Guard and DoD Agencies quote mark is restricted to the volume of DoD work in past 12 months. A21. Yes, See the selection criteria of the synopsis. Q22. Please confirm that we may include resumes beyond the 12 requested disciplines as this list was not intended to be all inclusive. A22. Yes, See the selection criteria of the synopsis. Q21. Please confirm that a cover letter and list of acronyms would not be included in the page count limitation. A21. Cover Letter and List of Acronyms will not be included in the page count. Q22. Please confirm that we may include resumes beyond the 12 requested disciplines as this list was not intended to be all inclusive. A22. Yes, See the selection criteria of the synopsis.
 

Web Link

FBO.gov Permalink
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Place of Performance

Address: USPFO for California 2303 Napa Ave San Luis Obispo CA

Zip Code: 93405
 

Record

SN02954229-W 20121223/121221234338-6eea02ea3a9e4d3856c40c85a1676fa0 (fbodaily.com)
 

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