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Z -- MAINTENANCE, REPAIR AND ALTERATIONS OF REAL PROPERTY AT THE NAVICP, MECHANICSBURG, PA SOL N62472-98-B-0820 DUE 073197 POC Judith A Mercede, Contract Specialist, 610-595-0635. This is a Pre-Solicitation Notice: This project shall include all maintenance, repair, alteration, and construction services for buildings and structures and related systems and equipment at the Naval Inventory Control Point (NAVICP), Mechanicsburg, PA and surrounding Naval and Marine Corps Reserve Centers. A MARC (Multiple Award Regional Contract) solicitation will be issued in an effort to acquire the performance of varing maintenance- construction requirements at each of the aforementioned activities that will be necessary in support of various facilities and buildings. One solicitation encompassing the work requirements for all areas will be issued. This procurement will result in the award of up to three (3) Indefinite Delivery/ Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Maintenance-Construction contracts. Separate contracts will be awarded to the responsible bidders whose bids conform to the IFB (Invitation for Bids). Each contract will be for a Base one-year performance period plus up to twenty-four months of option provisions. The solicitation will incorporate an initial or seed project for award. A description and requirements of this seed project and the estimated cost range will be identified in the subsequent synopsis and solicitation package. One firm will be selected for the award of the seed project, the other two will be awarded contracts with guarantees of $50,000.00 over the three years of contract performance. The minimum guarantee will be met when the seed project is awarded under IFB N62472-98-B-0820, for the first contract. The second, N62472-98-B-0821, and possibility a third, N62472-98-B-0822, contract, will be awarded at the same time with the specified minimum guarantee. The Government reserves the right to award one contract covering only the initial or seed project identified in the IFB. All contractors awarded a contract, including the contractor who receives award for the seed project, will competitively quote on the subsequent task orders. Subsequent projects may be non-complex performance oriented tasks requiring minimal design. They will be scoped by the Government/Contractor team and may not have traditional plans and specifications but may include sketches, and requests for catalog cuts or other submittals. The salient requirements of the task orders may be scoped by the Government/Contractor team in order to develop a mutually agreed upon Statement of Work. Award evaluation factors for indidual task orders will consider Past Performance on eariler tasks placed as Task Orders under the MARC contract, or award may may be based on price only. The awarded task order may be a performance scoped, firm fixed price task, with a specific completion date. Since it is anticipated that the first contractor who is awarded the seed project will meet the minimum amount of their contract, if the second thru possibly the third contractors are unable to competitively secure a task order to meet the minimum guarantee, the Government reserves the right to unilaterally issue a Task Order. All three contractors will be required to participate in all site walk throughs and submit quotes for the intended task order. Failure to participate responsibly in walk throughs and submit quotes on task orders may result in the Government not exercising the option to extend the contract. Only those firms awarded contracts will be permitted to quote on th task orders. Quotes from other contractors will not be accepted. A minimum of two quotes will satisfy the competitive requirements for a task order and preclude the necessity of soliciting for a replacement contractor if for any reason one of the contracts is terminated or one of the bidders is not able to participate in the process. Failure to participate responsibly in the task order process may result in forfeiture of the minimum guarantee amount. The maximum value of this contract will be $15M which will be equally divided among the number of contract awardees. A Bid Guarantee in the amount of 20% of $5,000,000.00, the maximum contract amount for each of the three contracts,in effect through the full term of the contracts and applicable to each awarded task orders will be required. Prospective bidders are advised that after bid opening but prior to award they will be required to submit specific specialized experience information pertaining to demonstration of their ability to meet the minimum qualifications, including their subcontractors and/or their employees. THIS SOLICITATION IS HEREBY BEING ISSUED ON AN "UNRESTRICTED' BASIS INVITING FULL AND OPEN COMPETITION. DFAR Clause 252.219-7008-Notice of Evaluation Preference for Small Disadvantaged Business Concerns-Construction Acquisitions-Test Program (APR 1996) will be incorporated into the solicitation, and bids will be subject to the evaluation criteria set forth therein. A Small, Small Disadvantaged and Women-Owned Small Business Subcontracting Plan pursuant to FAR Clause 52.219-9 (Aug 1996) will be required to be submitted by all large businesses being considered for contract award. The SIC (Standard Industry Code) is 1541 and the Small Business Size Standard is $17M. The estimated issue date of the solicitation is 27 June 1997 and the estimated bid opening date is 2:00 p.m. on 31 July 1997 at Northern Division, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, 10 Industrial Highway, MS 82, Tinicum Industrial Park, Lester, PA 19113-2090. Bidders interested in obtaining Plans and Specification for this project must submit their request on their company letterhead, stating if you are bidding as a prime contractor, sub-contractor/supplier along with a business check, cashier check, money order, Visa or Mastercharge (NO FAXED REQUESTS WILL BE ACCEPTED) to DEFENSE AUTOMATED PRINTING SERVICE, PHILADELPHIA NAVAL BUSINESS CENTER, BLDG 77-L, PHILADELPHIA, PA 19112-5094. The amount for receipt of plans and specification will be established in a subsequent synopsis or may be obtained from the printing service office. Each check must be made payable to the U.S. TREASURY and annotated with the applicable solicitation number, N62472-98-B-0820. Two sets of plans and specification will be made available to those contractors who have tendered payment. If the contract solicitation number (N62472-98-B-0820) is not annotated as required or check is not made payable to the U.S. TREASURY, your check will be returned unprocessed. (No PERSONAL CHECKS WILL BE ACCEPTED) No plans and specification will be issued until proper payment has been received. If you would like further information on the mailing of this solicitation package via expedited courier service, please contact Ms. Donna Szlener at (215) 897-6551. Technical inquiries pertaining to this solicitation are to be submitted in writing by faxed to Mrs. J.A. Mercede, Code 02C, at (610) 595-0644. (0156)

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