SOUTHWESTNAVFACENGCOM, 1220 Pacific Highway, San Diego, CA 92132-5187

Y -- THE IDIQ WORK WILL CONSIST OF CONSTRUCTION AND DESIGN-BUILD FOR RENOVATION, ALTERATION, REPAIR, AND ASSOCIATED ARCHITECTURE/ENGINEERING WORK AT VARIOUS LOCATIONS WITHIN THE STATES OF ARIZONA, NEW MEXICO, CALIFORNIA, AND FOR SPECIAL PROGRAMS SUCH AS HOUSING AND NON-APPROPRIATED FUNDED (NAF) IN THE SOL N68711-99-R-6441 DUE 110199 POC Samantha Darella, Contract Specialist (619) 532-3758 WEB: Click here to download a copy of the RFP, http://www.efdsw.navfac.navy.mil/pages/EBS.htm. E-MAIL: Point of Contact, Contract Specialist Samantha Darella, darellass@efdsw.navfac.navy.mil. FINAL NOTICE: This is an 8(a) Competitive Procurement and is limited to only 8(a) certified firms in SBA District's California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Nevada. It consists of one solicitation with the intent to award three or more Indefinite Delivery Indefinite quantity (IDIQ) Construction Contracts using the two phase design build approach in accordance with FAR 36.3 to the responsible proposers whose proposals, conforming to the Request for Proposal (RFP), will be most advantageous to the Government resulting in the Best Value, cost or price and other factors considered. The contracts will be for a base period of one year with three one-year option periods. The Government reserves the right to award fewer than or more than three contracts under this solicitation or to award only one contract covering the seed project identified in the RFP if funds are not available for the minimum guarantee for the additional awards. AWARD MAY BE MADE TO A FIRM OTHER THAN THE ONE SUBMITTING THE LOWER PRICE. OFFERORS ARE ADVISED SELECTION IN PHASE I AND/OR PHASE II MAY BE MADE WITHOUT DISCUSSION OR ANY CONTACT CONCERNING THE PROPOSAL RECEIVED IN PHASE I AND/OR IN PHASE II. THEREFORE, OFFERORS INITIAL PROPOSALS SHOULD CONTAIN THE OFFERORS BEST TERMS FOR PHASE I AND II. The total maximum value for the base term and all options for the aggregate of all IDIQ contracts awarded, as a result of this RFP shall not exceed $150,000,000. The IDIQ work will consist of Design/Build and/or construction for renovation, alteration, repair, and associated architecture/engineering work at various locations within the States of Arizona, New Mexico, California, and for special programs such as Housing and Non-appropriated funded (NAF) in the Sates of Nevada, Oregon, and Washington. Types of facilities may include but not limited to: Administrative and Industrial Facilities, Wholehouse Revitalization, Childcare Centers, Lodges, Recreation/Fitness Centers, Retail Complexes, Warehouses, Housing Offices, Community Centers, and other similar facilities. In support of the design-build strategies, the contractor shall employ the services of an architect/engineering professional experienced in the coordination of multi-discipline architectural/engineering design efforts and conducting business from an established professional business office. All discipline coordination shall be accomplished by the Contractor's architect/engineering team. The government will not coordinate the work for the contractor. Projects assigned to the IDIQ contracts will use the Multiple Award Contract Construction(MACC) approach (formerly referred to as the SOC approach) to scope and price the work. After award of the initial contracts, each awardee shall be provided a fair opportunity to be considered for each task order, except under those circumstances Described in FAR 16.505(b)(2). Award factors will vary depending on the unique requirements for each Task Order and may be competed on the basis of price, best value or technically acceptable, low-price selection procedures.The subsequent task orders may be performance oriented tasks requiring minimal design, may occasionally be complex construction requiring design development for design-build construction, or a combination thereof. 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, and other submittals. The salient requirements of the Task Order will be scoped by the Government/Contractor team in order to develop a mutually agreed upon Statement of Work. The exact location of each task order will be indicated by the Contracting Officer. The awarded task order will be a performanced scoped, firm fixed price task with a specific completion date. Should Any of the IDIQ contractors be unable to competitively secure a task order to meet the minimum guarantee, award factors may be modified in order to ensure each participating contractor is awarded task orders meeting the minimum guarantee. All Contractors will be invited to participate in walk-through -- exploratory scoping investigations, and to subsequently submit their proposals. Firms are required to contact the contracting officer within two days of notification if a firm can not participate in the walk through or submit a proposal on a Task Order. Competition is considered to exist, based on the rule of two. If firms fail to notify the contracting officer within the time frame specified they will not be able to participate on that proposed task order. Additionally, if contractors continue to not notify the contracting officer within the specified timeframe, the Government may not exercise the option to extend the contract for each additional year. A solicitation will be issued on or about 1 October 1999 and will include evaluation factors for phase I and II. Phase I proposals are due 1 November 1999. The evaluation factors for phase I are as follows: FACTOR 1: PAST PERFORMANCE: Subfactor 1.1: Contractor past performance within the past 3 Years (Prime and Major Subcontractors; Subfactor 1.2: Contractors past performance -- Safety and Health within the past five years. FACTOR 2: MANAGEMENT APPROACH; Subfactor 2.1: Experience/Qualifications; Subfactor 2.1.2: Experience & Qualifications of Key Personnel; Subfactor 2.2: Capacity to Accomplish the Work; subfactor 2.2.1 Bonding; subfactor 2.2.2 Organizational Chart & brief description of approach; FACTOR 3: TECHNICAL APPROACH; Subfactor 3.1 Project Work plan/Project Schedule; Subfactor 3.2 Experience with Implementing Recycle, Reuse, and Waste reduction method for prime and subcontractors. The number of offerors proceeding to phase II will be limited to a maximum of eight firms; therefore, only the most highly qualified firms determined by the government will advance to phase II. No pricing information will be accepted for phase I. Offerors advancing to phase II will have approximately 21 days to prepare their technical and price proposals once notified in writing by the government. All criteria and evaluation factors in phase I will flow down to phase II. Source Selection procedures will be used and award may be made to the offeror whose proposal is the most advantageous and offers the best value to the government, price and other factors considered. The evaluation factors for phase II are as follows Factor 4: Project/Technical Management Approach; 4.1: Project Work Plan/Schedule; 4.2: Facility Layout and Appearance; 4.3: System Solutions; 4.4: Waste Management/Construction Waste Management; 4.4.1 Quality, Durability and Energy Efficiency of Proposed Material; 4.4.2 Use of New Materials made from recycled materials; 4.4.3 Recycled materials from demolition process; and FACTOR 5: PRICE for N68711-99-R-6441, seed project, which will be the first task order of the contract. The seed project provides for construction of a new, two story, 595 square meter classroom addition to the existing building 1587 at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twenty-Nine Palms, California. The design cost limitation is $1,470,000.00. Proposals in excess of this amount may not be considered. Successful offerors will receive the following contract awards; Best Value receives the seed project with award 2nd, 3rd, and any additional selected contractor will each receive award with a minimum guarantee of $50,000. Only the selected contractors will be permitted to propose on the task orders. Proposals from other contractors will not be accepted. In accordance with FAR 5.102(a)(7), availability of the solicitation will be available for download free of charge via the Internet World Wide Web at http://www.efdswest.navfac.navy.mil. -- Hard copies (paper sets) of CD-ROM of solicitation will not be provided by the Government. The official plan holders list will be maintained on and can be printed from the website. -- Plan holders lists will not be faxed and will only be available from the website. Registering offerors and plan rooms must provide a complete name, complete mailing address and area code and phone number, offeror type (prime contractor, subcontractor, supplier or plan room), e-mail address and size (large business, small business, small disadvantaged business, women owned small business or other). -- Notification of any changes (amendments) to the solicitation will be made only on the Internet. -- It will be the contractor's responsibility to check the website for any posted changes. -- Electronic bid set (ES) will be available on or about 1 October 1999. For inquires contact Samantha Darella, Contract Specialist at EMAIL ADDRESS: darellass@efdsw.navfac.navy.mil. TELEPHONE REQUESTS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED FOR SOLICTIATION PACAKGES. In accordance with DFAR 252.204-7004 all firms must be registered with the Central Contractor Registration (CCR) prior to any award of a contract. To obtain information on registration offerors may call 1-888-227-2423, or via the Internet at http://ccr.edi.disa.mil. The Standard Industrial Code 1500 is $17 million. Please refer to section 00201 for the date, time, and location of the pre-proposalconference scheduled to take place at 29 Palms. Posted 09/13/99 (W-SN379713). (0256)

Loren Data Corp. http://www.ld.com (SYN# 0140 19990915\Y-0006.SOL)