Department of Transportation, United States Coast Guard (USCG), Commanding Officer, USCG Civil Engineering Unit Oakland, 2000 Embarcadero, Suite 200, Oakland, CA, 94606-5000

Z -- INDEFINITE DELIVERY-INDEFINITE QUANTITY MULTI TRADE CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT FOR VARIOUS U. S. COAST GUARDS STATIONS IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SOL DTCG88-00-R-623442 DUE 090700 POC Janice McAroy, Contract Specialist, Phone 510-535-7286, Fax 510-535-7233, Email jmcaroy@d11.uscg.mil -- Jeffery Cross, Supervisory Contract Specialist, Phone 510-535-7236, Fax 510-535-7233, Email WEB: Visit this URL for the latest information about this, http://www.eps.gov/cgi-bin/WebObjects/EPS?ACode=P&ProjID=DTCG88-00-R-623442&LocID=491. E-MAIL: Janice McAroy, jmcaroy@d11.uscg.mil. This procurement is opened to both small and large businesses in accordance with the Small Business Competitiveness Demonstration Program. This is for award of one or two multi-trade contract(s) for construction services in Northern and Southern California. The primary areas of responsibility are Northern and Southern California to include all Coast Guard activities in Group Humboldt Bay, Group San Francisco, Group Los Angeles/Long Beach, and Activity San Diego. The Northern California area will extend northward from Monterey to Humboldt Bay. The Southern California area will extend southward from Monterey to San Diego. Under this procurement, the contractor(s) shall provide all labor, material supplies, transportation, supervision, and all other necessary items to complete assigned work with all plans, drawings, and specifications. Work will be issued by individual delivery orders with scope of work and price negotiated between the parties. The Government has the option to issue unilateral delivery orders. Proposals for delivery orders shall be submitted using the latest R. S. Means Facilities Construction Cost Data (Year 2000 version), for unit price bare cost determination multiplied by the bid price coefficient as described in Section F of the solicitation. The procedure for yearly inflation adjustments is also described in the solicitation. Common trades which may be needed include: carpentry, plumbing, electrical, laborers, power equipment operators, cement/concrete works, asbestos removers, painters and other trades common to the construction industry as identified in the David-Bacon Wage Determination. The contractor will be required to perform multi-discipline construction, repair, and remodeling work at all USCG facilities in Northern and Southern California using these trade workers. The ensuing contract(s) will be awarded to one or more firms for a base year with four option periods. Minimum guaranteed annual amounts for each contract are $25,000, and maximum amounts will be $4,000,000 and $1,000,000 for Northern California and Southern California, respectively. Award will be made under the _Best Value_ source selection provision of Section 15 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and applicable Department of Transportation and U. S. Coast Guard statues, regulations and rules. The source selection will use past performance and experience, and price as selection criteria. This will be described in Section M of the solicitation. Separate proposals will be required for past experience (and experience) and price. Past performance (and experience) and price will be approximately equal in weight during the source selection. Separate proposal packages will also be required if offerors are interested in providing construction for both Northern and Southern California areas. The solicitation can be downloaded from (http://www.eps.gov/) on approximately 7 August 2000. If it does not appear on that date, please check back daily. Due dates for quotes will be not less than 30 days after bid issuance. NO TELEPHONE REQUEST WILL BE ACCEPTED. Our office no longer issues solicitations or amendments in paper form. Instead they may be accessed at the following this websites: (http://www.eps.gov/).. Offerors should register to receive notification of this solicitation. Any amendments issued to this solicitation will be posted solely on this website. ATTENTION: Minority, Women-Owned and Disadvantaged Business Enterprises (DBE_s) The Department of Transportation (DOT), offers working capital financing and bonding assistance for transportation related contracts. DOT_s Bonding Assistance Program (BAP) offers bid, performance and payment bonds on contracts up to $1,000,000. DOT_s Short-Term Lending Program (STLP) offers lines of credit to finance accounts receivable. Maximum line of credit is $500,000.00 with interest at the prime rate. For further information, call (800)532-1169. Internet address: http://osdbuweb.dot.gov. Posted 07/20/00 (D-SN477212). (0202)

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