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THIS IS A SOURCES SOUGHT ANNOUNCEMENT, A MARKET SURVEY FOR WRITTEN INFORMATION ONLY TO IDENTIFY POTENTIAL OFFERORS FOR THE DESIGN BID BUILD CONSTRUCTION PROJECT, FY22 AWUB145001, WEAPONS GENERATION FA... THIS IS A SOURCES SOUGHT ANNOUNCEMENT, A MARKET SURVEY FOR WRITTEN INFORMATION ONLY TO IDENTIFY POTENTIAL OFFERORS FOR THE DESIGN BID BUILD CONSTRUCTION PROJECT, FY22 AWUB145001, WEAPONS GENERATION FACILITY (WGF), BARKSDALE AIR FORCE BASE (AFB), LA. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS OR AN INVITATION FOR BID. NO CONTRACT WILL BE AWARDED FROM THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. NO REIMBURSEMENT WILL BE MADE FOR ANY COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH PROVIDING INFORMATION IN RESPONSE TO THIS ANNOUNCEMENT OR ANY FOLLOW-UP INFORMATION REQUESTS. No telephone calls will be accepted requesting a bid package or solicitation. There is no bid package or solicitation currently available. In order to protect the procurement integrity of any future procurement that may arise from this announcement, information regarding the technical point of contact will not be given and no appointments for presentations will be made. The purpose of this notice is to gain knowledge of qualified and interested parties in any of the following categories: small business, U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) certified 8(a), SBA certified HUBZone, woman-owned small business (WOSB), veteran-owned small business (VOSB), and service disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB). Potential sources should have current relevant qualifications, experience, personnel, and capability to perform this proposed project. The type of solicitation to be issued will depend upon responses to this sources sought notice. The Government will use the sources sought responses along with other market research to make various determinations regarding the procurement. Project Description: This project will provide the US Air Force with a new mission critical asset located at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana. The asset will be a multi-facility complex positioned near and able to utilize the primary runway. Facilities in the complex include: the main facility, an 84,000-GSF Weapons Generation Facility (WGF); an Entry Control Facility (6250 GSF); a security forces facility (4700 GSF); a Fire Pump Building (2800 GSF); a Diesel Generator Building (1250 GSF); a weather shelter; and, multiple towers to support various specialized security features. The 28-acre complex will be enclosed by an animal control fence and a sensored fence with a rated passive and active vehicle barrier system. Other unique features include a 400-Hz power system in the WGF for equipment support operations. The facilities will be constructed with over 14,000 cubic yards of reinforced concrete and 650-tons of steel, not including piles. The facility foundations will consist of approximately 950 steel H-piles that have an average depth of 70 feet representing over 2400 tons of steel; the WGF main facility alone is supported by approximately 723 piles. The facilities will have a significant amount of custom steel fabrication with large, cambered, steel plate girders, custom personnel and equipment doors, and specialty fabrications for various security features. Several of the facilities are Seismic Risk Category V structures and will require seismically appropriate equipment; equipment support/anchorages; and, all will follow a detailed compliance program. The contractor will be required to maintain tight adherence to design and specifications during construction to maintain the Nuclear Certification the design has achieved. This will include increased administrative requirements related to special and 3rd party inspections, project records, and design adherence. Although the complex area has been cleared of known environmental contaminants and Unexploded Ordinance (UXO), the contractor will still be required to have related UXO screening activities during construction. If due to hidden or deeply buried subsurface anomaly conditions, the UXO screening activity detects an anomaly, UXO clearance will be required. All materials in conjunction with this project have been designated Controlled Unclassified Information – CUI. CUI materials require restricted access, unique markings, enhanced physical safeguards, secure electronic storage, proper document transmission, proper use of eCMS, limits on access to the information, specific qualifying destruction and reporting of CUI incidents. Contractors bidding on this job should be familiar with DOD Instruction 5200.48, Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) and its provisions before bidding on this job. Since this asset will be constructed on a US Air Force installation and has CUI handling requirements, all construction must be performed by U.S. firms using U.S. citizens. Certain aspects of construction will require Contractor personnel to be subjected to a trustworthiness determinations. All Contractor personnel accessing the site will be subject to a 100% ID checks at all gates of entry by BAFB security personnel. Contractor personnel must present a state or federally issued picture identification. Persons not possessing a Department of Defense (DoD) issued ID card or an approved Federal employee ID must have a valid reason to access Barksdale AFB, must undergo a criminal history background screening, and be issued a Barksdale AFB pass. All person(s) operating a vehicle are required to have in their possession at all times a current valid driver license, proof of current vehicle insurance and current vehicle registration. Any resultant contract will be firm-fixed price. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code is 236220 – Commercial and Institutional Building Construction with the annual size standard of $39.5 million. Project Magnitude is between $100,000,000 and $250,000,000. Under the FAR guidelines, the prime contractor must have the capability to perform at least 20 percent of the contract work with its own employees. The anticipated award date is March-April 2023. Industry will be notified of the results of this evaluation and set-aside determination via the pre-solicitation/ synopsis notice. Interested sources are invited to respond to this sources sought announcement. Capability Statements consisting of appropriate documentation will be accepted providing it contains ALL the information required below (items 1-6). Complete submission package shall not exceed 24 pages. The information which must be contained in your response is as follows: 1) Contractor Information: Name and address of company, point of contact with phone number and email address. 2) Type of Business: Identify the company’s business size and socio-economic status (HUBZone, 8(a), SDVOSB, WOSB, etc.) for NAICS Code 236220 applicable to this sources sought. If your firm is claiming HUBZone or 8(a) status, provide a copy of your SBA certification. 3) Bond Capacity: Information must include surety’s name, point of contact, telephone number, email address, and the bonding capacity of at least $200 Million per project, and the maximum aggregate bonding. 4) System for Award Management (SAM): Evidence of registration in the SAM, including Cage Code and Entity Identifier (formerly DUNS Number). 5) Interest: Indicate if a solicitation is issued will your firm/company be submitting a proposal: _____ Yes ______No. 6) Experience Submission Requirements: a. Responders shall submit a minimum of three (3) and a maximum of six (6) Design-Build or Design-Bid-Build projects that are similar in size, scope and complexity to the proposed project description that demonstrates experience as the prime contractor completed in the last 10 years. A minimum of 1 relevant project must be Design-Bid-Build. To be considered relevant, all projects must be 50,000 SF minimum with a contract value of approximately $125,000,000.00. At least one relevant project must demonstrate experience in the following: 1. Deep Pile Foundations (for a minimum of 40,000 SF of area) 2. Continuous Pour Concrete Placement (minimum 180 CU YD placement) 3 High Seismic Region Construction (Seismic Design Category D or greater) 4 Heightened Security Requirements (To be considered heightened security a project must be for DoD or similarly contained installation perimeter, and within a secondary fenced area (I.E. airfield, MUNS, etc.) A construction perimeter fence will not be considered as heightened security. b. It is not necessary that any single project include all four construction experiences specified above, but all four construction capabilities must be demonstrated within the relevant projects submitted. Proposals that include, in a single project, two or more of the experiences may be rated higher. For all experience to be considered relevant, the Offeror must provide a thorough description that can be substantiated through the project records (Past Performance, etc.). Offerors that can demonstrate, within the projects meeting the above minimum relevant requirements and the following additional experience, may also be rated higher: 1. Conventional Steel Fabrication (this excludes PMEB construction) 2. CUI handling experience 3. Multiple Facilities in a single project 4. Construction of a Nuclear Certified design c. Submissions shall contain the following items below (1-6) for each project submitted for consideration. 1. Include Contract Number, if applicable 2. Indicate whether Prime contractor or Subcontractor 3. Contract Value 4. Completion Date 5. Government/Agency point of contact and current telephone number. 6. Project Description. Include a brief description, with sufficient detail, to determine whether this project is of a similar size and scope to the project description in this announcement; and, how the contract referenced relates to the project description herein. A project is defined as a construction project performed under a single task order or contract. For multiple award and indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity type contracts, the contract as a whole shall not be submitted as a project; rather Offerors shall submit the work performed under a task order as a project. The Capabilities Statement for this sources sought is not expected to be a proposal, but rather short statements regarding the company’s ability to demonstrate existing-or-developed expertise and experience in relation to the areas specified herein. Submission of Capabilities statement is not a prerequisite to any potential future offerings, but participation will assist the Government in tailoring requirements to be consistent with industry capabilities. After completing its analysis, the Government will determine whether to limit competition among 8(a), HubZone, SDVOSB, VOSB, WOSB and/or Small Business firms or to proceed with issuing an unrestricted solicitation, inviting full and open competition. Interested parties should respond no later than 9 March 2022, 3:00 pm Eastern Time via email to sheila.i.borges.civ@us.navy.mil and lindsay.e.betteridge.civ@us.navy.mil. The subject line of the email shall read: AWUB1-45001 Weapons Generation Facility Main Facility Construction at Barksdale AFB. Emails shall be no more than 8 MB in size. Responses that do not meet all requirements or are not submitted within the allotted time will not be considered. Respondents will not be notified of the results of the evaluation.