Inactive 8(a) Set-Aside (FAR 19.8)

THIS PROJECT IS ADVERTISED UNDER SECTION 8(a) OF THE SMALL BUSINESS ACT (15 U.S.C. 637 (a)) UTILIZING FAR PART 15 SOURCE SELECTION PROCEDURES THE NORTH AMERICAN INDUSTRY CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM (NAICS) ... THIS PROJECT IS ADVERTISED UNDER SECTION 8(a) OF THE SMALL BUSINESS ACT (15 U.S.C. 637 (a)) UTILIZING FAR PART 15 SOURCE SELECTION PROCEDURES THE NORTH AMERICAN INDUSTRY CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM (NAICS) CODE FOR THIS PROJECT IS 236220. DESCRIPTION OF WORK: Replacing the brick veneer building envelope on portions of the Noble Training Facility (NTF) and repairing and repaving the NTF parking areas and roadways and completing additional concrete work to include a vehicle gate sensor. ESTIMATED COST RANGE OF PROJECT: $ 5,000,000.00 to $10,000,000.00 Note No. 1: All prospective contractors and their subcontractors and suppliers must be registered in beta.sam.gov before they will be allowed to download solicitation information. Contractors must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) at https://www.sam.gov/portal/public/SAM/ prior to award of this contract. Solicitation documents, plans and specifications will only be available via beta.sam.gov. Registration for plans and specifications should be made via beta.sam.gov. If you are not registered, the United States Government is not responsible for providing you with notifications of any changes to this solicitation. The solicitation will be available only as a direct download. This solicitation will not be issued on CD-ROM. Neither telephonic, mailed, nor fax requests will be accepted. Registration should be completed one week prior to the issue date. It is therefore the Contractor’s responsibility to monitor the website daily for the solicitation to be posted, and for any posted changes or amendments to this solicitation. The plans and specifications and all notifications of changes to this solicitation shall only be made through this posting and modifications hereto. Plans and specifications will not be provided in a printed-paper format; however, the Government reserves the right to revert to paper medium when it is determined to be in the Government's best interest. NOTE: This solicitation is in .pdf format and requires Adobe Acrobat Reader. Adobe Acrobat Reader may be downloaded free of charge at http://www.adobe.com/products/reader. Note No. 2: All bid forms, bid bonds, and other normal documents required for the bid submittal, including amendments to the bid submittal, shall be electronic format with the proposal. Note No. 3: Critical path method (network analysis system) is not required. Note No. 4: For this job, a small business is defined as having average annual receipts of less than $39,500,000 for the past three years. Note No. 5: This solicitation includes bid options which may not be awarded. Note No. 6: All advertisements of Mobile District projects will be through beta.sam.gov. Detailed information on this and other Mobile District Projects (Ordering Solicitations, Points of Contact, Synopsis of Work, etc.) are available on the Internet at: https://www.beta.sam.gov. Address questions concerning downloading of plans/specifications to the Contract Specialist indicated above. Note No. 7: Site Visit information will be posted with the solicitation. Note No. 8: THIS IS A COMPETITIVE 8 (A) SET-ASIDE This procurement is a Competitive 8(a) Set-Aside as established by Section 8 (a) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 637(a)). Only those firms meeting the Small Business Administration's (SBA) criterion and have previously been certified by the SBA as an 8(a) Contractor, are eligible to compete for this procurement. Before a Participant may be awarded either a sole source or competitive 8(a) contract, SBA must determine that the Participant is eligible for award. Eligibility is based on 8(a) BD program criteria, including whether the Participant has a bona fide place of business in the applicable geographic area if the procurement is for construction. SBA must approve the bona fide place of business prior to award. Note No. 9: The request for information (RFI) process for bidder inquiries during the advertisement period will be through the ProjNet internet-based system, and specifics will be contained in the RFP solicitation package available exclusively from beta.sam.gov. Other forms of communicating RFIs to the Government will not be honored. The Government will try to respond to all questions. However, responses may not be furnished to all questions and particularly those received late in the advertisement period (0-10 days prior to bid opening.) -- END –