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Sources Sought Announcement INDEFINITE-DELIVERY INDEFINITE-QUANTITY (IDIQ) MULIPLE AWARD TASK ORDER CONTRACT (MATOC) FOR Design-Build (DB) in Romania PURPOSE OF THIS ANNOUNCEMENT: This is a market sur... Sources Sought Announcement INDEFINITE-DELIVERY INDEFINITE-QUANTITY (IDIQ) MULIPLE AWARD TASK ORDER CONTRACT (MATOC) FOR Design-Build (DB) in Romania PURPOSE OF THIS ANNOUNCEMENT: This is a market survey for information and planning purposes. The US Government intends to solicit and acquire services as described within this announcement. The purpose of this announcement is to help determine the interest and capability of potential contractors to perform these services. The US Government intends to use information obtained in response to this announcement to make important acquisition planning decisions including but not limited to: Number of contracts Scope, magnitude, and geographical coverage of resulting contracts (Technical and Geography) This is not a request for proposal, quotation or bid, nor a synopsis of a proposed contract action under FAR SUBPART 5.2 and is not to be construed as a commitment by the US Government, implied or otherwise, to issue a solicitation or award a contract. INFORMATION ABOUT THE SERVICES TO BE PROCURED: USACE Europe District intends to issue a solicitation to provide Design-Build (DB) construction requirements for new facilities, real property repair, and maintenance in support of U.S. defense in the areas identified below. Task Orders may include, but is not limited to: general building renovation, vertical construction, anti-terrorism force protection of new and existing facilities, horizontal construction, and incidental work. Contract awards are anticipated for any work for US Forces and/or Facilities in Romania. There may be Security Requirements for base access associated with this procurement. The most pertinent NAICS code associated with this work is primarily 236220 Commercial and Institutional Building Construction PLACES OF PERFORMANCE / LIST OF SITES: The geographical area covered by this contract includes all of Romania. The Government reserves the right to issue additional contracts in the area of responsibility (Europe). PLANNED SOLICITATION INFORMATION: One or more pre-solicitation announcements will follow this market survey, and the solicitation announcement(s) will follow no sooner than 15 days later. Currently it is estimated that the formal solicitation could occur anytime in December 2021/January 2022. PLANNED CONTRACT INFORMATION: The US Government forecasts the need for multiple projects at the various locations listed above. As a result, the Government intends to issue a target of seven (7) Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contracts for these services. Any resulting task orders will likely be Firm Fixed Price (FFP) in nature. Estimated Value of the Contract: The estimated contract value is not to exceed $65,000,000.00. The anticipated contract duration is a five (5) year base period with no options. The contract may expire after the base period or when capacity is reached, whichever comes first. REQUIREMENTS TO RESPOND TO THIS SOURCES SOUGHT: Prospective Offerors are encouraged to respond to this announcement in order to express interest performing this type of work and describe their capabilities. At a minimum, responses should include: Company name to include physical and mailing address, English speaking Point of contact information including phone and email. CAGE Code and DUNS number and/or a copy of your entity record on the System for Award Management (SAM, www.sam.gov). NOTE: Companies MUST be SAM registered to be eligible for award of any contracts for these services. See special SAM notice below. Statement of Capability (SOC) stating your firm’s skills, experience, and knowledge required to perform the specified type of work. This should include documentation of past experience and competence in performing similar services. The SOC should be no more than six (6) pages in length and should identify the following: Firm’s capability to perform contract(s) of this magnitude, complexity and experience managing multiple projects simultaneously, include: Firm’s capability to execute comparable work performed within the past 5 years Brief description of the project Customer name Timeliness of performance Customer satisfaction Dollar value of the project Firm’s Joint Venture information or Teaming Arrangements Include Cage Code or System for Award Management (SAM) information/registration, if available The anticipated task order limitations for the planned solicitation are between $150,000 - $22,000,000. However, the Contracting Officer reserves the right to request proposals and issue task orders above or below the minimum and maximum amounts. All task orders will be awarded and invoices paid in Euros. Please limit responses to 6 pages. NOTE: IF YOU DO NOT INTEND TO SUBMIT A PROPOSAL FOR THESE PROJECTS WHEN FORMALLY ADVERTISED FOR SOLICITATION, PLEASE DO NOT SUBMIT A RESPONSE TO THIS SOURCES SOUGHT ANNOUNCEMENT. HOW TO SUBMIT RESPONSES: Interested parties may submit responses via electronic upload on this FBO announcement page, or may also be submitted via email to Mr. John Du Bois, Contract Specialist, at john.j.dubois@usace.army.mil and to Mr. Bjorn Hale, Contracting Officer, at bjorn.hale@usace.army.mil . Responses should be in Microsoft Word/Excel compatible files or Adobe Acrobat PDF files. If submitting over email, to ensure your submission is received and processed appropriately, please utilize the following verbiage for the subject of your email “SS RESPONSE: Design Build (DB) in Romania, FIRM NAME HERE” DEADLINE FOR RESPONSES: Responses are due NLT 5 November 2021, 2:00 pm Central European Summer Time (CEST). Late responses may be submitted for consideration via email, however interested parties are advised that acquisition planning decisions will be approved as soon as possible after the stated deadline, and as such the US Government reserves the right to disregard late responses. SPECIAL NOTICE, SYSTEM FOR AWARD MANAGEMENT (SAM, www.sam.gov): In order to eligible for the contract award(s) resulting from any solicitation(s) that follow this announcement, Offerors are advised to take immediate action to ensure their SAM entity registration is current and/or will be current before any proposal deadlines. Any solicitation(s) following this announcement will include the provision FAR 52.204-7 SAM or FAR 52.212-1 Instructions to Offerors--Commercial Items, and the resulting award(s) will include the clause FAR 52.204-13 SAM Maintenance or 52.212-4 Contract Terms and Conditions--Commercial Items. These provisions/clauses require all contractors to register and maintain an active SAM entity registration in order to be eligible for contract awards, as prescribed by the regulation at FAR Subpart 4.11. Please take notice that the SAM has a new entity registration requirement that firms submit an "original, signed notarized letter identifying the authorized Entity Administrator for the entity associated with the Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS) number before the registration will be activated." This applies to all new entity registrations and all entity registration renewals, effective 29 April 2018. Further information behind this new requirement is posted to the General Services Administration's (GSA) announcement page at https://www.gsa.gov/samupdate. Please also refer to Federal Service Desk's (FSD) instructions on how to comply with this new requirement. NOTE: the instructions are different for domestic (U.S. based) and international (not U.S. based) firms. Instructions for domestic entities (located in the U.S. or its outlying areas): https://fsd.gov/fsd-gov/answer.do?sysparm_kbid=d2e67885db0d5f00b3257d321f96194b&sysparm_search=kb0013183. Instructions for international entities (not located in the U.S. or its outlying areas): https://www.fsd.gov/fsd-gov/answer.do?sysparm_kbid=dbf8053adb119344d71272131f961946&sysparm_search=KB0013221 Disclaimer and Important Notes: This notice does not obligate the Government to award a contract. No reimbursement will be made for any cost associated with providing information in response to this Sources Sought or any follow up information. The Government reserves the right to use information provided by respondents for any purpose deemed necessary and legally appropriate. Any organization responding to this should ensure that their response is complete and sufficiently detailed to allow the Government to determine the organization’s qualifications to perform the work. Respondents are advised that the Government is under no obligation to acknowledge receipt of the information received or to provide feedback to respondents with respect to any information submitted. After a review of the responses, a solicitation may be published. However, responses to this notice are not adequate responses to a solicitation. ****SOURCES SOUGHT FOR MARKET RESEARCH PURPOSES ONLY****