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This solicitation is restricted to U.S. firms only in accordance with 41 U.S.C. 421, 48 C.F.R. Chapter 1, FAR 6.302-4, and DFARS Part 225. Contractors participating in this solicitation must be U.S. f... This solicitation is restricted to U.S. firms only in accordance with 41 U.S.C. 421, 48 C.F.R. Chapter 1, FAR 6.302-4, and DFARS Part 225. Contractors participating in this solicitation must be U.S. firms or U.S. joint ventures. This Pre-solicitation Notice provides the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Europe District (USACE NAU) intent to award two or more Firm-Fixed-Price (FFP) Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Multiple Award Task Order Contracts (MATOC) for the purpose of providing repair, maintenance, and construction services in support of the Israeli Ministry of Defense (IMOD) under the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) agreement with the United States Government. The majority of the work will be Foreign Military Sales (FMF) funded and all Off Shore Procurement (OSP) Restrictions apply. Reference shall be made in the solicitation and each subsequent task order awarded under the contract implementing the U.S. Government policies concerning OSP, including Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 25 and Department of Defense FAR Supplement (DFARS) Part 225. The Contracts will be awarded only to U.S. Firms and paid only in U.S. Dollars ($) pursuant to 22 U.S.C. 2791(c). A waiver of OSP requirements will not be available and accordingly, at least 51% of the dollar value of each task order (exclusive of the cost of bulk materials, and other items that the FAR and DFARS exclude from Buy American considerations) must be of U.S. origin. In addition, notwithstanding the status of Israel as a designated or qualifying country under the World Trade Order, Israeli content will be limited to bulk materials (such as sand, gravel, or other soil material, plant materials, stone, cement or cement products, concrete masonry units or fired brick and other materials exempted under the DFARS or listed in the OSP worksheet, materials described in the Direction on Israeli Content - Other Bulk Items and other items specifically authorized for purchase in Israel either in the contract specifications or by express written authorization of the Contracting Officer). Estimated cost range of this project is not-to-exceed USD $49,500,000.00 for the life of the contract, which will consist of a three year base period and two one-year option periods (if exercised). The Contract will end upon completion of the three year base period and two one-year option periods (if exercised) or upon attainment of the US$49,500,000.00 capacity. The solicitation will result in a MATOC, for Israel “North”, with two or more awards to qualifying offerors. The “North” area of Israel is defined as that area North of Beersheba. All awardees will be given a fair opportunity to compete on each task order unless an exemption applies as outlined in the contract (e.g. sole source). Task Orders will primarily address FMS projects for general construction; concrete/asphalt roads, pavements, and runways; miscellaneous civil work, including drainage structures, sewer systems, sanitation, systems, and water systems; renovations and new construction of buildings or barrack type structures; electrical and mechanical work; general environmental work; and any construction work in support of FMS. Offerors must meet the intent of the FMS requirements which requires only U.S. firms and/or U.S. Joint Ventures in submitting proposals and receiving an award. Award Considerations. All procurements will be conducted in accordance with applicable laws/regulations, including but not limited to, the FAR, DFARS, AFARS, Security Assistance Management Manual (SAMM), UAI, Engineering Regulations, Design Criteria and Standards and Host Nation Technical Requirements and Laws. The minimum task order value is anticipated to be $50,000 and the maximum task order value is anticipated to be $15,000,000; however, task orders may be issued outside these limits in accordance with FAR Clause 52.216-19 Order Limitations and if determined by the Contracting Officer to be within scope of the project. INTERESTED VENDORS: Potential U.S. offerors are encouraged to submit their company name, CAGE and DUNs code, mailing address and telephone, and e-mail address of an English speaking contact no later than Friday, 10 January 2020 to the contract specialist, Mr. Daniel Carnley, at e-mail: Daniel.Carnley@usace.army.mil, and the contracting officer, Ms. Candace Lotomau at email: Candace.C.Lotomau@usace.army.mil. SOLICITATION DISTRUBUTION: All interested United States Prime qualified contractors will receive the solicitation documents via DOD SAFE website https://safe.apps.mil/. ANTICIPATED SOLICITATION RELEASE DATE AND AWARD DATE: The solicitation will be projected to be issued during the January 2020 timeframe. The solicitation will be issued free of charge and available electronically. Paper copies of this solicitation, plans, and specifications will not be provided. It is the Offeror's sole responsibility to ensure they have obtained all solicitation documents and subsequent amendments, if any. The Government intends to have proposals due (30 calendar days after solicitation issuance date) and award the contracts in the Spring 2020 timeframe. Actual dates and times will be identified in the solicitation. Additional details can be found in the solicitation when it is issued. SPECIAL SAM NOTICE: Please take notice that the System for Award Management (SAM, www.sam.gov) 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. All contractors are required 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. In order to eligible for the contract award resulting from this solicitation, Offerors are advised to take immediate action to ensure your SAM entity registration is current and/or will be current at the time of proposal receipt by this contracting office. 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 NOTICE TO OFFERORS: THE GOVERNMENT RESERVES THE RIGHT TO CANCEL THIS SOLICITATION, EITHER BEFORE OR AFTER PROPOSAL OPENING WITH NO OBLIGATION TO THE OFFEROR BY THE GOVERNMENT.