Inactive Total Small Business Set-Aside (FAR 19.5)

DESCRIPTION: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Louisville District intends to issue an Invitation for Bid (IFB) for The Missile Evaluation Technology Facility and the Strategic Systems Evaluati... DESCRIPTION: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Louisville District intends to issue an Invitation for Bid (IFB) for The Missile Evaluation Technology Facility and the Strategic Systems Evaluation Technology Facility at Navel Strategic Warfare Center (NSWC) Crane, Indiana. The proposed design/bid/build project will be for the construction of two (2) separate facilities located directly next door to each other (approximately 30 feet). The MTEF is new construction of an ~8,000 SF Pre-Engineered Metal Building. The facility has limited interior walls with wide-open space intended for either cubicles or collaborative workspace. This space has 120V power, unsecure comm and secure comm lines in the floor for NIPR/RDT&E networks. The SSEF is new construction of an ~8,000 SF Pre-Engineered Metal Building. The facility has a yellow (secure room/controlled area), limited interior walls with wide-open space intended for either cubicles or collaborative workspace. This space has 120V power, unsecure comm and secure comm lines in the floor for NIPR/RDT&E networks. Contract duration is estimated at 541 calendar days from Contract Award. A pre-bid site visit may be held. Meeting and site visit details will be provided in the solicitation. TYPE OF CONTRACT AND NAICS: This IFB will be for one (1) Firm-Fixed-Price (FFP) contract. The North American Industrial Classification System Code (NAICS) for this effort is 236220 – Commercial and Institutional Building Construction. TYPE OF SET-ASIDE: This acquisition will be advertised as 100% Small Business. SELECTION PROCESS: This is a sealed bid procurement operating under FAR Part 14. The bids will be evaluated based on the lowest price submitted. CONSTRUCTION MAGNITUDE: The magnitude of this construction project is anticipated to be between $10,000,000.00 and $25,000,000.00 in accordance with DFARS 236.204. ANTICIPATED SOLICITATION RELEASE DATE: The Government anticipates releasing the solicitation on or about 17 August 2023. Details regarding the Optional Site Visit will be included in the solicitation. Actual dates and times will be identified in the solicitation. Additional details can be found in the solicitation when it is posted to http://Sam.gov. PLEASE BE SURE TO SEND RESPONSES TO THE INDIVIDUAL LISTED IN THE SOLICITATION AND BE AWARE OF THE DATE FOR SUBMISSION IF YOU WISH TO ATTEND THE SITE VISIT. SOLICITATION WEBSITE: The official solicitation, when posted, will be available free of charge by electronic posting only and may be found at the Contracting Opportunities website, http://Sam.gov. Paper copies of the solicitation will not be issued. Telephone and Fax requests for this solicitation will not be honored. Project files are Portable Document Format (PDF) files and can be viewed, navigated, or printed using Adobe Acrobat Reader. To download the solicitation for this project, contractors are required to register at the Contracting Opportunities website at http://Sam.gov. Amendments, if/when issued, will be posted to the above referenced website for electronic downloading. This will be the only method of distributing amendments prior to closing; therefore, it is the Offerors responsibility to check the website periodically for any amendments to the solicitation. REGISTRATIONS: Offerors shall have and shall maintain an active registration in the following database: System for Award Management (SAM): Offerors shall have and shall maintain an active registration in the SAM database at http://Sam.gov to be eligible for a Government contract award. If the Offeror is a Joint Venture (JV), the JV entity shall have valid SAM registration in the SAM database representing the JV as one business/firm/entity. If at the time of award an Offeror is not actively and successfully registered in the SAM database, the Government reserves the right to award to the next prospective Offeror. Due to the sensitivity of this project, all Solicitation materials will be provided via a secure site by the Government only to offerors that have been vetted and approved via the procedures described below. Potential offerors must submit the following prior to being able to receive solicitation materials: (1) Potential offerors must submit a letter certifying that their company is owned by US citizens, and that all personnel are US Citizens; and (2) Potential offerors must verify that their company is currently certified in the Joint Certification Program (JCP) run by DLIS. Information on this certification program is available at: https://www.dla.mil/HQ/LogisticsOperations/Services/JCP/FAQ/. Potential offerors are encouraged to begin the registration process as early as possible. Please submit your US-Owned Certification Letter as well verification of your JCP certification to Lee Merideth at Ranzel.L.Merideth@usace.army.mil. After submission of your US-Owned Certification Letter and JCP certification, a follow-on vetting by the Government will take place to ensure there is no adverse information on the company that demonstrates a risk to national security or could demonstrate a vulnerability to the project. NOTE: No documentation need be submitted by potential offerors for completion of this step. This final step is to be completed by Government personnel. Please NOTE: Only after completion of this vetting process will potential offerors be granted access to the secure solicitation documents, which are estimated to be released on or around 15 August 2023. Potential offerors will receive an email with confirmation after the firm has been successfully vetted. Also, this process is project specific. Potential offerors that have been previously vetted for other secure projects must still be independently vetted for this project. Therefore, please respond and submit the required documentation if interested.” POINT-OF-CONTACT: The point-of-contact for this procurement is Ranzel Merideth, Contract Specialist, at Ranzel.L.Merideth@usace.army.mil This announcement serves as the Advance Notice for this project. Responses to this synopsis are not required.

Inactive Total Small Business Set-Aside (FAR 19.5)

This is a SOURCES SOUGHT SYNOPSIS. No proposals are being requested or accepted with this synopsis. The purpose of this sources sought synopsis is to determine the availability of qualified contractor... This is a SOURCES SOUGHT SYNOPSIS. No proposals are being requested or accepted with this synopsis. The purpose of this sources sought synopsis is to determine the availability of qualified contractors to perform these services to include Certified Small Businesses, 8(a) contractors, HUBZone Certified Small Business Concerns, Woman Owned Small Businesses, and Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Businesses. If you are interested in this project, please respond appropriately. Title: Construction of Bldg 3696 Missile Technology and Evaluation Facility (MTEF) and Bldg 3658 Strategic Systems Engineering Facility (SSEF). The proposed design/bid/build project will be for the construction of two (2) separate facilities located directly next door to each other (approximately 30 feet). The MTEF is new construction of an ~8,000 SF Pre-Engineered Metal Building. The facility has limited interior walls with wide-open space intended for either cubicles or collaborative workspace. This space has 120V power, unsecure comm and secure comm lines in the floor for NIPR/RDT&E networks. The SSEF is new construction of an ~8,000 SF Pre-Engineered Metal Building. The facility has a yellow (secure room/controlled area), limited interior walls with wide-open space intended for either cubicles or collaborative workspace. This space has 120V power, unsecure comm and secure comm lines in the floor for NIPR/RDT&E networks. Contract duration is estimated at 541 calendar days. The estimated cost range is between $10,000,000 and $25,000,000. NAICS code is 236220. All interested Small Businesses, certified HUBZONE, 8A, Woman-Owned Small Businesses, or Service Disabled Veteran Owned Business contractors should respond to this survey by email 6 March 2023 by 3:00 PM Eastern Time. Responses should include: 1. Identification and verification of the company’s small business status. 2. Contractor’s Unique Entity Identifier(s) (formerly DUNS Number) and CAGE Code(s). 3. Documentation from the firm’s bonding company showing current single and aggregate performance and payment bond limits. 4. If the Louisville District established one consolidated contract rather than two single contracts, does that affect your ability to perform the work? 5. If your response to Question 4 is yes, would you be interested and able to perform the work for either the MTEF or SSEF if they were separate projects (MTEF, SSEF, Both)? 6. Do you believe there may be cost savings in combining the two (2) projects versus constructing them separately? If so, to what approximate degree? 7. Descriptions of Experience – Interested construction firms must provide descriptions of up to (3) three projects with greater than 95% completion by you as the prime contractor within the past seven (7) years which are similar to this project in size and scope. Each project must include the name, title, project role, e-mail address, and telephone number of at least one reference. References may be used to verify project size, scope, dollar value, percentages and quality of performance. Example projects must be of similar size and scope. Projects similar in scope to this project include: Construction of general administrative office and RDT&E space, and/or commercial and industrial warehouses. Renovation is not considered similar in scope. Projects similar in size to this project include: New general administrative office and RDT&E laboratory space, commercial and industrial warehouses having total square footage of approximately 7,500 SF Note: An offeror demonstrating the ability to perform construction of general administrative office and commercial or industrial warehouses of 6,000 SF or greater will be understood to be capable of performing at least one of the individual projects. c. Based on the information above, for each project submitted, include: Current percentage of construction complete and the date when it was or will be completed. Scope of the project. Size of the project. The dollar value of the construction contract and whether it was design-bid build or design-build. The portion and percentage of the contract cost, excluding cost of materials that was self-performed as physical vertical and horizontal construction by construction trade. Describe the work your company self-performed Provide 2 references 8. Small Businesses are reminded under FAR 52.219-14, Limitations on Subcontracting; they must perform at least 15% of the cost of the contract, not including the cost of materials, with the firm’s own employees for general construction-type procurement. Include the percentage of work that will be self-performed on this project, and how it will be accomplished. NOTE: Total submittal package shall be no longer than 10 pages. Please only include a narrative of the requested information; additional information will not be reviewed. Please include responses to the questions as well. Interested Offerors shall respond to this Sources Sought Synopsis no later than 06 March 2023 by 3:00 PM Eastern time. ALL RESPONSES MUST BE EMAILED to Donavon Waterbury, Contract Specialist, at: Donavon.J.Waterbury@usace.army.mil. This Sources Sought Synopsis is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government, nor will the Government pay for the information solicited. This is NOT a Request for Proposal. Responses to this sources sought notice will be used by the Government to make appropriate acquisition decisions. All interested sources must respond to future solicitation announcements separately from responses to this market survey. ************************************************************************************* All contractors must be registered in the System for Award Management (www.SAM.gov) to do work with the government. An active SAM registration isn't required to submit on this market survey. Those not currently registered can obtain registration by going to the website http://www.SAM.gov and are highly encouraged to begin the registration process. The process can usually be completed from 24 to 48 hours after submission. Contractors will need to obtain a Unique Entity Identifier (formerly DUNS number) for processing their registration. If you do not already have a Unique Entity Identifier, one can be obtained from http://www.SAM.gov. Refer to www.SAM.gov for information formerly found in CCR, EPLS, ORCA and FedReg. ALERT: You must submit a notarized letter appointing the authorized Entity Administrator before your registration will be activated. This requirement now applies to both new and existing entities. Effective 29 April 2018, the notarized letter process is now mandatory on all CURRENT registrants at SAM who have a requirement to update data on their SAM record. The notarized letter is mandatory and is required before the GSA Federal Service Desk (FSD) will activate the entity's registration. Effective 29 June 2018, vendors creating or updating their registration can have their registration activated prior to the approval of the required notarized letter. However, the signed copy of the notarized letter must be sent to the GSA Federal Service Desk (FSD) within 30 days of activation or the vendor risks no longer being active in SAM. PLEASE NOTE: SAM is completely free of charge for both registrants and users. An active SAM registration is not required to submit on the market survey.