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DESCRIPTION The Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Construction and Facilities Management (CFM) is looking for firms that are classified under one or more of the following SBA programs: 8(a) HUB... DESCRIPTION The Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Construction and Facilities Management (CFM) is looking for firms that are classified under one or more of the following SBA programs: 8(a) HUBZone, SDB, WOSB, SDVOSB, and/or VOSB. The firm must be a General Construction Firm with an approved NAICS Code 236220. Small Business Size Standard of $39.5 million. A bid bond as well as performance and payment bond will be required. The sources sought is for a Design-Bid-Build Contract. The project is for the renovation of the existing 8,000 square feet boiler plant (Building 14) and construction of a 2,087 square feet addition. Bldg 14 will house three new boilers and the addition will include boiler plant support space and generator. The intent of this project is to provide a new fully functional medical center boiler plant and to replace existing underground portion of the high-pressure steam distribution and pumped condensate return system. The new boiler plant will occupy a refurbished Bldg 14. Bldg 14 will be expanded with a new addition to house a new 400KW emergency generator, electrical equipment room, control room and personnel facilities. Site modifications will be required to make the new boiler plant, a mission critical facility, comply with the VA Physical Security Design Manual for Mission Critical Facilities. The estimated magnitude for this project is between ten million ($10,000,000) and twenty million ($20,000,000) dollars. At this time, no solicitation exists; therefore, do not request a solicitation. Small Business Contractors and vendors having the skills and capabilities necessary to perform the stated requirements are invited to provide information to contribute to this market survey/sources sought. Responses should include the following information: 1. Company Name 2. Address 3. Point of Contact 4. Phone Number and email address 5. DUNS 6. Business size determination and qualifying business status 7. Certification of Small business status 8. Available Bonding capacity 9. Construction experience of similar projects in size and complexity. Respondents are requested to submit a Capability Statement that exhibits clear and convincing evidence of your firm s capabilities and experience to perform the above described tasks. The capability statement shall not exceed five (5) pages. Please provide your responses by email (ONLY) by October 3, 2019 to Susan Lam-Sinclair, Contracting Officer, email address, susan.lam-sinclair@va.gov. This Sources sought notice is for market research purposes in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 10. It does NOT constitute a solicitation and is not be considered as a commitment by the Government. All firms responding to this Sources sought notice are advised that their response to this notice is NOT a request that will be considered for contract award. All interested parties will be required to respond to the resultant solicitation separately from their response to this Sources sought. Small business concerns failing to respond to this add will not be precluded from responding to the solicitation. Note that this is NOT a Request for Proposal and the Government is seeking information for market research purposes only. The Government may or may not issue solicitation documents. Look for any further information in FEDBIZOPPS. Telephone inquiries will not be returned. Point of Contact is Susan Lam-Sinclair, Contracting Officer, email susan.lam-sinclair@va.gov.

Inactive Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) Set-Aside (FAR 19.14)

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Office of Construction and Facilities Management (CFM) is issuing a Pre-solicitation Notice for construction project 502-14-102 Replace Boiler Plant and Steam ... The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Office of Construction and Facilities Management (CFM) is issuing a Pre-solicitation Notice for construction project 502-14-102 Replace Boiler Plant and Steam Distribution System located at the Alexandria VA Health Care Systems, Pineville, LA This procurement will be 100% Service- Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) Set-Aside to be released under Solicitation Number 36C10F19R0086. The contractor must provide all supervision, labor, materials, tools, equipment and transportation, and services necessary for construction. The project to be constructed is to renovate the existing boiler plant. The project shall include the renovation of the existing 8,000 square feet boiler plant (Bldg. 14) and construction of a 2,087 square feet addition. Building 14 will house three new boilers and the addition will include boiler plant support space and generator. This project is to provide a new fully functional medical center boiler plant and to replace the existing underground portion of the high-pressure steam distribution and pumped condensate return system. The new boiler plant will occupy a refurbished Building #14. Building #14 will be expanded with a new addition to house a new 400kW emergency generator, electrical equipment room, control room and personnel facilities. Site modifications will be required to make the new boiler plant, a mission critical facility, comply with the VA Physical Security Design Manual for Mission Critical Facilities. Four existing fuel oil tanks that are past their useful life will be removed and replaced with new tanks sized as required in the VA Steam, Heating Hot Water, and Outside Distribution Systems design manual. It is the intent to replace a portion of the existing outside steam distribution with new pre-engineered piping system that will connect to the existing steam pits at a point approximately ten feet from the pits. The existing generator set, transfer switches, fuel oil tank and building #42 will be demolished at the beginning of the project to allow for the new addition. A temporary control room and one portable boiler (minimum 650 HP) is to be included within the project scope. Since the existing plant in Building #14 is to undergo total renovation, one 1000 HP portable boiler, provided by the government, will be on site to provide steam to the medical center. The existing portable boiler is to be relocated by the contractor during Phase 1. Fuel oil for backup will be provided using a portable double wall storage tank. A single award will be made on CLIN 0001. Offerors shall provide price proposals separately. Failure to do so will be cause the proposal to be determined non-compliant IAW the RFP and not considered for award. The magnitude of construction cost for this project is between $10,000,000.00 and 20,000,000.00 with a completion period of 1200 calendar days after receipt of notice to proceed. The applicable North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) is 236220, small business size standard is $39.5Million. NOTICE TO OFFFERORS: All offerors must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) www.sam.gov before submitting an offer and time of award and must comply with FAR 52.204-7 and 52.204-8. Registration will be verified using the “Unique Entity Identifier” that identifies the Offeror’s name and address exactly as stated in the offer. SOLICITATION and AMENDMENTS: Prospective Offerors must obtain copies of solicitation documents from beta.SAM which will be available on or around January 3, 2020. By registering at beta.SAM.gov the Offerors will have access to downloading plans, specifications and amendments, which will be available only in Adobe PDF electronic format. The Offerors must be registered in SAM and have a DUNS Number to download documents. By registering for the Register to Receive Notification list at http://www.beta.sam.gov, you will be notified by e-Mail of any new amendments that have been issued and posted, any notifications, and communication with other contractors and query to this requirement. No other notification of amendments will be provided. Potential Offerors are advised that they are responsible for obtaining and acknowledging any amendments to the solicitation. PRE-PROPOSAL CONFERENCE/SITE VISIT: Pre-proposal conference information will be outlined in the RFP. There will be no public bid opening. All Offerors must ensure that their firm has the ability to provide both 100% Performance and Payment Bonds. In addition, the Offerors will be required to submit a bid guarantee (Bid Bond) with their proposal. Award will be made utilizing the Best Value process IAW FAR Part 15. If you have any questions, please contact Susan Lam-Sinclair, 224-610-7333 or Susan.Lam-Sinclair@va.gov. In the subject line of any email please identify “36C10F19R0086 Alexandria VAMC”.