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The U.S. Postal Service plans to issue a Fixed Price Contract to complete a Fire Alarm Systems Upgrades project for the Louisville, KY – P&DC. All work will be done in accordance with USPS approved sp... The U.S. Postal Service plans to issue a Fixed Price Contract to complete a Fire Alarm Systems Upgrades project for the Louisville, KY – P&DC. All work will be done in accordance with USPS approved specifications and drawings. The estimated cost range of the project is $1,100,000 to $1,300,000 with construction completion within 200 calendar days from the receipt of notice to proceed. Contractors must submit a Qualification Statement and a Management Plan with their price proposal. Only the most qualified contractors will be considered. To be considered, a company must meet the following minimum requirements: (1) Contractors must be licensed, as required by the State, to perform the work as stated in this solicitation. USPS does not exempt suppliers from licensure for federal projects unless indicated otherwise in the solicitation. (2) Contractors must have been in the construction business for a minimum of five years as of the date of this solicitation. There is no requirement that eligible contracting firms remained the identical entity for the five-year period, although legal entity changes (such as from a partnership to a corporation) that occurred during this five-year period should be clearly explained, and if key personnel were retained, this should also be clearly explained. (3) Contractor must be capable of obtaining performance and payment bonds for 100% of the contract price. (4) Contractors must provide their EMR rating on insurance company letterhead. If the EMR rating is greater than 1.0, the contractor must provide an explanation from its insurance company in order to be given further consideration for prequalification. (5) Company must submit information for three comparable projects that have either been completed within the past five years or are currently ongoing. Comparable projects are defined as projects with similar scopes of work and costs of $750,000 or more. The Qualification Statements will be evaluated in accordance with the criteria stated in the solicitation documents: experience/performance and capabilities. Please see the solicitation documents for details of evaluation criteria. PRE?PROPOSAL MEETING will be conducted on January12, 2021 at 10:00am Eastern Time via a ZOOM teleconference call (Please see the solicitation documents for details). ATTENDANCE IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. The SOLICITATION PACKAGE and all applicable attachments are posted in Emptoris. All users must register in the eSourcing program - Emptoris (link below) to gain access to the solicitation documents and submit their proposal. Submit proposals via Emptoris, the USPS esourcing venue. The link is https://uspsprod.emptoris.com For help with the eSourcing program, please contact the USPS eSourcing at esourcing@usps.gov or call 1-800-332-0317, options 4 and 5. All contractors are advised to use the tutorial in the upper right hand portion of the screen once you are logged in, to familiarize yourself with the system prior to the event taking place. If responding to a specific solicitation, please notify us after registration so that we may add you to the invitation list to view the documents. QUESTIONS SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO Nikhil Soni, Nikhil.Soni@usps.gov or Thomas Pio, Thomas.M.Pio@usps.gov or Robert Ramba, Robert.C.Ramba@usps.gov. Deadline for questions is noon on 02-02-2021. There will be no public opening of offers. All proposal information received is CONFIDENTIAL until award of a contract. Upon award, the name of the successful offeror and the amount of the contract will be released as public information. The names of offerors and the amount of their offers will not be released as public information. This information is exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act, Exception 4.