Aircraft Support Equipment Maintenance and Storage Facility (ASE)

GENERAL: The United States Property and Fiscal Office for Colorado located in Aurora, Colorado is issuing an Invitation for Bid (IFB) W912LC-17-B-5000, to award a single firm fixed-price (FFP) construction contract for non-personal services, to provide all plant, labor, transportation, materials, tools, equipment, appliances, and supervision necessary to complete the construction of a new Aircraft Support Equipment Maintenance and Storage Facility (ASE) for the 140th Wing in Aurora, Colorado. DESCRIPTION OF PROJECT: Scope includes, but is not limited to, new construction of a 12,500 SF Air National Guard Aircraft Support Equipment (ASE) Maintenance and Storage Facility utilizing conventional construction methods to accommodate the mission of the facility. Facilities will be permanent construction in accordance with the DoD Unified Facilities Criteria (UFC) 1-200-01, General Building Requirements and UFC 1-200-02, High Performance and Sustainable Building Requirements. The facility should be compatible with applicable DoD, Air Force, and base standards. In addition, local materials and construction techniques shall be used where cost effective. This project will comply with DoD antiterrorism/force protection requirements per unified facilities criteria. Special Construction Requirements include reinforced concrete caissons or grade beam foundations, floor slab on grade, erosion control, drainage and landscape. Interior hoists, indoors wash rack, tool crib, bench stock storage, battery servicing area, exhaust extraction system, covered storage, and administrative space. The building will be certified LEED Silver at the completion of the contract. The work is located on Buckley Air Force Base, Aurora, Colorado. OPTIONS: In addition to a base price for the work described above the solicitation includes Government Options for the project CRWU06-9125. There are a total of eight (8) options. Options are as follows: 1. Demolition of Building 1606 Crash Rescue Fire Station and Control Tower including abatement of lead based paint and asbestos known to be in the building; 2. Relocate the Storm Drain through the project site; 3. Remove the concrete drive Pavement North of the building site and Replace with seed; 4. Install exhaust system in the maintenance bay; 5. Install rough-in for future roof mounted Solar PV; 6. Install New Telecomm Service Conduit; 7. Install Crane rail installed equipment. Note that the structure for the crane is installed as part of the base bid; 8. Wire manual connection equipment for Electrical Emergency Backup for building. BRAND NAME: This project requires the use of some brand name specific products. A justification is posted and attached to the solicitation. Brand name products for this acquisition will include; Best Lock Core, Delta Controls, AES Fire Alarm, Leviton (UTP connectors, patch panels, Accessories), Corning (fiber optic connectors), Posi Max (PDP w/manual xfer switch), Vindicator (Access Control System). CONSTRUCTION MAGNITUDE: Construction magnitude of the project is between $1,000,000.00 and $5,000,000.00 in accordance with FAR 36.204. PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE: Construction/contract completion time is anticipated to take up to 270-365 days after notice to proceed to include inspection and punch list. Actual PoP is depends on the options that are awarded/exercised. Each project will have their own independent schedule within a master schedule; TYPE OF CONTRACT AND NAICS: This IFB will be for one (1) FFP construction contract. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this work is 236220 - Commercial and Institutional Building Construction. TYPE OF SET-ASIDE: This action is being procured on a TOTAL SMALL BUSINESS SET ASIDE basis. The small business size standard is $36.5 million. LIMITATIONS ON SUBCONTRACTING: Your attention is directed to FAR clause 52.219-14 (b)(3) Limitations on Subcontracting, which states "By submission of an offer and execution of a contract, the Offeror/Contractor agrees that in performance of the contract in the case of a contract for Construction by a general contractors, the concern will perform at least 15 percent of the cost of the contract, not including the cost of materials, with its own employees" applies to this project. KEY DATES: Solicitation issued on July 25, 2017. Site Visit is on August 9, 2017, 1:00PM MST at Buckley AFB, Aurora 80011. Interested contractors are encouraged to attend and shall follow registration and base access requirements shown in the solicitation. Refer to the solicitation document for closing date. Construction is anticipated in the fall 2017. SYSTEM FOR AWARD MANAGEMENT: Interested offerors must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM). Firms can register via the SAM internet site at http://www.sam.gov. You will need your DUNS number register. Instructions for registering are on the web page. FEDBIZOPPS: The solicitation and associated information and the plans and specifications will be available only from the Federal Business Opportunities (FedBizOpps) website online at https://www.fbo.gov/. FedBizOpps is a web-based dissemination tool designed to safeguard acquisition-related information for all Federal agencies. INTERESTED BIDDERS/OFFERORS MUST REGISTER WITH FEDBIZOPPS BEFORE ACCESSING THE SYSTEM AND ARE ENCOURAGED TO START THE REGISTRATION PROCESS NOW. Registration instructions can be found on the FedBizOpps website at https://www.fbo.gov/downloads/FBO_Vendor_Guide.pdf. Please note the registration for access to the secure site takes approximately 7-15 business days. PLAN ACCORDINGLY. Reference the Vendor Guide for instructions to obtain a MPIN to retrieve the specification and drawing documents. Contractors who do not already have a MPIN are advised that the normal processing is 7 to 15 business days to obtain a MPIN password that will give them access to the plans and specifications, which are located in the controlled access location on FBO. Bidders/offerors who have registered with FedBizOpps must access the data for this solicitation with their MPIN. Bidders/Offerors cannot log into the FedBizOpps home page and search for data. DISCLAIMER: The official plans and specification will be located on the official government web page at the time the solicitation is posted and the Government is not liable for information furnished by any other source. Amendments, if/when issued will be posted to the Federal Business Opportunities web site. This will normally 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. Websites are occasionally inaccessible due to various reasons. The Government is not responsible for any loss of Internet connectivity or for an offerors inability to access the documents posted on the referenced web pages. The Government will not issue paper copies. All inquiries must be sent via email to Sabrina DeRamus at Sabrina.m.deramus.civ@mail.mil, whitney.L.arkle.mil@mail.mil.