Architect-Engineer Services, Indefinite Delivery Architect-Engineer Services Contract (Construction Management) for Miscellaneous Projects in the Pacific Region

Changes in Bold Print. 1. CONTRACT INFORMATION: Architect-Engineer (Construction Management) services will be procured in accordance with PL 92-582 (Brooks A-E Act) and FAR Part 36 for construction management services for various military (85%) and civil works (15%) projects within the State of Hawaii, but may include other locations within the Pacific Ocean Division (POD) Area of Responsibility. An Indefinite Delivery Contract will be negotiated and awarded with a period not to exceed 5 years. The amount of work under the contract will not exceed $5,000,000.00 with 2 options of $3,500,000.00 each which may be exercised at any time during the contract period. The Government obligates itself to obtain no less than $100,000.00 in services. The contract is anticipated to be awarded as early as October 2009 however not later than one year from the closing date of this announcement. The intent is to award one contract for this work. This is a competitive procurement set aside for Small Businesses. 2. PROJECT INFORMATION: Services include, but not limited to, furnishing all necessary management, supervision, labor, transportation, materials, equipment, and incidental services to provide construction management services for various projects. Construction Managers, Project Engineers, and Quality Assurance Representatives/Inspectors will be required for pre-construction award, construction administration, and quality assurance functions. Schedulers and Cost Engineers will also be required. 3. SELECTION CRITERIA: The PRIMARY selection criteria listed in descending order of importance are: (first by major criterion and then by each sub-criterion) (a) Specialized experience and technical qualifications. The evaluation will consider the offeror's specialized experience in construction management services described in paragraph 2. (b) Professional qualifications of the offeror's staff/consultants to be assigned to the projects. The evaluation will consider the education, training, registration and overall relevant experience of the team's key management and technical personnel; (c) Past Performance of similar work within five years. (1) The evaluation will consider relevant past performance of the prime A-E contractor as documented in the Past Performance Information Retrieval System (PPIRS) database. (2) The evaluation will consider past performance from sources other than PPIRS such as customer surveys; (d) Capacity of the firm to accomplish the work; and (e) Knowledge of the locality of the projects. The evaluation will consider the offeror's familiarity with the site conditions in Hawaii and the Pacific Region. SECONDARY selection criteria, to be used as "tie-breakers" among technically equal firms, are listed in descending order of importance as follows: (a) Location of the firm; (b) Volume of recent DoD work; and (c) Participation of small business, small disadvantaged business (SDB), historically black colleges and universities, and minority institutions in the proposed contract team, measured as a percentage of the estimated effort. 4. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS: Firms desiring consideration must submit a Standard Form 330 no later than 12 August 2009, 4:00 p.m., Hawaiian Standard Time. There is no page limit, and no required font or margin size. Submission must be readable. No more than five (5) example projects shall be listed in Section F of the SF 330. An Indefinite Delivery Contract (IDC) listed in Section F will not qualify as a project, however, an individual task order awarded by IDC will be considered a project. Additional example projects, if listed in Section H, will not be evaluated. Submittals will be sent to U.S. ARMY ENGINEER DISTRICT, HONOLULU, BUILDING 230, ROOM 205, ATTN: CEPOH-EC-M (Julie Rohrer, 808-438-1301 or Sandra Kuioka, 808-438-8547), FORT SHAFTER, HAWAII 96858-5440. Small and disadvantaged firms are encouraged to participate as prime contractors or as members of joint ventures with other small businesses. All interested parties are reminded that the successful contractor will be expected to place subcontracts to the maximum possible extent with small and disadvantaged firms in accordance with the provisions of Public Law 95-507. All contractors are advised that registration in the DoD Central Contractor Registration (CCR) database is required prior to award of a contract. Failure to be registered in the DoD CCR prior to award may render your firm ineligible for award. Information about CCR can be found by calling 1-888-227-2423 or via the Internet at http://www.ccr.gov. Request for Proposal No. W9128A-09-R-0022 shall be utilized to solicit a proposal from the firm selected. This is not a request for a proposal. 5. Questions & Answers: a. What is the page limitation (total page count) for this SF330 proposal?See amended paragraph 4 above. b. Is there a page limitation for each section of the SF330? I noticed that this announcement calls for 5 projects, are these project write-ups limited to one-page? See amended paragraph 4 above. c. Does the page limitation include the cover, transmittal letter, SF330 Part IIs, etc.? See amended paragraph 4 above. d. What are the formatting limitations of this SF330 proposal? (i.e. margin specifications, font size limitations, etc.) See amended paragraph 4 above. e. We intend to pursue the subject solicitation seeking construction management services. We currently have a contract with NAVFAC for similar work. At this time, we want to ensure that since we intend to continue doing construction projects as a general contractor for the USACE that there will be no conflict of interest should we also succeed in being on the A&E IDIQ. We fully understand that USACE would not likely permit a project to be administered as well as performed by the same company. However, we see no conflict of interest if our CM branch is assigned to oversee projects that do not involve our firm as a general contractor on the construction side. Your concurrence on the above is appreciated before we begin work on our response to this presolicitation. The A-E firm will not perform the construction management on its own construction work. f. If we already have a construction contract with the ARMY, and are already working on your bases, would it be conflict of interest to pursue this solicitation? No. g. What are the specific types of projects are you looking for? See amended paragraph 1 above. h. Is this contract more vertical construction (buildings, dormitories/barracks) or horizontal construction (highways, dams, levees) focused? See amended paragraph 1 above. i. Was there a specific reason to use NAICS code 237990 versus NAICS code 236220 for this Construction Management opportunity? It was determined NAICS Code was the appropriate code for the solicitation. j. Are you thinking of extending the due date for submission of this opportunity? Yes. See amended paragraph 4 above. k. Solicitation Para 4 states: "Additional example projects, if listed in Section H, will not be evaluated." Can short examples or cameos of relevant experience (not long one-page project write-ups like Section F) be used to demonstrate specialized experience in Section H? No. See amended paragraph 4 above. l. Question is for clarifying Section 10 of Part II of SF330. With regards to the experience categories, do these pertain to design only or do they apply to construction projects as well? See paragraph 1 above, first sentence. m. Also confirming that a current open IDIQ contract that has awarded three task orders, for the sake of this proposal, the three awarded task orders can be considered three individual projects in section E and F of Part I. See amended paragraph 4 above. n. One of the evaluation factors is past performance. Do we have to solicit our past performance evaluations and submit it with SF 330 on the due date for this submittal or does the client submit it directly to USACE? There is no submission requirement for past performance information. o. Our Construction Management Team submitted a Standard Form 330 in response to the above referenced presolicitation, prior to learning that the due date had been extended to July 28, 2009. Because we did not learn of the extension until our package had already been sent to USACE, we would like to know if we are permitted to resubmit our SF 330 by the new due date? Yes. p. Based on paragraph "1. Contract Information" the title seems to indicate that this is a combination A&E/CM IDIQ and is a small business set aside. However in paragraph "2. Project Information" there seems to be more of an emphasis on Construction Management services with some indication that oversight from an A&E may be required for quality control/observation. Please clarify if the "prime" submitting on this IDIQ should be a Construction Management firm with an A&E consultant or if the "prime" should be an A&E firm with a Construction Management firm as a consultant? See paragraph 1 above, first sentence; and amended paragraph 4 above. q. This presolicitation is issued under NAICS 237990 -- Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction, however, is professional services in nature. Please provide the rational and confirmation that this is in fact a 237990 program requirement. Construction management service is covered in many NAICS code, we determined to use NAICS Code 237990 as it covers the work on this presolicitation. r. Will there be a Surety Bond requirement on this presolicitation? No.