Beale AFB - Simplified Acquisition of Base Engineering Requirements (SABER)

This posting is solely for pre-solicitation purposes only of a Simplified Acquisition of Base Engineering Requirements contract and the actual solicitation itself will be posted sometime in the near future. This is not a request for proposal. Responses to this notice are not required. Proposals will be solicited to interested and qualified contractors for performance of a broad range of maintenance, repair, alteration/restoration, and minor construction work on real property estimating between $2,000 and $750,000 at Beale AFB, California. The work is required in support of the Mission Support Group, Base Civil Engineering (BCE) activities. The solicitation when it is posted will be set-aside for competition restricted to SBA certified HUBZone small business concerns. To qualify for this set-aside the offeror's principal office must be located in a HUBZone. The contract, when awarded, will be a firm-fixed price, Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity type contract and will include a wide range of individual construction tasks as listed in the RSMeans unit price guides. During the contract period, Base Civil Engineering will identify construction tasks required for each specific job and Contracting will negotiate and issue individual task orders to the contractor for those jobs. The successful contractor will be required to furnish all labor, tools, materials, equipment, estimating software to use with RSMeans unit price guides (plus one laptop for 9th Contracting Squadron containing the estimating software), supervision, personnel, and all else necessary to design, manage, and accomplish individual construction projects. The contractor is required to provide and maintain a management office at Beale AFB, California as prescribed in the general provisions which will accompany the solicitation. Individual projects would vary in size and complexity and include a variety of trades, but not limited to, carpentry, road repair, roofing, excavation, interior electric, steam fitting, plumbing, sheet metal, painting, demolition, concrete, masonry, and welding. The NAICS for this acquisition is 236220 with a size standard of $33.5 Million. The minimum guarantee is $25,000.00 for the life of the contract with an unguaranteed maximum contract value of $10,000,000.00. Historically, the Beale SABER contract averages $2,200,000.00 in task order awards per year. The contract will have a one year base period (anticipated award date is in August 2010) and four option periods consisting of twelve months each. It is anticipated the solicitation will be issued electronically on or about 24 June 2010, on the Federal Business Opportunities (FBO) web page, www.FBO.gov. Contract award will be based on best value using Performance Price Trade-off (PPT) procedures. All interested parties will be able to view and download the solicitation on this website. It is the contractor's responsibility to visit the site periodically for any changes or updates to the solicitation, as no paper copies will be issued. Note: Any prospective contractor must be registered in the Central Contractor Registration (CCR) database (www.BPN.gov/ccr ) in order to be eligible for award. Registration requires applicants to have a DUNS number from Dun and Bradstreet. Registration may take up to three weeks to process. Recommend registering immediately in order to be eligible for timely award. Effective 01 Jan, 2005, the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) requires the use of Online Representations and Certifications Application (ORCA) in Federal solicitations as part of the proposal submission process. All prospective contractors submitting an offer in response to the subject solicitation must go to http://www.bpn.gov/ to add or update its ORCA record. Primary POC is SSgt Nigel Prince at (530) 634-9092; email: nigel.prince@beale.af.mil . Alternate POC is Robert Watts at (530) 634-3366; email: robert.watts@beale.af.mil .