Capacity Increase of $100M AE MATOC

THIS IS A NOTICE OF INTENT, NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL. A SOLICITATION DOCUMENT WILL NOT BE ISSUED AND PROPOSALS WILL NOT BE REQUESTED. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Far East District, intends to enter into an indefinite delivery contract (IDC) on a sole source basis under the authority of FAR 6.302-1(a)(2)(iii)(B) to increase shared ordering capacity within existing ordering periods of Contract Nos. W912UM19D0001, W912UM19D0002, W912UM19D0003 and W912UM19D0004, Indefinite-Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) for Architect-Engineer (A-E) Services for Corps of Engineers, Far East District, in support of U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, and Other Activities, Various Locations, Republic of Korea. The contract requires the Architect-Engineering (A-E) firm to provide multidiscipline A-E services and provisions of A-E services in accordance with the existing IDC's statements of work for design services. The scope covers the United State Forces Korea (USFK), Foreign Military Sales, United States Department of State, and DoD facilities within the Republic of Korea (ROK). Representative types of facilities or structures that may be the subject of design or planning services include training and operations structures; administrative buildings; unaccompanied and accompanied family military housing; dining facilities; hospitals, medical/dental clinics; communications facilities; fuel storage and dispensing facilities; religious and family facilities; athletic facilities: gymnasiums, multiple-purpose sports fields; airfield structures and pavements; and utility systems that may include communications, power, water, gas, and sewers. Blast hardening, Collective Protection System (CPS) and Chemical Biological Radiological (CBR) protection may be required for some facilities. Sustainable Design/LEED and Energy Policy Act 2005 requirements will be required for all facilities. Design deliverables must address local construction methods in the ROK and approved local materials that meet the intent of U.S. standards and code criteria in order to facilitate the use of local methods and materials. All design documents must be based on metric system units. Design work must be based on current technical criteria that include U.S. national codes and regulations, the Unified Facilities Criteria, FED Guide Specifications and DoD Criteria and Standards. Local materials that meet US standards and criteria are used extensively, knowledge of local materials, and construction methods is necessary to prepare accurate ROK Ministry of National Defense (MND) (Bill of Material) format cost estimates. With some exceptions, construction contractors using the A-E's designs will be Korean firms for whom English is not their native language; and their contracts may be awarded by either FED or Host Nation agencies. Construction contracts awarded by the Host Nation Agencies require some parts of design plans to be prepared in the English and Korean languages for which the A-E contractor must have bilingual capabilities. The four A-E MATOC firms all have SOFA status personnel in county, have the experience working in Korea under the current COVID-19 conditions and restrictions, have base access, and can accomplish the required work under the proposed capacity increase within the design timeline. The proposed value of the increase to the shared capacity of the existing IDCs is $38.5 million. This is not a solicitation for competitive proposals. Questions or comments to this Notice of Intent should be directed via email by 10:00 am, on 7 January 2022 (Korea Standard Time) to Jennifer Ko, at Jennifer.i.ko@usace.army.mil and Suk Hui Yi, at sukhui.yi@usace.army.mil.