MULTIPLE-AWARD-CONSTRUCTION-CONTRACT-(MACC) FOR GENERAL CONSTRUCTION SERVICES AT THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH.

THIS IS A PRESOLICITATION NOTICE FOR MULTIPLE-AWARD-CONSTRUCTION-CONTRACT-(MACC) FOR GENERAL CONSTRUCTION SERVICES AT THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Office of Research Facilities (ORF) has a requirement for on-going facilities construction, alterations, and repair of buildings, structures and other real property at facilities within the control of NIH. The intent of the project is to execute multiple awards of Indefinite-Delivery Indefinite-Quantity construction contracts for the NIH/ORF, Bethesda, Maryland and other locations defined within the solicitation. Work under the MACC shall be performed in the general construction category which may include, but is not limited to, maintenance, repair, painting, alteration, architectural, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, heating/air conditioning, civil, earthwork, fencing, structural, steel fabrication and or welding, roofing, building renovations, new building construction, demolition, United States Green Building Council (USGBC) Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) projects, and design/build projects. Work to be performed under the MACC may include but is not limited to any of the disciplines listed in North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes as follows: Sector 23 Construction, Subsection 236 Construction of buildings size standard $36.5 Million, Subsection 237 Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction, size standard $36.5 million. The NAICS Code and small business size standard for the seed project is 236220 and $36.5 million, respectively. Contractors will be expected to accomplish a wide variety of construction projects. Specific projects will be defined in each of the subsequently issued task orders and will vary in size, scope and complexity. This solicitation shall utilize full and open competition. ORF anticipates awarding up to, but not limited to, 16 IDIQ contracts. Furthermore, up to, but not limited to, twelve of the proposed IDIQ contracts will be reserved for responsive small businesses in various socio-economic reserves. Up to, but not limited to, four awards are to be made to contractors in the full and open category. The 12 Small Business awards are reserved in the various reserves as follows; up to three awards are reserved for small business contractors, up to three awards are reserved for SBA certified HUBZone small business contractors, up to three awards will be reserved for SBA certified 8(a) small business contractors, up to three awards will be reserved for Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) contractors. Task Order set-asides based on these reserve categories will occur at the Task Order level. 8(a) Participants must submit with their proposal a letter from their servicing SBA office stating their eligibility as it corresponds to NAICS Code 236220 required for this solicitation, and HUBZone offerors must submit with their proposal a letter from the SBA certifying their eligibility for HUBZone status. Contractors responding to this notice to perform the contract as small business joint ventures shall use the procedures described at the Small Business administration (SBA) web site. The SBA URL is www.sba.gov, and the keyword search is Joint Venture and or Mentor Prot'g. The program total value for all IDIQ contracts to be awarded is Not to Exceed $2,000,000,000.00 over an eight-year ordering period. There is no yearly or per contractor limit except for the eight year maximum; this will allow all contractors to be available for competition of future task orders until the cumulative ceiling is reached. Task Orders will be firm fixed priced. All successful MACC contract awardees will receive a Task Order for the guaranteed minimum of $1,000.00. The anticipated release date of the RFP is on or about February 11, 2019, with an anticipated bid closing date of on or about March 14, 2019. The firm date for receipt of offers will be stated in the RFP. Details will be provided in the solicitation instructing participants to meet for a preproposal site visit for a seed project. Offerors are urged and expected to inspect the site where the work will be performed. The solicitation and any documents related to this procurement will be available over the Internet. These documents will be in Microsoft Office format and will reside on the Federal Business Opportunities web site, which may be accessed using your browser application. The Internet site is https://www.fbo.gov/ enter 75N99019R00001 in the Key Word / Solicitation Number search box to find the solicitation documents and any amendments. The solicitation package should be available for download on or about February 11, 2019. No hard copies of the solicitation or drawings will be provided; and telephone requests or questions will NOT be accepted. Please email requests or questions to Clarion Miller at pete.miller@nih.gov and Jessica N. Miller at Jessica.miller@nih.gov ensure the subject line reads: 75N99019R00001 MACC Question Request.