NIH Rocky Mountain Lab Site Improvements

NOTE CHANGES - Solicitation planned posting date has changed from April 25 to May 11, 2012. Commersurate move back of tentively planned Site Visit from May 16 to May 30th...to be confirmed within solicitation in Section L. PURSUANT TO FAR 19.804-2 ELIGIBILITY FOR THIS SOLICITATION IS LIMITED TO 8(a) FIRMS IN THE SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION's REGION VIII (8-Denver - Montana, North & South Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado and Utah) FOR CONSTRUCTION FIRMS WITH A BONA FIDE PLACE OF BUSINESS WITHIN THE GEOGRAPHICAL COMPETITIVE AREA AND THE ASSIGNED NAICS. The Indian Health Service, Division of Engineering Services, Seattle is the administrator of this solicitation for the National Institute of Health's Rocky Mountain Lab. This site improvement project for the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) Rocky Mountain Laboratories (RML) campus is located in Hamilton, MT. The RML campus has undergone extensive construction projects over the past several years and this project represents the main completion of the overall work. It includes the construction of roads, parking, landscaping, site lighting, security measures, and associated systems. RML is a research campus consisting of approximately 35 acres and 30 buildings. The improvement features in this project will be completed on an occupied, operating campus that will require significant coordination and work sequencing to keep existing functions active with minimal disturbance while completing the work. The Government will prescribe a work sequencing schedule for designated areas and sub-areas encompassing the project as a whole in the solicitation. The project includes demolition of existing features including a building with asbestos containing material and lead based paint, asphalt, concrete, chain link fence, trees and shrubs. This project will involve extensive grading and dirt work, including stripping and grubbing, placing, compacting, and grading of base materials and final surfaces. There will be approximately 2.75 acres of asphalt paving in roads and parking areas, approximately 80,000 square feet (sf) of concrete sidewalks of various thicknesses and widths, and approximately 14,000 linear feet (lf) of curb and gutter. There will be extensive storm water management features including swales and approximately 40 drywells. The project involves drilling a new well or wells and abandonment of several existing wells. There will be abandonment, repair, and installation of utilities including steam and condensate lines, other piping and water and sewer mains and appurtenances. New site lighting with associated underground power and control systems will be installed as well as other conduit, power and control systems. Security features will be installed such as approximately 1,320 lf of nine-foot tall steel perimeter fence, power gates, hydraulic pop-up ram barriers, large boulders, barriers, etc. The project also includes approximately 15 acres of landscaping including imported soil, sod grass, dry land native grass, bedded areas, trees, shrubs, and mulching. A new comprehensive, centrally controlled irrigation system will be installed as part of this project. Site amenities included in this project include cover bike racks, motorcycle shelters, picnic tables, benches and trash cans. The estimated construction price range is $5,000,000 to $10,000,000. The contract completion date, with an estimated start work date of on or about August 31, 2012 is October 31, 2014. This is a Best Value procurement process and the basis for award is the tradeoff process. The estimated issue date of the solicitation on FBO is on or about May 11, 2012 with an approximate proposal due date of June 25, 2012. Exact due date regardless will be in the solicitation and may be subject to change only through amendments. An organized site visit and pre-proposal meeting is tentatively planned for May 30, 2012 - 1:00pm local time - at the Rocky Mountain Lab Campus in Hamilton, MT. Further specifics for attending this meeting will be posted on this site and in Section L of the Solicitation. This solicitation will be available by download from the Internet only. The project specification-plans files are Portable Document Format (PDF) files and can be viewed, navigated, or printed using Adobe Acrobat Reader. In order to download the files for this project, registration at the Federal Business Opportunities (FedBizOpps) website http://www.fbo.gov is required. Downloads are available only through the FedBizOpps website. This announcement serves as the advance notice for this project. AMENDMENTS WILL BE AVAILABLE FROM THE ABOVE WEBSITE BY DOWNLOAD ONLY. Further details will be issued with the solicitation.