SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE FOR PN 91252 Pedestrian Bridge Fort Bragg, North Carolina This is a Sources Sought/Request for Information only. This is NOT a Solicitation Announcement, nor is it a Request for Proposal. This request does not obligate the Government in any contract award. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Wilmington District, is conducting research to determine the market capabilities of potential contractors to construct Project Number 91252, SOF Pedestrian Bridge. The scope of work includes construction of a new bridge structure of approximately 157 feet long by 10 feet wide across Reilly Road in the vicinity of building H-4512. Primary structure includes pedestrian bridge, handicapped access ramps, stairs, and safety fencing. Supporting systems include exterior electrical site and walkway lighting and transformer. Site improvements include asphalt and concrete demolition, clearing, grubbing, utility relocation or concrete-encasement, storm water management, soil erosion control measures, sidewalks, seeding, landscaping, and fencing. Access for persons with disabilities will be provided. In accordance with DFARS 236.204(i) the magnitude of construction for this project will be between $1,000,0000.00 and $5,000,000.00. All interested firms with 237310 as an approved NAICs code have until 25 FEB 2019 at 2:00 p.m. to submit the following information: - Name & Address of your Firm - Point of Contact (Name/Phone/E-mail) - Current System for Award Management (SAM) registration information - Business Size, to include designation as HUB Zone, 8(a), Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business, Small Disadvantaged Business, Woman-Owned Business, and Large Business. [If an 8(a) Small Business, your firm must have an office in Region IV (GA, AL, NC, VA, TN, MS, FL, KY, SC)]. Any supporting documentation that confirms your socio-economic status should be provided, e.g., letter of certification from VA confirming SDVOSB status. The Government must be able to verify SBA certification of Hub Zone and 8(a) via SAM. - Bonding capability - both single and aggregate capacity contracts or for multiple task orders, as evidenced by submission of Surety Company Letter stating bonding capacity. - Evidence of capabilities to perform comparable work (i.e., Single Span Pedestrian Bridge Construction) of similar size, scope and complexity on three (3) but no more than five (5) recent projects equal to or greater than $2,000,000.00 in value (not more than six (6) years old) and a minimum of 150 Linear Feet long. One (1) project must include the construction of a similar single span pedestrian bridge. All project examples submitted must be as the prime contractor, Joint Venture or Mentor Prot'g. Include the project name and description of the key/salient features of the project (i.e., square footage, multi-story, phased renovation, etc.), completion date, total contract construction value, whether it was Design-Build, Construction only, Renovation or Rehabilitation, etc. Additionally, if you were teaming with another firm, clearly identify your role on the project(s) submitted. Please provide at least one point of contact (with e-mail address and phone number) for project validation. The Government will not give credit to projects if the lack of information hinders the ability to determine relevancy and/or level or experience. - Firm's capability to perform, to include geographic span and project size. If firm has personnel with active security clearances, please provide employee name, level of clearance, and expiration date of clearance. - Information on Teaming Arrangement (if applicable). Although we are not looking for formal signed agreements at this time, if you intend to "team" with another firm, formally or informally, you must submit information, not more than one (1) page, about your team's involvement. More specifically, you must submit sufficient information for the Government to determine the roles each team member will play and what your socio-economic status is or will be considering the proposed arrangement. Therefore, included in your one (1) page if you are a Small Business and you intend to mentor/prot'g and/or JV with a large business both team members must sign agreeing that 40% of the labor will be performed by the prot'g firm. Additionally, if the team is a mentor/prot'g arrangement, identify the areas that will be mentored. If the offeror is a Joint Venture (J-V), relevant project experience should be submitted for projects completed by the Joint Venture entity, or the individual firms that make up the joint venture. Offerors that are part of the DoD Mentor Prot'g program may submit two (2) recent and relevant projects completed by the Mentor with the remaining project being submitted on behalf of the prot'g. Any supporting documentation that confirms your socio-economic status as a team should be provided. The Government may not give credit to your socio-economic class if there is not sufficient documentation to support it or if the Government cannot verify through other means that your business is as such. The requested information shall be submitted electronically to: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Attn: Jere West Email: jere.f.west@usace.army.mil and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Attn: Drew Cranford E-mail: andrew.cranford@usace.army.mil The email should be entitled: Pedestrian Bridge, PN 91252 Do not send hard copies of advertising or promotional materials. Please ensure that all responses are comprehensive and provide a name and point-of-contact for your firm for follow-up by this office or the procuring contracting officer. If you have responded to any previous e-mail messages or had other communications with our office regarding preliminary market research for this project, please be advised that it will be necessary for you to respond to this e-mail and the questions contained therein. Any responses involving teaming agreements should delineate between the work that will be accomplished by the Prime Contractor and work accomplished by the teaming partner All information is to be provided on a voluntary basis at no charge to the Government. There is no entitlement to payment of direct or indirect costs related to or arising out of responding to this request for information. All information provided becomes property of the Government. There is no guarantee, expressed or implied, that the market research for this acquisition will result in any guarantee of award or acquisition strategy.
