Questions & Answers Amendment 1 to Sources Sought - C1DA--VISN 12 Fire Protection Engineering Professional Services

Rev 1 dated 7/29/2020 change to paragraph 3. c. Sources Sought for Solicitation 36C25221R0001 Fire Protection Engineering Professional Services in VISN 12 This is a SOURCES SOUGHT SYNOPSIS, seeking response from Small Business concerns only. This announcement seeks information from the industry, which will be used for preliminary planning purposes. No proposals are being requested or accepted with his synopsis. THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION FOR PROPOSALS AND NO CONTRACT SHALL BE AWARDED FROM THIS SYNOPSIS. Respondents will not be notified of the results of this synopsis. We are soliciting for highly qualified businesses, encompassing Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB), Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) and Small Business (SB) to determine the appropriate set-aside. To assist the government in making an accurate determination, we must know your firm s level of experience and interest in this solicitation. To be eligible, interested parties must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) data base at https://www.sam.gov. For firms claiming either SDVOSB or VOSB classification status, they must also be registered and certified through the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Small & Disadvantaged Business Utilization data base, located at https://www.vip.vetbiz.va.gov. Fire Protection Engineering (FPE) will be rendered at each of the eight (8) Veterans Affairs Medical Centers (VAMC) within Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN) 12. The eight (8) VISN 12 VAMCs are: Oscar G. Johnson VA Medical Center in Iron Mountain, Michigan VA Medical Center in Tomah, Wisconsin William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital in Madison, Wisconsin Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin Capt. James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center in North Chicago, Illinois Edwards Hines Jr. VA Hospital in Hines, Illinois VA Illiana Health Care System in Danville, Illinois Brown VA Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois Services maybe also be required at the Community Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOCs) affiliated with the medical centers. The contract will be used by Facilities Management Services at VISN 12 facilities for Third Party FPE Professional Services for various projects under NAICS code 541330 - Engineering Services with size standard $16.5 million. The services shall include an overall five (5) year ordering period based on the five (5) year forecast for FPE professional services. The minimum individual task order for this Contract shall be $2,500, and the minimum guaranteed amount for this Contract shall be $2,500. The total of individual TOs placed against this Contract shall not exceed $1,500,000. The FPE will furnish all necessary qualified personnel, material and services to conduct/perform approved TO in accordance with this Statement of Work (SOW), and those SOWs prepared specifically for each TO. These Professional Fire Protection Design Engineering Services may include but are not limited to items such as Fire Alarm System design, Fire Suppression System design, Fire Dampers/Barriers assessments, Life Safety Assessments, Statements of Condition (SOC) drawing preparation, and site-specific Fire/Life Safety concern consultation services. Interested parties responding to this Sources Sought Notice shall submit as much of the following information as possible: Company name, address, point of contact, phone number, DUNS number, and business status. Indicate the primary nature of your business, any teaming agreements or arrangements, self- performance and intentions of subcontracting program, including Set-Asides Documentation relating to capability of performance. a. How many Fire Protection Engineers work for the organization? Performance Standard: The FPE firm shall provide Staff specialized in the field of fire protection engineering. The FPE firm must employ a minimum 3 fire protection engineers with a BS in Fire Protection Engineering (or a related technical\engineering field) and a professional engineering registration in field of fire protection. b. Project manager has how many years of experience conducting fire protection engineering? Project manager has how many years of experience with health care occupancies.? Performance Standard: The project manager and lead site survey personnel shall have at least 10 years of fire protection engineering work experience with demonstrated experience with health care occupancies. The same individual or equally competent professional must remain on the firm s project staff for the entire contract and must be involved in the supervision and/or review of the aforementioned potential TOs. A fire protection engineer shall conduct the actual on-site surveys and supervise any other onsite survey personnel. c. Specialized Experience of Team Specialized experience with providing Fire Protection engineering services for health care facilities and specifically Veterans Administration Medical Centers. Submit separate example projects (10 each) that demonstrate the firms experience in Life Safety Assessment/SOC, fire alarm design, fire sprinkler design and code consulting projects within the last 10 years. Total submittal shall be no longer than ten (10) pages in one .pdf file or word document. The response date to this Sources Sought notice is August 4th, 2020 at 5:00 pm Central Standard Time. This market research is for informational and planning purposes only to determine if there are adequate qualified SDVOSB or VOSB concerns to warrant a 100% set-aside. Hard copy submissions are NOT acceptable. The Government will not pay any costs for responses submitted. Electronic submissions are to be sent to contact@example.gov and contact@example.gov. Amendment #1 to Sources Sought - 36C25221R0001 - 29 JULY 2020 QUESTION: Are you looking for respondents who are small businesses? Or is the sources sought only to determine qualified SDVOSB or VOSB? The second paragraph of the sources sought implied SDVOSB, VOSB and SB but the last paragraph appeared to imply SDVOSB and VOSB as well. ANSWER: This sources sought includes Small Businesses. The VA Mission is to support Veterans, and this includes SDVOSB and VOSB. We are soliciting for highly qualified businesses. If we don't get enough responses from SDVOSB/VOSBs, we would like information from SBs as well. QUESTION: Can you clarify what you mean by - project compliance lists? Item 3.c states - Submit separate project compliance lists (10 each) for the firms experience in Life Safety Assessment/SOC, fire alarm design, fire sprinkler design and code consulting projects within the last 10 years. ANSWER: : We are looking for example projects that demonstrate the firms experience in each area. The revised paragraph 3. c. Specialized Experience of Team - Specialized experience with providing Fire Protection engineering services for health care facilities and specifically Veterans Administration Medical Centers. Submit separate example projects (10 each) that demonstrate the firms experience in Life Safety Assessment/SOC, fire alarm design, fire sprinkler design and code consulting projects within the last 10 years. QUESTION: How does the information about the Specialized Experience of Team factor into the 10 page limit for the response? ANSWER: The separate example projects (10 each) that demonstrate the firms experience are part of the 10 pages. This information will be evaluated to determine if this will be a SDVOSB, VOSB or SB set-aside. END OF AMENDMENT #1