R -- CONSTRUCTION MANAGMENT SERVICES

This is a SOURCES SOUGHT ANNOUNCEMENT to be used for Market Analysis only to determine whether a minimum of 3 highly qualified CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT (CM) firms are capable of performing all of the stated types of Construction Management Services, exists within the small business community. ONLY SMALL BUSINESS FIRMS SHOULD RESPOND TO THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. NO SOLICITATION WILL BE AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME. 1. CONTRACT REQUIREMENT: The anticipated contract, when solicited, will be procured in accordance with FAR Part 15, using best value procedures. This Procurement will be conducted under North American Industrial Classification Code (NAICS) 236220. The Small Business Size Standard for this code is $31,000,000.00. All respondents, in their response to this notice, MUST identify their business size relative to the NAICS code. Respondents are required to state in their response whether their firm is a small business, 8(a) Program participant, HUBZone Small Business, Small Disadvantaged Business, Woman-Owned Small Business, Veteran-Owned Small Business, or Service Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business. Joint Venture (JV) submittals should include evidence demonstrating that the proposed JV entity will meet the requirements reference in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 19. When the requirement is solicited, firms will be selected for negotiation based on demonstrated competence and qualifications for all of the required work. The type of contract is expected to be a Firm Fixed Price, 5 Year contract (Base Year with 4 one-Option Years). If the contract is set aside for Small Business, FAR 52.219-14, Limitations on Subcontracting, will be included in the contract. The clause requires that 50 percent of the cost of contract performance incurred for personnel shall be expended for employees of the concern. 2. PROJECT INFORMATION: The services to be performed will consist of the following basic work elements and tasks, but not limited to: 1) Site Selection and Analysis; 2) Utilization Studies; 3) Facility Survey; 4) Presentation of the Capital Budget; 5) Job Corps Annual Construction an Rehabilitation Plan; 6) Design Project Management; 7) Construction Project Management; 8) Technical and Administrative Support; 9) On-Site Construction Engineers (Representatives); 10) Real Estate Services. These services are to commence October 1, 2008. It is estimated that approximately 62 person years of effort will be needed to support the basic elements of this contract. The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management (OASAM) intends to select one contractor for this project. It is contemplated that the successful offeror will be a single firm capable of providing all services in-house. The overall effort will go into the support of design and construction efforts of the 123 Job Corps Centers consisting of approximately 3,500 buildings (24.6 million GSF) on 7,530 acres of land. A full and complete range of expertise in design and construction management, as well as technical expertise is required to support these facilities and centers in the continental US, Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico. The successful firm will be required to utilize and maintain the current data system which contains Facility Survey reports, scopes of work and CRA budget data. The ADP/LAN system consists of Window Servers which all HP/Compaq Proliant Servers are running Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows 2003. The in-house Oracle database resides on a Sun Enterprise 420 server running Solaris 8. It also consists of a Cisco 3660 router using a vBNS circuit, a CISCO 4006 and CISCO 2948G switches. Finally, as a part of the LAN, the offeror will be connected by dedicated T1 data communication lines to the National and Regional Offices of Job Corps. Windows XP Professional is the Office of Job Corps standard network operating system. The successful offeror must demonstrate that the firm has the capability to utilize and maintain the existing management information system data. Information Technology management and continuous interface with the Office of Job Corps National Office is essential. Therefore, the successful offeror will be required to perform the contracted services in a facility located at 2101 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, Virginia. 3. EVALUATION CRIETERIA: QUALIFICATIONS: Interested Small Business firms must have the capability to perform, and must have a minimum of five years of experience in the following essential areas of expertise and in no particular order of importance: 1) Past recent experience of the firm in each of the basic work elements; 2) Professional qualifications of key staff members necessary for satisfactory performance of the required services; 3) Specialized experience and technical competence in the type of work required; 4) Capacity of the firm to accomplish the work in the required time; 5) Past performance on contracts with other government agencies and within the private sector in terms of cost and schedule control, quality of work and compliance with performance schedules (include references, contract numbers, dollar amounts and names and telephone numbers of contract persons); 6) Location of staff and branch offices; 7) Ability to accomplish professional design management and solid construction management of projects on a national scale; 8) Knowledge of national issues as they relate to design and construction such as accessibility, environment, LEED and sustainable design, historical preservation, energy conservation, etc.; 9) Adequacy of proposed organization chart and how communication is achieved within the firm and to the client (breakdown of work element responsibility); 10) Understanding of the FAR such as: contract preparation, claims and disputes, contract administration, A/E selection procedures, construction bid procedures and project delivery strategies such as, design/build and best value. All interested SMALL BUSINESS parties are encouraged to respond to this notice by submitting statements of qualifications following the instructions below. The responses must be specific to each of the qualifications listed above to show that the respondent meets each qualification or has the skills and experience. The submittals must NOT exceed 15 pages, TOTAL. Please note that this is NOT a request for proposals and that there is NO solicitation available at this time. A determination by the Government to proceed with the acquisition as a Set-aside for the 8(a) Program, HUBZone, Small Business, or Unrestricted, is within the discretion of the Government. All responses are due to the US Department of Labor, ATTENTION: Mrs. Paula Miller-Sheelor, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW, Room N4308, Washington, DC 20210, by 3:00 PM EST, February 20, 2008.