Remodel Dietetics Kitchen, Phoenix VA Campus

Description:  This is a SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE for information only. Replies by interested parties will be used by this agency for preliminary planning purposes. No proposal or contract will be awarded from this notice. No reimbursement will be made for any costs associated with providing information in response to this notice or any follow up information requests. Items below subject to change. The U. S. Army Corps of Engineers has been tasked to solicit and award a firm fixed price contract to construct (DBB), Remodel Dietetics Kitchen, AZ

Project Scope: This project will modernize the Dietetics Kitchen on the first floor of building 1, on the Phoenix Arizona Veteran Administration Healthcare System (PVAHCS) campus. The construction project will be done in one phase and will include a leased temporary mobile kitchen structure (managed by the eventual contractor), complete with food services, food production equipment and six (6) administrative workspaces in a shared location on the PVAHCS grounds. The temporary kitchen will enable Nutrition, Hospitality and Food Services (NHFS) to continue food production for 900 meals per day. The temporary kitchen will be all inclusive, include appropriate equipment and be connected to Phoenix VA current gas, water and electrical utility infrastructure. The result of the remodeled Dietetics Kitchen will be a complete “turn-key” project with all equipment purchased, stored, assembled, connected, and tested by the contractor. The new construction will include office spaces, walls, ceilings, flooring and utilities in the nutrition cooking and food storage, refrigeration areas. This new remodel will correct the infrastructure deficiencies, remediate pest infestation, and improve workplace safety over an 11,500 square feet area. Construction activities will be done in a manner that allows for continued operation of food production for the PVAHCS-Nutrition, Hospitality and Food Service.

The type of set-aside, either small business or among the socioeconomic categories, if any, will depend upon the responses to this sources sought notice.  The purpose of this notice is to gain knowledge of the experience and capabilities of both small and large business concerns in the construction industry, in performing similar projects in magnitude and complexity of this requirement.

The Government is seeking to identify qualified sources either singularly or as part of an assembled team under North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code 236220 Commercial and Institutional Building Construction, which has a small business size standard of $45,000,000.00.

The estimated construction price range for this project is between $10,000,000 and $25,000,000. The total contract performance period is anticipated to be: 24 months

In accordance with RFO 52.219-14, Limitations on Subcontracting, small business prime contractors will not pay more than 85 percent of the amount paid by the Government for contract performance, excluding the cost of materials, to subcontractors that are not similarly situated entities. Any work that a similarly situated entity further subcontracts will count towards the prime contractor's 85 percent subcontract amount that cannot be exceeded.

Minimum capabilities required, include previous experience of projects similar in magnitude and complexity.

Interested sources shall submit a capability statement demonstrating their ability to perform the work as described above. Responses should include the following information, which shall not exceed a total of six pages

1. Offerors name, address, point of contact, with telephone numbers, and email addresses.
2. Business size/classification, to include any designations as a Small Business, HUBZone, Service Disabled, Veteran Owned, Women-Owned, Disadvantaged Small Business, 8(a), in addition to others, and NAICS code designations.
3. Bonding capability (construction bonding level per single contract and aggregate construction bonding level, both expressed in dollars; along with current available bonding capacity).
4. Past experience on individual projects of similar scope and magnitude, as described above in the project scope, and describing no more than three (3) projects that are complete or at least 50% construction complete and within the past six (6) years. Examples MUST have a construction value greater than $4,000,000. Examples occurring on a military installation (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corp) within the continental United States or Allied Military installation and/or at a VA campus built to US codes and standard and under a US Government Contracting Agency is a plus.  The projects should be similar in nature to what is described above in the Project Scope. The project title, location, general description to demonstrate relevance to the proposed project, the Offerors’ role, dollar value of contract, type of contract (design-build or design bid build), and name of the company, agency, or Government entity for which the work was performed with contact information (reference name, phone number and e-mail address) should be included for each project. VERY IMPORTANT: work scopes self-performed vs subcontracted and percentage of self-performed vs subcontracted). If past performance was as a JV, indicate which scopes was performed by which JV member
5. If submitting as a JV, please include information about the JV (mentor-protégé agreement, JV agreement, etc)

Submittals will not be returned. This is not a Request for Proposals, only a Request for Information. No award will result from this Sources Sought Notice. This notice does not constitute any commitment by the Government.