Seismic Retrofit of the Historic Union Station in Tacoma, WA

THIS IS A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION AND REVERSED INDUSTRY ENGAGEMENT

for 

Seismic Retrofit of the 

Historic Union Station in Tacoma, WA

THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL  

The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), Public Buildings Service, Acquisition Project Delivery – Capital Construction Division, is conducting market research: (1) To determine if there are adequate Small Business, HUBZone small business, Women-Owned small business, or Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned small business contractors capable of performing the construction services for the requirement described herein.  If it is determined that adequate competition exists, the GSA may set the requirement aside for competition among the selected group; (2) Determine constructability for the Design Concept, (3) Provide Rough Order of Magnitude cost estimate, and (4) Provide general comments.     

GSA is seeking all qualified, interested sources (both Large and Small Businesses) to respond to this Request for Information to provide General Contracting services for the Seismic Retrofit of the Historic Union Station in Tacoma, WA.  Under the Design-Bid-Build project delivery method, the contractor provides a firm-fixed-price.  

Any resultant contract shall adhere to the GSA Public Buildings Service Core Buildings Standards, Building Information Modeling, and Owners Project Requirements. 

This office anticipates award of a contract for these services in Spring/Summer of 2027.  Contract duration is estimated to be two (2) years and eleven (11) months.  The applicable NAICS code for this requirement is 236220, Commercial and Institutional Building Construction.  The Small Business Size Standard is $45 million.  The estimated magnitude of construction is the range of $50-$60 million.   

All interested parties may submit to the Contracting Officer a written Letter of Interest including a Capability Statement addressing the following information (five (5) single-sided page limit in pdf (Portable Document Format)).  Additional pages will not be considered.  All information submitted is subject to verification.  Additional information may be requested to substantiate responses.  The Government will use this information to assess your firm’s capability to perform this project.

QUESTIONS: 

1. Name of your company, Unique Entity ID (SAM), address, point of contact with phone number and email address.
2. Does your company have an active registration at www.sam.gov? 
3. Business size for the assigned NAICS code, which can be located at the U.S. Small Business Administration website: www.sba.gov.  In addition to the size of business, indicate any other socioeconomic designations such as 8(a), Small Disadvantaged Business, HUBZone Small Business, Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business, and/or Women-Owned Small Business.
4. Company's capability to perform a contract of this magnitude and complexity working as a general contractor by including a brief description of three (3) projects of similar scope, size, complexity, and duration completed within the past seven (7) years, customer names and phone numbers, timeliness of performance, and dollar values of the projects.  Work performed as a subcontractor is not considered as evidence of capability to succeed as a prime contractor. 
5. Provide evidence of your company's bonding capability verifying the ability to bond a single project of a magnitude up to $50,000,000.  In addition, provide evidence of your company’s aggregate bonding capacity.
6. If your company is/will be part of a joint venture, state the name(s) of the joint venture members and the business size(s) of each.
7. Do you currently hold a GSA IDIQ contract? If so, please provide the contract number.
8. If you are responding to this Notice from outside the geographic location of the work, please provide a narrative detailing how you would perform the work at a fair and reasonable price to the Government.
9. Based upon the available design concept documents. Please provide a Rough Order of Magnitude estimate, determine the constructability for the Design Concept, and provide general comments that you feel is pertinent to the requirement.  

RESPONSES TO THIS RFI ARE DUE NO LATER THAN (NLT) September 14, 2026, AT 8:00 AM CENTRAL TIME.  Electronic submission (no more than 25 MB) of the statement of capabilities package may be submitted to:  Kristin Gilliland (Contracting Officer) at kristin.gilliland@gsa.gov.  Please include the subject line: “Tacoma Seismic RFI Response”.

Questions or comments regarding this notice may be addressed to Ms. Gilliland by email.

Responses to this Request for Information shall be used for planning purposes only and shall not commit GSA to issue a solicitation(s) for this requirement.  The Government is not obligated to and will not pay for any information received from the respondents as a result of this market research.  It is, however, anticipated that a solicitation or solicitations based on the outcome of this market survey will be published and that a subsequent contract or contracts from the solicitation(s) will be awarded. 

NOTICE: The Final Design Concept is available. In order to receive a copy of these documents, Interested Parties must complete the provided CUI Information Request Form and return the completed/signed document to the Contracting Officer at Kristin.Gilliland@gsa.gov. Documents will be distributed to Interested Parties who return properly completed forms.

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