Solicitation for Erbil Airbase Taxiway

SOLICITATION NOTICE W5J9JE-20-R-0004 PROJECT TITLE: Erbil Airbase Alternate Taxiway Construction located at Erbil Airbase, Iraq AGENCY: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Afghanistan District NAICS: 237310 - Highway, Street, and Bridge Construction CONTRACT SPECIALIST: Ms. Temekka Ellis at Temekka.S.Ellis@usace.army.mil CONTRACTING OFFICER: Mr. Michael Hughes at michael.w.hughes@usace.army.mil PLACE OF PERFORMANCE: U Erbil Airbase, Iraq PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE: 400 Days CONSTRUCTION PROJECT MAGNITUDE: $5,000,000.00 to $10,000,000.00 SOLICITATION NUMBER: W5J9JE-20-R-0004 LAST DAY TO SUBMIT REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI): The last day to submit RFI's is 18 June 2020 @ 12:00 Local Iraq Time. DESCRIPTION: The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Afghanistan District (TAA) has a requirement to construct an alternate taxiway in support of United States Army Central (ARCENT) operations located on Erbil Airbase, Iraq. TYPE OF CONTRACT: This solicitation will be for a single Firm Fixed Price two-phase Design Build construction contract. TYPE OF SET-ASIDE: This acquisition will be an unrestricted action under full and open competitive conditions. Small and Small Disadvantaged Business requirements are waived for this project due to its location OCONUS. SPECIAL NOTICE: System for Award Management (SAM): Please take notice that the System for Award Management (SAM, www.sam.gov) has a new entity registration requirement that firms submit an "original, signed notarized letter identifying the authorized Entity Administrator for the entity associated with the Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS) number before the registration will be activated." This applies to all new entity registrations and all entity registration renewals, effective 29 April 2018. Further information behind this new requirement is posted to the General Services Administration's (GSA) announcement page at https://www.gsa.gov/samupdate. Please also refer to Federal Service Desk's (FSD) instructions on how to comply with this new requirement. NOTE: the instructions are different for domestic (U.S. based) and international (not U.S. based) firms. Offerors are reminded that the solicitation will include the provision FAR 52.204-7 SAM, and the resulting award will include either the clause FAR 52.204-13 SAM Maintenance or 52.212-4 Contract Terms and Conditions--Commercial Items. These provisions/clauses require all contractors to register and maintain an active SAM entity registration in order to be eligible for contract awards, as prescribed by the regulation at FAR Subpart 4.11.In order to be eligible for the contract award resulting from the solicitation, Offerors are advised to take immediate action to ensure your SAM entity registration is current and/or will be current at the time of proposal receipt by this contracting office. Instructions for domestic entities (located in the U.S. or its outlying areas): https://fsd.gov/fsd-gov/answer.do?sysparm_kbid=d2e67885db0d5f00b3257d321f96194b&sysparm_search=kb0013183 Instructions for international entities (not located in the U.S. or its outlying areas): https://www.fsd.gov/fsd-gov/answer.do?sysparm_kbid=dbf8053adb119344d71272131f961946&sysparm_search=KB0013221 SOLICITATION WEBSITES: FEDERAL BUSINES OPPORTUNITIES: Notification of the solicitation's availability will be posted via beta.SAM.gov website https://beta.sam.gov SYSTEM FOR AWARD MANAGEMENT: Contractors must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) at https://www.sam.gov prior to award DOD Safe: All prospective contractors must submit their proposals via Department of Defense Secure Access File Exchange (DOD SAFE) https://safe.apps.mil. Instructions will be provided in the solicitation. REQUIRED REGISTRATIONS: Failure to have an active and completed registration in any one of the following databases may determine an offeror ineligible for award and removed from competition. A successful offeror with incomplete or expired registrations at the time of award may not be eligible for a contract. In such instances, the Government will award to the next successful offeror who is eligible for award. The Government reserves the right to determine an offeror non?responsible at any time after receipt of proposal if the offeror is found to be ineligible for installation access in accordance with CENTCOM Clause 5152.225?5916, Mandatory Eligibility for Installation Access. Information contained within an offeror's registration must be current and valid. The responsibility of maintaining current information and an acceptable status contained in an offeror's registration rests solely on the offeror. Joint Contingency Contracting System (JCCS): https://www.jccs.gov If an offeror is a joint venture (JV), the JV entity must have a valid registration representing the JV as one business/firm/entity. This is applicable to SAM, JCCS, and AISA and MOCI. The Government will not accept separate registrations and licenses for each separate entity representing the JV. An offeror's subcontractors are required to be registered and active in JCCS. In accordance with CENTCOM Clause 5152.225?5916, Mandatory Eligibility for Installation Access, offerors are required to submit a listing of all proposed subcontractors, at all tiers, to the contracting officer with the submission of their proposal, and provide updates during the life of the contract when subcontractors are added or removed. If no subcontractors are expected to perform during the life of the contract, a bidder must submit a negative response to the contracting officer within its proposal. Subcontractors at every tier are held to the same installation access requirements, as noted above, as prime contractors. NOTICE TO OFFERORS: The Government reserves the right to cancel any or all of the solicitation(s), either before or after the proposal opening with no obligation to the offeror by the Government. POINT-OF-CONTACT: The USACE TAA Contracting Office will be the sole point-of-contact for this solicitation. The Primary Points of Contact for this solicitation are Contract Specialist Ms. Temekka Ellis at Temekka.S.Ellis@usace.army.mil and the Secondary Point of Contact is Contracting Officer Mr. Michael Hughes at michael.w.hughes@usace.army.mil.