SPECIAL NOTICE USA-SNOTE-050927-006 *********UPDATED*************** NORTHWESTERN REGIONAL PRE-SOLICITATION MEETINGS FOR ARMY TRANSFORMATION 17 October 2005: Fort Riley, Kansas at the Ft Riley Conference Center Ballroom, 446 Seitz Drive, Ft. Riley, KS. 19 October 2005: Fort Carson, Colorado at the Doubletree Hotel Colorado Springs-World Arena, 1775 E. Cheyenne Mountain Blvd., Colorado Springs, Colorado 21 October 2005: Fort Lewis, Washington at the Marriott Courtyard - Downtown Tacoma, 1515 Commerce Street, Tacoma, WA. ***************************AGENDA******************************* 0800 0942 Registration 0943 1000 Greetings & Introductions 1000 1100 Program Overview 1100 1200 Acquisition Strategy 1200 1330 Lunch 1330 1430 Small Business & Bonding Overview 1430 1530 Panel Q&A 1530 1600 BREAK 1600 1630 10 TIPS TO IMPROVE YOUR PROPOSAL 1700 Networking********************************************************* Over the past few months, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has conducted national market research by holding nationwide Industry Forums to seek industry capability and input into how to execute a multi-billion dollar military construction (MILCON) program across the United States. In order to achieve the quality, flexibility, adaptability, sustainability, as well as time and cost savings that the Army is wanting to achieve, industry told USACE that it will have to consider the MILCON Program to ope n up its Program to many different types of construction methods that are available and utilized throughout the United States by private industry. Industry shared four major recommendations: 1. Utilize industry best practices, standards and codes. 2.Utilize performance based (outcome oriented) type contracts versus its current prescriptive specifications that specify exactly what materials will be used, how the facility is to be constructed, a nd when each phase of the construction will be completed . 3. Construction methods such as pre-fabricated, pre-engineered, panelized or tilt-up walls and permanent modular construction methods are solutions that the Government should seriously consider in order to meet the needs of the Army. 4. The government could achieve cost savings through bulk buys of materials if awarded more than one of the same type of facility. ************************************************************************************ Northwestern Division (NWD) is still seeking feedback from the construction industry in order to determine our acquisition strategy for the FY06-FY11 Military Construction Program based on the three (3) Pre-solicitation meetings at Fort Riley, Fort Carson, Ft. Lewis, and the Market Research Questionnaire. In order to determine the best acquisition strategies we need to identify firms capable of performing contracts of various sizes and locations. A survey has been developed to assist us structuring the number and type of contracts needed to accomplish the p roposed program which could exceed $2B over the next few years. NWD covers 14 states and due to the geographic and market diversity we are considering dividing our region into five zones to promote maximum participation by small and local businesses. ************************************************************************************ The zones are defined and are used in the survey as follows: Zone 1 - Northern Plains (ND, SD, MN, WI) Ellsworth & Minot AFB, Ft. McCoy, Grand Forks, Twin Cities Army Ammunition Plant and Badger Army Ammunition Plant Zone 2 - Southern Plains (NE, IA, KS, MO) Forts Riley, Leavenworth, Leonard Wood; Offutt, McConnell and Whiteman AFBs; Iowa Army Ammunition Plant, Kansas Army Ammunition Plan and Lake City Army Ammunition Plant Zone 3 - Front Range (WY, CO) Fort Carson, Buckley AFB, Schriever AFB, Peterson AFB, Air Force Academy, FE Warren AFB, Cheyenne Mountain AFB and Pueblo Army Depot Zone 4 - Northwest Plains (Ea stern WA, ID, MT) Fairchild AFB, Mountain Home AFB and Malmstrom AFB Zone 5 - Northwest Coast (Western WA, OR) Fort Lewis, McChord AFB, Yakima Training Center, Portland Air National Guard All firms are encouraged to complete the survey which can be found at http://surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=433321323853. Copy and paste the link into your internet address box and follow the instructions. PLEASE DO NOT ACCESS THE SURVEY UNTIL OCTOBER 12th AFTER 5:00 PM CENTRAL TIME. The survey will be available until October 31, 2005. You may print out a hard copy for viewing (see attachment B). While not mandatory you are strongly encourage to complete the survey and provide the most accurate information of the number, size and capabilities of firms to accomplish projects from $1M - $200M. Our intent is to structure contracts which can be perform ed by small business therefore, information from these firms is essential. Please take time to complete this survey! Additionally the gathered information will facilitate the development of teaming arrangements, for more information on teaming arrangements please check the SBA website at http://sba.gov or contact any Small Business Representative listed below: Telephone calls regarding Small Business matters (Kansas City District) should be made to: Arthur Saulsberry
+1 (555) 000-0000. Telephone calls regarding Small Business matters (Omaha District) should be made to: Hubert Carter
+1 (555) 000-0000. Telephone calls regarding Small Business matters (Seattle District) should be made to: Mark Roush
+1 (555) 000-0000. Telephone calls regarding Small Business matters (Headquarters) should be made to: Carol McIntrye
+1 (555) 000-0000. Additional Websites: American Subcontractors Association http://www.asaonline.com Associated Builder and Contractors http://www.abc.org Design Build Institute of America http://www.dbia.org/index.html Minority Supplier Council (Serving Western Missouri and Kansas) http://www.m-s-c.org National Minority Business Council, Inc. http://www.nmbc.org National Subcontractors Association http://nsca.us Procurement Technical Assistance Centers http://www.dla.mil/db/procurem.htm The Associated General Contractors of America http://www.agc.org/index.ww Pre-Solicitation Meeting Registration You are highly encouraged to register by e-mail to
contact@example.gov, or fax to F. Brown at 402-221- 4119 and provide the information (using attachment A), also please view individual districts websites for directions to the Pre-solicitation M eetings and further updates. LAST DAY for Pre-registration is Friday October 14th at 5:00 PM Central time. Contractors may view the following websites at the following hyperlinks for updates: Kansas City District Internet address http://nwk-ebs.nwk.usace.army.mil/ebs/advertisedsolicitations.asp click on Other Opportunities, Omaha District Internet address http://ebs-nwo.wes.army.mil/ click on Other Opportunities, Seattle District Internet address http://www.nws.usace.army.mil/ct/ebs/AdvertisedSolicitations.asp click on Other opportunities. PLEASE GO TO ANY DISTRICT WEBSITE TO PRINT OUT ATTACHMENTS A & B.
