The solicitation will be available on or about 12 February 2006 in lieu of 27 November 2006. Funds are not presently available for this contract. Government award of a contract under the terms of this procurement is contingent upon the passage of a bill for military construction funding currently pending before Congress. No legal liability on the part of the Government for award of any contract may arise until funds are made available to the Contracting Officer for this contract and the Contracting Officer confirms the funds availability by written notice to all offerors participating in the procu rement. This is an UNRESTRICTED REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP) BEST VALUE TRADE OFF WITH HUBZONE PREFERENCE; all responsible sources may submit an offer. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code is 236115, New Single Family Housing Construction ( except for Operative Builders), $31.0 M average annual gross revenue for the last three (3) fiscal years. The estimated cost range of this project is between $25,000,000 and $100,000,000. The performance period for this project is 510 calendar days. The Go vernment intends to issue this solicitation through the use of the Internet only. Amendments to this solicitation will be issued as Internet only. No additional media (Compact Disks, Floppy Disks, Faxes or paper) will be provided unless the Government dete rmines that it is necessary. It is therefore the contractors responsibility to check daily for any posted changes to this solicitation. Please note there are special instruction pertaining to hand delivered bids. These special instructions can be viewed i n Section 00100 of the advertised solicitation. ALL BIDDERS ARE ADVISED THAT THIS PROCUREMENT MAY BE DELAYED CANCELLED OR REVISED AT ANY TIME DURING THE SOLICITAITON, EVALUATION AND/OR FINAL AWARD PROCESS. Project consists of providing whole neighborhood revitalization by design and construction of junior and senior noncommissioned officer (JNCO and SNCO) housing units and to demolish and replace inadequate family housing units in the Gatewood One, Two, and Three neighborhoods. Construction consists of variously configured units, equipment and appliances for functional living to include upgrades of associated neighborhood amenities and supporting infrastructure with modifications to accommodate the requireme nts for the handicapped. Both a technical and a price proposal will be required. The basis for award is BEST VALUE TRADE-OFF. It is the Governments intent to award the contract as a best value procurement by using the Trade-Off process described in FAR Part 15. This process p ermits tradeoffs between price and technical merit/quality and allows the Government to accept other than the lowest priced offer. Evaluation factors may consist of the following: evaluation of housing/site design and engineering, key personnel, experien ce on similar contracts, and past performance. The Los Angeles District subcontracting goals are as follows: 51.2% with small business, 8.8% with small disadvantaged business, 7.3% with women owned small business, 3.1% with hubzone small business, and 1.5% with service disabled veteran owned small bus iness. All interested contractors are reminded that the successful contractor will be expected to place subcontracts to the maximum practicable extent with small and disadvantaged firms in accordance with the Provisions of Public Law 95-507. ORDERING SOLICITATION: The solicitation, W912PL-07-R-0002, will be available on or about 12 February 2007. Plans and specifications will be provided through the use of the Internet only. Amendments to this solicitation will be issued through the Inter net only. The solicitation and all amendments for this acquisition will be posted on a secure Government Internet website known as FedTeDS. Access to the solicitation documents on the FedTeDS website will be via a hyperlink. The hyperlink will be inserte d into the notice s for this acquisition posted on both the Army Single Face to Industry (ASFI) website (https://acquisition.army.mil/asfi/) and the FedBizOpps (FBO) website (www.fbo.gov) once the solicitation is issued. The hyper-link will not appear as a website address, but as text as follows: Technical Data Package (TDP) 01. Viewing/downloading documents from FedTeDS will require prior registration in Central Contractor Registration (www.ccr.gov). If you are a first-time FedTeDS user, you will also be required to reg ister in FedTeDS (www.fedteds.gov) before accessing the solicitation documents. To register, click on the Register with FedTeDS hyperlink, then select the Begin Vendor/Contractor Registration Process option. The following information will be required: C entral Contractor Registration (CCR) Marketing Partner Identification Number (MPIN); DUNS Number or CAGE Code; Telephone Number; and E-Mail Address. Once registered with FedTeDS, interested parties will then be able to utilize the posted hyperlink to log in and access the solicitation documents. Important Note: Solicitation documents can be accessed ONLY by using the hyperlink available on either FBO or ASFI; FedTeDS is not searchable by any other means. Please note that ALL firms who want to access the solicitation both prospective primes and subs will be required to be registered with FedTeDS and therefore must be CCR-registered, have a MPIN, and either a DUNS number or CAGE code. For further information, please click on the links on the FedTeDS homep age to FAQs, the Vendor User Guide, and FedTeDS Help. For additional assistance with the FedTeDS website, please contact the Ogden Electronic Business (EB) Operations Support Team (OST) at
+1 (555) 000-0000 (toll free),
+1 (555) 000-0000, or
contact@example.gov (Subject: FedTeDS Assistance). IT IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE CONTRACTOR TO CHECK FEDTEDS FREQUENTLY FOR ANY AMENDMENTS OR CHANGES TO THE SOLICITATION. PLEASE NOTE: THIS SYSTEM DOES NOT HAVE THE CAPAIBLITY OF PRODUCING A BIDDERS LIST AND YOU MUST BE REGISTED WTH CCR TO RECEIVE AN AWARD FROM THE GOVERNMENT.
