Y--Y-STAFF HOUSING, EAGLE ALASKA

GENERAL CONTRACT INFORMATION: This is an amendment to pre-solicitation notice issued on December 3, 2007 (Solicitation N9917080014). This advance notice is being issued as a Request For Proposal by the National Park Service, Alaska Regional Office under Solicitation Number N991708A014. NAICS Code will be 236117 and the size standard is $31M. This acquisition will be full and open competition. The award will be based upon the best value to the government considering tradeoffs between price and non-price related factors. An example of the non-price evaluation factors follow, however; potential offerors will need to refer to the solicitation (when issued) for the selection criteria/factors to be evaluated by the government since they are subject to change. A) EXPERIENCE - PROJECTS OF A SIMILAR NATURE, MAGNITUDE AND SCOPE; LOCATED IN AN EXTREME ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT WITH VERY LIMITED ACCESS; B) PAST PERFORMANCE - IN RELATION TO THE EXPERIENCE/PROJECTS SUBMITTED; AND C) CAPACITY - ABILITY TO PERFORM THIS PROJECT RELATIVE TO OTHER WORK. The importance and weighting of the non-price factors in relation to price has yet to be determined by the source selection authority. The estimated range of this project is $350,000 - $500,000. The government intends to award a contract without discussions with the potential contractors. This project is subject to the Davis-Bacon Act. Any resulting contract will be firm-fixed price. Funds are available for the proposed action, however, if the project is cancelled, all proposal preparation costs will be borne by the offeror. Responders are advised that the requirement(s) may be delayed, cancelled or revised at any time during the solicitation, selection, evaluation, negotiation, and/or final award process based on decisions related to DOI and NPS changes. Contractors are required to be registered in the Central Contractor Registration (CCR) government system prior to award to be eligible for a government contract - the link can be found at http://www.ccr.gov/ -- we advise potential offerors to begin the registration process when they prepare their proposal to ensure the registration in the CCR database is complete and in-place should they be selected for the award. In the event an offeror is not registered in CCR at the time the contracting officer is ready to award the contract, the contracting officer will proceed to the next eligible successful offeror registered in the CCR database. Refer to FAR 52.204-7, Central Contractor Registration, "If the Offeror does not become registered in the CCR database in the time prescribed by the Contracting Officer, the Contracting Officer will proceed to award to the next otherwise successful registered Offeror." The anticipated posting date to the NBC and Federal Business Opportunities Website will be on or about March 31, 2008 (subject to change) and proposals will be due on or about April 30, 2008 (subject to change) Alaska Local Time. The solicitation (and subsequent amendments if applicable) and all related documents can be downloaded electronically (once posted) from the DOI NBC Website at http://ideasec.nbc.gov/ AND the National Park Service Public ftp site (which will contain drawings, specifications, etc.) that are not posted at the IDEAS-EC website. Potential offerors must ensure their browsers are set up to view/access Public ftp sites. NO HARD COPY DOCUMENTS WILL BE ISSUED. Proposals must be delivered (if submitting by courier, USPS, UPS, DHL or FedEx) to the National Park Service, Alaska Regional Office, 240 West 5th Avenue, Anchorage, Alaska 99501-2327, Attention: Marichu N. Relativo, Contract Officer, 5th Floor. Facsimile or oral proposals will NOT be accepted. GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF WORK: Access to Eagle is via a single lane 94 mile dirt road with steep grades and sharp turns. The road is closed from October until May due to extreme winter conditions. The successful offeror will provide all labor, materials, transportation, travel, tools, and necessary supervision to construct one 1100 square foot single family residence with attached garage/mud room located in Eagle, Alaska, as will be described in the requirements, including site work, related utilities, and landscaping. Housing may be modular, pre-manufactured or constructed on site and must meet NPS performance requirements. Access constraints limit modular or pre-manufactured units to 14 foot x 40 foot sections. Offerors proposing on-site construction will be required to provide detailed plans and specifications as part of their proposal. Construction of a water well will be included as an option and may be awarded as funding permits. The water well price will be evaluated and added to the base price during the source selection process (refer to FAR 52.217-5, Evaluation of Options). Other work will include (but not limited to) septic system, electrical, propane, fuel oil and associated site improvements that include driveway and grading. This will be a bonded requirement, consequently, the submission of Bid Bonds will be "required" at the time proposals are due from potential contractors. Point of Contact: Ms. Marichu N. Relativo, Phone +1 (555) 000-0000, FAX +1 (555) 000-0000, email is contact@example.gov Place of Performance: ADDRESS: Eagle, AK; POSTAL CODE: 99738; COUNTRY: United States of America.