NATIONWIDE IDIQ BLAST STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING SERVICES
The General Services Administration (GSA), Public Buildings Services (PBS) Office of the Design and Construction, under the Office of the Chief Architect within GSA's Central Office is seeking services of multiple contractors to provide Blast, Physical Security and Structural Engineering Services. The planned services are national in scope supporting projects, on an as needed basis within three (3) distinct geographic zones, encompassing eleven (11) GSA regions and the GSA Central Office. This synopsis is intended to result in multiple single awards. Contracts will be set-aside for 100% small businesses.
PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The contractor shall provide professional engineering services to perform studies on existing properties, leases spaces, and new buildings. There is a need to determine the safety of structures with regard to blast and other security threats and the associated progressive collapse hazards and mitigation alternatives. To determine the building's safety, studies and reviews must be conducted by structural engineers that are specialists in these specific areas. In addition, the firms provide a needed pool of engineers to support the Government engineers for response to natural hazards such as earthquakes, wind storms and floods.
The level of services required from the Contractor may vary, depending on GSA's needs throughout the life of the contract. All work will be performed based on firm, fixed price task orders issued, as needed, under the basic contract for services. The fixed price of these task orders shall include the cost for all management, supervision, labor, materials, supplies, and equipment (except as otherwise provided). Further, the Contractor shall plan, schedule, coordinate, and assure effective performance of all services described in the respective task order.
The types of work required may include, but not limited to, the following:
• Preparation of blast/threat hazard reports and evaluation of existing buildings (including historical buildings).
• Risk Assessment and Risk Analysis to determine the vulnerability risk of Government owned and leased facilities.
• Two and three dimensional computer modeling and analysis of explosive and impact effects/events.
• Engineering peer reviews on projects designed by others.
• Pre-design and pre-purchase surveys.
• Analytical Evaluation of primary systems and non-structural components.
• Preliminary design, recommendations, and the preparation of reports for repair and strengthening of various buildings.
• ATC 20 post disaster assessment experience and firm availability to respond to an event.
• Blast/threat resistant design, including associated progressive collapse analysis.
• Assessment of terrorist related hazards and recommendations to limit risk.
• General Structural Engineering Design and Analysis
• Cost Estimating.
OBJECTIVE: The objective of this SOW is to procure the services of three (3) Contractors to provide structural and blast/threat engineering services to manage national needs when circumstances dictate, with each Contractor being responsible for a distinct geographic zone.
REQUIRED SKILL/QUALIFICATIONS: The services of qualified engineering firms are required to support this effort. The following disciplines are required:
• Blast/threat Evaluation
• Blast/threat Resistant Design Engineering
• Structural Engineering
• Cost Estimation
The contract will be made to the most technically qualified Architecture-Engineering (A-E) firms in the United States using FAR Part 36 and the Architect-Engineer Brooks Act procurement procedures The Government intends to award up to three (3) National Indefinite Delivery - Indefinite Quality (IDIQ) contracts pursuant to procedures established by the Brooks Act and FAR Subpart 36.6, with a base year and four (4) one-year options, for a total of five (5) years This requirement will be 100% Set-Aside for Small Businesses. Each contract would be nationwide in scope (i.e. all States and US Territories).
DELIVERABLES: The specificity of the required deliverables will be defined at the issuance of specific project requirements issued as task orders on a case-by-case basis.
DELIVERY SCHEDULE: The schedules for the delivery of cost estimates or other services as required will be defined in specific statements of services upon.
LOCATIONS: The geographic zones are defined as follows:
• Eastern Zone – GSA Regions 1, 2, 3, 4, 11, and Central Office
• Central Zone – GSA Regions 5, 6, 7, and 8
• Western Zone – GSA Regions 9 and 10
The GSA Regions are (1) New England, Boston, MA; (2) Northeast & Caribbean, New York, NY; (3) Mid Atlantic, Philadelphia, PA; (4) Southeast-Sunbelt, Atlanta, GA; (5) Great Lakes, Chicago, IL; (6) The Heartland, Kansas City, MO; (7) Greater Southwest, Fort Worth, TX; (8) Rocky Mountain, Denver, CO; (9) Pacific Rim, San Francisco, CA; (10) Northwest/Arctic, Auburn, WA; and (11) National Capital, Washington, DC. Central Office, Washington, DC may also use these services.
SELECTION CRITERIA: The selection criteria are listed below in descending order of importance:
CRITERIA I: PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIENCE OF FIRMS AND KEY PERSONNEL (35%)
The evaluation and selection will be based on the professional qualifications and relevant experience of the team and individuals. Qualifications must demonstrate unique knowledge in the field of structural and blast/threat evaluation and engineering. Firms should describe the time commitment of key members to projects.
•Blast/threat designer qualifications: Contractor's personnel shall have formal training in Structural dynamics and experience in the design and retrofit of structures for the effects of explosive effects and impacts on structural systems and engineering analysis. The Contractor shall be familiar with and be capable of using industry standard computer codes, and be knowledgeable in both linear elastic and non-linear analysis methodologies. The lead blast engineer shall have a minimum of five (5) years of blast resistant design and have demonstrated experience in performing work of a similar nature and scope within the past two (2) years.
CRITERIA II: SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCED AND TECHNICAL COMPETENCE (30%)
• Familiarity with GSA, Federal, NEHRP and national seismic codes, standards and guidelines;
• Familiarity with dynamic response of buildings to explosive effects and impact forces;
• Experience with existing (historical) buildings;
• Familiarity with the interagency Security Committee (ISC) Risk Management Process;
• Familiarity with blast resistant design, including, but not limited to progressive collapse analysis and calculations;
• Familiarity with new and innovative systems which could be incorporated into building structures to reduce the effects of impact forces and blast;
• Familiarity with behavior of non-structural elements under shock loads;
• Develop Risk Assessment and Risk Analyses;
• Blast Testing; and
• ATC - 20 Post disaster assessment experience.
CRITERIA III: CAPABILITIES OF FIRM (20%)
Firms shall specify which geographic zone they are capable of performing services within and demonstrate this in their capability statement. The Engineers principal office for the IDIQ contract must be located within the geographic zone, or the firm must demonstrate the presence of a branch office within the geographic zone that has been operational for a minimum of two (2) years prior to the date of this announcement. Key personnel listed in Criteria I must physically reside in the geographic zone.
• The team must also demonstrate the capability to work nationally.
• Demonstrate the capacity to mobilize and perform post disaster assessments in response to an event.
CRITERIA IV: PAST PERFORMANCE (15%)
The evaluation and selection will be based on the contractor demonstrating their past performance in providing Supplemental Blast/Structural design services with respect to GSA, or other Federal Agencies such as VA, DOD, or FAA. Factors include:
• Capacity to accomplish the work in required time frames; and
• Evidence of previous project management performance, quality control, coordination, scheduling and cost control.
SELECTION INTERVIEW REQUIREMENTS: The selection employs a process to develop a short list of approximately 5-6 firms, using the listed selection factors as criteria. The short listed firms will be invited to make an oral presentation to the Evaluation Board which will make a recommendation based on the selection criteria of 1 firm in each geographic zone that GSA will negotiate with for an IDIQ contract. Specific information for the interviews will be provided after selection of the firms to be interviewed.
The physical location of these presentations is TBD.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: The submittal information must be included in the SF 330 package, (cover letter, attachments, and excess number of pages will be excluded from the evaluation process).
TASK ORDERS: Upon award, all services will be procured through the issuance of individual task orders, each defined by a separate scope of work. Contractors will be provided a fair opportunity to be considered for each task order exceeding $3,500 as provided in 48 C.F.R. and FAR Part 16.505. In deciding which Contractor should receive award of a task order, consideration shall be given to:
I. The anticipated price or cost of the work to be performed;
2. The Contractor's experience in performing work similar to the services in the task order;
3. Past performance of the contractors under the contract, including quality, timeliness and cost control;
4. Minimum order requirements, if applicable;
5. Existing Contractor workload and the potential for issuance of further task orders to interfere with existing workload; and
6. Other related factors pertaining to the scope of work.
The agency reserves the right to request task order proposals from multiple Contractors.
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE: The period of performance for this contract shall be a base period of one-year, plus four (4) option years. The total contract duration is five years.
MINIMUM GUARANTEE/MAXIMUM ORDER LIMITATION: A minimum guarantee of $5,000.00 applies to the base year only for ALL contracts. The Maximum Order Limitation (MOL) will be $1,000,000.00 for base year and four (4) option years, estimate of $5,000,000.00 over a period of approximately five (5).
BUSINESS SIZE STANDARD: The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code is 541330, Engineering Services (For small business purposes: $22,500,000.00 in annual gross receipts for a period of three years). This is a 100% Total Small Business Set-Aside. GSA will evaluate small business offers using the evaluation factors referenced above.
SUBMISSION OF QUALIFICATIONS: Firms having the capabilities to perform the services described in this announcement are invited to respond by submitting a completed Standard Form 330 - Architect-Engineer Qualifications on or before 12:00 pm Eastern Time on Monday, November 7, 2022, by email to collette.scott@gsa.gov and tyrone.dallas@gsa.gov. All questions must be submitted via email under this project by Friday, October 14, 2022 on or before 12:00 pm Eastern Time. (NO TELEPHONE CALLS PLEASE). One copy of the SF 330 submission is required. The SF 330 shall have a page limit of 30 pages. A page is one side of a sheet. Page size shall not be greater than 8.5"x11". SF 330, Parts I and II, including any supplemental information necessary to further address the selection criteria. The following information shall be on the outside of the sealed envelope(s): 1) Solicitation Number/Title, 2) Due Date and, 3) Closing Time. Only films responding by the specified time will be considered for selection. Late responses are subject to FAR 52.214-7.
Contractors must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) database prior to award of contract. Lack of registration in the SAM database will make a contractor ineligible for award. To register online, visit the SAM Internet site: https://www.sam.gov. Contracts will be procured under the Brooks Act of 1972 (Public Law 92-582) and FAR Part 36.6. This is not a Request for Proposals.
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