Repair and Minor Construction in Support of U. S. Army Medical Command's Medical Research and Materiel Command (MRMC)
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Mobile District is planning to advertise an Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Multiple Award Task Order Contract (MATOC) solicitation for medical research laboratory facility repair/construction in support of the U.S. Army Medical Command's (MEDCOM) Sustainment, Restoration, and Modernization (SRM) program. The MATOC pool will cover various medical research laboratories. The request for proposal (RFP) number is W91278-15-R-0084.The work of scope will vary from site to site and will require extensive knowledge of the functional operation of medical facilities including; equipment, facility support systems, and building structures. The repair/minor construction relates, but is not limited to the: architectural, mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, security and safety areas of medical research laboratory facilities. The facilities will be in full operation; the contractor will be required to minimize interference with the daily operation of the laboratories and support facilities, and will be required to comply with requirements of a number of regulatory and accrediting bodies such as the American Association for Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care (AAALAC). The facilities to be covered by the intended contract include Bio-Safety Levels (BSL)-2, 3, and 4 research laboratories and laboratory support functions, Animal Bio-safety Levels (ABSL)-2, 3, and 4 animal holding facilities for small and large species to include: non-human primates and vivarium facilities, veterinary treatment facilities, public health/analytical laboratories, field laboratories (dry labs), food analysis and diagnostic laboratories, laboratories working with chemical agents, and facilities that use specialized equipment/chambers.The performing contractor's personnel will be required to meet security and health screening requirements. In addition, there may be facilities or portions of facilities that require medical testing and/or immunization of contractor employees, beyond basic OSHA requirements, before the employees are authorized to work in the controlled room, area, or facility.Location: Medical Research and Materiel Command (MRMC) is not geographically based, but includes Department of Defense (DoD) medical research laboratories. The following installations have research facilities: Fort Detrick, MD (include Forest Glen Annex); Natick, MA; Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD; Fort Rucker, AL; Dover AFB, DE; and Fort Sam Houston, TX; Pikes Peak, CO; and Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington.The Government contemplates two (2) or more Small Business Concern IDIQ contracts resulting from the solicitation, which will include a base year plus four (4) one-year options. Firm Fixed-Price (FFP) task orders will be issued using the contracts. The total maximum value to be shared among all contracts awarded under this solicitation is $49,000,000.00 over five years. There is no guarantee that this maximum value will be distributed equally. Awardees will share this total value through a competitive task order award process. The requirement is handled by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District, Mobile, Alabama. Solicitation documents should be available for download on or around November 2016.The Contract Specialist for this project is Mrs. Sara Logsdon. Questions specific to this solicitation may be answered by sending an email to sara.g.logsdon@usace.army.mil.Note No. 1: All prospective contractors and their subcontractors and suppliers must be registered in Federal Business Opportunities (FedBizOpps) before they will be allowed to download solicitation information. Contractors must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) at https://www.sam.gov/portal/public/SAM/ prior to award of this contract. Solicitation documents will only be available via FedBizOpps. Registration for the solicitation should be made via FedBizOpps Internet Homepage. If you are not registered, the United States government is not responsible for providing you with notifications of any changes to this solicitation. The solicitation will be available only as a direct download. This solicitation will not be issued on CD-ROM. Neither telephonic, mailed, nor fax requests will be accepted. Registration should be completed one week prior to the issue date. It is therefore the Contractors responsibility to monitor the website daily for the solicitation to be posted, and for any posted changes or amendments to this solicitation. The solicitation and all notifications of changes to this solicitation shall only be made through this posting and modifications hereto. The plans, specifications and all notifications of changes to this solicitation shall only be made through this posting and modifications hereto. The solicitation will not be provided in a printed-paper format; however, the Government reserves the right to revert to paper medium when it is determined to be in the Government's best interest. The solicitation will be in pdf format and requires Adobe Acrobat Reader. Adobe Acrobat Reader may be downloaded free of charge at http://www.adobe.com/products/reader.Note No. 2: All bid forms, bid bonds, and other normal documents required for the bid submittal including amendments to the bid submittal, shall be in paper medium. Additionally, a CD of the offeror's entire proposal will be required with the paper medium.Note No.3: For this job, a small business is defined as having average annual receipts of less than $36,500,000 for the past three years. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this project is 236220.Note No. 4: All advertisements of Mobile District projects will be through Federal Business Opportunities (FedBizOpps). Detailed information on this and other Mobile Projects (Ordering Solicitations, Points of Contact, Synopsis of Work, etc.) are all available on the internet at: https://www.fbo.gov.Note No. 5: The request for information (RFI) process for bidder inquiries during the advertisement period will be through the PROJNET internet based system, and specifics will be contained in the RFP solicitation package available exclusively from FedBizOpps. Other forms of communicating RFIs to the government will not be honored. The government will try to respond to all questions. However, responses may not be furnished to all questions and particularly those received late in the advertisement period (0-10 days prior to deadline of submission of proposals).
W91278-15-R-0084 Department of the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District Mobile
10/27/16, 12:46 PM SOURCES SOUGHT SYNOPSIS-medical research laboratory facility repair/construction in support of the
Added: Sep 11, 2015 5:24 pm
Medical Research and Material Command W91278-15-R-0084This is a SOURCES SOUGHT SYNOPSIS. No proposals are being requested or accepted with this synopsis. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile Directorate of Contracting (DOC) is seeking information regarding capability and availability ofpotential contractors to perform Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Task Order Contracts for medical research laboratory facility repair/construction in support of theU.S. Army Medical Command's (MEDCOM) Sustainment, Restoration, and Modernization program. The Mobile Regional Contracting Center proposes to utilize a diverse mix of contractors via Multiple Award Task Order Contracts (MATOCs). A determination regarding the potential for small business set-asides will be based on the information and interest received as a result of this notice. Potential contracts are anticipated to have a nation-wide scope of all MEDCOM research labs, but may be structured by region/geographic area, based on the information received as a result of this notice. Medical Research and Materiel Command is not geographically based, but includes all Army medical research labs; with facilities at the following installations: Ft Detrick, MD (to include Forest Glen Annex); Natick, MA; Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD; Ft Rucker, AL; and Joint Base San Antonio, TX.The repair/minor construction contracts are intended to provide quick response for performing repair and minor construction relating, but not limited, to the architectural, mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, security and safety areas of medical research laboratory facilities in a cost effective manner. Work will vary from site to site and will require extensive knowledge of the functional operation of medical research facilities, relating to the efficient use of the facility, equipment, facility support systems, and building structures. Since the facilities will be in full operation, the contractor will be required to minimize interference with the daily operation of the laboratories and support facilities, and will be required to comply with requirements of a number of regulatory and accrediting bodies such as the American Association for Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care (AAALAC). The facilities to be covered by the intended contract include Bio-safety Levels (BSL)-2, 3, and 4 research laboratories and laboratory support functions, Animal Bio-safety Levels (ABSL) -2, 3, and 4 animal holding facilities for small and large species to include non-human primates and vivarium facilities, veterinary treatment facilities, public health/analytical laboratories, field laboratories (dry labs),food analysis and diagnostic laboratories, laboratories working with chemical agents, and facilities that use specialized equipment/chambers. MEDCOM laboratories focus on research, development, testing and evaluation of medical products related to health hazards associated with aviation, tactical combat vehicle systems, selected weapons systems, airborne operations, environmental hazards, combat casualty care (trauma, burn and critical care), medical hazards of laser radiation, and exposure to extreme thermal conditions (heat, cold, high terrestrial altitude). The performing contractor's personnel will be required to meet security and health screening requirements. In addition, there may be facilities or portions of facilities that require medical testing and/or immunization of Contractor employees, beyond basic OSHA requirements, before the employees areauthorized to work in the controlled room, area, or facility. This requirement may be due to the containment requirements in bioresearch laboratories, the potential for exposure of workers to toxins or communicable diseases, etc. Work may range from reconfiguration of a single room or repair of a single utility system component to renovation of a facility functional area to include both repair of failed and failing systems and components, and minor construction of new systems and components. The range for each anticipated project is between $1,000 to $500,000. Total capacity over the potential five year life of the contract (base year plus four option years) is not to exceed $50,000,000.The purpose of this sources sought synopsis is to determine the availability of qualified contractors to perform these services to include Certified Small Businesses, 8(a) contractors, HUBZone Certified Small Business Concerns, Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Businesses, and Large Business Concerns. The primary North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) Code applicable to these requirements is 236220, Commercial and Institutional Building Construction. The Small Business Size Standard is $33.5 Million. Offerors are requested to respond to this Sources Sought Synopsis with the following information which shall not exceed ten pages: 1. Offeror's name, addresses, points of contact, telephone numbers, and e-mail addresses. 2.Offeror's capability to perform, to include geographic span, logistic complexity, and project size. Include offeror's in-house capability to execute design and construction, or established relationship with a design firm to perform incidental design. Medical research facility repair/construction experience is required. 3. Offeror's business size to include designation as Certified Small Businesses, 8(a) contractors, HUBZone Certified Small Business Concerns, Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Businesses, Women- Owned Small and Large Business Concerns. For 8(a) Contractors, please include anticipated graduation date from the 8(a) Program. 4. Offeror's bonding capability (construction bonding level per contract and aggregate construction bonding level, both expressed in dollars). 5. No more than five (5) projects that are at least 50% repair/ construction complete within the past five years that demonstrate their capability to perform the type of work described above in medical research facilities. Project information is not to exceed 1 page per project and should include title, location, general description of the project, Offeror's role, dollar value of the project, and name of the company, agency or Government entity for which the work was performed with contact information (reference name, phone number and email address). 6. Offeror shall indicate the lab(s) in which they would be interested in working.Interested Offerors shall respond to this Sources Sought Synopsis no later than September 25, 2015. ALL RESPONSES MUST BE EMAILED to Joan Rensink, Contract Specialist at: Joan.A.Rensink@usace.army.mil.This Sources Sought Synopsis is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government, nor will the Government pay for the information solicited.
W91278-15-R-0084 Department of the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District Mobile
9/11/15, 5:24 PM