36C25222B0022 0003.docx

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Offers must acknowledge receipt of this amendment prior to the hour and date specified in the solicitation or as amended, by one of the following methods:

The above numbered solicitation is amended as set forth in Item 14. The hour and date specified for receipt of Offers

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(Signature of person authorized to sign) (Signature of Contracting Officer) 07/28/2022 556-22-1-6959-0001 556-20-013 36C252 Department of Veterans Affairs Great Lakes Acquisition Center (GLAC) 115 S 84th Street, Suite 101 Milwaukee WI 53214-1476 36C252 Department of Veterans Affairs Great Lakes Acquisition Center (GLAC) 115 S 84th Street, Suite 101 Milwaukee WI 53214-1476 To all Offerors/Bidders

36C25222B0022 06-29-2022

X X Monday, 8/8/2022 at 13:00 CST.

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PROJECT NO. 556-20-013 (CONST) RENOVATE CLC BUILDING 134 3A/3C AT THE CAPTAIN JAMES A. LOVELL FEDERAL HEALTH CARE CENTER

(FHCC) NORTH CHICAGO, IL 60064:

The Purpose of Amendment 0003 is to provide additional details to the original solicitation package.

See continuation page(s) and attachments for specific details.

Kristi Kluck Contracting Officer Continuation page -- Amendment: 0003

SF30 Block 14 Continuation Page

The Purpose of Amendment 0003 is to incorporate/clarify the following information to solicitation 36C25222B0022:

A. Interested vendor questions and answers

We [roofing subcontractor] are looking at this ITB [IFB] and see that the only roofing is related to mechanical work, and there is mention of the roof being under warranty. If the roof is under warranty, we need to know the manufacturer and roof system before we can let you know if we will be bidding.

Usually, the subcontractor needs to know if it’s under warranty, because if it is, then a certain person/company needs to do the work versus any roofing company. That would be the only reason they [a roofing subcontractor] would not bid it, that it is under warranty, roofs usually carry a 20+ year warranty. A roofing subcontractor was asking this question, [not a prime contractor].

See existing roofing warranty information (0003, Attachments 1 and 2).

Q5.1 – Q5.9 VOIDED5/RESCINDED QUESTIONS

Q6.1 – Q6.44

Normal work hours are clearly stated in the SOW, as are restrictions on certain activities and areas. The work hours indicated in the drawings which conflict with that of the SOW are erroneous.

All costs associated with planning and executing the work are borne by the contractor.

“Overtime” is not work outside of the described normal working hours unless performed by workers who have already performed their regularly scheduled eight-hour day, which can be avoided with attentive planning. Shift differential incentives and the like are common, but not overtime.

Example: SF102 notes Sikaquick VOH (or approved equiv) for repair of existing columns.

All concrete work is non-structural other than demolition that is covered in Specification 02 41 00 Demolition. Also note non-structural concrete/cementitious floor leveling requirements.

Review and comply with 01 00 00 General Requirements.

VA will not provide a web-based document management service, nor specifically require Submittal Exchange, however, whichever platform or method Contractor chooses to meet requirements, it cannot require government employees, or those of the AE, CxA, or other project team member to purchase or download software or applications. If the Government information security systems won’t allow VA staff to access the platform due to security issues (not uncommon), an alternative method of transmitting information is required.

Note that Procore is reportedly used successfully by contractors at Jesse Brown VAMC and Hines VAMC.

Review and comply with 01 00 00 General Requirements.

ALTERNATE NO.1: BASE BID except, delete all work in Wing A.

Phase I: All work in Wing C Phase II: All work in Wing A See GC101 and GC102

Submit products, installers, and independent inspector per 1.5 Quality Assurance, and 3.5 Inspections and Acceptance of Work.

Submit the qualified inspector’s standard report content/format for compliance with ASTM E699 (current edition).

Submit products, installers, and independent inspector per 1.5 Quality Assurance, and 3.5 Inspections and Acceptance of Work.

Submit the qualified inspector’s standard report content/format for compliance with ASTM E699 (current edition).

Review and comply with 01 00 00 General Requirements.

Use of freight elevators outside of normal hours, ensuring that material movement within the facility cannot harm people, VA property, or release dust, may be allowed by the COR (or revoked for failure to protect people and property). Also see note at GC101.

Use of passenger elevators is never allowed.

Review and comply with 02 82 13.13 Glovebag Asbestos Abatement.

CPIH stands for Contractor's Professional Industrial Hygienist, which 02 82 11 and 02 82 13.13 states that CPIH is the asbestos abatement contractor’s industrial hygienist. Multiple occurrences within this specification describe requirements for CPIH/CIH.

Yes.

Area is I-2 Healthcare Occupancy. See Q41.

In Wing A, it is lay-in type ceilings with drywall soffits around the main corridor perimeter.

Also, review GC101.

The drawings call for infilling a small opening with block. The detail and notes provide direction and do not warrant a specification.

VA to select from available products of submitted manufacturer which are suitable for electrical closet applications.

Finish/color: Microchip, Sahara.

Surface prep and product application are as required of the contract documents and manufacturer’s technical resources.

Note: Where heads are planned within the areas served by new Ceiling Mounted Patient Lifts, pendant heads become a collision risk/hazard. Where this occurs, (white) Flat Concealed Pendant, gasketed clean room spec, Quick Response heads/gaskets such as Reliable Model G5 series have been successfully employed.

Ceiling Mounted Patient Lift w/ H, H&J, or J Track are by Guldmann. See corrected 11 73 00 and associated docs of amendment.

Review and comply with Scope of Work.

Review and comply with 01 35 26 Safety Requirements.

Review and comply with 28 31 00 Fire Detection and Alarm.

Note that this is NOT the work of the Guldmann structural engineer per 11 73 00 Ceiling Mounted Patient Lift System.

Provide specified window treatments for all windows.

The repairs are cosmetic.

Contractor is required to plan and execute the work completely and compliantly within the stated period of performance. To achieve this, contractor procurement efforts are required to adhere to a schedule which completes the work within the stated period of performance.

Where prior to bid day a contractor has found no source in the market capable of delivering materials or systems to meet the POP, a time extension may be considered by the Contracting Officer only after Contractor submits unaltered, unfiltered, unredacted documentation showing that multiple sources were solicited, and regardless of price none are capable of meeting requirements under any circumstances.

The inability to acquire some material or system doesn’t automatically justify or necessitate an atypical award or NTP scheme, nor a time extension. While planning the work is the responsibility of the contractor, so too is planning to contract requirements for time, cost, and quality.

Some material or systems lead times are longer than they used to be, however, VA commonly observes Contractor procurement efforts failing to begin until long after NTP, and consuming exceedingly more time than reasonable as a result of efforts to find subcontractors and material sources willing to fit into their bid budgets. This conflicts with requirements of bidding contractors to submit a listing of all subcontractors shortly after award.

Review and comply with Scope of Work.

Review and comply with 01 00 00 General Requirements.

No noise within the work area shall be allowed to leave it. Do not interfere with normal functioning of the medical center.

PT 2 is the wall base tile that matches floor tile PT1 for manufacturer and color.

All final colors to be selected by VA. Submit manufacturer’s full line (typ.).

No question submitted.

No question submitted.

6/AE501 Typical Interior Infill Detail @ Clay Block.

Submit products, installers, and independent inspector per 1.5 Quality Assurance, and 3.5 Inspections and Acceptance of Work.

Submit the qualified inspector’s standard report content/format for compliance with ASTM E699 (current edition).

Detailed requirements are presented under Kick-Off Meeting Documentation.

As always, CPM schedules and Schedules of Values must align and total the bid value.

Do not include costs associated with non-work administrative activities inherent in the listed work items. Examples include mobilization, preparation of submittals, development of schedules and progress reports, general and activity-specific safety compliance, attendance of meetings, and similar administrative activities which would not occur without the line-item listed work items. 52.246-12 Inspection of Construction defines Work as “…materials, workmanship, and manufacture and fabrication of components”. Inherent in these are planning, communicating, procuring, and quality assurance and quality control, among other inputs. The Government cannot pay for what it has not inspected and accepted as compliant, or for activities which add no value to VA facilities. Front-loading proposals, bids, schedules of values, and line-item costs of cost-loaded CPM schedules with all manner of non-work items puts the Contractor, the Government, and the Bonding Company at otherwise avoidable risk associated with paying out more than the value of work in place should the work stop prior to completion. Administrative and managerial activities associated with each Work line item are required to be prorated into each line item, along with prorated overhead and profit.

Review and comply with 01 00 00 General Requirements.

No on-site office or storage containers shall be allowed. Provide just-in-time delivery and removal. Only store materials, tools, equipment, within the work area. Coordinate site logistics with the assigned COR.

Also see 1.6 Operations and Storage Areas (FAR 52.236-10).

Scope of Work specifically requires construction dumpsters to be secured within a locked security fence, along with requirements for Construction Waste Diversion Reports, and more.

Location to be determined by the COR.

VA will not provide a web-based document management service, nor specifically require Submittal Exchange, however, whichever platform or method Contractor chooses to meet requirements, it cannot require government employees, or those of the AE, CxA, or other project team member to purchase or download software or applications. If the Government information security systems won’t allow VA staff to access the platform due to security issues (not uncommon), an alternative method of transmitting information is required.

Note that Procore is reportedly used successfully by contractors at Jesse Brown VAMC and Hines VAMC.

Do not confuse CxA duties with that of 23 05 93 Contractor-provided testing, adjusting, and balancing requirements.

Review and comply with 01 91 00 General Commissioning Requirements.

Review and comply with 23 08 00 Commissioning of HVAC Systems.

Review and comply with 26 08 00 Commissioning of Electrical Systems.

Review and comply with 27 08 00 Commissioning of Communications Systems.

Review and comply with 28 08 00 Commissioning of Electronic Safety and Security Systems

Contractor is required to plan and execute the work completely and compliantly within the stated period of performance. To achieve this, contractor procurement efforts are required to adhere to a schedule which completes the work within the stated period of performance.

Where prior to bid day a contractor has found no source in the market capable of delivering materials or systems to meet the POP, a time extension may be considered by the Contracting Officer only after Contractor submits unaltered, unfiltered, unredacted documentation showing that multiple sources were solicited, and regardless of price none are capable of meeting requirements under any circumstances.

The inability to acquire some material or system doesn’t automatically justify or necessitate an atypical award or NTP scheme, nor a time extension. While planning the work is the responsibility of the contractor, so too is planning to contract requirements for time, cost, and quality.

Some material or systems lead times are longer than they used to be, however, VA commonly observes Contractor procurement efforts failing to begin until long after NTP, and consuming exceedingly more time than reasonable as a result of efforts to find subcontractors and material sources willing to fit into their bid budgets. This conflicts with requirements of bidding contractors to submit a listing of all subcontractors immediately after award, just as with bonds and insurance.

Verify In Field (VIF). Also see note at GC101.

Review and comply with 01 35 26 Safety Requirements.

Review and comply with 01 35 26 Safety Requirements.

Review and comply with 01 35 26 Safety Requirements.

Review and comply with 01 35 26 Safety Requirements and 01 35 33 Infection Control Requirements.

Specification describes duties of both the AE (Designer of-Record) and the GC’s CQC, QCM, independent testing sources, and requirements for their collaboration and communication.

GC is required to develop a complete listing of all submittals required of this project and submit that list as their Submittal Log. Contractor must methodically review each part of the Project Manual, and prepare their complete submittal log for submission and acceptance prior to being released to mobilize. Where inspections are prescribed, list the resulting reports as submittals to be fulfilled.

Example: 01 45 35 Section 1.4 Definitions, Paragraph L indicates that Cold Rolled Steel and Fire-Resistant Penetrations and Joints are specific types of construction to be inspected. Contractor shall provide inspections and reports are identified in the specifications.

Review and comply with Scope of Work.

Review and comply with 01 00 00 General Requirements.

Review and comply with 01 40 00 Quality Requirements.

Review and comply with 01 45 00 Quality Control.

Review and comply with 01 45 35 Special Inspections Review and comply with 01 45 29 Testing Laboratory Services

Normal work hours are clearly stated in the SOW, as are restrictions on certain activities and areas. The work hours indicated in the drawings which conflict with that of the SOW are erroneous.

All costs associated with planning and executing the work are borne by the contractor.

“Overtime” is not work outside of the described normal working hours unless performed by workers who have already performed their regularly scheduled eight-hour day, which can be avoided with attentive planning. Shift differential incentives and the like are common, but not overtime.

Review and comply with 01 35 26 Safety Requirements.

Containments at opening in rated wall assemblies shall be planned and constructed to comply with the rating of the wall.

Review and comply with 01 35 33 Infection Control Requirements.

Edge Guard is among the manufacturers listed.

Also see GC101.

Review and comply with 01 00 00 General Requirements.

3. Page 29: Please clarify the “Number of photographs” matrix listed there.

Requirements for Photographic Documentation of the work as it progresses is a function of construction cost. Contractor is also required as part of Daily Reports within the Scope of Work – and FAR/VAAR* to provide photos of the work as it progresses. The subject matrix was inadvertently retained in the specification.

*VA Form 10101 Contractor Production Report (VAAR 853.236-79; 826.7001(c)) available in fillable PDF form at https://www.va.gov/vaforms/va/pdf/VA10101.pdf is required to be submitted each day. On days with no activity, that is what is reported.

B. This solicitation includes NAICS 236220 General Construction with a Small Business Size Standard of $39.5M. In accordance with solicitation requirement VAAR 852.219-77(d) VA Notice of Limitations on Subcontracting – Certificate of Compliance for Services and Construction (SEP 2021)(Deviation), each offeror IS REQUIRED TO SUBMIT A CERTIFICATION WITH THEIR OFFER. Reference Solicitation Attachment 8. A copy is attached to this Amendment.

The bid opening date, time and in-person location has been extended from Friday, August 5, 2022 to Monday, August 8, 2022 at 13:00 CST. The location remains as follows: been changed from the details below.

Department of Veterans Affairs Great Lakes Acquisition Center (GLAC) 115 S. 84th Street, Suite 101 Milwaukee WI 53214-1476

Attachment(s)

See attached document: S06 36C25222B0022 0003 Att1_Roof Warranties Bldg 134 B135 B187.

See attached document: S06 36C25222B0022 0003 Att2_Roof Warranty Bldg 134 Courtyard 3 season metal roof.

See attached document: S06 36C25222B0022 0003 Att3_SOL_Att08 556-20013 VAAR 852.219-77 Certification.

See attached document: S06 36C25222B0022 0003 Att4_Appx A - FHCC Asbestos _ Hazmat Testing Report.

See attached document: S06 36C25222B0022 0003 Att5_Spec 015719 - Temporary Environmental Controls.

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