4. Factor 4 LEC Material IRA Sustainability Factor Table.xlsx
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- 47PH0825R0001
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This document is a Sustainability Factor Table for the Pharr Kika De La Garza Land Port of Entry (LPOE) Border Roadway Improvement and Construction (BRIC) project. It provides instructions for offerors to complete the table with their commitments to meet Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) embodied carbon limits for various construction materials, including concrete, cement, asphalt, and steel. The table includes a list of IRA-eligible materials, the applicable IRA limits, a calculation of raw and weighted scores based on the offeror's commitments, and a requirement that at least 80% of a construction assembly's total cost or weight must be composed of compliant materials. This project is part of a federal contract opportunity with the General Services Administration (GSA) for a design-build contract valued between $20-30 million to address concrete pavement repairs and replacements using low embodied carbon materials at the Pharr, Texas LPOE. The contract is set aside for small businesses and will be awarded based on a best value concept methodology.
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CO Instruction Contracting Officer Instructions
| 1. Make a copy of this Google Sheet for the specific project in a format to issue to offerors with the solicitation package (e.g. Google Sheets, MS Excel, etc.) |
| 2. Delete all rows where the materials are not included in the project. |
| 3. Develop LEC Material Evaluation Weights (Column D) for individual materials to reflect the relative approximate cost of the materials required for the project. LEC Material Evaluation Weights must add up to 100%. |
| 4. Ensure that all columns, except for Column B, are locked/protected prior to release. |
| 4. Delete this tab prior to issuing to offerors. |
| For more information please refer to the IRA Program Construction Solicitation Desk Guide. |
https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1WqQH8m0TkdGKFEiBG6e1AZ8HtNXyxsMBofPj53ixyrs/edit Offeror Instructions
| SUSTAINABILITY FACTOR INSTRUCTIONS TO OFFERORS |
| 1. Offerors shall complete Column B of the Sustainability Table with the applicable IRA Limit they commit to meet for each IRA-Eligible Material. |
NOTE: If an offeror is utilizing multiple manufacturers/suppliers within one LEC material subcategory, and those materials achieve different GSA GWP limits, they shall, for evaluation purposes, self-score based on the material/product offered that has the highest GWP. (For example: within the 4,000 PSI concrete subcategory, if Offeror A's 4,000 PSI structural concrete meets GSA’s Top 40% GWP limit, and their 4,000 PSI site concrete meets GSA’s Top 20% limit, Offeror A shall use Top 40% in their scoring.)
2. Based upon the offeror's committment, the offeror will receive a number of Raw Scores in Column C, one for each IRA-Eligible Material required by the Contract. Column C will be automatically populated based on the offeror's input in Column B, as follows:
- Offerors will receive a Raw Score of 100 for each IRA-Eligible Material commitment that is better (lower) than GSA’s Top 20% Limits.
- Offerors will receive a Raw Score of 40 for each IRA-Eligible Material commitment that is only better (lower) than GSA’s Top 40% Limits.
- Offerors will receive a Raw Score of 20 for each IRA-Eligible Material commitment that is only better (lower) than GSA’s Better Than Average Limit.
| 3. The solicitation provides an LEC Materials Evaluation Weight in Column D. This weight will be multipled by the Raw Score (Column C), to automatically calculate the Weighted Score in Column D. which will be automatically calculated based on the Raw Score. The Weighted Score for each material will be rounded to the nearest hundredth decimal (i.e., two decimal places to the right of the whole number). |
| 4. The Total Weighted Score will automatically add the Weighted Score for each material, rounded to the nearest hundredth decimal. |
Sustainability Table IRA-Eligible Material* OFFEROR TO COMPLETE IRA Limit Commitment (i.e., Top 20% Limit, Top 40% Limit, Better Than Average Limit) DO NOT EDIT FORMULA Raw Score (i.e., 100, 40, or 20) DO NOT EDIT - CONTRACTING OFFICER TO PROVIDE LEC Materials Evaluation Weight (Insert as % (Example - 30%) (must add up to 100%) DO NOT EDIT FORMULA Weighted Score (multiply the material’s Raw Score by its LEC Materials Evaluation Weight) Concrete Specified concrete strength class (compressive strength [f'c] in pounds per square inch [PSI])
| 4000 PSI | Top 20% | 100 | 40% | 40.00 |
| Cement** | Top 20% | 100 | 20% | 20.00 |
| Asphalt | Top 20% | 100 | 20% | 20.00 |
| Steel | ||||
| Fabricated Rebar | Top 20% | 100 | 20% | 20.00 |
| Total Weighted Score (sum of Weighted Scores) - DO NOT EDIT FORMULA | 100.00 |
| * Required construction product assemblies (such as window assemblies) are included in IRA-Eligible Materials categories and will be bound by IRA Limit Commitments. At least 80% of the assembly’s total cost or total weight must be composed of compliant IRA-Eligible Materials. |
| ** Where provision of concrete that qualifies under these GSA IRA Limits is impractical, GSA’s IRA Limits for cement may be applied to the cement being used in the concrete mix. |
https://www.gsa.gov/system/files/Concrete%20-%20GSA%20IRA%20Low%20Embodied%20Carbon%20Requirements%20%28Dec.%202023%29_508.pdf
EXAMPLE
IRA-Eligible Material* OFFEROR TO COMPLETE IRA Limit Commitment (i.e., Top 20% Limit, Top 40% Limit, Better Than Average Limit) DO NOT EDIT FORMULA Raw Score (i.e., 100, 40, or 20) DO NOT EDIT - CONTRACTING OFFICER TO PROVIDE LEC Materials Evaluation Weight (Insert as % (Example - 30%) (must add up to 100%) DO NOT EDIT FORMULA Weighted Score (multiply the material’s Raw Score by its LEC Materials Evaluation Weight) Concrete Specified concrete strength class (compressive strength [f'c] in pounds per square inch [PSI])
| 5000 PSI | Top 20% | 100 | 20% | 20.00 | |
| Asphalt | Top 40% | 40 | 30% | 12.00 | |
| Steel | |||||
| Fabricated Rebar | Top 20% | 100 | 35% | 35.00 | |
| Hot-Rolled Sections | |||||
| (unfabricated) | Better Than Average | 20 | 5% | 1.00 | |
| Flat Glass | Top 40% | 40 | 10% | 4.00 | |
| Total Weighted Score (sum of Weighted Scores) - DO NOT EDIT FORMULA | 72.00 |
| * Required construction product assemblies (such as window assemblies) are included in IRA-Eligible Materials categories and will be bound by IRA Limit Commitments. At least 80% of the assembly’s total cost or total weight must be composed of compliant IRA-Eligible Materials. |
| ** Where provision of concrete that qualifies under these GSA IRA Limits is impractical, GSA’s IRA Limits for cement may be applied to the cement being used in the concrete mix. |
https://www.gsa.gov/system/files/Concrete%20-%20GSA%20IRA%20Low%20Embodied%20Carbon%20Requirements%20%28Dec.%202023%29_508.pdf
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