PreProposal_Conference Presentation 2023 02 02 10.pptx

Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Contract for Construction Services Region 1, New England Pre-Solicitation Conference February 14th 2023 10:00 am EST (Virtual) Presented by

GSA

U.S. General Services Administration

U.S. General Services Administration

Pre-solicitation Conference This is an exchange with industry in accordance with FAR 15.201.

The purpose of exchanging information is to improve the understanding of Government requirements and industry capabilities, thereby allowing potential offerors to judge whether or how they can satisfy the Government’s requirements, and enhancing the Government’s ability to obtain quality supplies and services, including construction, at reasonable prices, and increase efficiency in proposal preparation, proposal evaluation, negotiation, and contract award.

This exchange will serve as an opportunity to resolve industry questions and concerns.

Acquisition Team

Sebastian Asaro, Contracting Officer Stephanie Klein, Contract Specialist Adam Katzman, Contract Specialist James Adamo, Director, AMD Brad Littrell, Boston Contracting Officer Representative Brian Koehler, South Contracting Officer Representative Travis Bonnett, North Contracting Officer Representative

Solicitation Schedule 01/20/2023 – Pre-Solicitation Notice posted on SAM 02/06/2023 - Solicitation Posted on SAM 02/14/2023- Solicitation Conference 02/21/2023- RFI’s due at 2:00PM EST 03/08/2023 - Proposals due at 2:00PM EST

About this Acquisition General Contractor Services for various repairs, alterations and renovations for federally owned and leased facilities in the New England Region.

100% Set Aside for Small Business NAICS Code 236220- Commercial and Institutional Building Construction Period of Performance: One (1) base year plus four (4) one (1) year options.

For each of the Geographic Zones, between three and five contract awards will be issued. The total number of Contractors within any of the Geographic Zones may fluctuate. GSA may utilize Onboarding and Offboarding as needed.

The Solicitation The Government’s intention is to make multiple awards for each Geographic Zone The Region is divided into three (3) separate Geographic Zones:

North (composed of the States of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont) South (composed of the States of Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts (excluding metropolitan Boston) Boston and Metropolitan Boston

The Solicitation Documents are comprised of:

The Solicitation The Agreement and Attachments to the Agreement Standard Form (SF) 1442 – Solicitation Offer and Award (Attachment A) Attachment B Pricing Form Attachment C- GSA527 Attachment D- Past Performance Questionnaire Attachment E- Offeror Representations and Certifications Form - Form (C301) Ordering Guide Ordering Guide Attachment 1- Task Order Bid Sheet

Offerors are not required to submit proposals for each Geographic Zone;

Offerors may submit separate proposals for any combination of Geographic Zones for which they wish to be considered for award.

The estimated price range for the total IDIQ requirement, inclusive of all Geographic Zones and contracts (multiple awards) over the base and all option years is greater than $125M.

The estimated price range for individual Task Orders to be awarded under each contract is between the Simplified Acquisition Threshold (currently at $250,000) to the annual prospectus limit (currently at $3,613,000).

Onboarding Process GSA will determine whether it would be in the Government’s best interest to initiate an open season to add additional Contractors to any of the Geographic Zones at any time, subject to the following conditions.

Upon award of the IDIQ, an Onboarding Pool will be created for each Geographic Zone, with the next highest contractors who were not awarded an IDIQ award being included in the Pool.

All contractors in each Onboarding Pool are ranked according to the same evaluation criteria used in the IDIQ solicitation evaluation.

The Contracting Officer notifies all IDIQ and Pool vendors in the respective Geographic Zone that the Onboarding procedure is being initiated.

The Contracting Officer engages the first contractor to determine whether they are still willing and capable of holding an IDIQ contract.

The award decision under the Onboarding process is based upon substantially the same evaluation factors/subfactors as the original solicitation.

The terms and conditions of any resulting awards are materially identical to the existing version of the IDIQ Vendors.

The period of performance term for any new awards is coterminous with the existing term for all other Contractors.

DORMANT STATUS

If the IDIQ CO determines that any requirement of the vehicle is not being met, an IDIQ Contractor may be placed into Dormant Status.

Dormant status may be activated for a given Geographic Zone that a Contractor has been awarded or for all Geographic Zones.

If Dormant Status is activated, the Contractor shall not be eligible to participate or compete in any subsequent task order solicitations while the Contractor is in Dormant Status; however, Contractors placed in Dormant Status shall continue performance on previously awarded and active task orders.

Dormant Status is not a Debarment, Suspension, or Ineligibility as defined in FAR Subpart 9.4 or a Termination as defined in FAR Part 49.

Grounds for being placed in Dormant Status specifically include, but are not limited to, trends or patterns of behavior associated with the failure to meet the deliverables and compliances specified under this contract or failure to participate in task order process.

Dormant status will only be imposed after careful consideration of the situation and collaboration with the Contractor to resolve the issues.

Offboarding Process GSA reserves the unilateral right to Offboard non-performing or inactive Contractors. Contractors that are Offboarded have no active task orders under their Geographic Zone at the time of the Offboarding. Contractors under more than one Geographic Zone will only be offboarded from the Geographic Zone where the non-performing issues have occurred. Offboarding methods may result from one of the following conditions:

Offboarding Process Permitting the Contractor’s IDIQ Contract term to expire instead of exercising the option period After a Contractor is placed in Dormant Status and the Contractor has completed all previously awarded task orders under the IDIQ Debarment, Suspension, or Ineligibility as defined in FAR Subpart Termination as defined in FAR Part 49 Contractors who fail to meet the standards of performance, deliverables, or compliances Taking any other action which may be permitted under the IDIQ terms and conditions

Proposals Proposals conforming to the Solicitation requirements will be evaluated in accordance with the Method of Award .

The Government will award a contract to the responsible offeror whose offer conforming to the solicitation will be most advantageous to the Government, price and other factors considered.

All evaluation factors other than Price, when combined, are significantly more important than price.

In addition to price, the following Non-Price evaluation factors shall be evaluated in descending order of importance Experience as a General Construction Contractor (GC) for Comparable Renovation and Alterations Projects Experience Management Capability Past Performance Socio-economic Usage

Offerors shall submit two (2) proposals Price Proposal and;

Technical Proposal, Proposal shall be emailed to:

Sebastian Asaro (Sebastian.Asaro@gsa.gov) Stephanie Klein (Stephanie.Klein@gsa.gov) Adam Katzman (Adam.Katzman@gsa.gov)

Proposals must be submitted by the proposal due date. All attachments and amendments should be included in the submitted proposal.

Price Proposal The Price Proposal shall include the following:

1) Contents:

Standard Form 1442: Complete Blocks 14 through 20c;

Contract Price Form: Complete form with ceiling percentages or rates for each price element shown, for each Geographic Zone for which they wish to be considered for contract award.

GSA Form 527 – Contractor’s Qualification and Financial Information Bonding (Proof of Bonding Capacity Sufficient to Perform Contract Requirements (Must be from Surety)

2) Qualifications, Exclusions and Conditions:

If the Offeror communicates in its proposal any qualifications, exclusions, or conditions to the proposed prices not provided for in the Contract Documents, the Contracting Officer may reject the proposal and exclude the Offeror from further discussions.

Additional Information to Submit with the Proposal

Representations and Certifications: Offerors shall complete the electronic Annual Representation and Certifications and the required Entity via the System for Award Management https://www.sam.gov Qualifications of Offerors: Submit with proposal evidence of the offeror’s financial responsibility and capacity to perform the contract, using GSA Form 527 – Contractors Qualifications and Financial Information

3) Requirements of Joint Ventures

All offers submitted by joint ventures must include a copy of an executed joint venture agreement which fully discloses the legal identity of each member of the joint venture, the relationship between the members, the form of ownership of each member, and any limitations on liability or authority for each member.

An authorized representative of each member of the joint venture must sign the SF 1442 regardless of any agency relationship established between the members.

In the case of corporations that are joint venture members, the corporation secretary must certify that the corporation is authorized to participate in the joint venture, either by so certifying in the joint venture agreement, or by submitting a separate certification to the Government. The joint venture must also provide a certificate that identifies a principal representative of the joint venture with full authority to bind the joint venture.

Representations and certifications, financial information, and past performance information must be submitted for each member of the joint venture.

Additional Information to Submit with the Proposal

Method Of Award

Evaluation of Joint Venture Offerors

In the evaluation of responsibility and non-price factors, information submitted for a party to the joint venture will only be evaluated to the extent that the terms of the joint venture agreement do not limit such party's performance or financial obligations as a party to the Contract contemplated by this Solicitation.

Unbalanced Prices

Offers must include balanced prices. Unbalanced pricing may increase performance risk and could result in payment of unreasonably high prices. Unbalanced pricing exists when, despite an acceptable total evaluated price, the price of one or more contract line items is significantly over or understated as indicated by the application of price analysis techniques.

All offers with separately priced line items or subline items shall be analyzed to determine if the prices are unbalanced. If price analysis techniques indicate that an offer is unbalanced, the contracting officer shall:

Consider the risks to the Government associated with the unbalanced pricing in determining the competitive range and in making the source selection decision; and Consider whether award of the contract will result in paying unreasonably high prices for contract performance. An offer may be rejected if the contracting officer determines that the lack of balance poses an unacceptable risk to the Government.

Total Evaluated Price

The Government will evaluate offers for award purposes by evaluating the firm-fixed ceiling percentages and rates submitted on the Contract Price Form, inclusive of all option years.

For award purposes, Total Evaluated Price shall be calculated using the prices indicated in the Price Proposal.

The ceiling percentages and rates proposed on the Contract Price Form are evaluated as part of the price proposal and will be considered in the best value trade-off analysis to be performed between Price and Factors Other than Price.

Questions?

Please submit questions in writing to Sebastian Asaro at Sebastian.Asaro@gsa.gov, Stephanie Klein at Stephanie.Klein@gsa.gov and Adam.Katzman@gsa.gov.

All questions must be received by 02/21/23 at 2:00 P.M. EST, Thank you for your interest in this solicitation.

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