Downloadable Amendment_1 - BPA solicitation.pdf

Title: NIH/ORF/OA General Construction and Mechanical Services Blanket Purchase

Agreements- AMENDMENT #1

This synopsis is a notice of proposed contract action for the establishment of multiple Blankets

Purchase Agreements (BPA) and the resulting Orders to be awarded under the BPAs. This is a request for interested parties to provide a formal submission of interest to NIH in order to be competitively compared for a BPA award. The National Institutes of Health (NIH), Office of

Research and Facilities ORF), Office of Acquisition (OA) Bethesda, MD is seeking to identify multiple Small Businesses with the interest and resources to enter into a Blanket Purchase

Agreement (BPA) for General Construction Services under North American Industry

Classification System (NAICS) Code 236220 Commercial and Institutional Building

Construction and Mechanical Services under NAICS Code 238220 Plumbing, Heating, and Air-

Conditioning. The small business size standard for these industries are $36.5 million and $15.0 million (respectively) in average annual revenue. The Product Service Code is Y1JZ. ORF/OA anticipates procuring construction projects valued between Micro-Purchase Threshold and

Simplified Acquisition Threshold on a competitive basis through BPA Suites for General

Construction Services and Mechanical Services. NIH is seeking contractors who have a history of dependable past performance and technical capabilities to provide a consistent low price with superior quality to complete its reoccurring minor construction and mechanical projects.

Construction projects under the BPA Suite would include but not be limited to the following:

Provide all necessary resources, management, personnel, materials, supervision, transportation, supplies, and all equipment, except Government Furnished Property (GFP) to facilitate all phases of work in connection with various general construction and mechanical projects on NIH

Bethesda, MD, Poolesville, MD, Ft. Detrick, MD. This would include new work, additions, alterations and maintenance and repair of real property facilities and structures. Insurance and bonding is required for these types of projects; and information on required insurance amounts will be included in individual Statements of Work that include a period of performance.

Contractors under these BPA Suites must be capable of obtaining the payment bonds required for construction projects valued between $35,000 and the Simplified Acquisition Threshold

($250,000.00). Contractors unable to meet this bonding requirement will not be considered for inclusion in this BPA Suite. Due to the possibility of emergency work orders, BPA contractors must also have the resources necessary to respond to emergency work within 90 minutes.

Contractors not able to meet the 90-minute response time for emergency work orders will not be considered for award. Where site visits are offered and attended, the prime BPA Contractor must represent themselves (subcontractors cannot represent a prime contractor on site visits or in response to any request for information or quote). BPA contractors shall comply with FAR

52.222-6 Construction Wage Rate Requirements. Each project will be competitively procured, unless otherwise justified by the Government (urgent and compelling need), and the Government will incorporate the most current Davis Bacon Wage Determination in effect at time of award.

Davis Bacon wage determinations are located at http://www.wdol.gov/usrguide/index.aspx.

When establishing these BPAs, the Government will competitively evaluate submissions through a comparative evaluation by considering whose past performance and experience has shown them to be dependable, offer quality services at consistently lower prices, and who have provided numerous purchases at or below the simplified acquisition threshold (capacity).

This notice represents NIH’s attempt to promote competition to the maximum extent practicable through competitive procedures prior to establishing the BPAs. NIH will establish no more than ten (10) BPAs at a time in the General Construction BPA Suite and ten (10) in the

Mechanical BPA Suite. If NIH finds that the there is an insufficient number of BPAs to ensure benefit to the government, NIH will solicit quotations from other sources and make the purchase as appropriate, as well as, establish additional BPAs for future purchases.

BPAs will be evaluated annually and may remain in place for up to seven (7) years.

Annual review of BPAs will be performed to determine whether the Government is receiving fair and reasonable pricing, usage and participation, which may result in either continuing the BPA or early expiration. If an agreement vendor fails to provide a quote on three consecutive projects, the vendor may have their BPA terminated and replaced with another vendor. ORF is seeking robust competition for individual requirements. A list of interested vendors will be maintained to allow ramp-on of additional BPA vendors if it is determined to be in the best interest of the

Government. Early expiration may result if the Government no longer has a requirement for the general construction or mechanical services provided by the Contractor. Interested parties must be registered with the System for Award Management (SAM) under NAICS Code 236220 for

General Construction and 238220 for Mechanical. Representations and Certifications must also be on record. SAM registration is free and completed through the website at https://www.sam.gov.

Interested parties must be aware they will be required to attend, achieve and submit all NIH required safety training mandates, NIH safety proficiency requirements, NIH contractor supervisor orientation and provide NIH site specific accident prevention plans and other safety requirements as required by NIH Safety before they will be authorized to compete and work on

NIH. These requirements will be a condition of subsequent issued BPAs.

IAW FAR 13.003(b) this procurement will be 100% set aside for small business concerns.

https://www.sam.gov/

Instructions to Interested Parties: If your small business organization has the potential capacity to perform these general construction services or mechanical services, are interested in being considered for inclusion in this BPA Suite, please respond electronically to the point of contact information below. Responses must reference "General Construction or Mechanical BPA" in the subject field, be in Portable Document Format (PDF), submitted electronically to Ms.

Kellie McDaniels at kellie.mcdaniels@nih.gov with a courtesy copy to Mr. Mohamed Koroma, Mohamed.koroma@nih.gov, and include the following: 1)

DUNS Number; 2) CAGE Code; 3) Tax ID Number; 4) POC's name, physical address, email address, and telephone number; 5) website address; 6) small business size, socioeconomic categories, and type of ownership for the organization; 7) Capability Statement that includes the ability to respond in 90-minutes, 8) letter from surety confirming your organization's acceptable bonding capability and 9) Provide minimum and maximum of five (5) projects 100% completed in the previous 18 months valued between $35,000 and $250,000 (from date of this synopsis) utilizing attachment 1 to document projects.

NIH plans to begin its comparative evaluation based on submissions from interested parties on or around February 21st 2022 at 2:30 pm ET. NIH may continue to accept and evaluate submissions until the desired number of BPAs have been established.

Telephone inquiries will not be accepted or acknowledged, and no feedback or evaluations will be provided to companies regarding their submissions.

kellie.mcdaniels@nih.gov%20 Mohamed.koroma@nih.gov, NIH Construction BPA

Attachment 1– Construction Experience - Offeror, Page 1 of 1

(Rev 11/18)

ATTACHMENT “1”

CONSTRUCTION EXPERIENCE PROJECT DATA SHEET – OFFEROR

This form is to be completed by the Offeror. Submit (one per project) in order to provide supporting project information for

Factor 1, subfactor 3, Construction Experience. Only projects that are within the project description parameters of the solicitation will be considered relevant. Submit a maximum of 4 projects. All other projects will not be considered. Page 2 can be used if information will not fit in blocks provided below.

Project No. (check one): - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5

Contractor:

1. Offeror Name:

Firm who performed the work:

Performed this work as: Prime Contractor Joint Venture

Other (explain):

If the firm who performed this project differs from the Offeror proposing on this contract, identify the firm’s relationship to the Offeror:

Joint Venture Partner

Partner

Subsidiary

Parent Company

Affiliate

Predecessor Company

Other:

Construction Contract:

2. Contract/Project No.: Delivery/Task Order Number:

Title:

Location:

Brief Project Description:

3. Award Date (mm/dd/yy): Award Amount: $

Completion Date (mm/dd/yy): Current/Final

Amount: $

4. Type of Contract: Design-Build. If D-B, design firm was:

(check one) Design-Bid-Build

Customer:

5. Name:

Point of Contact Name/Title:

POC Phone Number: POC Email Address:

Project Description:

6. Type of Work (check all that apply): New Construction Renovation/Repair

7. Type of Project: (check all that apply):

☐Biomedical Research Laboratory

☐Health Care Facility/Hospital

☐Animal Care Facility

☐Predominantly Utility Project

☐Renovation/Repair