Prefabricated Pedestrian Bridge

Instructions to Offerors

The Government intends to award the contract to a responsible party whose quote is responsive to the solicitation process for the Prefabricated Pedestrian bridge in Lincoln, NM which provides Best Value to the

Government on a Price and Other Factors basis. A technical Evaluation Panel will conduct the initial evaluation on technical capability to meet Statement of Work requirements. Upon completion of the evaluation period, the panel will review each quote and make their final award recommendation to the Contracting Officer.

Provide your quote in only two separate volumes:

VOLUME 1 Pricing.

The contractor shall provide a priced quotation for work inclusive of all direct and indirect costs. Pricing shall be FOB Destination and exclude any taxes otherwise applicable to this effort.

Pricing shall independently address the following elements:

1. Prefabricated Pedestrian Bridge

2. Abutments

3 Other Cost (Schedule to include material lead time and delivery.)

4. Total Price

VOLUME 2 Non-pricing, which includes information of evaluation factors.

FACTOR TECHNICAL

SUBFACTOR 1 BRIDGE SPECIFICATIONS

Design and prefabricated bridge must at minimum meet all specifications in the Statement of Work.

1. Must submit design specifications

2. Specifications must meet or exceed Bridge and Design Requirements 2.0 – 9.0

3. Must be in kit form and transportable at delivery

SUBFACTOR 2 EXPERIENCE (Qualified Supplier)

The bridge manufacturer shall have been in the business of design and fabrication of bridges for a minimum of five years. Provide a list of at least five (5) success bridge projects of similar construct which have been in service for at least three (3) years.

Each project description must contain the following information:

The name of project

The project start and end dates

A brief description of project, bridge size and location.

The owner of project

The owners Contact information

The total dollar value of the project

SUBFACTOR 3 SCHEDULE

The offeror shall provide a detailed work breakdown schedule illustrating the projects critical path including lead times for material ordering, prefabrication build and delivery.

FACTOR PAST PERFORMANCE

The government will evaluate each responsive offerors SAM.GOV and CPARS.GOV past performance profiles for governmental performances. Absence of past performance will be evaluated as Neutral. The contractor must adequately address any past terminations for default in terms of cause, corrective action, and internal efforts to remediate future risk of reoccurrence. Failure to address Terminations for

Cause/Default may result in disqualification. Offerors need not address past terminations for convenience of No-cost cancellations.

Technical and past performance, when combined, are significantly less important than cost or price.

Prefabricated Pedestrian Bridge

Evaluation Factors for Award

The Government will award a contract resulting from this solicitation to the responsible Offeror whose offer conforming to the solicitation will be most advantageous to the Government, price and other factors considered. The following factors will be used to evaluate offers:

Technical

(1) Evaluation of the bridge design and specifications submitted; (2) Evaluation of nongovernmental experience;

(3) evaluation of proposed work schedule (design and materials lead time and delivery)

Past Performance

Review of Sam.gov and CPARS performance data to evaluate for performance risks. The Contracting Officer will evaluate and clarify any presumed risk and weigh it against the benefits of the other factors.

Price

The Government will evaluate offered prices inclusive of all transportation charges FOB destination and will determine whether the proposed price is fair and reasonable.

Technical and past performance, when combined, are significantly less important than cost or price.