B08 - Section 00 21 13 Draft Instructions to Bidders.docx

Section 00 21 13 - Instructions to Bidders

INSTRUCTIONS TO BIDDERS

BASIS FOR AWARD:

1. This solicitation is for work at two separate sites (North and South) with the expectation of two (2) awards. The Government intends to award a contract(s) to the bidder(s), providing the overall lowest price to the Government.

2. Contractors may submit a bid with pricing for one or more of the sites included in this solicitation. To be considered for award for any given site, a bidder must submit pricing on all line items for that site. Each bidder that includes pricing on more than one site in its bid, may also include an “award restriction” with its bid, limiting the number of sites for which it can be considered for a contract award. An award restriction is a whole number identifying the maximum number of sites for which that bidder may receive an award.

3. An award restriction may not include a prioritization or preference for a particular site or combination of sites on which a Contractor submits a bid. If a Contractor does not submit an award restriction with its bid, the Government may make an award to that Contractor for any site or combination of sites included in its bid. An offer containing an invalid award restriction is nonresponsive and no portion of the offer will be considered for award. Award restrictions may not be added or removed after bid opening.

4. A responsibility determination will be conducted in accordance with FAR Part 9. A bidder must be found responsible for the number of sites for which it is in line for award. If a bidder is found to be non-responsible for a proposed award, the bid submitted by that bidder will be eliminated from consideration and the remaining bids reevaluated.

5. As part of the responsibility determination if a Contractor is the apparent low bidder on both sites, the Contracting Officer may request additional documentation for responsibility determination to ensure both sites can be constructed concurrently.

6. Award restriction example.

(a) This example is solely for the purpose of illustrating the operation of an award restriction. Assume that Bidder C submits a responsive bid with pricing for both sites but includes an award restriction of “1” with its bid. Even if Bidder C is the low bidder on both sites, it is only eligible to receive awards for one of those sites because of the award restriction submitted with its bid. The Government will select which site will be included in the contract award to that bidder by reviewing the other bids submitted and determining which combination of bids provides the overall lowest price (for both sites in combination) to the Government.

Bidder

Award Restriction

7. The solicitation, solicitation attachments, and amendments are posted on the Procurement Integrated Enterprise Environment (PIEE) website https://piee.eb.mil with notification posted on the Government-wide Point of Entry, the System for Award Management (SAM) at www.sam.gov.

8. The point of contacts for this solicitation are:

Henry Barron, Contract Specialist E-Mail: henry.d.barron@usace.army.mil (preferred contact method) Rachel Kinney, Contracting Officer E-Mail: Rachel.kinney@usace.army.mil (preferred contract method)

2. INQUIRIES:

Prospective bidders may submit inquiries related to the draft instructions, specification and plans in accordance with the following:

(a) Contractual and Technical inquiries and questions relating to this draft instructions, specification and plans are to be submitted via Bidder Inquiry in ProjNet at https://www.projnet.org/projnet.

(b) To submit and review bid inquiry items, bidders will need to be a current registered user or self-register into the system. To self-register go to the aforementioned web page and click on the “QUICK ADD” link. Select agency as USACE and enter the Bidder Inquiry Key for this IFB listed below, your e-mail address, and then click “CONTINUE”. Fill in all required information and click “ADD USER”.

(c) From this page you may view all bidder inquiries or add an inquiry.

(d) Bidders will receive an acknowledgement of their question via e-mail, followed by an answer to their question after it has been processed.

(e) The Solicitation Number is: W9123826BA0003 The Bidder Inquiry Key is: 8HY9UY-M4SDIP

(f) The Bidder Inquiry System will be unavailable for new inquiries after 31 December 2025. The Government may not respond to all inquiries as we are looking for feedback from industry at this time.

(g) The call center operates weekdays from 8AM to 5PM U.S. Central Time Zone (Chicago). The telephone number for the Call Center is 800-428-HELP.