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SABER Solicitation FA2517-08-R-5002

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SECTION 01 04 00

UNIT PRICE BOOK AND SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS

PART 1 GENERAL

1.1 COST ESTIMATING SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS

1.1.1 The Contractor shall purchase and maintain copies of e4Clicks Premier Project Estimator

(e4Clicks) software as listed in this specification. These copies shall remain the property of the Government.

1.1.1.1 The estimating and project management software package shall be Windows™-based software and must be able to import and export estimates and projects electronically in a secured estimate file format. It shall be able to track projects by contract, contract year, estimator, customer, and/or project location. It shall support project management tracking of project milestones, project costs, locations, contacts, and project notes. It shall provide a means for document management, whereas the user can setup template documents, point and click, and create new, project specific documents using the current project details. The software must support multiple contracts, contractors, and coefficients. The software shall be able to import the contractors estimate, complete an electronic comparison and technical evaluation showing the government’s pre negotiation strategy, as well as producing the contractors revised estimate report to show the post negotiation changes made from the initial estimate to the final accepted estimate. The software must be capable of handling multiple coefficients and contractors markups within a project. The database shall contain all of the line items found in the RSMeans bound volumes. Software must support Specification management, whereby specific line items will be linked to specific specifications and the user can automatically produce a detailed Specification document for each project as they build their estimates. The software must support estimate line item notes and takeoff both manually and via electronic drawings, providing the ability for instant drill down from a line item quantity to the specific drawing and measurement. The software report engine say support square foot planning and programming detailed reports for future projects and budgeting. All RSMeans databases must be protected from being changed by any user. The software must support all of the City Cost Index provided by

RSMeans annually and quarterly in addition to supporting Division Level

Material/Installation, Division Level Weighted Average, Weighted Average

Material/Installation and Weighted Average Totalling for Bare Cost pricing and

Overhead and Profit (O&P) unit pricing. The RSMeans data must be provided in both book description and full character descriptions. The software shall be able to export to

Microsoft Excel™ and Adobe PDF™ file types as well as create electronic Air Force

Form 3064’s, 3065’s 66, 3000’s, 3052’s, etc, and Department of Defense (DoD) Form

1354 Real Property documents. The Contractor shall purchase all annual maintenance plans and upgrades and make them available as soon as they are ready for the life of the contract. Additionally the software is required to be approved for use on government servers and be listed on the AF E/APL.

1.1.1.2 The Contractor shall purchase, maintain, and use the latest version of e4Clicks Basic or

Professional Project Estimator. The Contractor shall use e4Clicks software to estimate and submit all of their estimates, both electronically and on paper. The Contractor is responsible for deciding which software version to purchase and the number of copies

01 04 00-2 03/24/09 of the software that they will need to support their contract requirements.

1.1.1.3 Information on this software and pricing can be obtained by emailing sales@4-clicks.com; let them know this is for the Colorado and Wyoming Regionalized

Simplified Acquisition of Base Engineering Requirements (SABER) Reacquisition contract. Government Service Administration (GSA) pricing is available for this contract with written consent from the Contracting Officer.

1.1.1.4 The Contractor shall provide on-site computer support in the form of a trained software installer to remedy any problems associated with the installation of the estimating software and associated databases. The Contractor will have all software fully operational within twenty-one (21) calendar days of contract award. After the software is successfully installed, the Contractor shall provide a toll-free number that the

Government shall use for over-the-phone software support. The Contractor shall also provide an on-site trained software installer whenever problems are experienced with installing upgraded software.

1.1.1.5 The Contractor shall provide, both the most current version of the software program and databases and the annual updates to both, as they become available from 4Clicks, for the life of the contract. The Contractor and the Government shall both have the most current version of the software and databases at all times.

1.1.1.6 The Contractor shall provide annual training for Government personnel on e4Clicks and RSMeans. Annual e4Clicks training shall consist of two full days of training for each installation at or near each installation. The Contractor shall also provide a three-day RSMeans training class conducted by a certified RSMeans trainer covering a topic chosen by the government. This class shall accommodate 30 students and be held in

Colorado Springs, CO. All training classes shall be completed within the first 30 calendar days of the award and exercise of the option years or as coordinated with the

Contracting Officer.

1.2 DEFINITIONS

1.2.1 Unit Price Book (UPB): The list and price information for all prepriced items covered in this contract. The UPB shall include the base cost pricing from the RSMeans Facilities

Cost Data Guide, RSMeans Assemblies, and the RSMeans Master Composite Cost Data

Guides – consisting of Building Construction, Electrical, Mechanical, Plumbing, Green

Book, Interior, Site Work & Landscape, Concrete & Masonry and Heavy Construction

Cost Data. The UPB shall also include RSMeans trades line items, selective demolition line items, removal and replacement line items, average line items, and Government

Furnished Materials line items.

1.2.2 Line item: An item or system denoted in the UPB by a unique line item number.

1.2.3 Bare costs: The cost of a line item without any multiplier.

1.2.4 Multipliers: All factors added to the bare cost pricing of the UPB. This includes the City

Cost Index (CCI) and the Contractor’s coefficients.

1.2.5 Prepriced line item: A line item from the UPB with approved changes.

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1.2.6 Non-prepriced line item (NPI): A line item that is not a prepriced line item.

1.2.7 Conventional line item: A line item listed directly from an RSMeans Cost Data Guide(s).

1.2.8 RSMeans trades line item. These are the bare cost hourly rates found in the back of the annually published RSMeans hardback books.

1.2.9 Selective demolition line item: The removal of material with no concern for its replacement. If a line item can be found in the UPB for selective demolition, that line item will be used. If there is no line item for selective demolition, the Contractor will locate the line item in the UPB. Then the Contractor will create an alternate prepriced line item removing the cost for the material and equipment, and the remaining labor amount will be multiplied by 50%. This will be used as the means to demolish that item.

This line item will be prepriced. If the line item cannot be found in the UPB, the demolition will be an NPI.

1.2.10 Removal and replacement line item: An item that is to be removed and then replaced without damaging the item. If a line item can be found in the UPB for removal and replacement, that line item will be used. If there is no line item for removal and replacement, the Contractor will locate the line item in the UPB. Then the Contractor will create an alternate prepriced line item removing the cost for the material and equipment, and the remaining labor amount will be multiplied by 150%. This will be used as the means to demolish that item. This line item will be prepriced. If the line item cannot be found in the UPB, the demolition will be an NPI.

1.2.11 Average line item: An item that is created by using a minimum and maximum line item.

If an average line item can be found in the UPB, that line item will be used. If there is no line item for an average, but there is a line item for minimum and maximum and the average line item is applicable the contractor will locate the two line items, the minimum and the maximum in the UPB. Then the Contractor will create an alternate prepriced line item using the average total cost of the two line items. This will be used as a means to create an average line item when none exists. This line item will be prepriced. If the minimum and maximum line item cannot be found in the UPB, the average line item will be an NPI.

1.2.12 Government Furnished Materials (GFM): On occasion, the government may choose to supply the Contractor with materials to accomplish project requirements. If this occurs, the line item prices for labor and equipment only will be used. They are considered as prepriced. The Contractor will not adjust the labor and equipment pricing. The materials are to be cared for by the Contractor, and excess materials are to be returned to the government.

1.2.13 All prices in the UPB are for completed and in-place construction unless explicitly described otherwise. Incidental fasteners, such as, nails, screws, bolts, weldments, connectors, and adhesives are included in the bare material cost. Unless specifically omitted in the UPB line item description, testing, adjusting, balancing, and start-up of installed equipment is included in the unit price line number cost found in the UPB. Line items are for end finishes. For example, the line item price for concrete broom finish included all finishes necessary to result in the broom finish.

1.2.14 The UPB prices certain line items with a “Minimum labor/equipment charge.” This

01 04 00-4 03/24/09 minimum charge is often the price a tradesman would charge to make a special visit to perform that work. If the contractor is already on-site and the minimum is met, then this item shall not be used as an adjustment to the Unit Price line items.

1.2.15 All line item prices assume the installation of the material under normal working conditions. This includes working from scaffolding when appropriate. In other words, the productivity for brick veneer is based upon working not only from the ground, but also from working on scaffolding. Therefore unless the division has specific height exceptions, no allowance or change to the unit price is required for working at different heights. The cost to rent and erect the scaffolding is required. All scaffolding line items are based upon a one month rental of the scaffolding. Scaffolding is measured by the square foot of face area where the work is being performed (working height in feet multiplied by the length of the wall in feet) or, in the case of when scaffolding must be erected inside a structure in order to access the ceiling, by the cubic feet (volume) of the actual scaffolding components. Scaffolding is priced separately. There are line items for the material costs and line items for erection/dismantling. It is not appropriate to use the scaffolding line items separately for each subcontractor. Scaffolding should be applied to the job cost once, and the subcontractors are “allowed” to use it.

1.2.16 Line items for mobilization and demobilization are for one or the other unless noted otherwise. Normally, a piece of equipment will need to be mobilized and demobilized.

Therefore, the line item would normally be included twice per piece of equipment used.

Small equipment placed in rear of truck or towed by a pickup truck is limited to those items included in the RSMeans crews.

1.3 PRICE DETERMINATION

1.3.1 City Cost Index (CCI): The CCI will be applied with totalling components after the bare cost of the line items have been totaled.

1.3.1.1 The CCI for task orders at Peterson AFB, Cheyenne Mountain AFS, Schriever AFB, the Air Force Academy, and Fort Carson will use the most current published CCI for

Colorado Springs, CO.

1.3.1.2 The CCI for task orders at Buckley AFB will use the most current published CCI for

Denver, CO.

1.3.1.3 The CCI for task orders at F.E. Warren AFB will use the most current published CCI for Cheyenne, WY.

1.3.1.4 Conventional line items will use the most current published Weighted Average Total

CCI.

1.3.1.5 The RSMeans trades, selective demolition, removal and replacement, average, and

GFM lines items will be summated and multiplied by the most current published

Weighted Average Total CCI.

1.3.2 Prepriced Line Items: Bare cost line items from the Unit Price Book (UPB) will be summated with the CCI applied as described above. The appropriate coefficient shall then be applied to the total. This is the prepriced line item total.

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1.3.3 Non-Prepriced Line Items: The non-prepriced line items shall be summated and the appropriate coefficient applied. This is the non-prepriced line item total.

1.3.4 Final Project Price: The summation of the prepriced and non-prepriced line item totals shall result in the final project price.

1.4 COST ESTIMATE ORGANIZATION

1.4.1 Cost Estimates will be comprised of three sections: 1) Division Summary, 2) Totaling

Components and 3) Line Item Estimate.

1.4.1.1 Section 1, Division Summary: This section shall include the RSMeans prepriced divisions, Trades, Assemblies and Alternates (both prepriced and non-prepriced).

These items shall make up the Bare Total. No markups shall be applied at this level.

1.4.1.2 Section 2, Totalling Components: This section includes totaling components setup for all applicable markups, including contractor coefficients. (CCI’s shall be applied as described above.)

1.4.1.3 Section 3, Line Item Estimate: This section shall include all of the estimate line items.

The report shall include a sequential line item number, full RSMeans item number, unit of measure, quantity, and bare unit cost, total amount (quantity multiplied by bare unit cost). The report will print: prepriced line items by division for all RSMeans prepriced line items found in the UPB, with division breaks and division subtotals, and a listing of the Trades, Assemblies and Alternates, both prepriced and non-prepriced.

a. All non-prepriced line items will be submitted with three independent price quotes including line item number, description, material, labor, and equipment breakdowns.

List the supplier names and telephone numbers for each non-prepriced item. Do not apply any type of markup to these line items.

1.5 PREPRICED UNIT PRICE BOOK

1.5.1 Unit Price Book: The unit price book shall consist of the most current RSMeans

Facilities Cost Data Guide, RSMeans Assemblies, and the RSMeans Master Composite

Cost Data Guides – consisting of Building Construction, Electrical, Mechanical, Plumbing, Green Book, Interior, Site Work & Landscape, Concrete & Masonry and

Heavy Construction Cost Data. This guide shall be provided in two formats (as described below): bound RSMeans’ hard copy books and electronic software database to be used by the cost estimating software. All costs used from the databases shall be bare costs; the

Assemblies guide will be used by the SABER office only.

1.5.1.1 All bound volumes, electronic databases, and software licenses shall be provided by the

Contractor to the Government, and will remain the property of the Government.

1.5.1.2 The following Subdivisions/Major Classifications, as contained in any of the RSMeans bound or electronic databases shall not be used as line items in pricing task orders issued under this contract. These costs shall be covered in the contractor’s coefficients:

a. Subdivision 01-11 – Summary of Work, excluded in its entirety.

b. Subdivision 01-21 – Allowances, excluded in its entirety.

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c. Subdivision 01-31 – Project Management and Coordination, excluded in its entirety.

d. Subdivision 01-32 – Construction Progress Documentation, excluded in its entirety.

e. Subdivision 01-41 – Regulatory Requirements, excluded in its entirety.

f. Subdivision 01-52 – Construction Facilities, excluded in its entirety.

g. Subdivision 01-54-39 – Construction Equipment, excluded in its entirety.

1.5.1.3 No informational portion of RSMeans books (introduction sections, chapter tips, references, etc) shall be construed as permitting cost changes or deviations from the

RSMeans line items used for the UPB.

1.5.2 The Contractor shall provide the following copies of software, electronic databases, and hard copy books for the Government. These shall be supplied to the Contracting Officer, within 21 calendar days of contract award and exercised contract periods. (These figures represent the numbers required from each contractor.)

Software and RSMeans Requirements

Installation Software

Licenses

Facilities

Electronic

Databases

Assemblies

Electronic

Databases

Master

Composite

Electronic

Databases

Facilities

Bound

Price

Books

Assemblies

Bound

Price Book

Master

Composite

Bound

Price Book

Peterson

AFB

4 3 2 3 3 1 1

USAF

Academy 4 3 2 3 3 1 1

Schriever

AFB

2 2 1 2 3 1 1

Buckley

AFB

3 2 2 2 3 1 1

F.E.

Warren

AFB

4 3 2 3 3 1 1

Cheyenne

Mountain

AFS

2 2 1 2 3 1 1

Fort

Carson 4 3 2 3 3 1 1

1.6 NON-PREPRICED UNIT PRICE GUIDES

1.6.1 Line items not covered in the prepriced UPB but within the scope and general intent of the contract and necessary to complete the requirements of a specific task order may be negotiated and incorporated into the task order by the Contracting Officer. These non-prepriced line items (NPI’s) shall only be allowed if the Government deems that an appropriate line item is not provided by the prepriced UPB.

1.6.2 To permit recurrent use, a non-prepriced line item must be incorporated by supplemental agreement into the non-prepriced UPB. This may be done at any time during the contract

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PART 2 PRODUCTS – Not Used

PART 3 EXECUTION – Not Used

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