Prebid_Meeting_and_Site_Visit_notes.pdf

Santa Cruz Lake Road Paving, Concrete curb and gutter Construction

Pre-bid Meeting

April 6, 2015

1. This is the prebid meeting and site visit for BLM Solicitation No. L15PS00238 Santa Cruz Lake

Road Paving and Concrete Curb and Gutter construction.

2. Please be sure to write any questions you have on the cards which I have handed out and provide them to one of the BLM persons here. We will attempt to answer all of your questions today. Any questions that we are not able to provide an answer today will be provided in the forthcoming list of Q&As to be provided along with the sign-in sheet for this prebid meeting by a solicitation amendment.

3. This solicitation requires all proposals to be submitted to me electronically via email by no later than April 20, 2015 at 5:00PM local time. The deadline for questions to be answered is no later than April 13 and should be also submitted to me by email at hconn@blm.gov.

4. This solicitation is 100% set aside for small business under NAICS code 237310. Please be sure that your company is registered in SAM.gov before you submit your proposal, as we unable to make an award to any company that is not currently registered in SAM.gov and is not a small business under this NAICs code.

5. Your proposal is to be submitted in two separate electronic volumes: the first electronic volume will be all of your pricing in accordance with this solicitation. Please refer to the bid schedule as attachment 7 to this solicitation. There are six fixed price line items, plus two additive line items which you will need to include in this volume one. The second volume is your response to our evaluation factors, which can be found in section M of the solicitation, are as follows:

Experience, Past Performance, Schedule and Key Personnel. You may include an electronic copy of your bid bond with your electronic proposal as long as you send an original of your bid bond to be delivered to me at the address noted in block 7 of the solicitation SF1442 no later than

April 21, 2015 at 3:00PM local time. Failure to provide an original bid bond by this date may render your proposal to be non-responsive and rejected from further consideration.

6. Please note that the source selection for this acquisition will follow FAR part 15 as a lowest priced technically acceptable source selection (LPTA). This means that your response to the technical evaluation factors will be evaluated on a pass/fail or go/no-go basis. The award will be made to the offeror whose proposal meets the requirements stated in Section M and is the lowest overall price, including the additive/deductive items.

7. As this is a federally funded construction project, you must comply with the requirements of

Davis Bacon Act, including paying the minimum wage rates set forth in the attached Wage

Determination number NM15048 dated 1/2/2015 for all labor categories which you will use on this contract. As with all other federally- funded construction contracts, you are required to submit weekly certified payrolls to the Contracting Officer Representative, who is Mr. Herbert

Chavez who is here today.

8. Please note that no one is authorized to make any changes to either the terms of this solicitation, or the resulting contract, except the contracting officer. All changes must be in writing and acknowledged by the contractor in writing as well, including any amendments which may be issued to this solicitation.

9. Unless you have any more questions at this point, we will proceed to the construction site for our site visit now.

mailto:hconn@blm.gov