Pre Solicitation Synopsys CMc FDA 20 Jan 2022.pdf

Pre-Solicitation Synopsis - Construction Manager as Constructor (CMc)

GSA Design Excellence Synopsis for Construction Manager as Constructor (CMc)

1 Denver Federal Center, Lakewood, CO 80225

Notice Type: Synopsis Date: 20 January 2022 Region: Region 8 City: Lakewood State: Colorado Contracting Officer: Joseph Dorsey - 8PQA Contract Specialist: Shane Fawcett - 8PQA Phone Number: (720) 431-0386 Email: Joseph.Dorsey@gsa.gov Contracting Office: Rocky Mountain Region

Public Building Service Acquisition Division (8PQ) P.O. Box 25546 Denver Federal Center, Building 41 Lakewood, CO 80225-0546

Project: Food and Drug Administration New Laboratory Building Type: Federal Office Building Historic Structure: No Client Agency: HHS - Food and Drug Administration Size: 67,721 SF Parking Spaces: N/A Budget: $60-90 Million Applicable Funding: Funds Are Available Geographic Limitation: Denver Federal Center, Lakewood, CO Small Business Set-Aside: None mailto:joseph.dorsey@gsa.gov mailto:william.fawcett@gsa.gov mailto:Joseph.Dorsey@gsa.gov

NAICS Code: 236220 - Commercial and Institutional Building Construction with a small business size standard of $39.5 million

Classification Code: Y1DB - Construction of Laboratories and Clinics

Continuing a legacy of outstanding public architecture, the General Services Administration (GSA) Design Excellence Program seeks to commission our nation’s most talented designers and artists to design federal buildings of outstanding quality and value. These projects are to demonstrate the value of true integrated design that balances aesthetics, cost, constructability, and reliability; create environmentally responsible and superior workplaces for civilian federal employees;

and give contemporary form and meaning to our democratic values.

In this context, GSA announces an opportunity for Design Excellence in public architecture for performance of a Construction Manager as Constructor (CMc) in accordance with GSA quality standards and requirements. As required by law, all facilities will meet federal energy goals and security requirements. Projects may be LEED certified.

Project Description:

The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), Public Buildings Service, Region 8, Rocky Mountain Region is seeking highly qualified Construction Manager as Constructor (CMc) firms interested in participating in an opportunity under GSA's Design Excellence Program for CMc Services to build a new regulatory laboratory building on the Denver Federal Center (DFC) grounds located in Lakewood, CO for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The project site is located at Denver Federal Center Denver, CO. The site is bound by 2nd Street to the East, Main Ave to the South, Building 20 to the North, and 3rd Street to the West.

The Denver Federal Center (DFC) is located on the former Denver Ordnance Plant in Lakewood Colorado, and includes 44 Federal buildings of office, warehouse, lab and special use space totaling four million square feet of rental space on 623 acres.

There are 28 different Federal agencies on site, making it the largest concentration of Federal agencies outside of Washington D.C. One of the major employers at the Denver Federal Center is the GSA. The GSA is responsible for delivering much of the space requirements of Federal agencies, and provides national leadership, policy direction and standards in the areas of architecture, engineering, urban development, sustainable design, fine arts, historic preservation, construction services and project management

The DFC’s new laboratory for the FDA is envisioned as a facility to demonstrate how lab facility buildings can be aesthetically compelling, acquired at a competitive first-cost and lifecycle cost, and through integrated design, how buildings can reduce performance risks to the Owner and constructor, while not sacrificing laboratory function and design criteria. Further, the completed building will foster creativity, collaboration and innovation for the scientific community on and around the DFC campus. It will demonstrate the integration of high performance design features and practices, and showcase technology advances while satisfying the FDA’s highly technical and specialized requirements of a regulatory lab facility.

The construction of the FDA laboratory and laboratory-support facilities shall be per the current edition of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Design Requirement Manual (DRM). This specialized lab facility will include Bio-Safety Level 2 (BSL-2), Biosafety Level 3 (BSL-3), and other specialized chemical and biological lab spaces.

The construction requirements will be based upon information contained within the Scope of Work (SOW).

The CMc team shall ensure a high performing building that employs a whole building construction approach, while working with the design team, which maximizes the building’s construction and inherent characteristics to drive efficiency cost effectively. The CMc will strive to deliver an award winning project which embraces the ethos of design excellence and advanced technology, and exhibits a high degree of ingenuity, and creativity.

GSA has chosen the delivery method known as Construction Manager as Constructor (CMc). With the CMc delivery method, the General Contractor is competitively selected during the design phase of the project and provides a variety of pre-construction and construction services, establishes a Guaranteed Maximum Price (GMP) and awards a Firm Fixed Price (FFP) construction contract at or around 100% Concept Documents. For this project, the Government will also retain an independent Construction Manager as Agent (CMa) to assist in procurement activities and any other activities required. A Commission Agent (CxA) will also be procured for this project. All parties will be expected to cooperate and partner with the goal of successfully completing an award winning design and construction project on-time and onbudget. The CMc will be involved in the design process to provide construction expertise, estimating and cost information, and functionality and constructability reviews. There will be an informal partnering process.

Scope of Work:

The GSA has been tasked with providing a new laboratory building on the Denver Federal Center grounds for the FDA. The existing facility where the local division of the FDA is currently located (Building 20) is outdated and no longer meets the needs for modern laboratories. The DFC New Lab is envisioned as a facility to demonstrate how buildings can be aesthetically compelling, acquired at a competitive first-cost and lifecycle cost, and through integrated design, how buildings can reduce performance risks to the owner and constructor. Further, the completed building will foster creativity, collaboration and innovation for the scientific community on and around the DFC campus.

The Construction Phase Services for this contract will include the construction of the new FDA Lab Building. The Operations & Maintenance Phase Services will include the operations and maintenance of the new facility.

Project goals and objectives are:

❖ to support the current needs of the tenant laboratories ❖ to provide ‘capable’ building systems that are adaptable to address future needs ❖ to meet all National Institutes of Health Design Requirements Manual

Specifications in addition to to FDA supplemental mission requirements ❖ to construct a facility that includes infrastructure provisions for growth ❖ to construct a reliable building that is able to be maintained without disruption to scientists and the lab facilities; through the use of N+1 redundancy as required by the POR and NIH DRM requirements.

❖ to construct a facility that supports the safety and welfare of the occupants (inclusive of tenants, guests, and service personnel)

❖ to advance the mission of the tenant laboratories ❖ to improve the work environment of the scientists and administrative staff ❖ provide resilient and capable work and meeting spaces and systems for a 50 year building ❖ Implementing an energy efficient building & site through an integrated, sustainable design approach ❖ to construct an efficient layout and minimize the government usable square footage footprint for lab and office space by exploring shared “hotel” workstations and “core”laboratories

❖ to allow for the potential for future expansion ❖ to be a regional showcase project for GSA, and FDA as well as an economic catalyst for the region.

❖ to provide operation and maintenance of the new facility.

GSA has contracted with a separate Architect-Engineer (A/E) firm that is responsible for developing complete design and construction documents for the project. As a general matter, the CMc shall review and become familiar with the scope of services under the A/E’s contract, especially the various standards, guidelines, policies, and documents that the A/E is required to follow in developing the design and construction documents. The main tasks of the CMc Contractor during the Design Phase Services are to provide constructability and cost estimation reviews of the A/E’s design-related submissions. At its core, the CMc Contractor will help to ensure that the design and construction documents will enable the Government to exercise the Guaranteed Maximum Price (GMP) Option at a price that is at or below the GMP.

NAICS: The NAICS code for this procurement is 236220 - Commercial and Institutional Building Construction

Set-Aside: The Government does not intend to set-aside the requirement for small business concerns.

Contract Type: The contract is anticipated to be awarded at costs and converted to a firm-fixed price contract if the Government agrees and exercises the firms’ Guaranteed Maximum Price (GMP).

Selection Process:

The Government is conducting an unrestricted (full and open without exclusion of sources), and is using source selection procedures in FAR Part 15 to evaluate proposal packages. The Government will also use FAR and GSAM Class Deviation – Authority to Use Construction Manager as Constructor (CMc) Project Delivery Method. If necessary, the Government evaluation will establish a competitive range for discussions and negotiations. The competitive range may exclude highly rated proposals that may otherwise be included in the competitive range if it is necessary to achieve efficiency in competition among the most highly rated proposals.

The Government will make a selection based on the proposal that represents the best value.

Total Evaluated Price: Offerors will be required to submit pricing for the following areas of the work to complete the project that is described in the forthcoming solicitation: i) CLIN 0001 – Design Phase Services (firm-fixed price); ii) CLIN 0002 – Target Estimated Cost of Work (ECW); iii) CLIN 0003 – CMc Contingency Allowance (CCA) Percentage; iv) CLIN 0004 – CCA; v) CLIN 0005 – Fee Percentage, vi) CLIN 0006 – Fee; vii) CLIN 0007 – Guaranteed Maximum Price Option for Construction Services; and viii) CLIN 0008 - Operations & Maintenance Services (firm-fixed price).

The Total Evaluated Price is the sum of CLIN 0001 and CLIN 0007.

The Government source selection board members will evaluate the following factors (subject to change):

GO/NO-GO FACTORS: The following criteria may be evaluated on a “go/no-go” basis. Offerors not meeting all of the following go/no-go factors will be eliminated from further consideration. The CO will make the initial determination as to the Offeror’s acceptability, and submit only those offers meeting the “go” factors to the SSEB for evaluation.

1. Submission of a small business subcontracting plan

Factor 1 - Offeror’s Experience (25%)

This factor considers the extent of the offeror’s experience on Similar Projects as the prime contractor. The offeror should demonstrate that as the prime contractor it has completed at least two Similar Projects.

Factor 2 - Offeror’s Past Performance (25%)

This factor considers the offeror’s past performance as the prime contractor on Similar Projects it has substantially completed as of the initial proposal due date for the forthcoming solicitation.

Factor 3 - Technical Approach (25%)

This factor considers the offeror’s proposed technical approach in its CMc delivery method approach covering design phase services and construction phase services in the scope of work to meet the contract requirements.

Factor 4 - Key Personnel Past Performance (25%)

This factor considers the relevant past performance (for at least one year) of the offeror’s proposed key personnel (project manager and construction superintendent) on substantially completed (as of the initial proposal due date for the forthcoming solicitation) Similar Projects in the key personnel position proposed.

Document Availability: The solicitation will be available for electronic download from the System for Award Management website at https://www.sam.gov . The download will be available at no charge. All documents are subject to appropriate guidelines, protocols, and procedures to control sensitive but unclassified information.

Other Information: All interested vendors must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM). Potential offerors should refer to the solicitation package regarding instructions for registration in SAM.

This contract will be procured under FAR Part 36 and the General Services Administration Regulation (GSAR) Subpart 536.71 - Construction-Manager-as-Constructor Contracting. The government will not allow payment for travel, living expenses, computer time or hookups for the prime or the consultants during the selection process.

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