Prequalification Notice Baghdad PP.pdf

19AQMM24R0251

19AQMM24R0251

Department of State 2025 Design-Build Contract for

Power Plant Remediation Project at U.S. Embassy

Baghdad, Iraq

Notice of Solicitation of Submissions for Contractor Pre-Qualification

THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE (DOS), Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations (OBO) is requesting submissions to pre-qualify firms for Design-Build Services for design and construction services for remediation for the power plant at U.S. Embassy Baghdad, Iraq. The Project is described below. OBO seeks to commission our nation’s top designers and constructors to produce facilities of outstanding quality and value.

This project is available for full and open competition.

Project Description (Secret Facility and Personnel Security Clearances are NOT Required, but the Contractor must possess a current license to do business in Iraq at the time of proposal submission.

The Contractor shall submit to a background investigation (also known as “vetting”) after contract award for the Uncleared labor and obtain approval of the Project

Director/Contracting Officer Representative (COR), in coordination with Regional Security

Officer (RSO), before access is granted to Project Site or applicable Support Sites.

Local Labor: The Contractor shall submit an Employment Application form and all required documentation, as coordinated with RSO. The estimated investigation processing time is 60 days.

Local labor require escort by fully vetted TCN or U.S. Citizen personnel.

Third Country National (TCN) Labor and Uncleared U.S. Citizens: The background investigation will consist of the completion of the Moderate Risk Public Trust (MRPT) investigation and/or

National Criminal Indices Checks (NCICs), as determined by the RSO.

19AQMM24R0251: Remediation of the Power Plant at U.S. Embassy Baghdad, Iraq.

Property Description: The US Embassy is located on a 42 hectares (104 acres) compound in Baghdad. The site is bounded along its perimeter by Al Kindi Street to the north, Arbataash Tamuz street to the east, and a lagoon in the south.

Project Scope: The project includes the design/build construction to address the existing, prime rated, central power plant’s operational, maintenance, and performance challenges. The contractor shall design and install modifications to the existing central power plant to remedy the major deficiencies with the plant’s performance and sustained operations since 2018. The contractor shall be responsible for accomplishing the performance goals set forth in the solicitation to deliver the power plant project conforming to the U.S. Embassy Baghdad’s unique operational requirements and to OBO’s preferences, requirements, design standards and all applicable criteria.

The central power plant shall remain in continuous operation throughout the construction period. This project requires complex phasing.

The execution of this project requires that the bidder must engage the services of a team of qualified design professionals meeting the following minimum criteria:

• Active U.S. Engineering License (P.E.) and Active U.S. Architectural License (AIA /

R.A.) for all applicable disciplines.

• Expertise, knowledge and experience in design and engineering of mechanically ventilated, indoors, prime power plants located in extremely hot climatic zones, based on

U.S. standards.

• Technical knowledge, expertise, and experience of operational and maintenance of

Caterpillar®C-175 4.0 MW generators, and the entire powertrain in a prime rated powerplant configuration with continuous power generation.

• Expertise, knowledge and experience in instrumentation and controls for a fully integrated automated power generation, distribution, load cycling, fuel operations, monitoring, diagnostics, analytics, and reporting system engineering.

• Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modelling, simulation, and analysis expertise with mechanical system design and engineering.

This is a complete design-build project, please be advised that design documents (including bridging documents) will NOT be provided. The design and engineering shall be fully delegated to the awarded contractor, and the contractor shall develop a design consistent with the OBO mission to create safe, secure, functional, and resilient facilities that embrace project-specific constructability, sustainable priorities, and security.

Approximate construction cost: $68 - 83 million

NOTE: To demonstrate performance of similar construction work for Omnibus Diplomatic Security and Antiterrorism Act of 1986 purposes, the offeror needs to provide information demonstrating that it has successfully completed in the United States or at a U.S. diplomatic or consular mission a construction contract or subcontract involving work of the same general type and complexity as the solicited project and having a contract or subcontract value of at least $56,250,000. See Section 3 below.

2. Project Solicitation

The project solicitation will consist of two phases.

Phase I – Omnibus Pre-Qualification of Offerors

This announcement of solicitation of Omnibus pre-qualification submissions is Phase I. The

Department of State (DOS) will evaluate the pre-qualification submissions based on the evaluation criteria set forth below. Only Offerors prequalified in Phase I are eligible for participation in subsequent Phases and/or for award. The structure of the Offeror must remain the same throughout each subsequent Phase.

ADDITIONAL ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS:

Business registration on SAM.gov is not required for purposes of prequalification; however, the entity pre-qualified in Phase 1 shall be the same entity submitting a proposal in response to the subsequent Phases including the Request for Proposal (RFP). The company responding to this Phase

1 solicitation, shall be the same entity throughout the procurement process for this project.

Prequalification is non-transferable; a prequalified offeror may not transfer its prequalification eligibility to a joint venture, partner, subsidiary, or other business.

An active entity registration of the prequalified offeror on SAM.gov is required by the proposal due date of the RFP. If the prequalified offeror fails to obtain final registration in SAM.gov by the RFP’s proposal due date, the submitted proposal will not be evaluated and will not be considered for award.

The time to register a new entity on SAM.gov may vary, therefore any firms not actively registered should start the registration process early.

To the extent an offeror anticipates proposing two or more entities that meaningfully rely on related entities to perform under the contract and to meet the stated requirements of the Solicitation, the offeror should be structured as a formal JV or prime/subcontractor. The offeror itself (formal JV or

Prime) is required to be registered in SAM.gov prior to proposal submission.

Phase II – Requests for Proposals from Pre-Qualified Offerors

Those Offerors determined to be pre-qualified in Phase I in accordance with this notice will be issued a formal Request for Proposal (RFP) for the project and invited to participate in a site visit and submit technical and pricing proposals in Phase II. Phase II proposals shall provide pricing for the design-build construction. As noted above, only Offerors prequalified in Phase I are eligible for participation in subsequent Phases and/or for award. The structure of the Offeror must remain the same throughout each procurement Phase.

Offerors may be required to participate in a visit to the project site, anticipated to be within 10 to 15 days after the issuance of the Phase II RFP depending on travel and access restrictions.

The selected design-build contractor’s Architect/Engineer will be the “Designer of Record” and responsible for completing the construction drawings and specifications in accordance with the project requirement documentation provided.

The contract will be “firm fixed-price.” Construction services will include providing construction labor and materials to execute the OBO-accepted design; on-site organization with management to ensure overall project coordination; and overall control throughout the life of the project. Required services include preparation of construction documents, quality control plans, safety plans, project schedules, cost estimates, and project close-out activities.

The types of design services to be provided may include: architecture; civil, structural, geo-technical, seismic, blast, mechanical, electrical, telecommunication, and fire protection engineering;; space planning, interior design, systems furniture design and integration, and signage; physical and technical security; vertical transportation; lighting design; landscape design; design and construction scheduling; cost estimating; value engineering; and administrative coordination of the various disciplines involved. Additionally, the successful offeror may be required to have an approved local design consultant in order to obtain local approvals for the project.

The RFP will require the D/B contractor to complete all design and engineering documents based on the project specific design direction that will be provided in the RFP design requirements. The

Government will not provide bridging level design documents but will provide at a minimum, a site utilization plan; floor plans; space and requirements standards, organizational relationships, space requirements program; building utilities and infrastructure design; and supporting narratives, where applicable.

3. PHASE I DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS

Submission Requirements for Phase I, Pre-Qualification of Offerors: The Offeror shall submit sufficient documentation to allow DOS to evaluate its capabilities with the qualification criteria listed.

Submissions that are missing the required information or otherwise do not comply with the submission requirements may be eliminated from consideration at the Contracting Officer’s determination.

To demonstrate performance of similar construction work for Omnibus Diplomatic Security and

Antiterrorism Act of 1986 purposes, the offeror needs to provide information demonstrating that it has successfully completed in the United States or at a U.S. diplomatic or consular mission a construction contract or subcontract involving work of the same general type and complexity as the solicited project and having a contract or subcontract value of at least $56,250,000. The value of the construction contract or subcontract offered to demonstrate performance will not be adjusted for inflation, currency fluctuation, or any other market forces.

3.A. Omnibus Diplomatic Security and Antiterrorism Act of 1986. Firms being considered for award under this acquisition are limited to “United States Person” bidders as defined for purposes of Section

402(a)(2) of the Act. The Offeror must complete and submit as part of its pre-qualification package the pamphlet "Certifications Relevant to Public Law 99-399, Statement of Qualifications for Purpose of Section 402 of The Omnibus Diplomatic Security and Antiterrorism Act of 1986." (The pamphlet is attached to this SAM.gov announcement and may be obtained from the DOS Contract Specialist listed at the end of this notice.) If a Joint Venture (JV) is formed, the company having 51 percent or greater interest in the JV must be the one completing the pamphlet. This is a pass/fail evaluated area.

Submissions from Offerors who do not receive a pass rating in this area will not be further evaluated.

Sufficient information should be provided in the Certifications and attachments thereto to determine eligibility under Public Law 99-399, but the Department reserves the right to consider information available from other sources, or to obtain clarifications or additional information from the Offeror.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Organizations that wish to use the experience or financial resources of any other legally dependent organization or individual, including parent companies, subsidiaries, or other related firms, must do so by way of a joint venture. To be considered a “qualified United States joint venture person,” every joint venture must have at least one firm or organization that itself meets all the requirements of a U.S. person listed in Section 402. The U.S. person co-venturer will be required to sign a guarantee making the U.S. person individually responsible for performance of any contract awarded, notwithstanding the terms of any joint venture agreement.

4. Closing Deadline for Submissions

ALL SUBMISSIONS MUST BE RECEIVED BY 3:00 P.M. Eastern Time on November 18, 2024.

Offeror must state the following on the cover of the submission:

• 19AQMM24R0251 U.S. Embassy Baghdad Power Plant Remediation Project.

• Offeror’s SAM.gov registration Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) number

ONLY Electronic submissions/responses are accepted. All submissions must be E-mailed/shared to the fan.gov email addresses below. Do NOT upload anything to a Third-party website and send us the link. We are not authorized to download any documents from any third-party websites.

Subject of email must include solicitation number 19AQMM25R0251, U.S. Embassy Baghdad

Power Plant Remediation

Email submissions are authorized to be sent to the following FAN addresses:

Primary: Fieldssc@FAN.gov

Alternate: AikenK@FAN.gov

Please UPLOAD the Phase 1 submission (with both PDF files) to your Google Drive (FAN –

Foreign Affairs Network or personal) AND share/send the Stage 1 submission from Google to the FAN.gov email addresses above and please give the CO’s EDIT permission for these files.

The files will just be downloaded.

In order to upload your proposals onto Google Drive and share, perform the following steps:

1. Go to drive.google.com, log into your Google account with your username and password.

If you do not have a Google account, you will need to create one.

2. At the top left, click New then select File Upload or Folder Upload, and choose your file or folder you want to upload.

3. Right click the file or folder you want to share and select SHARE.

4. Enter these email addresses: Fieldssc@FAN.gov and AikenK@FAN.gov. Make sure the

EDITOR option selected.

5. Click Send.

Note: If you have a FAN (Foreign Affairs Network) account upload the proposals to the FAN

Google Drive. If you do not have a FAN account, you can upload the proposals to a personal

Google Drive then share. Sharing from your personal Google Drive account is acceptable.

Clarification Requests

Any Requests for clarification, must be submitted, in writing to Chrissie Fields at

Fieldssc@state.gov and Keith Aiken at AikenK@state.gov by no later than 2:00 p.m., Eastern

Standard Time, on October 31, 2024. Clarifications and requests for information received after the deadline, shall not be accepted.

mailto:Fieldssc@FAN.gov mailto:Fieldssc@fan.gov mailto:AikenK@FAN.gov mailto:AikenK@state.gov