Synopsis W50S7324R0005 B1523 AE.pdf

A-E - SYNOPSIS

Solicitation W50S73-24-R-0005

ARCHITECT ENGINEER (A-E) CONTRACT FOR THE IDAHO NATIONAL GUARD IN

SUPPORT OF THE AIR NATIONAL GUARD BLDG 1523 PROJECT

CONTRACT INFORMATION: The IDAHO National Guard is soliciting for Non-Personal Architect-Engineer (A-E) Services in accordance with Public Law 92-582 (Selection of A-E Statute) and Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 36. One (1) contract will be solicited and awarded subject to the availability of funds. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this action is 541330. Contracts that are set aside for Small Business must comply with the FAR Clause 52.219-14(e)(1) that requires the prime contractor to not pay more than 50 percent of the amount paid by the Government for contract performance to subcontractors that are not similarly situated entities. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this action 541330. The Small Business size standard is $16.5M. Small businesses are encouraged to team with other businesses. As a result of this announcement, the Idaho National Guard intends to award one (1) contract to provide A-E services in support of Air National Guard (ANG). This is not a requirements contract.

PROJECT INFORMATION: A-E services shall include, but not be limited to performance of A-E investigative and design services including development of construction documents;

construction support; engineering and environmental studies, National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) documentation. Typical work may include, but is not specifically limited to: A: the preparation of plans, specifications, calculations, and cost estimates; B: the development of cost management, quality control and quality assurance plans; C: construction inspection, testing and management services; D: development of engineering standards; E: preparations for national design submissions; F: technical, economic, planning, environmental, value engineering and other studies, analyses, surveys, investigations, and reports; G: development of performance criteria for bridging documents for design build projects; H: development of documents to support various government construction programs; I: commissioning services; and J:

comprehensive interior design.

SELECTION CRITERIA: The selection criteria are listed below in descending order of importance (first by major criterion and then by each sub-criterion).

Criteria A -

(A) Professional Qualifications necessary for satisfactory performance of required services (SF30, Part I, Section E):

The selected firm must have, either in-house or through consultants, all disciplines listed for this criteria must provide resumes in Part I, Section E, of the SF330. Resumes shall not exceed two

(2) pages each. All engineers, architects and the project manager must have the following in the role they are assigned to on the project team: Bachelor’s degree, Professional Registration, and at least five (5) years of relevant experience. The Government may give additional consideration for special training or certifications, additional registration, higher level of education degrees, and/or years of experience that exceeds the five (5) year minimum requirement.

The positions below are also listed in descending order of importance.

(1) Civil Engineer

(2) Architect

(3) Project Manager

(4) Mechanical Engineer

(5) Electrical Engineer

(6) Structural Engineer

(7) Fire Protection Engineer an individual who is a registered professional engineer (P.E.) within the United States or its territories who has passed the fire protection engineering examination administered by the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES) and has relevant fire protection engineering experience

(8) Interior Design Specialist

(9) Communications Specialist Registered Communications Distribution Design (RCDD)

(10) Geotechnical Engineer

(11) Environmental Engineer or Physical Scientist with experience in NEPA processes;

registered engineer or similar registration that includes documented work history, state examination and state certification board

(12) Corrosion engineer Registered National Association of Corrosion Engineers (NACE) Certified Corrosion Specialist NACE Certified Cathodic Protection Specialist (CP- 4), or registered professional corrosion engineer with a minimum of five (5) years’ experience

(13) Surveyor who is a registered professional land surveyor with 5 years of relevant experience

(14) Landscape Architect

(15) Security/Cyber Security Specialist-minimum 5 years experience in cybersecurity of facility related control systems

(16) Geologist

(17) Cost Estimator – Bachelor’s degree, must be certified by a professional organization such as the Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering (AACE), International Costs Engineering Council (ICEC), and Professional Construction Estimators Association (PCEA). The firm’s and/or consultant’s cost engineering or estimating specialist(s), must be specifically identified and his (their) competence indicated by resume(s); If an individual will serve in more than one discipline then those disciplines shall be clearly indicated in Block 13, PART I, Section E.) Resumes (Block E of the SF 330) must be provided for all disciplines, including consultants. In the resumes under Project Assignments, use the same discipline nomenclature as is used in this announcement. The evaluation will consider education, training, registration, relevant experience in the type work required, and longevity with the firm.

Criteria B -

(B) Specialized Experience and Technical Competence in the type of work required, including, as appropriate, experience in sustainable design, energy conservation, pollution prevention, waste reduction, and the use of recovered materials (SF330, Part I, Section F):

The offeror shall provide a maximum of ten (10) projects in total within the past six (6) years preceding the date of this announcement for both, the prime firm and subcontractor(s) in Part I, Section F, of the SF330. Examples of projects shall not exceed two (2) pages each.

If any portion of the work provided as specialized experience is subcontracted, clearly identify that work as such and provide the required experience of that subcontractor as it relates to work the subcontractor is to perform for this solicitation.

If the offeror is a joint venture, each firm shall provide information demonstrating experience relevant to their role on this requirement.

Joint Venture Requirements - Parties wishing to propose as a joint venture must submit, with the Pro Forma documents, an executed copy of the joint venture agreement. The joint venture agreement shall be executed in accordance with FAR 4.102(d). Each joint venture partner shall submit evidence satisfactory to the Contracting Officer that its Board of Directors has approved its participation in the joint venture or by an instrument of similarly binding character in the case of an unincorporated entity. Offerors are reminded that to obtain an award the awardee, to include a joint venture, must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) database. Applicable to set aside solicitations: Joint Ventures must meet applicable size standards (See FAR Subpart 19.1). Submit with the proposal any size determination for the Joint Venture entity received from the Small Business Administration. A Joint Venture where-in one party is not a small business may be referred to the Small Business Administration (IAW FAR 19.302 (b)) to determine eligibility. All questions regarding Joint Ventures must be directed to the Small Business Administration (SBA) and not the Contracting Officer.

A Project is defined as a single, stand-alone contract and/or a single task order issued under an existing IDIQ contract(s) unless the project included multiple phases and was issued under more than one contractual order. It shall be noted that an IDIQ contract is not a project. Do not combine multiple task orders unrelated to a stand-alone project to create a single project example. Combining multiple task orders under an IDIQ to create a single project will not be compliant with the solicitation criteria, and it will not be evaluated or considered. The contract number or IDIQ number and individual task order number associated with the project in the title must be included for each of the projects. If the project is not 100% complete, note the current percentage and estimated date when the project will be completed for each contract and/or task order. Firms shall only submit projects as evidence of experience if those projects are at a minimum beyond B1/65% design submission for Type A/B experience, and at a minimum 50% complete on construction for Type C experience. Include the percentage of work self-performed by the prime for each contract and/or task order. If proposing as a JV, describe the percentage of work self-performed by each Joint Venture member.

The offeror and/or subcontractors must demonstrate experience in the following areas with narrative and by average revenue in part II where indicated:

The items below are also listed in descending order of importance.

(1) Experience in design of military projects (Profile Code M05 in Part II), including production of programming documents, plans and specifications.

(2) Design of government and commercial facilities.

(3) Specialized Expertise demonstrating a broad base of knowledge integrating federal requirements to include: Sustainable design experience (Profile Code S11 in Part II) per UFC 1‐ 200‐02, High Performance and Sustainable Building Requirements and certified LEED AP; Technical Competence & Experience using DOD UFC and associated Unified Facilities Guide Specifications (UFGS); Design and construction experience conforming to Department of Defense Antiterrorism/Force Protection Construction Standards and DOD Unified Facilities Criteria (UFC 4‐010‐01), note that the Government may provide additional consideration for engineers and architects who have attended any DoD Security Engineer Course; Performance of surveying and mapping (Profile Code S10 in Part II) following A/E/C CADD Standards and nondestructive techniques for locating underground utilities; and experience with REVIT (cloud), Civil-3D or other building modeling technologies or virtual reality and UFC 3-101-01;

(4) Experience providing Comprehensive Interior Design for government projects including space planning and applicable Code of Federal Regulation rules, pre‐wired workstations, furniture, demountable wall systems, and knowledge of the acquisition process including applicable FAR and funding limitation;

(5) Demonstrate experience and familiarity with Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Part 77 and preparing FAA 7460 permit applications relating to construction projects and familiarity with UFC 3-260-01;

(6) Demonstrate experience using project and construction management tools such as Newforma, Primavera, Submittal Exchange, ProjectWise, iPDWeb, or similar systems;

(7) Demonstrate experience (Profile Code C15 and T02 in Part II) in evaluating contractor's submittals, request for change, request for information, and performing construction surveillance;

(8) Demonstrate the ability to prepare supporting comprehensive master planning maps and plans using the latest versions of ESRI and ArcGIS;

(9) Demonstrate experience with preparing the technical portions of a Design-Build Request for Proposal package (Profile Code D04 in Part II) for performance-based design-build;

(10) Demonstrate experience (Profile Codes A10, E13 in Part II) in design and survey for abatement of asbestos, lead‐based paint, and the handling/disposal of other toxic and regulated substances;

(11) Demonstrate experience (Profile Code E09 in Part II) with NEPA’s process and Requirements. As well as preparation of required documentation;

(12) Experience using automated cost estimating systems

(13) In Block H of the SF 330 describe the firm's quality management plan, including quality assurance process, project design-to-cost control, coordination of the in-house work with consultants, and prior experience of the prime firm and any significant consultant. For each project identified under Criteria B, demonstrate project design‐to‐bid performance showing final design estimate, initial awarded bid amount, and the calculated variance comparing the costs. When the variance is 5% or greater (positive or negative), the firm shall provide a written explanation for that variance.

Criteria C -

(C) Capacity to accomplish multiple task orders in the required time.

Criteria D -

(D) PAST PERFORMANCE: Firm must provide relevant past performance in the accomplishment of similar work. Firm must submit information for relevant contracts and subcontracts including the name, address, and telephone number of references. Relevancy is defined in the DOD guide to collection and use of past performance as information that has a logical connection with the matter under consideration and application time span. Submit information for all relevant contracts and subcontracts started or completed within the past six

(6) years measured from the date of award. Firms may include supporting information in the proposal, such as letters of commendation from clients, on past performance on recent similar contracts include information on problems encountered in prior contracts and discuss actions taken to remedy unsatisfactory performance. Past performance on contracts with Government agencies and private industry regarding quality, cost control and timeliness of work will be reviewed. Past DOD experience data available to the Government through Contractor Performance Assessment Reporting System (CPARS) will also be evaluated. Other credible, documented information on past performance should be considered, except for adverse performance information to which the firm has not had an opportunity to respond.

Criteria E -

(E) Location in the general geographical area of the projects and knowledge of the locality of the project areas within the state of Idaho. Firms should have knowledge of the general geographical area of Ada County which encompasses the three predominant project locations of the states Idaho Air National Guard Base, located in Idaho, as well as other areas throughout the State of Idaho along with recent experience with state laws. Firms with offices located in this general geographical area may be given additional consideration under this criteria.

Criteria F – Secondary Criteria

THE FOLLOWING SECONDARY CRITERIA WILL BE USED AS TIE-BREAKERS IF

NECESSARY:

(F) Tie Breakers:

a. Consider the volume of work awarded by DoD during previous 12 months. Offerors shall provide the volume of work awarded by DoD agencies during the previous 12 months.

The volume of work shall be demonstrated in a table format and be categorized by contract, task order, project award, completion dates and design fee dollar amount. Work previously awarded to the firm by DoD will be reviewed to effect an equitable Distribution of DoD contracts among equally qualified firms. Data from the Federal Procurement Data System (FPDS) may also be used by the Government.

b. Superior Performance Evaluations on recently completed DoD Contracts.

c. Extent to which potential contractors identify and commit to small business, to small disadvantaged business (SDB) if the NAICS Industry Subsector of the subcontracted effort is one in which use of an evaluation factor or subfactor for participation of SDB concerns is currently authorized (see FAR 19.201(b)), and to historically black college or university and minority institution performance as subcontractors.

d. Geographic Proximity within the locations of the work.

CRITERIA RATINGS:

Technical criteria described above (A, B, D, E, and F) will be assigned one of the following adjectival ratings:

BLUE (Outstanding) SF330 proposal significantly exceeds qualification requirements, demonstrates an exceptional approach and understanding of the requirements, contains multiple strengths and/or at least one significant strength, and risk of unsuccessful performance is low.

PURPLE (Good) SF330 proposal exceeds qualification requirements, demonstrates a thorough approach and understanding of the requirements, and contains at least one strength or significant strength, and risk of unsuccessful performance is low to moderate.

GREEN (Acceptable) SF330 proposal meets qualification requirements, demonstrates an adequate approach and understanding of the requirements, and risk of unsuccessful performance is no worse than moderate.

YELLOW (Marginal) SF330 proposal does not meet all qualification requirements, has not demonstrated an adequate approach and understanding of the requirements, and/or risk of unsuccessful performance is high.

RED (Unacceptable) SF330 proposal does not meet qualification requirements of the synopsis and thus contains one or more deficiencies and is unawardable, and/or risk of unsuccessful performance is unacceptably high.

The following adjectival relevance and performance confidence ratings will be used to evaluate the Past Performance criteria (C):

Relevance Ratings

Very Relevant - Present/past performance effort involved essentially the same scope and magnitude of effort and complexities this solicitation requires.

Relevant - Present/past performance effort involved similar scope and magnitude of effort and complexities this solicitation requires.

Somewhat Relevant - Present/past performance effort involved some of the scope and magnitude of effort and complexities this solicitation requires.

Not Relevant - Present/past performance effort involved little or none of the scope and magnitude of effort and complexities this solicitation requires.

Performance Confidence Ratings

Substantial Confidence - Based on the offeror’s recent/relevant performance record, the Government has a high expectation that the offeror will successfully perform the required effort.

Satisfactory Confidence - Based on the offeror’s recent/relevant performance record, the Government has a reasonable expectation that the offeror will successfully perform the required effort.

Neutral - No recent/relevant performance record is available or the offeror’s performance record is so sparse that no meaningful confidence assessment rating can be reasonably assigned. The offeror may not be evaluated favorably or unfavorably on the factor of past performance.

Limited Confidence - Based on the offeror’s recent/relevant performance record, the Government has a low expectation that the offeror will be able to successfully perform the required effort.

No Confidence - Based on the offeror’s recent/relevant performance record, the Government has no expectation that the offeror will be able to successfully perform the required effort.

ENFORCEABILITY OF PROPOSAL: The proposal must set forth full, accurate, and complete information as required by this announcement. By submission of the offer, the Offeror agrees that all items proposed (if applicable e.g., key personnel, subcontractors, etc.) will be used for the duration of the contract and any substitutions shall require prior Contracting Officer's approval.

The award decision for this contract will be based, in part, on an evaluation of the key personnel and/or subcontractors the Contractor included in its proposal for the positions and/or items of subcontracted work identified in the proposal. The Contractor agrees these key personnel and/or subcontractors will be employed as described in its proposal and no substitutes will be employed without the prior written approval of the Contracting Officer or Administrative Contracting Officer. The Contractor further agrees that any proposed substitutes shall meet or exceed the qualifications of the original personnel and/or subcontractors. If the Contractor’s proposal did not name a subcontractor for an identified item of work, the Contractor will not be allowed to subcontract that item of work without prior approval of the Contracting Officer or Administrative Contracting Officer.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS: Indicate in Section C.11 if the prime has worked with the team members in the past six (6) years.

In Block G-26, along with the name, include the firm with which the person is associated. Part II is required for each branch office of the Prime Firm and any Subcontractors that will have a key role in the proposed contract. A firm will not be considered if it’s SF330 Part I is not signed, unless the SF330 Part I is accompanied by a signed cover letter or a current (within 3 years) signed SF330 Part II. If a firm does not submit an SF330 Part II with its SF330 Part I, or have one on file, it will not be considered (FAR 36.603(b)).

This is not a request for a price proposal. To avoid a conflict of interest, any contractor proposing as a prime may not have a subcontractor who is also proposing as a prime. This solicitation shall be viewed as one singular solicitation. Therefore, a firm submitting a proposal as a prime contractor may NOT also be listed as a subcontractor in ANY other submitted proposal under this solicitation. This requirement also applies to firms submitting as Joint Ventures. In the event a conflict of interest is found, the Contracting Officer reserves the right to deem ineligible for award the proposal submitted by the prime firm who is also proposing as a subcontractor under another firm’s proposal.

As required by acquisition regulations, interviews to discuss prospective contractors' qualifications for the contracts will be conducted only for those firms considered most highly qualified after submittal review by the selection board. Interviews may be in-person and will be scheduled after the final selection board has determined the most highly qualified firms. Because we do not know the number of offers that will need to be reviewed, the timeframe for scheduling is uncertain but is anticipated to be at least 45 days from the close of the submittal package due date.

Small Business Firms submitting a proposal under the Small Business category are required to meet the requirements of 52.219-14, Limitations on Subcontracting (Deviation 2021-O0008) (e) (1), which states “By submission of an offer and execution of a contract, the Contractor agrees that in performance of a contract assigned a NAICS code for, (1) Services (except construction), it will not pay more than 50 percent of the amount paid by the Government for contract performance to subcontractors that are not similarly situated entities. Any work that a similarly situated entity further subcontracts will count toward the prime contractor’s 50 percent subcontract amount that cannot be exceeded.” All Small Business Firms submitting a proposal under the Small Business category shall provide evidence of meeting this requirement in SF330 Section H. For all subcontractors, please provide name, CAGE Code, work to be performed by the subcontractor, small business category, and percentage of work to be subcontracted.

AMENDMENTS: Any change made will be in the form of an amendment to the notice, and will be furnished to all prospective offerors via posting to SAM.gov. Amendments will be posted in the form of a pdf document which will show edits in the form of tracked changes. Additions will be underlined and deletions will be strikethrough.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF AMENDMENTS: Offerors MUST acknowledge all amendments issued to this notice in order to be considered. Acknowledgement of ALL amendments can be provided in a cover letter when submitting the proposal.

RESPONSES TO QUESTIONS: Answers that clarify or provide an interpretation to the notice will not be posted via amendment but rather as a response to the question on SAM.gov.

Responses to questions will be posted as attachments to the notice.

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS: Interested Architect-Engineer firms having the capabilities to perform this work are invited to submit two (2) completed and bound paper copies, and one

(1) electronic Copy via email or drop off at DOD Safe of their SF 330 (Architect-Engineer Qualifications) to: Jeffrey DeHaven, Contracting Officer, USPFO-ID, 3489 W Harvard St., Boise, Idaho 83705 or jeffrey.dehaven.2@us.af.mil. SF 330, must current edition (https://www.gsa.gov/forms-library/architect-engineer-qualifications), must be used, and may be obtained from the Government Printing Office or from the following web site:

http://www.gsa.gov/portal/forms/download/116486. Include Unique Entity ID (UEI) number in Block 5 of the SF 330 PART I, Section B.

All fonts shall be at least 10 pitch or larger. Pages shall be 8-1/2 inches by 11 inches. PART I OF THE SF 330 SHALL NOT EXCEED 75 PAGES. The Organization Chart required in Section D and the Matrix required as Section G, PART I of the SF 330 may be presented on a sheet up to 11 inches by 17 inches. If an 11 inch by 17 inch sheet is used it shall be neatly folded to 8-1/2 inches by 11 inches, bound in the SF 330 at the proper location, and counted as one page. Blank sheets/Tabs separating the sections within the SF 330 will not count in the page-count maximum for PART I. A maximum of ten (10) projects including the prime and consultants will be reviewed in PART I, Section F. Resumes in Section E and example projects in Section F shall not exceed one page each. Indicate in Section C.11 if the prime has worked with the team members in the past five years. When listing projects in PART I, Section F an Indefinite Delivery Contract (IDC) or IDIQ contract with multiple Task Orders as an example, is not considered a project. A task order executed under an IDC/IDIQ contract is a project. In Block G- 26, along with the name, include the firm with which the person is associated. A Part II is required for each branch office of the Prime Firm and any Subcontractors that will have a key role in the proposed contract. A firm will not be considered if its’ SF 330 Part I is not signed, unless the SF 330 Part I is accompanied with a signed cover letter or a current signed SF 330 Part II. If a firm does not submit a SF 330 Part II with its SF 330 Part I, or have one on file, it will not be considered (FAR 36.603(b)).

Solicitation packages shall not be provided. SF 330s must be received no later than 30 August 2024 at 1300 Hrs MT. Regulation requires that the Selection Board not consider any submittals received after this time and date. Late proposal rules for receipt of the SF 330s IAW FAR 15.208 will be followed for packages received after 1300 Hrs on 30 August 2024 Mountain Time on the closing date specified in this announcement.

As required by acquisition regulations, interviews for the purpose of discussing prospective contractors' qualifications for the contracts will be conducted only for those firms considered most highly qualified after submittal review by the selection board. Interviews will be in person and will be scheduled approximately 30 days after receipt of submittal packages.

All questions shall be in writing as outlined below. Phone calls and personal visits for the purpose of discussing this solicitation with ANG or ARNG contracting/project management and or engineering personnel are not allowed.

To verify your proposal has been delivered, you may e-mail (insert email address). To be eligible for contract award, a firm must be registered with the System for Award Management (SAM) database. For instructions on registering with SAM, please see the SAM website at https://www.sam.gov/portal/public/SAM. Hand delivered proposals will be accepted, however, coordinate with Jeffrey DeHaven to coordinate access onto USPFO-ID Gowen Field, Boise, Idaho.

SUBMIT QUESTIONS ONLY TO: The contracting officer. No phone questions will be honored. Questions will be answered in writing and posted to a Questions and Answer document and posted to https://SAM.gov/. Contractors are encouraged to view the Q&A document BEFORE sending in question as it may already be answered.