W9123625R2000 DRAFT RFP Letter 11082024.pdf

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY

US ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS

NORFOLK DISTRICT

FORT NORFOLK

803 FRONT STREET

NORFOLK VA 23510-1011

Reply to Attention of

CENAO -CT 8 November 2024

To all interested parties

W9123625R2000 SOUTHERN EXPANSION PHASE III CEMETERY EXPANSION AT ARLINGTON

NATIONAL CEMETERY, ARLINGTON, VA - DRAFT REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL

This letter hereby requests review and comment from all interested parties of the Draft Request for Proposal No. W9123625R2000 pertaining to the Southern Expansion Phase III at Arlington National Cemetery procurement. The Draft RFP is being issued for informational purposes to assist the Army Corps of Engineers Norfolk District (USACE NAO) in developing a Final RFP for this procurement. However, input is not required.

USACE NAO IS NOT REQUESTING PROPOSALS AT THIS TIME. Interested parties shall not submit proposals in response to this Draft RFP. This announcement neither constitutes a request for proposal or invitation for bid. This announcement should not be construed as a commitment by the Government for any purpose. Any proposals received in response to this Draft RFP will be discarded without review.

The Phase III Cemetery Expansion procurement will be conducted on a full-and-open basis, without set-asides for small businesses.

USACE hereby invites all interested parties to thoroughly examine the Draft RFP and attachments in their entirety and to submit comments in writing via the following email address: Synease.s.mcarthur@usace.army.mil and CC candace.c.lotomau@usace.army.mil . In particular, USACE NAO is seeking feedback from interested parties on the following:

1. This project will include the issuance of three separate Notice to Proceed (NTPs); should the Government consider assessing liquidated damages for each phase or establish Liquidate Damages for the entire project?

2. The awarded contract will require compliance with the following small business subcontracting goals:

Overall Small Business (SB) Set aside goal

35%

Small disadvantaged business (SDB)

8%

Women-owned small business (WOSB)

5%

HubZone 4% Veteran-owned small business (VOSB)

5%

Service-disabled veteran-owned small business

(SDB)

7%

Does your company foresee any challenges with achieving the small business subcontracting goals identified? If so, what revisions can be completed to ensure offerors can successfully met this goal. Please detail your concerns.

3. Please list any other challenges or potential opportunities that could lead to construction efficiencies or optimize the ability of the Government to attain a best value outcome that you see within the solicitation that we should consider, please provide.

4. Please carefully examine the solicitation factors and basis for award. The Government welcomes your feedback before the actual request for proposals is issued.

5. Your attention is directed to the solicitation and award requirement in compliance with Executive Order 14063, Use of Project Labor Agreements for Federal Construction Projects dated February 4, 2022. The PLA agreement will be required to be submitted with the proposal, in accordance with 52.222-33.

Interested parties will have until 22 November 2024, to submit comments regarding the Draft RFP. All comments shall be submitted in the Microsoft Excel format provided on the procurement website, separated by RFP section.

Please do not make any changes to the Microsoft Excel formatting with the exception of adding rows as needed.

USACE will not respond to, nor publicly post, any verbal or written questions or comments pertaining to the Draft RFP; however, USACE will consider comments for potential incorporation into the acquisition. However, the government will not publish responses to questions. Interested parties will be given the opportunity to submit questions and comments in writing via the bid inquiry process for USACE response once the Final RFP is issued.

After the Final RFP is issued and proposals are received in response to the Final RFP, USACE intends to award a contract on the basis of best value to the Government, price and non-price factors considered.

In developing the Final RFP from the Draft RFP, USACE may consider some, or all of the comments received from interested parties in response to the Draft RFP.