W9123625R4000 Laundry Facility Pre Sol Notice.pdf

W9123625R4000

DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW LAUNDRY FACILITY

HOLSTON ARMY AMMUNITION PLANT, KINGSPORT, TENNESSEE

This is a pre-solicitation notice. This is NOT a solicitation. Do NOT submit proposals or questions in response to this notice.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Norfolk District intends to issue a Request for Proposal (RFP) for the Construction of a new Laundry Facility at Holston Army Ammunition Plant (HSAAP). This procurement will be conducted in accordance with FAR Part 15, Contracting by Negotiation.

The requirement will be solicited as unrestricted full and open competition. It will be solicited as a design-build project utilizing two-phase design-build procedures in accordance with FAR

15.101 and 36.301. The applicable NAICS code is 236220 - Commercial and Institutional Building Construction with a Business Standard of $45M. The Government intends to award a Design-Build (DB) firm-fixed-price (FFP) contract.

The magnitude of construction is between $10,000,000 and $25,000,000, in accordance with DFARS 236.204 - Disclosure of the magnitude of construction projects.

Project Description: Holston Army Ammunition Plant (HSAAP) is a Government-Owned, Contractor-Operated (GOCO) explosives production facility located in Kingsport, TN. HSAAP is the primary source within the National Technology and Industrial Base (NTIB) capable of meeting all Single Manager for Conventional Ammunition (SMCA) requirements for Research Department Explosive (RDX), High Melt Explosive (HMX), Nitro-triazolone (NTO), and Dinitro-anisole (DNAN) based explosive formulations. HSAAP depends on an onsite Laundry Facility to support routine and specialty laundering requirements of a variety of worker garments and production area fabrics utilized in conjunction with explosives production operations.

The new Laundry Facility will house new and relocated laundry equipment. Laundry equipment will comprise of a scale, hot water tank(s) with controls, several washer/extractors, and dryers.

In addition to the equipment area, the new building will include cutting and sewing rooms, clothing storage, bathrooms, a separate boiler room (as required) and breakroom. Ramps and loading dock are required for safe transport of wheeled buggies within the building and to/from change houses. The new Laundry Facility will also have some proprietary equipment that will require a J&A. This includes door locks, mass notification system, fire alarms and a monitoring system with radio units. These items will be brand specific as they will have to interface with existing items on the facility. Additionally, the washer and dryer units will also be proprietary as specialty equipment is required to launder the garments exposed to explosives at the facility.

Estimated construction duration is 450 calendar days from notice to proceed.

Contractors will be required to submit bid bonds documents prior to award and the successful offeror will need to submit 100% performance and payment bonds after award.

The Government intends to award a firm fixed priced contract to the responsible offeror whose proposal conforms to the terms of the RFP notice, is determined fair and reasonable, and offers the best overall value to the Government as determined through a Best Value Continuum Trade-off source selection process.

The contracting officer anticipates that the solicitation will include the following evaluation factors:

Phase One:

Factor 1 – Management Approach Factor 2 – Specialized Experience/Past Performance

Phase Two:

Factor 3 – Technical Approach Factor 4 – Small Business Participation Plan Factor 5 – Price

Factor 1 will be evaluated on acceptable/unacceptable basis. If an offeror is rated unacceptable for Factor 1, then they will not be considered for Phase Two.

It is anticipated that the relative order of importance of evaluation factors is Factor 2 and 3 are of approximately equal importance to each other; Factor 4 is less important than either Factor 2 or

3. When the proposal is evaluated as a whole (Factors 2-5), the non-price factors (2, 3, and 4), when combined are approximately equal to price (Factor 5).

The Solicitation and accompanying documents will be issued electronically and will be uploaded to www.sam.gov on or about January 31, 2025. *A Site Visit to HSAAP is tentatively scheduled for February 11, 2025. Full details of the Tentative Site Visit will be provided with the Phase One Solicitation. Telephone calls or written requests for the RFP package will NOT be accepted.

Prospective offerors are responsible for monitoring sam.gov to respond to the solicitation and any amendments or other information regarding this acquisition. Prospective Offerors are required to be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) (https://sam.gov) when submitting an offer and shall continue to be registered until time of award, during performance, and through final payment of any contract.

For inquiries about this notice, please contact Mr. Phil Mathews at (757) 201-7029 or philip.d.mathews@usace.army.mil

*Subject to change based on solicitation issue date.