Special Announcement regarding DoD Safe-.docx

1.7 SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMITTING YOUR BID:

**Note**: All prospective Offerors and their Subcontractors must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM - www.SAM.gov) and the Procurement Integrated Enterprise Environment (PIEE) website to be able to view and download solicitation information, and to submit offers.

Solicitation documents, plans, and specifications are only available to be download from PIEE, which may be accessed at https://wawf.eb.mil OR https://piee.eb.mil OR https://piee.eb.mil/xhtml/unauth/ home/login.xhtml.

Offers MUST BE submitted electronically through the PIEE website.

Registration should be completed one (1) week prior to the anticipated solicitation release date. USACE will not notify Offerors of any changes to the solicitation; Offerors must monitor PIEE and SAM for the solicitation to be posted, and for any posted changes or amendments.

See attachments “PIEE Solicitation Module Vendor Access Instructions”, “SOP PIEE Proposal Manager Offeror”, and “SOP PIEE Posting Offer” for instructions on getting access to the PIEE Solicitation Module and submitting Offeror proposals.

Please contact Suntok McGuinness at suntok.mcguinness@usace.army.mil and Mary Fronck at mary.fronck@usace.army.mil

To submit a bid, each bidder must contact Lisa Ip to obtain a unique DoD SAFE submittal code. Lisa Ip can be reached at Lisa.I.Ip@usace.army.mil or (415) 503-6877. In the event Lisa Ip cannot be reached, please contact Mary Fronck at Mary.Fronck@usace.army.mil or (415) 503-6554, to request assistance. Once a bidder has a unique submittal code, they may upload their bid submission to DoD SAFE. All submissions may be up to 6 calendar days prior to Bid Opening. This allows a submission window from Tuesday, May 13th at 1:00 PM PDT PST until 12:59 PM PDT PST on Monday, May 19th. Early and late submissions outside of this window will not be accepted.

The public bid opening will be held via Microsoft Teams (MSTeams) at 01:00 02:00 pm PDT on May 19, 2025, which will allow participants to hear a live reading of the bids. Prior to the bid opening, each company name and participant's email address or phone number must be provided to Lisa.I.Ip@usace.army.mil suntok.mcguinness@usace.army.mil and Mary.Fronck@usace.army.mil for Government to provide the meeting ID and Pass Code etc. MSTeams Meeting, Government will review the bids received electronically and post the abstracts of bids on sam.gov as soon as practicable after bid closing. It is the responsibility of all bidders to ensure their bid submissions are complete, inclusive of the price schedule, acknowledge of amendments, bid guarantee, and all additional information requested through this advertisement. In order to facilitate electronic submission of bonds, the Government may contact the surety that issues the offeror's submitted bid guarantee in order to validate the bond, as permitted by FAR 28.101-3(e).