5640--Red Atrium Painting and Repair John L. McClellan Memorial Hospital

The Department of Veterans Affairs, Network Contracting Office 16 (NCO 16) on the John L. McClellan (JLM) Memorial Veterans Hospital campus located at 4300 W. Seventh Street, Little Rock, AR 72205-5484 is issuing a Pre-Solicitation Notice to Repair and Paint the Red Atrium (New Main Entry). The Solicitation Number for this project is 36C25623R0120. This procurement is a SDVOSB set-aside.

The Contractor must furnish all management, supervision, labor, material, equipment, tools, supplies, parts, and related services in accordance with the Statement of Work (SOW), Drawings, Specifications and the SOLICITATION, OFFER, AND AWARD documents to repair the ceiling and walls, and prime and paint approximately 8000 square feet of wall and ceiling space in the area otherwise known as the Red Atrium or New Main Entry, all in accordance with the RFP documents that will accommodate the solicitation. This is an active medical facility that will require the contractor in concert with a VA representative to mitigate the construction impact on veterans, patients, and medical employees during the construction process.

This construction project will be awarded as a single firm-fixed price contract specifying work in support of real property maintenance, repair, alteration, and new construction. 30-calendar days have been estimated as the performance period. Every effort should be made to comply with the projected completion period and to stay within their proposed price.

Abbreviated SOW: Contractor shall furnish all parts, tools, materials, management, labor, supervision, transportation, equipment, and materials to provide a onetime service of painting and wall repair of approximately 8000 square feet. The exact square footage will be determined by the contractor.

Contractor is to comply with 29 CFR 1926, comply with 29 CFR 1910 as incorporated by reference within 29 CFR 1926, comply with ASSE A10.34, and all applicable federal, state, and local laws, ordinances, criteria, rules, and regulations. Submit matters of interpretation of standards for resolution before starting work. Where the requirements of this specification, applicable laws, criteria, ordinances, regulations, and referenced documents vary, the most stringent requirements govern except with specific approval and acceptance by the Contracting Officer Representative.

The dollar magnitude for this project is between $100,000 and $250,000.

The NAICS is 238320 applies and size standard is $19.0 Million. This acquisition is 100% set-aside for Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB). All respondents must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) database and have a Unique Entity Identifier (EUI) number to download documents. Offerors must also complete online Representations and Certifications at (http://www.sam.gov), along with Vets 4212 at https://www.dol.gov/agencies/vets/programs/vets4212 in order to submit offers and be eligible for award. All offerors must be listed as verified with the Small Business Administration, available in Veteran Small Business Certification (VetCert) at Veteran Small Business Certification (sba.gov). Offerors are responsible for obtaining solicitation from vendor portal and acknowledging all amendments to the solicitation. Amendments to the solicitation may be electronically sent or posted at the vendor portal website.

You must register as Interested Vendor at the government portal sam.gov website for solicitation. In order to receive e-mail notification of amendments, you must register in sam.gov; to receive notification for amendments. Amendments to this solicitation will not be mailed but will be posted at the government portal (sam.gov) website. No other notification of amendments will be provided. Potential Offerors are advised that they are responsible for obtaining and acknowledging any amendments to the solicitation. The point of contact for this notice is Contract Specialist, Julius Jones at Julius.Jones@va.gov or Contracting Officer, Renardo Hollowell at: Renardo.Hollowell@va.gov. Telephone requests will NOT be accepted. The issuance of the solicitation is projected to occur on or about August 08, 2023, with a tentative site visit on or about August 15, 2023. Closing date for proposals are anticipated on or about September 05, 2023. There will be no public bid opening.

All Offerors must ensure that their firms can provide both 100% Performance and Payment Bonds. In addition, the Offerors will be required to submit a bid guarantee with their proposal. The proposals will be evaluated, and award made utilizing the Best Value, Trade -Off method per FAR Part 15. Offerors are advised award may be made without discussion.

DISCLAIMER: This Pre-solicitation Notification is NOT a Solicitation. In accordance with FAR 15.201(e), responses to this notice are not offers and cannot be accepted by the Government to form a binding contract. Any liability associated with the submission of information in response to this notice is the responsibility of the submitting contractor. The Government shall not be held responsible or liable for any information submitted, or for any costs associated with the submitted information.