Active Vehicle Barrier Replacement

The New Hampshire National Guard intends to issue an Invitation for Bids to award a single firm fixed-price contract for services, non-personal, to provide all plant, labor, transportation, materials, tools, equipment, appliances and supervision to replace the active vehicle barriers at Pease Air National Guard Base in Newington, NH.  The contract duration will be 90 calendar days after notice to proceed to include inspection.  The Government anticipates that this requirement will be 100% set aside for small businesses.  The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code is 236220 Commercial and Institutional Building Construction with a small business size standard of $45.0M. The magitude of construction is between $500,000 and $1,000,000.

The tentative date for issuing the solicitation is on-or-about July 24, 2025.  The tentative date for the pre-bid conference is August 1, 2025, 0900 local time, with the location to be provided in the solicitation.  Interested contractors are encouraged to attend and shall follow conference registration and base access requirements shown in the solicitation.  A site visit will follow the pre-bid conference.  All questions from the pre-bid conference must be submitted by August 8, 2025 by 12:00 (noon) EST via email to casey.a.pridham.mil@army.mil and sean.m.connolly1.mil@army.mil.

The bid opening date is tentatively planned for on-or-about August 27, 2025.  Actual dates and times will be identified in the solicitation. Interested offerors must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM). To register go to www.SAM.gov. Instructions for registering are on the web page (there is no fee for registration).

The solicitation and associated information will be available only from the Contract Opportunities page at SAM.gov.

Your attention is directed to FAR clause 52.219-14(e)(3) (DEVIATION 2021-O0008), LIMITATIONS ON SUBCONTRACTING, which states “By submission of an offer and execution of a contract, the Offeror/Contractor agrees in performance of the contract for General construction, it will not pay more than 85 percent of the amount paid by the Government for contract performance, excluding the cost of materials, to subcontractors that are not similarly situated entities. Any work that a similarly situated entity further subcontracts will count towards the prime contractor’s 85 percent subcontract amount that cannot be exceeded.”

In accordance with FAR 36.211(b), the following information is provided:

(1) The National Guard has no agency-specific policies or procedures applicable to definitization of equitable adjustments for change orders under construction contracts other than those described at FAR 43.204, DFARS 243.204 and AFARS 5143.204.

(2) Data for the prior 3 fiscal years regarding the time required to definitize equitable adjustments for change orders under construction contracts for the National Guard is currently not available, but will be compiled and provided in future announcements.

DISCLAIMER: The official plans and specifications are located on the official government webpage and the Government is not liable for information furnished by any other source. Amendments, if/when issued will be posted to Contract Opportunities for electronic downloading. This will normally be the only method of distributing amendments prior to closing; therefore, it is the offeror’s responsibility to check the website periodically for any amendments to the solicitation. Websites are occasionally inaccessible for various reasons. The Government is not responsible for any loss of Internet connectivity or for an offeror’s inability to access the documents posted on the referenced web pages. The Government will not issue paper copies.

This notice is also to serve as the sources sought notice for market research purposes only. Interested vendors are encouraged to fill out the attached form and send to TSgt Casey Pridham at casey.a.pridham.mil@army.mil no later than July 24, 2025 at 1200 PM EST along with a list of projects completed during the past three years, both private industry and Government. Please indicate if you were the prime or subcontrator, and indicate the project type, dollar value, contract number, location, amd point of contact.