Addition and Renovation to the Fire Station at Westover Air Reserve Base, Chicopee, MA

In order to facilitate the Pre-Proposal Site Visit, information for the site visit is hereby included in this announcement. 

The Pre-Proposal meeting will be held on 18 May 2017 at 10:00 AM Local Time (Eastern Time).  All interested offerors will need to meet at the visitor's center to be escorted to the project location.

Should any offerors have any questions regarding this pre-proposal site visit, and in order to pre-register, please contact Erich Hoehler at (502) 315-6293 or at Erich.J.Hoehler@usace.army.mil.  Pre-registration for this event is not required by highly encouraged by the Government in order to adequately facilitate the needs of all those in attendance.

Similar information will be made available upon issuance of the soliciation on or about 10 May 2017.

DESCRIPTION: This project is a design/bid/build project to construct an approximate 4,400 SF vehicle bay extension in support of emergency response actions. Construction will include concrete footings, foundation and floor slabs, structural steel framing, EPDM roof, roll-up doors, supporting utilities, pavements, and landscaping. Project will also include the renovation of the existing 20,000 SF fire station's administrative spaces, vehicle bays, and sleeping quarters. Construction includes demolition and replacement of finishes, mechanical systems, interior walls, ceilings, selective exterior walls, and restrooms. Existing vehicle bays will remain operational throughout the duration of the project. The contractor will be required to provide fully furnished temporary trailers throughout the duration of the construction for administrative spaces and sleeping quarters.

Contract duration is estimated at 525 days.

A pre-proposal site visit will be held. Meeting and site visit details will be provided in Section 00100 of the solicitation.

CONSTRUCTION MAGNITUDE: The Estimated Price Range is between $5,000,000 and $10,000,000, in accordance with FAR 36.204. The target ceiling for this contract (based on available funds) is approximately $4,500,000 for the Renovation and Trailers, and $1,900,000 for the Vehicle Bay Extension, with a total of $6,400,000. Offerors are under no obligation to approach this ceiling.

SELECTION PROCESS: This is single phase procurement following the Tradeoff (Best Value) approach. The technical information contained in the proposals will be reviewed, evaluated, and rated by the Government.

Proposals, at a minimum, will consist of the following: Relevant Experience and Past Performance of the Prime Contractor; Design/Technical; Price; and Pro Forma Information. All evaluation factors, other than cost or price, when combined, are approximately equal to cost or price.

DISCUSSIONS: The Government intends to award without discussions, but reserves the right to conduct discussion should it be deemed in the Government's best interest.

NAICS: The North American Industrial Classification System Code (NAICS) for this effort is 236220 - Commercial and Institutional Building Construction. Size Limitation is $36.5M.

TYPE OF SET-ASIDE: This competitive procurement is 100% set aside for Small Businesses. The resulting award will be for one (1) Firm-Fixed-Price (FFP) contract.

ANTICIPATED SOLICITATION RELEASE DATE: The Government anticipates releasing the solicitation on or about 10 May 2017. Actual dates and times will be identified in the solicitation. Additional details can be found in the solicitation when it is posted to http://www.fbo.gov. The approximate due date for proposals is 13 June 2017 at 1:00 p.m. Louisville time (EDST).

SOLICITATION WEBSITE: The official solicitation, when posted, will be available free of charge by electronic posting only and may be found at the Federal Business Opportunities website, http://www.fbo.gov. Paper copies of the solicitation will not be issued. Telephone and fax requests for this solicitation will not be honored. Project files are Portable Document Format (PDF) files and can be viewed, navigated, or printed using Adobe Acrobat Reader. To download the solicitation for this project, contractors are required to register at the Federal Business Opportunities website at http://www.fbo.gov. Amendments, if/when issued, will be posted to the above referenced website for electronic downloading. This will be the only method of distributing amendments prior to closing; therefore, it is the Offerors responsibility to check the website periodically for any amendments to the solicitation.

REGISTRATIONS: Offerors shall have and shall maintain an active registration in the following database:

System for Award Management (SAM): Offerors shall have and shall maintain an active registration in the SAM database at http://www.sam.gov to be eligible for a Government contract award. If the Offeror is a Joint Venture (JV), the JV entity shall have valid SAM registration in the SAM database representing the JV as one business/firm/entity. If at the time of award an Offeror is not actively and successfully registered in the SAM database, the Government reserves the right to award to the next prospective Offeror.

POINT-OF-CONTACT: The point-of-contact for this procurement is Steve Hutchens at Stephen.P.Hutchens@usace.army.mil.

This announcement serves as the Advance Notice for this project. Responses to this synopsis are not required.