BIL FUNDED - Fire Alarm Retrofit Project

Market Survey Advertisement Number 697DCK-25-RFl-00283

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is conducting a Market Survey to gain understanding of the current marketplace and to identify responsible, capable sources. Responses to this market survey will be used to determine if there is adequate competition to set this requirement aside for Small Businesses. This survey is being conducted in accordance with FAA Acquisition Management System (AMS) Section 3.2.1.2.1 for the purpose of soliciting statements of interest and capabilities from interested vendors. This survey will be utilized for acquisition planning, as well as to determine if there are any responsible small businesses capable of performing this project.

This Market Survey is to BIL FUNDED - Fire Alarm Retrofit Project, PHL ATCT/TRACON, Philadelphia, PA 19153.  All responses to this market survey will be used for planning purposes only.

This is NOT a request for quote or request for proposal. Currently, the Federal Aviation Administration is NOT seeking or accepting proposals. Presently, the nature of the competition has not been determined. The failure to obtain adequate responses from responsible small businesses may result in the determination to conduct this procurement action under full and open competition.

All interested vendors are advised that the FAA WILL NOT pay for any information or administrative costs incurred that are associated with a reply received in response to this Market Survey. Therefore, any costs associated with Market Survey submissions will be solely at the expense of the interested vendor.

SECTION I: DESCRIPTION OF WORK TO BE PERFORMED:

Project Description/Summary of the Work:

Furnish all labor, material, equipment, and supervision to Remove older in-service fire alarm system hardware and replacing with new fire alarm system hardware using retrofit kits from the same manufacturer (Siemens), including new Fire Alarm Control Unit (FACU) hardware and remote annunciator hardware as well as all alarm initiating devices in one (1) Signaling Line Circuit (SLC)  at Philadelphia International Airport, Airport Traffic Control Tower (PHL/ATCT)/Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON) in Philadelphia, PA. 

The anticipated period of performance is 45 CALENDAR DAYS.

The estimated magnitude of construction is between $100,000 and $250,000.

The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this procurement is 238290 - Other Building Equipment Contractors. The small business size standard as defined by the Small Business Administration (SBA) is based on SBA's calculation of annual receipts, the annual average receipts cannot exceed $22.

SECTION II – CAPABILITY STATEMENT: In order to make this determination the FAA requires the submission of the following information from interested vendors:

1. This Advertisement Number. Emails with attachments that do not reference the Advertisement number in the subject line or the body of the message, will be disregarded to prevent the spread of computer viruses.
2. Company Name
3. UEI Number
4. Point of Contact
5. Email Address
6. Phone Number
7. Business size status: 8(a), SDVOSB, Small Business, etc.
8. A Capability Statement that addresses the following:

• Type of services provided by your firm that demonstrate its ability to perform the services described in the Project Description.
• Provide detailed relevant performance information for at least three (3) projects that are similar in size, scope, and complexity to this effort completed in the last five (5) years including the following information:
  • Project title, and Description of work performed,
  • Project dates,
  • Project value,
  • Customer name,
  • Customer point of contact information.
  • Specify if your company was the prime contractor or a sub-contractor.
• Documentation of official Siemens USA Fire Alarm Systems Partnership.

SECTION III –SUBMISSION

All responses must be received by October 09, 2024, 5:00 PM CT.

Electronic submission is required to Amber.N.Jones@faa.gov & Linda.hennequant@faa.gov.

TELEPHONE INQUIRIES WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.

The electronic submission should be in either Microsoft WORD format or portable document format (PDF), not in a zipped format. Please note that the FAA e-mail server restricts file size to 10MB per email message, therefore, responses may have to be submitted in more than one e-mail in order to be received.

All correspondences must contain the Advertisement Number in the subject line.

NOTICE: The FAA has been exempted from several Federal laws and regulations as part of the 1996 DOT Appropriations Act, signed into law by President Clinton on November 15, 1995. Some of the exemptions include the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act of 1994, the Small Business Act, the Competition in Contracting Act, and the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR). The FAA’s Acquisition Management System (AMS), which became effective on April 1, 1996, is utilized in place of the FAR. Contractors may obtain the full text versions of provisions or clauses at: https://fast.faa.gov/contractclauses.cfm.