Child Care Center Renovation

Added: May 12, 2016 10:11 am Description(s): General Services Administration (GSA), Great Lakes Region 5, announces an opportunity to acquire construction services for the Renovation of the Child Care Center at the U.S. Customhouse located at 610 S. Canal Street in Chicago, Illinois. This project will renovate the childcare facility in the U.S. Customhouse. The procurement will be issued as a total small business set aside. The estimated total construction cost for the project falls within the range of $1,000,000 to $5,000,000. The NAICS code is 236220, Commercial and Institutional Building Construction. The Small Business Size Standard is $36.5 Million.

Project Scope: This project will renovate an approximately 10,000 SF childcare facility in phases. It will involve limited reconfiguration of existing partitions; restrooms to meet ADA compliance; HVAC; and completely new finishes, ceilings, and lighting. The duration of the contract is 180 calendar days from Notice to Proceed to Final Completion. The "best value tradeoff process" will be utilized in this procurement for the evaluation of offers and the selection of the successful Offeror to receive the award. The Government will select the proposal that represents the best value based on the evaluation of both the technical factors and the total evaluated price. For this procurement, the technical factors will be significantly more important than price. The technical factors will include past experience on similar projects, past performance on similar projects and experience of key personnel.

Joint Ventures: Joint venture or firm/ consultant arrangements will be considered and must submit an acceptable joint venture agreement.

Interested Parties/How to Offer: The solicitation package will only be available electronically. The solicitation package will be available on or about June 1, 2016. Potential Offerors will be responsible for downloading the solicitation package from the FedBizOpps website, https://www.fbo.gov, and for monitoring for possible amendments and/or additional information.

A preproposal conference and site visit will be held on or about June 14, 2016 and notification to the Contract Specialist of proposed attendance will be required. We consider attendance at this conference vital to the preparation of a competitive and cost effective proposal and to understanding the total result desired by the Government. Failure to attend this meeting may not be used as an excuse for omissions and miscalculations in offers. The offers are due on or about July 6, 2016 at 4:00 pm. (CDT).

In order to be eligible for award offerors are required to provide electronic representations and certifications in System for Award Management (SAM) accessed via https://www.acquisition.gov.

Any questions regarding this notification should be directed to the Joel Doucette, Contract Specialist at joel.doucette@gsa.gov.