Cooling Tower Replacement

Added: Mar 03, 2016 12:18 pm

SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE

The General Services Administration (GSA), Public Buildings Service, Region 3, is seeking information on technically capable and otherwise responsible small businesses that would be interested in submitting offers for this anticipated solicitation.

This is a notice for sources sought only. This is not a request for proposal or a pre-solicitation communication. This is a market research effort. There is no solicitation, specifications or drawings available for this announcement. The Government shall use the results of this market research effort to augment its decision making process with regards to setting aside this contemplated acquisition for small businesses.

It is the policy of the Government to maximize practicable opportunities in its acquisitions to small businesses. For reference, general descriptions of each small business concern type can be found in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 52.219-8, Utilization of Small Business Concerns.

General Description of Scope of Services:

GSA Region 3, Mid Atlantic, intends to solicit and award a general construction contract for construction services for the replacement of the cooling towers at the Internal Revenue Service Enterprise Computing Center located in Kearneysville, West Virginia. The scope of this contract is to provide all labor, material, equipment, and supervision necessary for construction of six new, 3290 kw/cell cooling towers. The Base project consists of replacing the current cooling towers that are nearing their life expectancy. This effort includes removing the existing towers and installing new towers at a new site location adjacent to the recently installed (2013) mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) plant. Site work will be necessary to prepare a foundation for the new towers and support systems. The make-up water for the towers is provided by public supply, for which a water storage tank tower will be provided and the water treatment systems will be upgraded as part of the project. The new cooling tower systems must be fully tested and integrated with the existing MEP plant equipment to provide a single operational system. All work shall be phased to prevent interruptions to the mission-critical functions at the facility.

Optional work includes redundant condenser water lines (in addition to those needed for the new location) to eliminate single points of failure in the condenser water systems; a pre-engineered building and electrical substation; and reconfiguration of an existing on-site water well to provide a back-up source of make-up water complete with a new chemical treatment system to make the well water suitable for this use.

The applicable North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code assigned to this procurement is 236220 - Commercial and Institutional Construction, and the small business size standard is $36.5 million.

The anticipated contract will be procured utilizing source selection procedures as described in FAR PART 15.3 to select the firm offering the best value to the Government in terms of price and technical merit and whose performance is expected to best meet stated Government requirements. Accordingly, award will be made using best-value, source-selection procedures incorporating tradeoffs between price-related and non-price related factors.

Response Information:

An interested firm shall utilize the attached "Sources Sought Response Form" or provide a response that shall not exceed 4 pages. The response shall include the following information:

(1) Identification (including name, address, phone number and DUNS number) and verification of the company to be certified by the Small Business Administration as a small business, including verification as a HUBZone, 8(a), Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) or Women Owned Small Business (WOSB), if applicable.

(2) Required experience to be considered as a viable source for the contemplated acquisition includes performing work that is similar in nature and complexity to the scope of work as stated previously. Projects of such a nature should be valued in the provided order of magnitude between $8 million to $10 million; and have been completed within the past five (5) years as the prime contractor in the Kearneysville, West Virginia and the surrounding vicinity.

(3) Describe your firm's ability to obtain performance and payment bonds in the amount of $10 million.

(4) Indicate whether your firm would submit a proposal in response to a Request for Proposal (RFP) consistent with these requirements that was set aside for small business concerns as a general small business set-aside or as one tailored to your firm's particular small business concern type, or on an unrestricted basis (full and open competition).

Interested parties should submit a Letter of Interest with the above requested information to Ms. Tracy Meister, Contract Specialist. Please e-mail your response to tracy.meister@gsa.gov by 2:00 pm Eastern Time on March 11, 2016.

This is NOT a request for proposals and does not constitute any commitment by the Government. Responses to this sources sought notice will be used by the Government to make appropriate acquisition decisions, giving maximum consideration to the small business socio-economic categories based upon industry input. No reimbursement will be made for any costs associated with providing information in response to this announcement or any follow-up information provided. All interested sources must respond to future solicitation announcements separately from responses to this market survey.

FOR

Cooling Tower Replacement

Internal Revenue Service Enterprise Computing Center

Kearneysville, West Virginia

THIS IS A SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE ONLY. NO AWARD WILL BE GENERATED FROM THIS NOTICE.

This notice does not represent a commitment by the Government to issue a solicitation or award a contract.