DBB – NSF Ice Core Facility
Closed Pre-Solicitation Posted
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- Solicitation number
- DBBNSFICF
- Agency
- Region 8 Public Buildings Service, General Services Administration
- Responses due
- Set-aside
- No set-aside
Opportunity facts
- NAICS code
- 236220 Commercial and Institutional Building Construction
- Place of performance
- Lakewood, Colorado 80225, United States
Notice details come from SAM.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
This pre-solicitation notice seeks capabilities statements from construction firms for the design-bid-build delivery of a new National Science Foundation Ice Core Facility located at the Denver Federal Center. The General Services Administration Public Buildings Service Region 8 requires replacement of aging refrigerated warehouse, refrigeration equipment, shop/storage, office and support, and loading/shipping spaces totaling approximately 19,058 square feet. Firms must have experience constructing cold storage facilities with redundant transcritical carbon dioxide refrigeration systems designed to maintain extreme low temperatures without interruption. Capabilities statements are due by January 10, 2023.
The anticipated solicitation will be set aside for small or disadvantaged businesses. The project involves construction services under NAICS codes 236220 and 238220 with an estimated budget between $15-25 million. The existing facility was built in 1993 by a local contractor; however, no incumbent was named. The new facility must provide over 19,000 square feet of refrigerated space to store irreplaceable ice cores below freezing for ongoing research by the National Science Foundation Ice Core Facility.
Notice text
The National Science Foundation – Ice Core Facility (NSF-ICF) provides long term storage, processing, and examination of ice cores from United States (U.S.) Arctic and Antarctic ice drilling operations. Due to the nature of how the ice cores were collected as well as the time frame in which they were collected, these ice cores are irreplaceable. Proper storage of these ice cores requires temperatures far below typical refrigeration systems to maintain their integrity for ongoing research. This project will deliver a new NSF-ICF freezer space, contained within Building 810 located at the Denver Federal Center. This program is intended to replace the existing NSF-ICF that was built in 1993 due to the aging equipment and needs for improved space use.
The Ice Core Facility is comprised of five primary functional programmatic elements: 1) Refrigerated Warehouse Spaces, 2) Refrigeration Equipment Space, 3) Shop/Storage Spaces, 4) Office and Support Spaces, and 5) Loading/Shipping Spaces. The project site is currently projected to be 19,058 sq. ft. contained within Building 810. Construction will be in accordance with the GSA 2021 PBS P-100 baseline.
A major component of this project is the refrigeration scope of work which requires the maintenance of temperatures in the ice core storage space, the examination room, and staging area without interruption during the lifespan of the system. The refrigeration system is a complete system redundancy (2N) which includes the following components: 2 transcritical carbon dioxide systems, 2 gas coolers, a total of 10 redundant evaporators, one control panel per refrigeration system, 2 electrical points of connection
Attachments
| File | Type | Posted |
|---|---|---|
| ICF DBB Sources Sought.pdf |
Notice history
| Notice | Type | Posted |
|---|---|---|
| 47PJ0024C0001 - DBB – NSF Ice Core Facility - Award | Award Notice | |
| 47PJ0023R0069 - DBB – NSF Ice Core Facility - Solicitation | Solicitation | |
| DBB – NSF Ice Core Facility | Pre-Solicitation | |
| DBB – NSF Ice Core Facility | Special Notice | |
| DBB – NSF Ice Core Facility | Pre-Solicitation |
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