Design-Bid-Build Construction for Army Family Housing Replacement in Baumholder for USACE Europe District

ANTICIPATED PROJECT TITLE: Construct Army Family Housing Replacement, Smith Barracks, Baumholder Family Housing Area, USAG Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

AGENCY: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Europe District (NAU)

NAICS:  236220 Commercial and Institutional Building Construction

PLACE OF PERFORMANCE:  Baumholder, Germany

SOLICITATION NUMBER: W912GB23R0021

TYPE OF CONTRACT: The USACE NAU anticipates soliciting and awarding a Firm-Fixed-Price (FFP) stand-alone Design-Bid-Build (DBB) construction contract. This acquisition is for the construction of new Army Family Housing units in Baumholder, Germany.

The construction completion period is anticipated to be 1195 calendar days after the Contractor receives the Notice to Proceed for the basic work.

TYPE OF SET-ASIDE: This acquisition will be issued on an unrestricted, full and open basis. Small and Small Disadvantaged Business requirements are waived for this project due to its location OCONUS.

DESCRIPTION OF WORK:  The general scope of work includes construction of 64 new Army Family Housing units in Baumholder, Germany. Construction is anticipated will be at two separate sites. The project includes a new four-story apartment building with 12 three-bedroom apartments at Smith Barracks; and 42 three-bedroom and 10 four-bedroom townhouses at the Wetzel housing area, a Life Support Area which provides non-permanent facilities. The apartment building will have a ground level garage and four apartments on each of the other three stories. The apartment building will include elevators, a balcony for each apartment, and parking courts on each side of the building that provide access to the ground-level garage. Project will include parking spaces for visitor parking located within close walking distance to the building. Each level in the apartment building will be accessible by both elevator and stairs. Each townhouse will include an attached garage and a driveway. Each townhouse will have a lawn and a patio/balcony. Between the buildings there will be green space intended to allow for outdoor community activities.  

SELECTION PROCESS: The Government intends to select a contractor for award using a best value trade-off source selection process. This process allows for a tradeoff between non-cost factors and cost/price and allows the Government to accept other than the lowest priced proposal or other than the highest technically rated proposal to achieve a best-value contract award.

DISCLOSURE OF MAGNITUDE: The estimated magnitude of construction is between $25,000,000 and $60,000,000.

SOLICITATION WEBSITE: Contractors must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) at https://www.sam.gov/portal/public/SAM/ prior to award of this, or any U.S. Government contract. Solicitation documents, plans and specifications will only be available via Sam.gov (https://sam.gov/) website. The solicitation will be available only as a direct download. It is therefore the Contractor's responsibility to monitor the website daily for the solicitation to be posted, and for any posted changes or amendments to this solicitation. The plans and specifications and all notifications of changes to this solicitation shall only be made through this posting and modifications hereto. NOTE: This solicitation is in .pdf format and requires Adobe Acrobat Reader. Adobe Acrobat Reader may be downloaded free of charge at http://www.adobe.com/products/reader.

ANTICIPATED SOLICITATION RELEASE DATE AND AWARD DATE: The Government anticipates releasing the solicitation on or about 3 February 2023. Actual dates and times will be identified in the solicitation. Additional details can be found in the solicitation when it is posted.

NOTICE TO OFFERORS: The Government reserves the right to cancel any or all of the solicitation(s), either before or after the proposal opening with no obligation to the offeror(s) by the Government.

​​​​​​​POINTS-OF-CONTACT: The USACE NAU Contracting Office will be the sole point-of-contact for this solicitation.  The Primary Contracting Point of Contact for this solicitation is Contract Specialist, Lorraine Laurente, at lorraine.q.laurente@usace.army.mil and Contracting Officer, Shawna West, at shawna.m.west@usace.army.mil.