DLA Bldg 10 Decentralized Boiler Project

DESCRIPTION: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Louisville District intends to issue an Invitation for Bids (IFB) W912QR22B0002 for a project to remove the existing steam heating system in the warehouse areas of the building 10 at Defense Supply Center Columbus, OH and install a gas-fired hot water boiler system composed of three gas fired condensing boilers each with an input capacity of 4,000,000 BTUH to supply hot water to unit heaters in the warehouse areas and to the air handling units serving the office areas.  The air handling units currently have electric heating coils, and the installation desires to replace the electric heating coils with hot water coils. 

Contract duration is estimated at 400 calendar days. A pre-bid site visit may be held. Meeting and site visit details will be provided in the solicitation.

TYPE OF CONTRACT AND NAICS: This IFB will be for one (1) Firm-Fixed-Price (FFP) contract. The North American Industrial Classification System Code (NAICS) for this effort is 238220 – Plumbing, Heating, and Air-Conditioning Contractors.

TYPE OF SET-ASIDE:  This acquisition will be a 100% Small Business Set-Aside procurement.

CONSTRUCTION MAGNITUDE: The magnitude of this construction project is anticipated to be between $1,000,000 and $5,000,000, in accordance with FAR 36.204.

SELECTION PROCESS: This procurement is a Sealed Bid under FAR Part 14. Bids will be evaluated based on lowest price submitted.

ANTICIPATED SOLICITATION RELEASE DATE: The Government anticipates releasing the solicitation on or about 01 October 2021.  Details regarding the Optional Site Visit will be included in the solicitation.  Actual dates and times will be identified in the solicitation. Additional details can be found in the solicitation when it is posted to http:/sam.gov.

SOLICITATION WEBSITE: The official solicitation, when posted, will be available free of charge by electronic posting only and may be found at the Federal Business Opportunities website, http:// sam.gov.  Paper copies of the solicitation will not be issued.  Telephone and Fax requests for this solicitation will not be honored.  Project files are Portable Document Format (PDF) files and can be viewed, navigated, or printed using Adobe Acrobat Reader.  To download the solicitation for this project, contractors are required to register at the Federal Business Opportunities website at  http://beta.sam.gov.  Amendments, if/when issued, will be posted to the above referenced website for electronic downloading. This will be the only method of distributing amendments prior to closing; therefore, it is the Offerors responsibility to check the website periodically for any amendments to the solicitation.

Offerors shall have and shall maintain an active registration in the following database: 

System for Award Management (SAM): Offerors shall have and shall maintain an active registration in the SAM database at http://www.sam.gov to be eligible for a Government contract award. If the Offeror is a Joint Venture (JV), the JV entity shall have valid SAM registration in the SAM database representing the JV as one business/firm/entity. If at the time of award an Offeror is not actively and successfully registered in the SAM database, the Government reserves the right to award to the next prospective Offeror.

POINT-OF-CONTACT: The point-of-contact for this procurement is the Contract Specialist, Blake Gevedon at William.B.Gevedon@usace.army.mil.  

This announcement serves as the Advance Notice for this project. Responses to this synopsis are not required.