Fire Alarm System Replacement

Added: Jul 11, 2016 4:46 pm
The General Services Administration (GSA), Great Lakes Region 5, announces an opportunity for the replacement of the fire alarm system at the Melvin Price Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, 750 Missouri Avenue, East St. Louis, Illinois 62201.  The scope of work includes but is not limited to: Designing a complete replacement of the building fire alarm system to provide new fire alarm control panels, remote fire alarm panels, and any other control equipment necessary to operate a completely new fire alarm system.  This replacement shall provide a complete, supervised, non-coded addressable/multiplex voice-type fire alarm system that is dependent from other building management or control systems.  Construct new fire alarm control room within existing space and modify HVAC to accommodate new space.  The construction performance period will be 240 calendar days upon receipt of notice to proceed.  Contractor's working hours will be between 6am to 6pm.  Any noise/disruptive work shall be performed after normal working hours.

This procurement is a total small business set aside.  Funds are presently available for this project.  The North American Industrial Classification Code (NAICS) is 236220 with a size standard of $36.5 million.  The total estimated construction cost for this project is between $500,000 and $1,000,000.  This is a negotiated procurement; there will be NOT be a public bid opening. 

The awardee will be competitively chosen using Source Selection (FAR 15.3) procedures.  The objective of the Source Selection Process is to select a proposal that represents the best value to the Government.  Evaluation factors will consist of qualifications of key personnel, experience, past performance, and price.  Non-price factors will be considered more important than price.  As non-price factors becomes more equal than price becomes the determining factor.  The solicitation will be available on or about July 26, 2016.

The Government reserves the right to make award on initial offers.  The solicitation cited above can only be obtained by accessing the secure website, FedBizOpps (FBO).  FBO is designed to safeguard sensitive but unclassified (SBU) acquisition information and is fully integrated with other electronic Government initiatives, including the System for Award Management (SAM)(www.sam.gov).  Registration in both SAM and FBO is required in order to download solicitation documents and is used to validate vendor identity.  Contractors not registered in these systems will be ineligible to download the solicitation and ineligible for award.

Potential offerors will be responsible for downloading the solicitation and monitoring the website for amendment(s), if any to the solicitation.  Offers will be due on or about August 25, 2016 at 3:30pm (Central Time).  A pre-proposal conference and site visit will be held on or about August 11, 2016 at 1pm (Central Time) at the construction site and notifications to the Contracting Officer 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 omission and miscalculations in offers.  An award is anticipated before September 30th.

Any questions regarding this notification should be directed to the Contracting Officer, Johanna Nieves at johanna.nieves@gsa.gov.