FTW439 Child Development Center

CONTRACT INFORMATION:  This is a pre-solicitation notice for a two-phase, full and open Request for Proposal (RFP) for Design Build to construct a standard large Child Development Center at Fort Wainwright, AK.  The contract cost limitation for contract award is approximately $51 million.  The resulting contract will be firm-fixed priced.  The procurement will be conducted using two-phase source selection procedures and the award will be based on best value tradeoff source selection procedures, considering the price and non-price factors cited in this announcement and the solicitation.  There is no stipend authorized for this procurement.  Offerors are advised that a contract resulting from this solicitation is subject to availability of funds.  Should Congress not appropriate the funds, the solicitation will be cancelled.  If the project is cancelled, all proposal preparation costs will be borne by the offeror.  All Offerors are advised that this project may be canceled or revised at any time during solicitation, selection, evaluation, negotiation and up to final award.  All Offerors must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) (https://www.sam.gov/SAM/).  Joint ventures must be registered in SAM as the joint venture.  An Offeror is required to be registered in SAM when submitting an offer, and shall continue to be registered until time of award.  Offerors who are not registered in SAM should consider applying for registration immediately upon receipt of this solicitation. Lack of registration in the SAM database will make an Offeror ineligible for award.

NAICS Code of Acquisition:  236220.   The Small Business size standard is $39,500,000

Anticipated NTP:  26 October 2021 with a 730 calendar-day period of performance; the Davis Bacon Act will apply. 

PROJECT TITLE:  “FTW439– Child Development Center, Fort Wainwright, Alaska”

(1) PROJECT INFORMATION:  Construct a standard, large Child Development Center (CDC) at Fort Wainwright, Alaska.

(2) SELECTION CRITERIA:  Evaluation criteria to be listed in the solicitation are anticipated to be:

For Phase 1:

Factor 1 - Specialized Experience;

Factor 2 - Past Performance (Confidence Assessment);

Factor 3 - Organization; and Management

Factor 4 - Technical Approach

For Phase 2:

Factor 1 - Design Technical;

Factor 2 – Extent of Participation of Small Businesses

Factor 3 - Price and Pro Forma Information

The Government will evaluate qualifications in accordance with the criteria described in the RFP and will award a single firm fixed-price contract to that responsible Phase 2 Offeror whose proposal the Source Selection Authority determines conforms to the solicitation, is fair and reasonable, and offers the best overall value to the Government, considering the non-price factors described in the RFP, and price. However, a Contract award may not be possible if proposed price exceeds the cost limitation described in Section 00 21 00 for this project.  

 (3) OBTAINING THE SOLICITATION:  The solicitation for this project will be provided in electronic format only and is currently scheduled to be available for download on or about 5 April 2021, at the Beta Sam website at https://beta.sam.gov/.   Enter the solicitation number (W911KB21R0005) in the “Keywords/SOL#:” dialogue box.  Any future amendments to the solicitation will also be available for download from this website.  All responsible sources may submit an offer which will be considered by the agency.  All notifications of changes to this solicitation shall be made through the internet only.  It is the Offeror’s responsibility to check for any posted changes to this solicitation.