Harold Washington SSA Elevator Upgrades

GSA is issuing a sources sought for the following passenger elevator upgrade project at the Harold Washington Social Security Center, located at 600 W. Madison, Chicago IL, 60661, to determine the interest, availability, and capability of Small Disadvantaged Business, Service Disabled Veteran Owned, HUBZone, and Woman Owned Small Business concerns found as a result of a Dynamic Small Business Search. The NAICS code for this procurement is 236220. The estimated construction cost is between $5,000,000 and $10,000,000. The project includes, but is not limited to the following: Repair passenger elevator equipment, upgrade 12 passenger elevators with new, state of the art, energy efficient, non-proprietary, microprocessor-based controllers and drives, refurbishment of governors, buffers and pit equipment for each elevator, and realignment of any misaligned guide rails, the fire command panel will be replaced and incorporated with the emergency power operation panel along with the fire alarm monitoring and management system, guarded LED lighting will be added in pits and shafts, all abandoned equipment will be removed in machine rooms, the contractor is to provide all the management, supervision, manpower, equipment and supplies necessary for this project.

It is anticipated the Request For Proposal (RFP) will be posted to the System for Award Management (http://beta.SAM.gov/) in November 2020 with work commencing around April 2021. The awardee will be required to undergo the security clearance process. The full extent of the work will be described in the solicitation when it is posted. No other information will be available before the solicitation is posted. This is a SOURCES SOUGHT ANNOUNCEMENT for planning purposes only. Market research is being conducted to determine if there are Small Disadvantaged Business, Service Disabled Veteran Owned, HUBZone, or Woman Owned Small Businesses with the capabilities and experience to perform the required work. All interested parties should submit a capabilities package to include business classification (i.e. SDVOSB, HUBZone, etc.), as well as examples of three projects completed within the last five years that include the scope of work specified above that will be required under this project and that had a total project cost in the same cost range estimated for this project. Please provide a customer pouint of contact for each project listed. Responses must be received by 11:00 AM CST on Thursday September 3, 2020. Responses should be sent to the Contracting Officer at matthew.nelson@gsa.gov.