IDC Design Bid Build Land Based for LRD River Districts

The Huntington District, US Army Corps of Engineers intends to award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity Contracts for Design Bid Build Land-Based Construction Projects assigned to the Rivers Districts of the Great Lakes and Ohio River Division.  The geographic boundaries for the River Districts encompass Huntington, Louisville, Nashville, and Pittsburgh Districts.  The contract will be unrestricted with a Small Business Set-Aside Reserve to include a target goal of three (3) unrestricted awards and three (3) small business awards. Contract period will be for a base period of one (1) year and four (4) one-year option periods. The total contract amount will be a shared capacity not to exceed $98,000,000.00. The contract(s) will require the contractor to be capable of mobilizing sizeable crews to multiple work sites and the ability to provide multimillion-dollar bonding capability. Work will be issued by negotiated firm-fixed price task orders. The contractor shall furnish all supervision, labor, supplies, and materials necessary to perform work associated with task orders. Construction services under this contract may include site survey, work plan(s) and/or specifications, construction, maintenance, repair, and/or rehabilitation (MRR) services. The Contractor shall be required to perform/manage all facets of the work such as surveying the problem, recommending a solution and correction of the problem in a timely manner. The Contractor shall maintain the capability to provide quick response for this work. Work requirements shall vary from site to site.

The contract(s) will be awarded to the offeror(s) whose proposal conforms to the solicitation and is within a technical/price competitive range as determined by the Contracting Officer and has been evaluated as most advantageous to the Government, all factors considered. All responsive proposals will be evaluated utilizing the following factors (in descending order of importance): (1) Technical Capability and Specialized Experience, (2) Past Performance, (3) Equipment, (4) Management and Administration, (5) Small Business Participation Plan, and (6) Cost/Price. The North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) code for this procurement is 237990, which has a size standard of $39.5 million in average annual receipts. Per Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) clause 52.219-14, Limitations on Subcontracting (DEVIATION 2021-O0008), the contractor agrees that in performance of a contract assigned a NAICS code for General Construction, it will not pay more than 85 percent of the amount paid by the Government for contract performance, excluding the cost of materials, to subcontractors that are not similarly situated entities. Any work that a similarly situated entity further subcontracts will count toward the prime contractor’s 85 percent subcontract amount that cannot be exceeded.

Solicitation documents will be available on or about March 04, 2022 and may be downloaded at https://www.sam.gov. Offerors shall submit all documents electronically through the DOD SAFE site provided in the solicitation. No paper              copies, CD, DVD, thumb drives, email, or facsimile will be accepted. To be eligible for award, a firm must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM). Register via the SAM internet site at https://www.sam.gov. Questions may be submitted to Karen Simmons, karen.l.simmons@usace.army.mil.

Please note, as of April 2018, GSA’s System for Award Management (SAM) system is requiring new registrations and renewals of existing registrations to submit an original signed notarized letter identifying the authorized Entity Administrator. The notarized letter is not to be submitted to the Huntington Contracting Office as it is not our requirement. Vendors are encouraged to check their entity’s status in www.SAM.gov and plan accordingly. If the prospective contractor is not registered in the SAM database, the Contracting Officer will follow the procedures in FAR 4.1103. Contact the supporting Federal Service Desk at www.fsd.gov, or by telephone at 866-606-8220 (toll free) or 334-206-7828 (internationally) Monday through Friday from 8am to 8pm Eastern Time, for free assistance. The SAM registration process may take several weeks to process once submitted. Please carefully consider this information when deciding to submit your proposal.