Invitation for Bid (IFB) - Placement of modular facilities to support approximately 450 personnel and for the leasing of the modular facilities

NOTE: This announcement serves as the advance notice for this project. RESPONSES TO THIS PRESOLICITATION SYNOPSIS ARE NOT REQUIRED.

DESCRIPTION: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Louisville District intends to issue an Invitation for Bid (IFB) W912QR20B0007 for placement of modular facilities to support approximately 450 personnel and for the leasing of the modular facilities.

The contract duration for the placement of modular facilities is three-hundred (300) calendar days. The contract duration for the modular facility leasing is one (1) base year and four (4) option years.

SUBJECT TO THE AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS: Award will not be made until funds are available.

TYPE OF CONTRACT AND NAICS: This Invitation for Bid (IFB) will be for one (1) Firm-Fixed-Price (FFP) contract.  The North American Industrial Classification System Code (NAICS) for this effort is 236220.

TYPE OF SET-ASIDE: This acquisition will be a 100% set aside for Small Businesses.

SELECTION PROCESS: This is a single-phase procurement.  The bids will be evaluated using a sealed-bid selection process where award will be made to the lowest responsive/responsible bidder.

CONSTRUCTION MAGNITUDE: The magnitude of the construction portion is anticipated to be between $5,000,000 and 10,000,000 in accordance with FAR 36.204.

The magnitude of the construction and lease of modular facilities is anticipated to be between $10,000,000.00 and $25,000,000.00.

ANTICIPATED SOLICITATION RELEASE DATE: The Government anticipates releasing the solicitation on or about 11 December 2019.  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://www.beta.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 General Services Administration Contract Opportunities website, http://www.beta.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 General Services Administration Contract Opportunities website at http://www.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.

REGISTRATIONS: Offerors shall have and shall maintain an active registration in the SAM database at http://www.beta.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 Contract Specialist, Bjorn Hale, at Bjorn.T.Hale2@usace.army.mil.

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