Kuwait Job Order Contract

KUWAIT JOB ORDER CONTRACT (JOC): The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Middle East District, intends to issue a Request for Proposals (RFP) resulting in the award of a single firm-fixed price (FFP), Job Order Contract (JOC); an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) type contract used to execute sustainment, restoration, and modernization (SRM) projects at various installations in Kuwait. This contract type includes a comprehensive collection of detailed repair, maintenance, and minor construction task descriptions or specifications; units of measure; and preestablished unit prices for each discrete task. Each task order under a JOC comprises of pre-described and pre-priced tasks listed in the Kuwait JOC Unit Price Book (UPB). Provided by the Government, a Unit Price Book is a compilation of repair, maintenance, and minor construction tasks; associated units of measure; and unit prices. JOC unit prices include direct material, labor and equipment costs, but not indirect costs or profits which are addressed in an offeror's coefficient(s). Coefficients are adjustment factors proposed by an offeror to adjust the unit prices stated in the UPB and consists of an offeror's operating costs. Coefficients are multiplied to unit prices in the UPB to determine the price of a task order.

SET ASIDES and CODES: As the work will be performed outside of the continental United States, no set asides or socioeconomic preference of any sort will be granted. This effort is classified through the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) under code 236220 (Commercial and Institutional Building Construction). The Small Business Standard Code (SIC) is 1542 ($33.5M). The Federal Supply Class (FSC) is Y1JZ (Miscellaneous Buildings - Construction of Facilities).

ESTIMATED DOLLAR RANGES: The total capacity is $75,000,000 with an anticipated period of performance of five years consisting of one base year and four option years. The estimated minimum guaranteed amount is $10,000 per year; the maximum is $15,000,000 per year. Task orders issued off of this JOC are anticipated to be between $10,000 and $2,000,000.

CONTRACTING PROCEDURES: This is a full and open procurement. Contract award will be based upon a best value trade off analysis of all proposals received. The evaluation criteria will be conveyed within the RFP. The tentative date for issuance of the RFP is June 15, 2019. The tentative date for receipt of proposals is July 30, 2019.

SITE VISIT: There is no site visit anticipated for this solicitation requirement.

REGISTRATION/SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS: Offerors must have and maintain an active registration in the System for Award Management (SAM) database at https://www.sam.gov/portal/public/SAM to be eligible for a Government contract award. If the offeror is a Joint Venture (JV), the JV entity must 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. To register to receive notifications and subscribe to the mailing list for specific solicitations, offerors should visit the Federal Business Opportunity (FedBizOpps) located at https://www.fbo.gov/.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS: Performance and payment bonds are required and must be sufficient to cover the stated estimated annual maximum contract value. Offerors must be licensed to conduct business in Kuwait and must abide by all local laws in the performance of the resultant contract.

RESPONSE REQUIREMENTS: DO NOT USE THE FBO INTERESTED VENDORS LIST FUNCTIONALITY TO REQUEST A COPY OF THE SOLICITATION. THIS LIST IS NOT MONITORED AND REQUESTS WILL NOT BE ACCOMMODATED TO FIRMS THAT DO NOT SUBMIT A CAPABILITIES STATEMENT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DIRECTIONS BELOW.

The official solicitation, when posted, will be available free of charge by electronic posting only and may be found at Federal Business Opportunities website, http://www.fbo.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 Federal Business Opportunities website at http://www.fbo.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.

Responses to this Pre-solicitation Notice are not required.

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