Multiple Award Task Order Contract (MATOC) for Design-Build and Design-Bid-Build Construction Services for Kwajalein Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands

**Re-synopsizing with updates**

This announcement constitutes a Pre-solicitation notice (synopsis) in accordance with FAR Subpart 5.2.  The U.S Army Corps of Engineers, Honolulu District intends to issue a formal solicitation amendment to re-initiate Request for Proposals (RFP) in accordance with FAR 15 and FAR 36, which will follow this announcement and will take place no sooner than 15 days from the publication of this announcement, for Firm Fixed-Price Multiple Award Task Order Contracts (MATOC) for Design-Build (DB) and Design-Bid-Build (DBB) Construction Services NTE $495M for Kwajalein Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands, Honolulu Engineer District (POH). 

The US Army Garrison, Kwajalein Atoll is located Kwajalein Atoll in the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), approximately 2,135 miles southwest of Hawaii.  Kwajalein Atoll is part of the Republic of Marshall Islands.  The Marshall Islands is not a part of the U.S. or its outlying areas.  Kwajalein Atoll is the world’s largest coral atoll surrounding the world’s largest lagoon.  Eleven of the 100 islands comprising the Atoll are leased by the United States from the RMI government.  Kwajalein Island is comprised of approximately 1.2 square miles of land mass and it the largest island in the atoll.  It contains most of the Garrison’s personnel and facilities and is the hub of military logistics in the Pacific, supporting the other leased islands. 

The Government intends to solicit this requirement as an unrestricted procurement.  The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes that will be used under this MATOC solicitation are 236220, Commercial and Institutional Building Construction and 237990, Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction.  The small business size standard for these NAICS codes are $39.5M average annual revenue.  

The acquisition will utilize a two-phase solicitation.  One solicitation will be issued covering both phases.  Phase 1 is the pre-selection phase (this phase does not include the submission of a price proposal).  Proposals will be evaluated in Phase 1 to determine which offerors will submit proposals for Phase 2 and an amendment will be issued to those selected offerors (target of 2-3).  

The Government is targeting to award a minimum of three contracts to responsible offerors whose proposals represent the best value to the Government.  The duration of the resulting multiple award task order contracts will include five (5) year base from date of award.  The maximum shared capacity of the MATOC is Not-to-Exceed $495,000,000.  The guaranteed minimum amount for each contract will be $2,000.  The minimum and maximum task order limitations will be $500,000 and $50,000,000.    

The solicitation amendment is expected to be available on or about July 11, 2022.   The solicitation and all amendments for this Request for Proposals will be posted on https://www.sam.gov.

No CDs or hard copies will be made available.  It is the offeror’s responsibility to check for any posted changes to the solicitation. The Government is not responsible for any loss of internet connectivity or for an offerors inability to access the documents posted at the referenced website. 

Offerors must maintain an active registration with the System for Award Management (SAM) website to be eligible for contract award.  To register in SAM, go to https://www.sam.gov.