Notice of Intent To Sole Source, AE Design for ROKFC In-Kind, Hardened Aircraft Shelter, Phase 1, 2 and 3 Kunsan Airbase Korea

This is a special notice prepared in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 5.2 "Synopses of Proposed Contract Actions" and DFARS 206.302-1.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Far East District (POF) intends to negotiate/award a sole-source firm-fixed contract with AMKOR (CAGE: 50Y27)

The A-E shall perform all work necessary for the design and preparation of documents for the construction of those items identified in the project description. The work in general consists of field investigations, conducting all required studies/reports, attending meetings/conferences, for BIM support, preparation of Landscape Design, Architectural Renderings, Comprehensive Interior Design (CID), LEED Documentation online, LEED Design Notebook, Energy Modeling, and related pre-final, back check, and contract documents, and other A-E services. The design work is to be performed for HAS Phase 1, 2 and 3 Kunsan Airbase Korea.

The statutory authority for this non-competitive acquisition is 10 United States Code 2304(c)(1) as implemented in Federal Acquisition Regulation 6.302-1(a)(2)(iii): Only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements; this is a follow-on contract available only from the original source and it is likely that award to any other source would result in substantial duplication cost to the Government that would not be recovered through competition and would result in unacceptable delays in fulfilling the Government's requirements.

The original design contract, W912UM-13-D-0003-0030 was awarded 30 July 2015 to AMKOR A & E Inc. for the design of Calendar Year (CY) 2015 Republic of Korea Funded Construction (ROKFC) In-Kind Combine Design Packages for Hardened Aircraft Shelters Phase 1, 2, and 3 at Kunsan Airbase, Korea. Work included, but not limited to fire protection engineering, electrical engineering and other services and tasks including BIM, interior design, energy modeling, landscape design, LEED support and rendering.

The construction of this design has begun, however, due to complications involving the current design during construction in early 2019 regarding the location of the currently designed drainage line "N". Current drainage system connects to off-base irrigation of local farmland. Construction of overflow drainage ceased immediately following the complications. Immediate re-design is required in order to maintain project progress towards its scheduled completion of May 2020. Failure to perform the re-design on or around October 30 2019 will result in delay of project completion, resulting in additional costs due to anticipated impact on paving schedule at the rate of an estimated $10,000 per day to the Government for contractor's overhead, as well as impact to the using agency's occupancy plan for these 20 new aircraft shelters.

Because AMKOR A & E has already performed the majority of the services related to the design, using that architect engineer contractor's services for the design of this project will avoid duplication in cost of the previous design. If we were to compete this requirement to a different firm, the Government would require the incoming A-E firm to assume responsibility for the entire design due to the additional requirement of contractor sequencing.

Selection of another AE for this contract would increase FED's costs of obtaining the desired design services, since other AE firms would need to perform greater effort to evaluate and validate the existing AMKOR design and prepare their input towards the re-design of this project. Moreover, selecting another AE would result in a scenario with 2 different designers of record for inter-related projects. Using competitive selection procedures would be unacceptable because such a selection would take an estimated 4 months just to advertise, negotiate and award. By comparison, negotiation and execution of the work under the projected purchase order is expected to take 1.5 months, which results in an estimated savings in 2.5 months in construction, which can meet current construction schedule requirements with minimum impact.

A SOLICITATION WILL NOT BE POSTED.

The Government intends to proceed with this sole source action. The NAICS code is 541310, Architectural Services.

THIS NOTICE IS NOT A REQUEST FOR COMPETITIVE PROPOSALS OR QUOTATIONS. All responsible sources may submit a capability statement, proposal, or quote to the contracting officer before the notice end date. If no affirmative written responses are received by 09:00 AM (Korea Standard Time) on 3 July 2019, an award will be made without further notice. Oral communications are not acceptable in response to this notice. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed requirement is solely within the discretion of the Government.
Electronic responses and questions shall be submitted via email to hye-kyong.chon@usace.army.mil. USACE is not responsible for any costs incurred by responding to this notice.

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