RECOVERY--Y--RECOVERY DESIGN-BUILD OF CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER, HURLBURT FIELD, FLORIDA (Okaloosa County, FL)

RECOVERY--
Note No. 1: All prospective contractors and their subcontractors and suppliers must be registered in Federal Business Opportunities (FedBizOpps) before they will be allowed to download solicitation information. Contractor must be registered in the DoD Central Contractor Registration (CCR) prior to award of this contract. Solicitation documents, plans and specifications will only be available via FedBizOpps. Registration for plans and specifications should be made via FedBizOpps Internet Homepage. If you are not registered, the United States government is not responsible for providing you with notifications of any changes to this solicitation. The solicitation will be available only as a direct download. This solicitation will not be issued on CD-ROM. Neither telephonic, mailed, nor fax requests will be accepted. Registration should be completed one week prior to the issue date. It is therefore the Contractors responsibility to monitor the website daily for the solicitation to be posted, and for any posted changes or amendments to this solicitation. The plans and specifications and all notifications of changes to this solicitation shall only be made through this posting and modifications hereto. Plans and specifications will not be provided in a printed-paper format; however, the Government reserves the right to revert to paper medium when it is determined to be in the Government's best interest. NOTE: This solicitation is in .pdf format and requires Adobe Acrobat Reader. Adobe Acrobat Reader may be downloaded free of charge at
http://www.adobe.com/ .

Note No. 2: All bid forms, bid bonds, and other normal documents required for the bid submittal, including amendments to the bid submittal, shall be in paper medium. Electronic medium for the bid submittal documents will not be allowed.

Note No. 3: Critical path method (network analysis system) is required.

Note No. 4: For this job, a small business is defined as having average annual receipts of less than $33,500,000 for the past three years.

Note No. 5: This project is funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Work will be identified as being Recovery Act funded, and the contract clauses detail any special requirements of the Contractor related to the execution of such funds. (W91278-09-69-ARRA)

Note No. 6: This solicitation includes bid options which may not be awarded.

Note No. 7: All advertisements of Mobile District projects will be through the Federal Business Opportunities (FedBizOpps). Detailed information on this and other Mobile District Projects (Ordering Solicitations, Points of Contact, Synopsis of Work, etc.) are available on the Internet at: https://www.fbo.gov.

Address questions concerning downloading of plans/specifications to Sonya King at phone number 251-690-2537.

Note No. 8: SITE VISIT:

A Site Visit has been scheduled for 09:30 hrs on 13 July 2009. The purpose of the site visit is to become familiar with the existing site conditions. Attendance at the site visit is strongly recommended. Due to Base Security requirements and limited field staff available for construction contractor site visits, this scheduled site visit will be the only one offered. Individual requests for site visits will not be granted. Contractors will be required to register with Ms. Nancy Henry, seventy-two hours (3 days) prior to the site visit and provide their given name (no nicknames), the project name, name of the company that they represent, and a state drivers license number. Contractors must provide a list with the names of the persons to be attending the site visit on Company Letterhead and FAX it to Ms. Nancy Henry at the numbers shown below. Request for attendance received after the time shown above will not be accepted. The number of attendees is limited to four from each firm.

Name: Ms. Nancy Henry
Address: Hurlburt Field Resident Engineers Office
P.O. Box 9217
Hurlburt Field, FL 32544-9217
Telephone: 850-884-5992
Fax: 850-884-4369

Contractors must meet at the Hurlburt Field Base Civil Engineering Conference Room, 415 Independence Road, Hurlburt Field, FL at the time and date listed above. Contractors will be required to register with Ms. Henry for installation access, and will be required to provide a valid drivers license, proof of insurance, and vehicle registration to gain access to the installation.

Note No. 9: The request for information (RFI) process for bidder inquiries during the advertisement period is contained in the RFP solicitation package available exclusively from FedBizOpps. Other forms of communicating RFIs to the government will not be honored. The government will try to respond to all questions. However, responses may not be furnished to all questions and particularly those received late in the advertisement period (0-10 days prior to bid opening.)