RECOVERY Z--Recovery Act - Upgrade Cabling and Telephone Closets

Contractor shall provide all labor, materials, tools, equipment, supervision necessary to complete Project RA679-09-116 Upgrade Cabling and Telephone Closets at the Tuscaloosa Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Contractor shall provide completely prepare site for building operations, including demolition and removal of existing structures, and furnish labor, materials and perform work for this project. This project is to provide new communications rooms, upgrade existing communications rooms and replace all existing voice/data cabling with new CATEGORY 6 cabling. The estimated dollar value of construction is between $2,000,000.00 and $5,000,000.00. Estimated solicitation issue date is on/about November 23, 2009, with a bid opening date of December 22, 2009. The National American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code for this procurement is 236220 with a size standard of $33.5 million. THIS SOLICITATION IS SET-ASIDE FOR SERVICE DISABLED VETERAN OWNED SMALL BUSINESSES (SDVOSB). All solicitation packages will be available for downloading from the website www.fedbizopps.gov. NO HARD COPIES OF THE SOLICITATION WILL BE PROVIDED. All questions regarding this solicitation must be submitted in writing to Wanda Goolsby (10N7/NLO), VA Medical Center, 3701 Loop Road E, Tuscaloosa, AL 35404 or by e-mail to Wanda.Goolsby@VA.GOV, There will be two (2) pre-bid walk through meetings scheduled as follows: Monday, November 30, 2009 and Tuesday, December 1, 2009 the times to be determined. It is highly recommended that you complete the solicitation mailing list on the website before downloading the solicitation. Any amendments issued to this solicitation will be available ONLY at the website. Bidders are reminded that they are responsible for obtaining all amendments from the website. TELEPHONE REQUESTS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. THIS ANNOUNCEMENT IS FOR WORK AT THE VA MEDICAL CENTER, TUSCALOOSA, ALABAMA.