Renovate Visitor Center Building, LEWI

This is an amendment to a previously synopsized Request for Proposals for the National Park Service, Lewis & Clark National Historical Park (LEWI) located in Astoria, Oregon, to renovate the Lewis & Clark National Historical Park's 12,200 square foot visitor center building that includes the visitor center area, museum area, movie theater, a multi-purpose room, administrative offices, a bookstore, other offices, curatorial storage, and a library.

***This Amendment no. 02 is necessary to incorporate one new attachment: Attachment no. 11 Final Q and A, and to extend the response date, providing all interested parties three additional days to submit a proposal.

***RESPONSE DATE IS EXTENDED: Proposals are due by 7pm (PDT) on Friday, September 10, 2021 submitted electronically by email to Phaedra_Fuller@nps.gov. Refer to Section L and M of Attachment no. 3, Terms-Provisions-Clauses, for full details of what to include in proposal.

***No further questions can be accepted at this time. No further amendments will be issued.

***The Government reserves the right to cancel this solicitation.

This is an amendment to a previously synopsized Request for Proposals for the National Park Service, Lewis & Clark National Historical Park (LEWI) located in Astoria, Oregon, to renovate the Lewis & Clark National Historical Park's 12,200 square foot visitor center building that includes the visitor center area, museum area, movie theater, a multi-purpose room, administrative offices, a bookstore, other offices, curatorial storage, and a library.

***This Amendment no. 01 is necessary to incorporate two attachments, listed as follows: Attachment no. 9-Site Visit Notes including Q&A, and Attachment no. 10-Inadvertent Discovery Plan. The list of contractors that attended the site visit are included in Attachment no. 8.

***REMINDER: Proposals are due by 7pm (PDT) on Tuesday, September 7, 2021 submitted electronically by email to Phaedra_Fuller@nps.gov. Refer to Section L and M of Attachment no. 3, Terms-Provisions-Clauses, for full details of what to include in proposal.

***ALL QUESTIONS MUST BE SUBMITTED IN WRITING VIA EMAIL. Submit questions to Phaedra Fuller, Contracting Officer. Email address is Phaedra_Fuller@nps.gov. Please reference the solicitation number in the subject line of the email. Last date for accepting questions is September 2, 2021. Interested parties are urged to check for additional amendments.

***The Government reserves the right to cancel this solicitation.

This is a REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS for the National Park Service, Lewis & Clark National Historical Park (LEWI) to renovate the Lewis & Clark National Historical Park's 12,200 square foot visitor center building that includes the visitor center area, museum area, movie theater, a multi-purpose room, administrative offices, a bookstore, other offices, curatorial storage, and a library. Work of the contract, base requirement, includes: VESTIBULE ADDITION (construct approx. 292 square foot addition attached to the existing building as an expansion of the Vestibule; RESTROOM REMODEL that includes reconfiguring/upgrading the entry public restrooms, replacing source water heater for the public restrooms, and reconfiguring/converting storage closet to construction unisex family restroom; COLLECTIONS/LIBRARY/EMPLOYEE RESTROOM REMODEL that includes relocating the wall between the curatorial storage area into the library, replacing existing vinyl flooring in curatorial storage, and upgrading fixtures and finished in staff restrooms; THEATER CARPET AND SEATING REPLACEMENT that includes removing and replacing seating in the 1,000 square foot theater to accommodate accessibility requirements; and WINDOW AND DOOR REPLACEMENT that includes replacing exterior single pain windows, removing four interior windows and frame, removing four windows and doors, removing and replacing door and window glazing, and replacing interior and exterior door related hardware. OPTIONAL HAVAC REPLACMENT/UPGRADE that will be incorporated into the solicitation as an optional line item, includes upgrading indoor air handlers and associated heat pumps, reuse galvanized duct system with minor modifications and cleaning, upgrading an cleaning hydronic heating system, and upgrading the building HVAC control systems. Full details will be provided in the project specifications and plans posted with the solicitation. A payment bond (100%), performance bond (100%), and certificate of liability insurance will be required prior to contractor performance.

************PROJECT LOCATION. The project is located at the Fort Clatsop Visitor Center within Lewis & Clark National Historical Site, 92345 Fort Clatsop Road, Astoria, Oregon 97102. The Visitor Center is located at Fort Clatsop Road approximately 2 miles south of Warrenton, Oregon. Driving directions are available at this website address: https://www.nps.gov/lewi/planyourvisit/directions.htm.

************SITE VISIT. A group site visit will occur at 1pm (PDT) on August 12, 2021 meeting at the front entrance of the Fort Clatsop Visitor Center. Whichever COVID-19 phase Clatsop County Oregon is in at the time of the site visit, we will be following the state and local protocols for masks and social distancing. Information for Oregon Counties can be found here: https://govstatus.egov.com/or-covid-19. Send RSVP email no later than August 11, 2021 to Phaedra_Fuller@nps.gov, providing attendee name(s) and mobile phone number(s). Full details of site visit information will be provided in Section L of the solicitation when it is posted (look for the "terms provisions clauses" document). Attendance at the site visit is strongly encouraged (not mandatory). Requests for individual site visits will not be honored.

************PAPER COPIES OF THE SOLICITATION WILL NOT BE ISSUED and telephone requests, email requests, or fax requests for the solicitation will not be accepted. The full solicitation package (Standard Form 1442 and all associated attachments) is available in beta.SAM.gov at https://sam.gov/content/opportunities. Once at the website home page, under "Search Contract Opportunities" type in solicitation number as 140P8321R0002 and click "search" to open the Contract Opportunity page titled "Z--Renovate Visitor Center Building, LEWI." All attachments are available within the Contract Opportunity page. NOTE: Sometimes the "Download All Attachments/Links" button does not work so you may need to individually open and download/save each attachment separately.

************OTHER INFO. This is a best value negotiated procurement set-aside for small business concerns in accordance with FAR 19.5. The NAICS code for this project is 236220, Commercial and Institutional Building Construction, with an associated small business size standard of $39.5 million, average annual gross receipts for the past five years. All work will be performed under a single firm-fixed price construction contract subject to the Wage Rate Requirements (construction), formerly known as the Davis-Bacon Act. The contractor will have approximately 6 months to complete the project upon award of the contract. The magnitude of this construction project is between $1,000,000 and $5,000,000, a range established in FAR 36.204 and is not the Government's estimate. A more approximate range is between $900,000 and $2,000,000, also not the Government's estimate.

************It is the policy of the Government to provide maximum practicable opportunities in its acquisitions to small business, veteran-owned small business, service-disabled-veteran-owned small business, HUBZone small business, small disadvantaged business, and women-owned small business concerns. Such concerns must also have the maximum practicable opportunity to participate as subcontractors in the contracts awarded by any executive agency, consistent with efficient contract performance. All offerors (large or small) are strongly encouraged to contact their local Small Business Administration (SBA) office, to post their need for qualified subcontractors on SUB-Net accessed at https://web.sba.gov/subnet/, and to utilize the SBA Dynamic Small Business Search for potential subcontractors with these various socio-economic categories, accessed at https://web.sba.gov/pro net/search/dsp_dsbs.cfm.

************Questions pertaining to this solicitation shall be submitted in writing to Phaedra Fuller, Contracting Officer, at Phaedra_Fuller@nps.gov and include solicitation number 140P8321R0002 in the subject line of the email.

************The Government reserves the right to cancel this solicitation.