Replace 20 Community Living Center Beds

Added: Jan 11, 2017 1:18 pm THIS IS AN UPDATE TO PRESOLICIATION NOTICE VA259-15-R-0481 POSTED ON 08/05/2015 AND SOLICITATION POSTED ON 02/01/2016. THE SOLICITATION NUMBER REFERENCED IS NO LONGER VALID. ALL INFORMATION PERTAINING TO THAT REQUIREMENT WILL BE POSTED UNDER A NEW SOLICITATION NUMBER, VA259-17-R-0179. A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL WILL BE POSTED ON OR ABOUT JANUARY 20, 2017

Construct Community Living Center

VA259-17-R-0179



The Cheyenne Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) in Cheyenne, Wyoming, has a requirement for the construction of an approximately 14,000 sq. ft. Community Living Center addition to include a 12-bed residential area and a rehabilitation center to include 2 other beds. Exterior materials matching existing facility: masonry veneer in Cheyenne VA pattern and mix, clay roofing tile matching Cheyenne VA mix, pitched roof matching Cheyenne VA style and pitch. Site work shall comprise approximately 27,000 square feet and shall include paving, landscaping and fencing as indicated on plans. Construction shall occur adjacent to a fully-occupied campus listed on the National Historic Register. All care shall be taken for the protection of the veterans, visitors, & staff, as well as the elements of the existing structures and campus The NAICS code for this procurement is 236220 with a small business size standard of $36.5M. The magnitude of this project is between $5,000,000.00 and $10,000,000. This project will be 100% set-aside for Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses, as stated below.

The POC for this project will be Aldo Fred Girany, Contracting Officer. He can be contacted at 307-433-3761 or email at aldo.girany@va.gov.

Important Notice: Apparent successful offerors must apply for and receive verification from the Department of Veterans Affairs Center for Verification and Evaluation (CVE) in accordance with 38 CFR Part 74 and VAAR 819.70 by submission of documentation of Veteran status, ownership and control sufficient to establish appropriate status, offerors must be both VISIBLE and VERIFIED by the Department of Veterans Affairs CVE prior to contract award. Failure to be both VERIFIED by CVE and VISIBLE on VetBiz prior to contract award will result in the offeror s proposal being deemed non-responsive. All offerors are urged to contact the CVE and submit the aforementioned required documents to obtain CVE verification of their SDVOSB status if they have not already done so.



852.219-10 VA NOTICE OF TOTAL SERVICE-DISABLED VETERAN-OWNED

SMALL BUSINESS SET-ASIDE (DEC 2009)

(a) Definition.  For the Department of Veterans Affairs, Service-disabled veteran-owned small business concern :

(1) Means a small business concern:

(i) Not less than 51 percent of which is owned by one or more service-disabled veterans or, in the case of any publicly owned business, not less than 51 percent of the stock of which is owned by one or more service-disabled veterans (or eligible surviving spouses);

(ii) The management and daily business operations of which are controlled by one or more service-disabled veterans (or eligible surviving spouses) or, in the case of a service-disabled veteran with permanent and severe disability, the spouse or permanent caregiver of such veteran;

(iii) The business meets Federal small business size standards for the applicable North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code identified in the solicitation document; and

(iv) The business has been verified for ownership and control and is so listed in the Vendor Information Pages database, (http://www.VetBiz.gov).

(2) Service-disabled veteran means a veteran, as defined in 38 U.S.C. 101(2), with a disability that is service-connected, as defined in 38 U.S.C. 101(16).

(b) General.  (1) Offers are solicited only from service-disabled veteran-owned small business concerns. Offers received from concerns that are not service-disabled veteran-owned small business concerns shall not be considered.

(2) Any award resulting from this solicitation shall be made to a service-disabled veteran-owned small business concern.

(c) Agreement.  A service-disabled veteran owned small business concern agrees that in the performance of the contract, in the case of a contract for:

(1) Services (except construction), at least 50 percent of the cost of personnel for contract performance will be spent for employees of the concern or employees of other eligible service-disabled veteran-owned small business concerns;

(2) Supplies (other than acquisition from a non-manufacturer of the supplies), at least 50 percent of the cost of manufacturing, excluding the cost of materials, will be performed by the concern or other eligible service-disabled veteran-owned small business concerns;

(3) General construction, at least 15 percent of the cost of the contract performance incurred for personnel will be spent on the concern s employees or the employees of other eligible service-disabled veteran-owned small business concerns; or

(4) Construction by special trade contractors, at least 25 percent of the cost of the contract performance incurred for personnel will be spent on the concern s employees or the employees of other eligible service-disabled veteran-owned small business concerns.

(d) A joint venture may be considered a service-disabled veteran owned small business concern if

(1) At least one member of the joint venture is a service-disabled veteran-owned small business concern, and makes the following representations:  That it is a service-disabled veteran-owned small business concern, and that it is a small business concern under the North American Industry Classification Systems (NAICS) code assigned to the procurement;



(2) Each other concern is small under the size standard corresponding to the NAICS code assigned to the procurement; and

(3) The joint venture meets the requirements of paragraph 7 of the explanation of Affiliates in 19.101 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation.

(4) The joint venture meets the requirements of 13 CFR 125.15(b).

(e) Any service-disabled veteran-owned small business concern (non-manufacturer) must meet the requirements in 19.102(f) of the Federal Acquisition Regulation to receive a benefit under this program.