Replacement of Chiller #1 at DFAS

DESCRIPTION: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Louisville District intends to issue a Request for Proposal (RFP) W912QR21R0010 for the Contractor to provide all labor, equipment, supplies and services as required for the replacement of Chiller #1 at Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) Building 21, located within the Defense Supply Center Columbus (DSCC), a Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) installation to result in a complete and useable facility. All demolition required to construct the project is included as part of the work of this Contract. The new chiller shall be compatible with the existing chilled water system control system, so that it may be controlled in the same manner as the existing chiller. The new chiller shall be integrated into the chilled water system, to include that hardware and software configurations for the new chiller shall be similar to that of the existing chiller. Once the installation is complete, the contractor shall start the chiller in accordance with the start-up instructions supplied by the manufacturer. 

TYPE OF CONTRACT AND NAICS: This RFP will be for one (1) Firm-Fixed-Price contract with a Period of Performance of 150 calendar days. The North American Industrial Classification System Code (NAICS) for this effort is 238220, Plumbing, Heating & Air Conditioner Contractors.

TYPE OF SET-ASIDE: This acquisition is 100% set-aside for small business.

SELECTION PROCESS: The proposals will be evaluated by lowest price to the Government. 

ANTICIPATED SOLICITATION RELEASE DATE: The Government anticipates releasing the solicitation on or about 11 November 2020.  Details regarding the Optional Site Visit will be included in the solicitation.  Actual dates and times will be identified in the solicitation. Additional details can be found in the solicitation when it is posted to https://beta.sam.gov/.

SOLICITATION WEBSITE: The official solicitation, when posted, will be available free of charge by electronic posting only and may be found at the Contracting Opportunities website, https://beta.sam.gov/. Paper copies of the solicitation will not be issued.  Telephone and Fax requests for this solicitation will not be honored.  Project files are Portable Document Format (PDF) files and can be viewed, navigated, or printed using Adobe Acrobat Reader.  To download the solicitation for this project, contractors are required to register at the Contracting Opportunities website at http://beta.sam.gov.  Amendments, if/when issued, will be posted to the above referenced website for electronic downloading. This will be the only method of distributing amendments prior to closing; therefore, it is the Offerors responsibility to check the website periodically for any amendments to the solicitation.

REGISTRATIONS:

Offerors shall have and shall maintain an active registration in the following database:

System for Award Management (SAM): Offerors shall have and shall maintain an active registration in the SAM database at http://www.sam.gov to be eligible for a Government contract award. If the Offeror is a Joint Venture (JV), the JV entity shall have valid SAM registration in the SAM database representing the JV as one business/firm/entity. If at the time of award an Offeror is not actively and successfully registered in the SAM database, the Government reserves the right to award to the next prospective Offeror.

POINT-OF-CONTACT: The point-of-contact for this procurement is Contract Specialist, M. Renee Booth, at Meranda.R.Booth@usace.army.mil.  

This announcement serves as the Advance Notice for this project.  Responses to this synopsis are not required.