Sole Source Notice for Privatized Utility
Closed Special Notice Posted
- Solicitation number
- W912PL25RA018
- Agency
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ENDIST Los Angeles
US Army Corps of Engineers, Department of Defense
- Responses due
- Set-aside
- No set-aside
Opportunity facts
- NAICS code
- 236220 Commercial and Institutional Building Construction
- Place of performance
- Lompoc, California 93437, United States
Notice details come from SAM.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles District (SPL), has issued a sole source notice for privatized utility infrastructure construction at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. This notice pertains to utility work that will be required as part of a larger construction contract for the Sentinel Air Education Training Command Formal Training Unit (AETC FYU). The sole source designation is intended for American Water Operations and Maintenance, LLC, which serves as the privatized utility System Owner for the base. The notice is published under the authority of 41 U.S.C. 3204(b)(B) and FAR 6.302-1(a)(2)(iii)(B), citing that only one responsible source exists to satisfy the agency's requirements. The Corps emphasizes this is not a request for competitive proposals and no solicitation package is available.
The purpose of this notice is to inform potential contractors of the government's intent to sole source new exterior water and wastewater utility infrastructure construction services from the facility's point of demarcation to existing utility systems. Despite the sole source intent, the government will consider responses from any interested parties who can demonstrate their capability to satisfy the requirements, provided they submit their qualifications by June 20, 2025, at 2:00 PM Pacific Standard Time. The System Owner would be responsible for all construction and installation work related to new exterior water and wastewater systems, as well as entering into connection charge agreements. Interested contractors must contact Raj Cooper, the Contracting Officer, via email at raj.cooper@usace.army.mil, as telephone inquiries will not be accepted. The government retains full discretion in determining whether to proceed with the sole source approach based on any responses received.
Notice text
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Los Angeles District (SPL), intends to award a construction contract for the building of the Sentinel Air Education Training Command Formal Training Unit (AETC FYU) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. Within that contract, there would be the requirement of the prime construction contractor to sole source the new utility infrastructure for water and wastewater to the privatized utility System Owner, American Water Operations and Maintenance, LLC.
The construction and and installation effor will include the following:
New utility infrastructure construction by the privatized utility System Owner (SO) for construction services for all work pertaining to new exterior water and/or wastewater systems. The SO would be responsible for constructing and installing new exterior water and wastewater utility infrastructure from the new constructed facility point of demarcation to the SO's existing utility system and enter a connection charge agreement between the parties.
This sole source will be done under the authority of 41 U.S.C. 3204(b)(B), as implemented by FAR 6.302-1(a)(2)(iii)(B) - Only One Responsible Source and No Other Supplies or Services Will Satisfy Agency Requirements.
This is not a request for competitive proposals. No solicitation package is available and telephone inquiries will not be honored. This is a notice of intent to include a sole source action; however, all interested personas that identify to the Contracting Officer their intent and capabilities to safisfy the Government's requirements received no later than June 20, 2025 at 1400/2:00PM Pacific Standard Time will be considered. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed element of construction is based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government.
Responses or questions pertaining to this notice should be submitted by email to Raj Cooper, Contracting Officer, at raj.cooper@usace.army.mil.
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