Waterfield roof repair

A. PROJECT OVERVIEW:
The contractor shall provide all labor, equipment, tools, materials, transportation, management,
supervision and other items and services necessary for the replacement of the roof system, portions
of the lightning protection system, and glazing repairs to the Waterfield Building at 803 Front St,
Norfolk VA, as well as repainting of roofarea steel such as solar panel structure steel supports,
doors, railings and other steel and metal fabrications.. Work shall be completed in accordance with
attached plans and specifications.

B. OFFEROR'S QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS
All questions and/or comments should reach the above referenced Contracting Office via ProjNet no
later than 6 November 2017, in order that they may be given consideration or actions taken prior to
receipt of offers.

Technical inquiries and questions relating to proposal procedures or bonds are to be submitted via
Bidder Inquiry in ProjNet at http://www.projnet.org/projnet. To submit and review bid inquiry
items, bidders will need to be a current registered user or self-register into system. To
self-register go to web page, click BID tab select Bidder Inquiry, select agency USACE, enter Key
for this solicitation listed below, and your e-mail address, click login. Fill in all required
information and click create user. Verify that information on next screen is correct and click
continue.
From this page you may view all bidder inquiries or add inquiry. Bidders will receive an
acknowledgement of their question via email, followed by an answer to their question after it has
been processed by our technical team.
The Solicitation Number is : W91236-18-B-0001 The Bidder Inquiry Key is: DA7VKT-6JIWS4
The Bidder Inquiry System will be unavailable for new inquires 14 days prior to bid opening in
order to ensure adequate time is allotted to form an appropriate response and amend the
solicitation, if necessary. Offerors are requested to review the specification in its entirety,
review the Bidder Inquiry System for answers to questions prior enter operates weekdays from 8AM to
5PM U.S. Central Time Zone (Chicago). The telephone number for the Call Center is 800-428-HELP.

C. BID EVALUATION AND AWARD

The Government will evaluate bids in response to this solicitation based upon the Total Evaluated
Price without discussions and will award a contract to the responsible bidder whose bid, conforming
to the solicitation, will be most advantageous to the Government considering only price and the
price-related factors specified elsewhere in the solicitation. The Government may reject any or all
bids and/or waive informalities or minor irregularities in bids received.The Government will
evaluate offers for award purposes by adding the total price for all optional items to the total
price for the basic requirement.

D. AWARD TO RESPONSIBLE OFFEROR
In accordance with FAR Subpart 9.1, the Contracting Officer will perform an affirmative
responsibility determination to ensure that the Offeror has (a) adequate financial resources to
perform; (b) ability to comply with the required performance schedule; (c) a satisfactory
performance record; (d) a satisfactory record of integrity and business ethics; (e) the necessary
equipment and facilities to perform or the ability to obtain them; and (f) be otherwise qualified
and eligible to receive award.

E. WAGE DETERMINATION:
DOL Wage Determination VA171 dated 8 September 2017 is applicable to this solicitation.

F. CONTRACT TERM:

This contract has three (3) base CLINs and three (3) option CLINs not to exceed 300 days from issuance of the
Notice to Proceed.

G.EVIDENCE OF AUTHORITY TO SIGN OFFERS
Evidence of the authority of individuals signing offers to submit firm offers on behalf of the
offeror is required except where the offer is signed, and shows that it is so signed, by: the
President, Vice-President, or Secretary of an incorporated offeror; a partner in the case of a
partnership; or the owner in the case of a sole proprietorship. Failure to submit with the offer
satisfactory evidence of the authority of all other persons may be cause for rejection of the offer
as invalid or nonresponsive.

H. PREAWARD SAFETY CONFERENCE
(1) Where an apparent successful offeror, in performance of contracts during the previous
three-year period, incurred one or more accidents, or where, in the opinion of the Contracting
Officer, there is any question regarding this compliance with any safety or accident prevention
requirement, such bidder, on request of the Contracting Officer prior to any award under this
solicitation, shall attend a conference with representatives of the Contracting Officer to discuss
any such accidents or non-compliance, the reason for their occurrence, and measures which will be
taken to preclude any recurrence thereof.
(2) Information elicited at this conference will be used by the Contracting Officer, in conjunction
with other information obtained in a preaward survey, in determining the offeror's responsibility.
(3) The items discussed, the preventive measures considered, and any conclusions reached in this
conference shall be recorded in minutes of the meeting which will be provided within 10 days of the
conference and shall be authenticated by the signatures of representatives of the bidder and the
Contracting Officer, and any procedures noted therein as agreed upon shall become an obligation of
the offeror, along with all other safety and accident prevention requirements of the contract, if
award is made to him.

I. INSPECTION OF THE SITE
Prospective offerors are invited to attend a site visit 1 November 2017. Arrangements for
inspection of the site shall be made in accordance with the guidance as provided in clause
52.236-27, entitled "SITE VISIT (CONSTRUCTION)."

J. INCURRING COSTS

The Government is not liable for any costs incurred by the offeror submitting an offer in response
to this solicitation.
K. AGENTS
Offers signed by an Agent must be made in the name of the Principal and must be accompanied by
evidence of said Agent's authority to act on behalf of its Principal.

L. UNAUTHORIZED INSTRUCTIONS FROM GOVERNMENT OR OTHER PERSONNEL

The contractor shall not accept instructions issued by any person, employed by the U.S. Government
or otherwise, other than the Contracting Officer or the Authorized Representative of the
Contracting Officer acting within the
the Designation of Authority letter. A copy of the Designation of Authority
letter will be furnished to the contractor at time of contract award.