Z1DA--586-22-703 EHRM TASS Construction

The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration Veterans Integrated Service Network 16 seeks construction services for renovation of the 1st, 3rd, and 4th floors at G.V. (Sonny) Montgomery VA Medical Center in Jackson, Mississippi under the EHRM TASS project, with proposals due August 17 at 3:00 PM CDT. The procurement is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business set-aside. Five amendments have extended the deadline and posted responses to 171 Request for Information questions; Amendment 0005 posted August 3 provides final RFI responses and additional project documents.

Place of performance is Jackson, Mississippi. The project involves approximately 8,400 square feet of renovation across multiple floors, including selective demolition of existing laboratory services, new walls, flooring, ceilings, lighting, power and fire alarm systems, plumbing fixtures, and HVAC units. The 4th floor will transfer to the contractor immediately upon Notice to Proceed; the 3rd floor will remain occupied during construction requiring detailed phasing plans. Performance period is 365 days from Notice to Proceed. The NAICS code is 236220, Commercial and Institutional Building Construction; PSC is Z1DA, Maintenance of Hospitals and Infirmaries.

Contractor personnel must include a full-time on-site superintendent, safety and health officer, and quality control manager (one individual may hold multiple roles if qualified). Foreman-level personnel require 30 hours of OSHA Construction Safety training and current tuberculosis test results; general personnel require 10 hours OSHA Construction Safety training and current TB testing. AISC certification for both structural steel fabricator and erector is mandatory. Prevailing wage rates per DOL General Decision MS20260075 apply. The solicitation requires federal, state, and local building code compliance, NFPA-99, FDA, and JC standards. Asbestos remediation and ICRA 1.2 infection control protocols apply. Movable partitions are specified as Transwall ZWALL solid steel tile panels. Johnson Controls is the required Building Automation System. A Brand Name Justification document restricts 18 Siemens Fire Finder sensors and panels, two Johnson Controls temperature and humidity sensors, and one Software House alarm panel to proprietary sources; the remainder of the procurement remains competed.