Z2DA--436-22-118 Replace Evaporative Coolers (VA-22-00009105)

THIS IS A PRESOLICIATION NOTICE A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL WILL BE POSTED ON OR ABOUT January 7, 2022

Replacement of Evaporative Coolers with DX, Fort Harrison, MT

36C25918R0547

The Fort Harrison Veteran Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) in Fort Harrison, MT has a requirement for Replacement of Evaporative Coolers with DX. The Fort Harrison VAMC is seeking qualified contractors to provide all labor, materials, tools and equipment necessary for construction of the project described here.

The VA Montana Healthcare System requires the services of a qualified Mechanical engineering firm and HVAC contractor to provide services to replace existing Evaporative Cooling equipment and installation of new cooling equipment supporting the Kitchen and Laundry areas as per this Scope of Work. The contractor shall evaluate a standalone chilled water system vs DX.

Contractor shall prepare complete design documents for construction. The new cooling equipment for this project shall be specified by load calculations plus 25% capacity as prepared by the contractor s engineer. The loads shall be calculated based on the zones currently served by the existing evaporative cooler(s) in dietary (kitchen) and laundry.

Contractor shall completely prepare the site for building operations, including demolition and replacement of existing Evaporative Coolers equipment, mechanicals to include all labor and materials required to perform the work for this project as required.

All work will be accomplished on the Fort Harrison VA Medical Center campus as indicated in the plans, specifications, and drawings. The NAICS code for this procurement is 236220 with a small business size standard of $39.5M. The magnitude of this project is between $500,000 and $1,000,000. This project will be 100% set-aside for Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses, as stated below.

The POC for this project will be Joseph Wingfield. He can be contacted through email at joseph.wingfield@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 enough to establish appropriate status. Offerors must be both VISIBLE and VERIFIED by the Department of Veteran Affairs CVE at the time of offer submission. Failure to be both VERIFIED by CVE and VISIBLE on VetBiz at the time of offer submission and contract award will result in the offeror s proposal being deemed non-compliant. All offerors are urged to contact the CVE and submit the 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:Â 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.