Electrical Construction IDIQ Term Contract

Synopsis: The General Services Administration (GSA), Public Buildings Service (PBS), Region 3, intends to solicit proposals for a new indefinite delivery indefinite quantity (IDIQ) multiple award term contract for electrical construction services for general repairs and alterations with design-build capabilities. Performance Location: State of Maryland, excluding Montgomery and Prince George Counties. General Description of Scope of Services: This contract is to provide repair and alteration construction services, including, but not limited to electrical systems. In addition, design work incidental to construction as well as design-build work are included. The NAICS code for this procurement is 238210 (Electrical Contractors). This will be a firm fixed price contract. All work to be acquired under the contract will be accomplished by the issuance of individual task orders. The individual task orders to be placed under the contract will range in dollar value from approximately $150,000.00 to $2,000,000.00. The Maximum Order Limitation (MOL) shall be $20,000,000 aggregate for all task orders for the entire term of the contract. The $20,000,000 aggregate limit will be separated equally per awardee. Offerors will be required to provide a letter from their bonding company with their proposal submission demonstrating their bonding capacity of at least $2,000,000 per single project. This contract vehicle may be utilized by both GSA Regional and Field Office personnel. This contract will be solicited as a one (1) year contract, with four (4) one (1) year option periods, for a total potential contract period of five (5) years. Facilities covered under the scope of this contract include Government owned and leased facilities in the State of Maryland, excluding Montgomery and Prince George Counties. Services will be required under these contracts on an as-needed basis. Task orders will be prepared based on defined scopes of work for specific projects and issued with firm fixed price tasks orders. The solicitation will include a Statement of Work (SOW) for a feeder project within the scope of this contract. The feeder project is an actual project, that will be used as the basis for price proposal evaluation, and may be awarded as the first task order on the IDIQ contract. The contract will be acquired using Source Selection procedures as identified in FAR 15.3 with a firm fixed price award to the offerors who provide the best value to the Government. This procurement is unrestricted, utilizing full and open procedures. Offerors will be evaluated based on technical merit and price proposals. For this procurement, technical evaluation factors are significantly more important than price. The trade-off process under the best value approach will be used. The technical evaluation factors are, in descending order of importance: 1. Prior Experience, 2. Past Performance, and 3. Staffing Plan. The Government's intent is to award to no less than three (3) and no more than five (5) offerors who submit proposals which will provide the best value to the Government in terms of technical qualifications and price. The Government intends to make award without discussion. Therefore, offerors are requested to submit their initial proposals to the Government on the most favorable terms based on technical and price factors. The Government reserves the right to conduct discussions if the Contracting Officer later determines them to be necessary. The solicitation package (including specifications, offer forms, clauses, and provisions) will only be available electronically on FedBizOpps. It will be available on or after JANUARY 27, 2012. Potential offerors will be responsible for downloading the solicitation and for monitoring the website for possible amendments and/or additional information. Offerors MUST be registered in the Contractor's Central Registration (CCR) database in order to participate in this procurement. The website for CCR is http://www.ccr.gov. Any offeror submitting a proposal is required by the Federal Acquisition Regulations to use the Online Representation and Certifications Application (ORCA). ORCA is a web-based system that centralizes and standardizes the collection, storage and viewing of many of the FAR required representations and certifications previously found in solicitations. The website for ORCA is http://orca.bpn.gov. Any information taken from other publications is used at the sole risk of the offeror. The procuring office cannot guarantee the accuracy of information contained in other publications. All questions must be submitted in writing either by email or fax to the attention of either Ms. Christina M. Mullins (email: christina.mullins@gsa.gov, fax: 215-446-6172) or Ms. Stephanie F. Hill (email: stephanie.hill@gsa.gov, fax: 215-446-6111). Ms. Mullins can be reached by phone at 215-446-4589. Ms. Hill can be reached by phone at 215-446-4766.