The General Services Administration (GSA), Public Buildings Service (PBS), Region 7, intends to solicit proposals for a new indefinite delivery indefinite quantity (IDIQ) multiple award term contract for Construction, Repair, and Alteration, and Design-Build Services (up to $5,000,000 per Task Order). This requirement will be set aside exclusively for HUBZone Small Business concerns. Performance Location: All counties within the states of Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas (Region 7). General Description of Scope of Services: This contract is to provide repair and alteration construction services. In addition, design work incidental to construction as well as design-build work are included. The NAICS code for this procurement is 236220 with a size standard of $36.5 million. 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 $2,000 to $5,000,000. The Maximum Order Limitation (MOL) shall be $200,000,000 aggregate, for all task orders for the entire term of the contract, for the total of all multiple awards made under this solicitation. This contract vehicle may be utilized by both GSA Regional and Field Office personnel. This contract will be solicited as a one (1) five (5) year contract, with no separate option year 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 all counties within the states of Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. 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 as firm-fixed price tasks orders. 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. Offerors will be evaluated based on technical merit and price proposals. For this procurement, technical evaluation factors, when combined, are significantly more important than total evaluated price. The trade-off process under the best value approach will be used. The technical evaluation factors in order of importance are: 1. Experience and Past Performance, 2. Qualifications, Experience, Skills and Abilities of Key Personnel, and 3. Management Plan. The Government's intent is to award up to ten (10) awards, to offerors who submit proposal 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 (offer forms, clauses, and provisions) will only be available electronically on FedBizOpps. It will be available on or after January 8, 2015. Potential offerors will be responsible for downloading the solicitation and for monitoring the website for possible amendments and/or additional information. A pre-proposal meeting will be conducted, the date and time to be set-forth in the solicitation package. All information, amendments and questions concerning this solicitation will be electronically posted at the following page: http://www.fbo.gov. In order to participate in this procurement, offerors MUST be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) database, which is the Official U.S. Government system that consolidated the capabilities of CCR/FedReg, ORCA, and EPLS. There is NO fee to register for this site. Entities may register at no cost directly from this page. User guides and webinars are available under the Help tab. The website for SAM is http://www.sam.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. The solicitation and associated information will be available from the FedBizOpps site mentioned above. No telephone requests will be accepted. This solicitation is not a sealed bid procurement and there will not be a formal public bid opening. All inquiries must be in writing and will be available on the aforementioned FedBizOpps posting. Offerors will not be reimbursed for proposal submittal expenses. All questions must be submitted in writing by email to the attention of Lee Ann White (email:
[email protected]. DISCLAIMER: The official solicitation package will be located on the official Government web page and the Government is not liable for information furnished by any other source. Amendments, if/when issued, will be posted to the FedBizOpps site for electronic downloading. This will normally be the only method of distributing amendments prior to closing; therefore, it is the offeror's responsibility to check the website periodically for any amendments to the solicitation. Websites are occasionally inaccessible due to various reasons. The Government is not responsible for any loss of Internet connectivity or for an offeror's inability to access the documents posted on the referenced web pages. The Government will not issue paper copies of this solicitation.