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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District intends to issue an Invitation for Bids (IFB) solicitation package seeking to award a firm-fixed price construction contract for a new “8-Bed Level I Confinement Facility”. The project is located at McGuire Air Force Base in Wrightstown, New Jersey.

The project is for the construction of a 4,607 SF single story, 8-cell facility to house pre-trial detainees. Construction is to be a masonry cavity wall with a standing seam metal roof to include security fencing, lighting, a secured outdoor recreation area, site work, and a parking lot. A generator hook-up shall be included. The facility itself will have an administrative area, visitation room, a training room, a waiting room, a day room, and all building utilities, communications, electrical, mechanical, and fire protection systems.

This project solicitation for construction will be restricted to a Small Business set-aside Invitation for Bids, sealed bidding method. It is anticipated that the IFB will be issued on or about the middle of July 2022 and the bids will be due about 30 days later after the advertising date. The period of performance for this project is 540 calendar days from the Notice to Proceed (NTP) date. The specifications will be posted electronically via the Contract Opportunities web page on the sam.gov web site PLEASE NOTE: www.fbo.gov IS NOW sam.gov. The applicable North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code is 236220 - Commercial & Institutional Facilities. The small business size standard for this code is $39,500,000. The magnitude of this construction is estimated to cost between $5,000,000 and $10,000,000. The specifications will be posted electronically via the SAM website at sam.gov.

Bids will be submitted to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Contracting Division, Room 16-300, 26 Federal Plaza, New York, NY 10278-0090. PLEASE NOTE NEW ROOM NUMBER: 16-300. All questions must be submitted in writing via email (Microsoft word format) to the Contract Specialist. The media selected for the issuance of this solicitation and amendments shall solely be at the discretion of the Government; accordingly, the medium utilized for this project is the Internet. Paper copies of this solicitation, and amendments, if any, will not be available or issued. In accordance with DFARS 252.204-7007, all vendors who want access to the solicitation must be registered with System for Award Management (SAM), located at sam.gov, in order to safeguard acquisition related information for all federal agencies. Interested parties may download and print the solicitation at no charge from the Contract Opportunities web page on sam.gov.

The Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition Technology & Logistics (OUSD{AT&L}) A Guide to Collection & Use of Past Performance Information dated 2003 and FAR Part 36 require the collection and use of past performance information (PPI) in acquiring best-value goods and services. FAR Subpart 36.3 and DFARS Subpart 236.2 mandates the use of Construction Contractor Appraisal Support System (CCASS) by all DoD agencies for construction contracts greater than or equal to $650,000 or more than $10,000 if the contract was terminated for default. CCASS is a module of the Contractor Performance Assessment Reporting System (CPARS) and is located at http://www.cpars.csd.disa.mil.

Point of Contact is Ivan V. Damaso, Contract Specialist, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District, 26 Federal Plaza, Room 16-300, New York, NY 10278-0090. Email: ivan.d.damaso@usace.army.mil.