AMENDMENT 6: 01/26/2018 is hereby issued to provide drawings for this project. Please find attached "DRAWINGS 1, 2, 3" for this project. This amendment also extends the proposal due date to Thursday, February 8, 2018, @ 4:00 PM EST. Amendment 5; 01/17/2018 – is issued to direct the contractor’s attention to Amendment 4, the posting of RFI responses and extension of the proposal due date to Thursday, February 1, 2018 @ 4:00PM EST. Amendment also provides an opportunity to interested vendors to review the drawings for this solicitation. Mr. Robert Thornton, FDA Bldg. Manager, will be available, Thursday, January 18, 2018 at 10:00AM at MOD2 A Building, Conference Room G100. Mr. Thornton can be reached at 240-402-5401(o) or (301) 641-2366 (c). This will be the only opportunity to review the drawings for this solicitation because the drawings cannot leave the building. IF you plan to view the drawings, it is mandatory that you notify Michelle Lowe via email @
[email protected], by close of business Wednesday, January 17, 2018. This Amendment also changes the Contracting Officer from Mr. Haynes Thompson to Mr. Isaac Karto. Pre-Solicitation Notice for GS-11-P-17-YT-C-0065 This is a Pre-solicitation Notice, which includes a draft Scope of Work (SOW). A synopsis of the project is as follows: The Buildings on the FDA campus located at 8401 Muirkirk Road, Laurel, MD. 20708 are owned by the General Services Administration and tenant occupied by the Food and Drug Administration. Presently the existing Energy Management System (EMS) that controls space temperature and the HVAC equipment in the two buildings is experiencing erratic operation and recurrent component failures. The erratic operation is not providing comfort to the tenants within the building spaces. The system will not allow optimum operation of the heating/cooling equipment and energy management cannot be achieved. The system is continuously problematic has become cost prohibitive to repair. GSA requires replacement and upgrades to the system in order to provide the latest technological advances for optimum energy control and the best operating efficiencies of the equipment and systems it controls to ensure tenant comfort, extend equipment and systems it controls to ensure tenant comfort, extend equipment comfort, extend equipment life, and drastically reduce energy cost. Contractor shall initially install the Front End Computer (FEC) in MOD II Building. The server shall be located in a mutually agreed upon space with operator stations to be located in the GSA Building Management or the O&M office room. The existing system must remain operational in its ability to control building equipment until such time as mutually agreed upon for a specific building to be converted and interfaced with the new LonWorks System. The Period of Performance for this project will be 180-days from the issuance of the Notice to Proceed (NTP). The Magnitude of Construction of this project is between $250,000 and $500,000. This solicitation will be issued in electronic format only and will be available and accessible at no charge on or about May 22, 2017. Paper copies of the solicitation will not be available. Other methods of requesting a package will not be honored. The solicitation will be a 100% set aside for Women Owned Small Businesses under the specialty contractor North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code is 238210 Electrical Contractors and Other Wiring Installation Contractors and the size standard is $15M. Offerors must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) in order to be eligible to receive an award from any Government solicitation. Call 1-866-606-8220 for more information or visit the SAM website at http://www.sam.gov. After completing SAM, in order to download documents contractors and their subcontractors must register at www.fbo.gov. In order to locate solicitation, Contractors can go to FedBizOpps and search for the solicitation number at www.fbo.gov. Contractors can register to be put on a plan holders list that others can access through the FedBizOpps site. It is the contractor's responsibility to check the Internet address provided as necessary for any posted changes to this solicitation and all amendments. The site visit date for inspection of the building for the required work will be identified within the solicitation when it is posted to FedBizOpps.