Description
The General Services Administration (GSA) announce their intent to issue a Request for Proposal (RFP) for Construction Management (CM) Services for the District of Columbia Courts projects which include a new underground parking garage at D & 5th Street, NW, Washington, DC and renovation and adaptive re-use of the Old DC City Hall at D Street, between 4th and 5th Streets, NW, Washington, DC. The scope of the contract includes quality management, cost management, time management and client satisfaction management for non concurrent project(s) phases, including pre-design, design procurement, design, construction procurement, "design-built" procurement, construction and post-construction. The estimated construction cost range of the projects is $80-$100 million over a five (5) year period of performance. One CM fixed priced contract will be awarded, subject to the availability of funds. The selection process will utilize source selection procedures in accordance with FAR 15.3. The selection process will use tradeoffs and technical/management factors are more important than price and price related factors. Offerors must demonstrate successful experience as a Prime Construction Management (CM) professional service contractor within the last eight years on at least three projects as follows: (1) The offeror must demonstrate experience at least 1 project that has all of the following characteristics (a) A new underground parking garage (minimum of 3 underground levels) or a new major structure (open pit excavation with 35 foot depth below ground level); (b) project required coordination with occupied space in an existing building or adjacent building to maintain operations during construction; (c) project had noise control requirements; (d) project had a restricted site with limited space for material staging and required maintianing pedestrian and vehicular traffic flow around the site and (e) the total project construction cost at award was not less than $10 million. (2) The offeror must also demonstrate experience at least 1 project that has all of the following characteristics (a) project was for renovation, adaptive re-use and a new addition to a significantly historic structure; (b) project required coordination with occupied space in an existing building or adjacent building to maintain operations during construction; (c) project had noise control requirements; (d) project had a restricted site with limited space for material staging and required maintianing pedestrian and vehicular traffic flow around the site and (e) the total project construction cost at award was not less than $50 million. and (3) The offeror must also demonstrate experience at least 1 project that has all of the following characteristics (a) projects end tenant was a local, state or federal court; (b) the total project construction cost at award was not less than $50 million. Proposals meeting this criteria will be reviewed and evaluated based on the following additional criteria: (1) Key Personnel (30%); (2) Firm Experience (25%); (3) CM Capabilities/Management Approach (20%); (4) Past Performance (20%) and (5) Subcontracting Approach (5%). The selected CM firm shall establish a local presence, dedicated to this project, within the Washington, D.C. metro area within thirty days of contract signature. This solicitation is a small business set-aside. The small business size standard for the procurement (NAICS 233320) in accordance with FAR 19.1 is average "annual receipts" of $28.5 million. The RFP was issued on August 26, 2002 and proposals will be due 30 days after issuance. Copies of the solicitation may be obtained electronically at http://www.fedbizopps.gov. A pre-proposal conference is currently scheduled for September 12, 2002. Details about the conference will be issued in Section L of the RFP. This procurement is subject to the availability of funding.