SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Housing Facilities and Support Services
- Notice Date
- 10/21/2011
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541611
— Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- ITEC4, NCR PARC (NCR-CC), Directorate of Contracting, 2461 Eisenhower Avenue, Alexandria, VA 22331-0700
- ZIP Code
- 22331-0700
- Solicitation Number
- W91QUZ-OACSIMARMYHOUSINGSUPPORTSERVICES
- Response Due
- 11/4/2011
- Archive Date
- 1/3/2012
- Point of Contact
- Eda (Edie) M. Reisberg, 703-325-3854
- E-Mail Address
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ITEC4, NCR PARC (NCR-CC)
(eda.m.reisberg@us.army.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The U.S. Army Contracting Command-National Capital Region (ACC-NCR) on behalf of the U.S. Army Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff for Installation Management (OACSIM) Army Housing Division intends to procure Technical and Professional Engineering Support Services. This pre-solicitation notice invites potential offerors to submit information that will allow the Government to determine the offerors' potential to be viable competitors. This pre-solicitation notice is for planning purposes only; this is not a request for proposals. The Government will not be liable for payment of any response preparation expenses. Interested parties are responsible for adequately marking proprietary or competition sensitive information contained in their response. The Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff for Installation Management (OACSIM) requires the services of a contractor to provide high quality and responsive technical assistance in carrying out projects and taskings in direct support of the Army's Housing Program's development of an installation-level plan to respond to the growing need for quality affordable housing and barracks for single and married military personnel for on and off post housing. The period of performance is anticipated to be for twelve months with an anticipated start date of 28 September 2012. Criteria that will be used in making the initial evaluation include: a)offerors' statement(s) of qualifications b)proposed technical concept c)past performance / prior experience d)limited pricing information All responses will be evaluated in accordance with the criteria stated in this notice. Offerors are to outline their experiences in the following areas: 1.Comprehensive material and system testing-Describe your capability and experience in assessing the durability of home building products across the spectrum of influences on durability-from natural disasters to maintenance issues. Describe your certified lab/testing facilities, as well as your capability and experience in conducting testing such as stain resistance of countertop surfaces; load-strength testing of full-size walls (up to loads of 400,000 pounds); thermal conductivity of insulation materials; wind, water and structural tests on windows and doors; shear wall resistance tests; roof truss tests; floor, joist, and roof system tests for both manufactured and site-built housing; impact resistance of windows, doors, and walls. Provide the name of the organization that certifies your lab/testing facility. Describe your ability to conduct field evaluations of building products and systems across the continental United States, Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico, Europe, Japan and Korea to determine the need for government constructed and owned houses. 2.Housing Community Development-Describe your capability and experience in studying housing issues at military installations specifically in regard to development of alternative approaches to solving all housing problems, including planning and scheduling all new and replacement construction, Whole-Neighborhood Revitalization of existing houses and infrastructure, and development of Installation Housing Master Plans of the approved long-term solution. Also describe your capability and experience in developing regional and Headquarters level master plan documents for family housing. Describe your experience in dealing with historic properties. 3.Housing Condition Assessment-Describe your capability and experience in conducting specialized housing and barracks condition assessments to evaluate physical condition of new, renovated and existing housing stock at Army installations for Army-owned housing and barracks facilities and housing units privatized under the Residential Communities Initiative (RCI), providing third party assessments for key program metrics, developing reports of all discrepancies in the housing, estimating the costs to bring all housing into compliance with standards, scheduling the construction into practical phases, and preparing the appropriate information for DD Form 1391 programming documents to support the budget or providing metrics on contractor/developer performance. 4.Housing Market Assessments-Describe your capability and experience with conducting Housing Market Assessments of the availability and adequacy of private sector housing in the local communities surrounding military installations across the continental United States, Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico, Europe, Japan and Korea to determine the need for government constructed and owned houses. 5.Green Building-Describe your capability and experience to advise the Army on current information regarding the state of the art in Green Building, Energy-Efficiency and Sustainability, both in general and in specific as it relates to existing and future housing stocks. Describe your capability to conduct on-site energy analyses for specific houses, barracks, or housing areas on installations and develop informational and recommendation reports for implementation. Companies capable of and interested in providing these services to the U.S. Army are invited to respond with a ten (10) page maximum White Paper detailing their ability to provide these technical and professional engineering support services for the OACSIM Army Housing Division. The response must describe the company's capability and experience in providing technical and professional engineering support services in the five areas cited above. The response must also detail how the company will provide technical and professional engineering services in the five areas cited above. Proprietary and/or competition sensitive information submitted in response to this pre-solicitation notice shall be conspicuously marked so and will be protected as such by the Government recipient. All interested firms that possess the capabilities addressed herein are encouraged to respond to the Pre-Solicitation Notice by providing the information specified within 14 days of this notice. Respondents are requested to submit one electronic copy of the response to Ms. Eda (Edie) Reisberg at eda.m.reisberg@us.army.mil and Ms. Karen McKevitt at karen.mckevitt@us.army.mil and a courtesy copy (cc) to Mr. Ken Lutes at kenneth.lutes@us.army.mil Include Pre-Solicitation No. OACSIM Army Housing Support Services in the subject line. NOTE: The use of a "Pre-solicitation number" is for tracking purposes only. All requests for further information must be via email to Eda Reisberg and Karen McKevitt with cc to Ken Lutes. Telephonic requests for additional information will not be honored.
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