Notice of Intent to Sole Source - Construction Phase Services for Officer’s Club Kitchen Renovation, Building 20, Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Contract No. TBD.

This Notice is being published in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) requiring the dissemination of information on proposed contract actions. This is a notice of intent to award a sole-source contract. The statutory authority for this sole-source procurement is 10 United States Code 2304(c)(1) as implemented in Federal Acquisition Regulation 6.302-1(a)(2), “Only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements.”

The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Baltimore District (NAB) intends to solicit and award a Firm-Fixed-Price Sole Source Contract to Jacobs Government Services Company (Jacobs) to provide Construction Phase Services for a construction project consisting of a renovation to the Building 20, Officers Club Kitchen Spaces located at Fort Belvoir in Virginia. As the DOR, Jacobs generated the Construction Documents, drawings, and designs that will be utilized by the Construction General Contractors throughout the entire Construction Phase of the Officer’s Club Kitchen Renovation – Fort. Belvoir project. Jacobs maintains technical responsibility and legal liability for all construction documents, drawings, and designs and confirmed each were in full compliance with regulatory standards including the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), and other regulatory agencies and the Government desires to maintain continuity of information and technical expertise.

Requirement:

In general terms, the requirement consists of providing construction phase services in support of building renovations. The Architect-Engineer (A-E) shall provide all necessary services required to continue support to the construction field office during the construction period.

Construction Phase Services: The A-E shall provide technical assistance to the Area/Resident Engineer and his staff, as requested in writing for the duration of the construction period. This assistance will include, but not be limited to, the following tasks:

1. Compliance Reviews of DB Contractor’s design submittals: 153 total.
2. Site Visits during Construction: ten (10), two (2) person visits.
3. Attendance at meetings which may include the pre-work conference and design progress meetings with the DB contractor: twenty (20) meetings.
4. Responses to requests for information (RFI) to assist the Baltimore District’s Area/Resident Engineer: 125 RFIs.
5. Reviews of special construction techniques, methods, and procedures and annotate available documentation to provide recommendations for approval or disapproval: Four (4) reviews.
6. Reviews, evaluations, and construction time and cost impacts for User requested changes.
7. Reviews of Contractor Value Engineering Proposals and provide comments and/or recommendations for approval or disapproval.

Note: The A-E will not be compensated for construction phase services required to correct errors or omissions in the design documents. Technical Assistance shall be task specific and rendered only after receipt of a written request from the Area/Resident Engineer and their staff. The A-E shall document the effort expended for each Technical Assistance task in the summary of work included with their invoices.

The Construction Phase Services will be concurrent with construction duration of the project. The Period of Performance is 610 calendar days from the date of contract award and will run concurrent with the construction contract W912DR23C0034.

This notice is NOT a request for competitive proposals. All responsible sources may submit a capability statement, which shall be considered by the agency. Capability statements must be received by the response date and time of this notice. Submissions will be reviewed to determine if they can meet the requirement. A determination by the Government to compete this proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. The approved Justification and Approval, (J&A) for this procurement will be posted following the closure of this Notice.

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