US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service, University Park Renovation

Award Details Contract Award Date: Mar 27, 2023 Contract Award Number: W912DR23C0009 Task/Delivery Order Number: Contractor Awarded Unique Entity ID: MEHYZUVJPEJ3 Contractor Awarded Name: Leonard S. Fiore, Inc. Contractor Awarded Address: Altoona, PA 16602-1205 USA Base and All Options Value (Total Contract Value): $17,803,000.00 UPDATED 04 OCTOBER 2022: Official solicitation can be found at the following link. Within that link, solicitation, attachments and amendments can be found at the link at the end of the description section. https://sam.gov/opp/b205d843b4764d8687b65e136d9da427/view Project Name: USDA-ARS University Park Renovation - Pasture Systems Watershed Management Research Unit (PSWMRU), University Park, Pennsylvania Project Description: The renovation and modernization of the Pasture Systems and Watershed Management Research Unit (PSWMRU) Buildings 0001, 0002, 004, & 005, on the Penn State campus. The scope of the project comprises of the renovation of approximately 31,000 GSF of Biosafety Level Tw o (BSL2) Laboratory / Office / Headhouse and Greenhouse facilities. The base bid for the project includes complete interior demolition and new construction of the interior administrative areas, laboratories, and headhouse. The proposed procurement is Full and Open Competition (Unrestricted); NAICS 236220 - Commercial and Institutional Building Construction, w ith a size standard of $39,500,000.00. Magnitude of Construction: Betw een $10,000,000.00 and $25,000,000.00. This is a Firm-Fixed Priced, Design-Bid-Build Construction Contract utilizing the Best Value Tradeoff Process. Contractors are requested to review requirements and instructions for a Design-Bid-Build selection in response to this RFP. STATEMENT OF WORK The USDA University Park Renovation includes the Design-Bid-Build renovation and modernization of the Pasture Systems Watershed Management Research Unit (PSWMRU) Buildings 001, 002, 004, and 005, located at University Park, PA (near Penn State Campus). The scope of the project comprises the renovation of approximately 31,000 GSF of Biosafety Level Two (BSL2) Laboratory / Office / Headhouse and Greenhouse facilities. The base bid for the project includes complete interior demolition and new construction of the interior administrative areas, laboratories, and headhouse. Bid options include one greenhouse renovation in-kind; and window replacement. Offerors must quote on all items including Optional Items. Failure to quote on all items may be cause for rejection of the proposal. Optional Items may be exercised at any time within 180 calendar days after Notice to Proceed. The Contracting Officer may exercise the Optional Items by written notice to the Contractor, postmarked within the period specified above. The Government may exercise any, all or none of the listed Optional Items in any order. No additional time for contract completion will be allowed when an Optional Item is exercised. EVALUATION OF OPTIONS: Except when it is determined not to be in the Government's best interests, the Government will evaluate offers for award purposes by adding the total price for all options to the total price for the basic requirement. Evaluation of options will not obligate the Government to exercise the option(s). IMPORTANT NOTES REGARDING THIS ACQUISITION 1. PROPOSAL CONDITIONS a. Contractors must provide all required documents and bid all items in the above price schedule, with no exceptions. Should a contractor fail to fully complete the price schedule, its offer will not be considered responsive to the solicitation and ineligible for the resultant contract award. b. Split awards or multiple award contracts will not result from this solicitation. 2. COMPETITION: Full and Open Competition 3. SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS a. All proposals must be submitted in accordance with the electronic requirements detailed in the Solicitation Proposal section. PROPOSALS OR MODIFICATIONS TO PROPOSALS THAT ARE RECEIVED BY FACSIMILE WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED. b. Hand Carried and Mailed Proposal: Hand carried and mailed proposals are not required. See Solicitation Proposal section for directions on how to submit proposals electronically. c. SF 1442 BACK (Page 2 of the Solicitation): Offerors are required to acknowledge the receipt of all amendments to the Solicitation on the Standard Form 1442 in Block 19. Offerors shall fully complete all the required areas located under the section designated as "OFFER" (refer to Items 14 through 20C). d. BID GUARANTEE: The offerors are required to submit a Bid Guarantee for this procurement during proposal submissions. Any offeror failing to submit an authentic Bid Guarantee will be considered non-responsive to the Solicitation and ineligible for award. The Bid Guarantee shall be in the amount of 20% of the bidder's price or $3,000,000.00, whichever is less. e. BONDS AND INSURANCE: The Contractor will be required to furnish proof of insurance, including copies of the required endorsements, and performance and payment bonds within ten (10) calendar days following the Contractor's receipt of the contract award. 4. . REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION Technical inquiries and questions relating to this solicitation are to be submitted via Bidder Inquiry in ProjNet at (https://www.projnet.org) No Later Than (NLT) 11:00 A.M. (EST), 28 September 2022. To submit and review inquiry items, prospective vendors will need to use the Bidder Inquiry Key presented below and follow the instructions listed below the key for access. A prospective vendor who submits a comment /question will receive an acknowledgement of their comment/question via email. Another email to the same address will notify the prospective vendor once the reply is available for viewing. The Bidder Inquiry Key is: 843G3H-EXKBZ2 **********Amendment 0003: The purpose of this amendment is to update the Request for Information (RFI) due date in the Instructions to Offerors section. RFI due date updated to 09 November 2022 at 11:00 AM EDT. Also, full site visit sign-in sheet provided. **********Amendment 0002: The purpose of this amendment is to update clause 52.236-2 ALT I which provides information for a second site visit. The Request for Information (RFI) due date has been extended to 09 November 2022. The proposal due date has been extended to 30 November 2022. Updated wage determination has been provided.***********Site visit sign-in sheet provided*****************Amendment 0001:The purpose of this amendment is to extend the Request for Information (RFI) due date from 11:00 AM 28 September 2022 to 11:00 AM 12October 2022.*****************The objective of this project is the renovation and modernization of the Pasture Systems and Watershed Management Research Unit, PSWMRU, Buildings 0001, 0002, 004 and 005 on the Penn State campus. The scope of the project comprises of the renovation of approximately 31,000 GSF of Biosafety Level two, BSL2, Laboratory, Office, Headhouse and Greenhouse facilities. The base bid for the project includes complete interior demolition and new construction of the interior administrative areas, laboratories and headhouse. *Visit 'https://piee.eb.mil/sol/xhtml/unauth/search/oppMgmtLink.xhtml solNo=W912DR22R0034' to obtain more details.* *The value for this project is based on a financial range. The value is listed as the highest possible cost from the range provided by a stakeholder or official project document.

31,000 SF.

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