Linear Accelerator Building Addition - FMC Butner, NC   4

The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) herein issues solicitation 15B10621B00000002 for the award of a firm-fixed-price construction contract for a project entitled Linear Accelerator Building Addition at the Federal Medical Center (FMC) located in Butner, North Carolina. FMC Butner is a federal correctional facility located at Old North Carolina Highway 75, Butner, NC 27509.

The project consists of furnishing all equipment, materials and labor for the complete construction of the work. The anticipated performance period for the project will be 490 calendar days from the issuance of the Notice to Proceed.

The purpose of the project is as follows:

1) Construction of a new addition to house a new Linear Accelerator. Additions will include architectural, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, structural, and civil related trades.

2) The Linear Accelerator equipment will be furnished and installed under a separate contract. However, the contractor will receive, hoist, and position the Linear Accelerator Baseframe and Linear Accelerator Equipment.

3) The new addition also includes the following: a new chemotherapy mixing lab on the 2nd floor, a connecting corridor that contains ancillary support space for the Linear Accelerator on the 2nd floor and mechanical space on the first floor.

Please refer to the Specifications and Drawings attachments for further details. The Specifications and Drawings attachments included in this solicitation synopsis are the same documents that were previously included in the Sources Sought Notice and Pre-solicitation Synopsis.

Access to the specifications and drawings attachments will require an active vendor registration at https://beta.sam.gov as well as your Marketing Partner Identification Number (MPIN) associated with your SAM registration. If you encounter problems accessing these documents, please contact the Federal Service Desk at 866-606-8220.

Pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 36.204, the estimated magnitude of this project lies between $5,000,000 and $10,000,000. (NOTE: This range is one of eight available ranges from FAR 36.204 and is not meant to imply that the project has necessarily been estimated/budgeted to the maximum of the selected range. It merely conveys that the estimate/budget lies somewhere within that range.)

The solicitation will be distributed solely through the website at www.beta.sam.gov. Hard copies of the solicitation will not be made available. The website provides download instructions. All future information about this solicitation, including any amendments, will also be distributed solely through this website. Interested parties are responsible for continuously monitoring this website to ensure that they have the most recent information about this proposed contract action.

The North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) code applicable to this requirement is 236220 with a corresponding small business size standard of $39,500,000. The solicitation is set aside exclusively for small business contractors.

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