Veteran Affairs (VA) Philadelphia Information Technology Center (PITC) Generator Replacement Project

Sources Sought Notice for the Veterans Affairs (VA) Philadelphia Information Technology Center (PITC) Generator Replacement Project located at 5000 Wissahickon Avenue, Philadelphia, PA

This is a sources sought only. This is not a solicitation announcement for proposals and no contract will be awarded from this announcement. This is not a request for proposals, quotations or bids. In accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 15.201(e), responses to this notice are not offers and cannot be accepted by the Government to form a contract. No reimbursement will be made for any costs associated with providing information in response to this announcement. There is no solicitation at this time, nor is there any additional information available to support this announcement. The ability to respond to any future solicitation is not dependent upon responding to this Sources Sought Notice. The sole purpose of this notice is to determine whether there are adequate small business contractors for the following anticipated procurement.

Background

The General Services Administration (GSA) has a generator replacement project at the Veterans Affairs Regional Office building located at 5000 Wissahickon Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The GSA owned facility provides support for the Veterans Affairs (VA)Benefits Division for the North East region of the country and the Philadelphia Information Technology Center (PITC), a VA Core Data Center.

The building is an approximately 440,000 square-foot, four-story steel frame structure with two of the stories partially below grade. The building was constructed in 1995. The first floor is mainly composed of mechanical and electrical spaces, a fitness center, the GSA office, janitorial contractors' locker rooms, and a daycare center. The second floor consists of a cafeteria, servery/kitchen, training rooms, a data center (Philadelphia Information Technology Center PITC ), a warehouse, mail room, and general office space. The third floor consists of the main entry lobby, a credit union, and general office space. The entirety of the fourth floor consists of general office space.

In addition to the main office building, there is an auxiliary generator building which houses four diesel-generators which provided emergency/standby power to the main office building from 1995 to 2017.These existing generators have failed and are out of service. Two portable rental generators have augmented their function until new permanent generators can be installed. The generator building is an approximately 2,500 square-foot, single story structure.

The anticipated work to be performed includes electrical, mechanical, fire protection, telecommunications, security, civil, structural, and hazmat. The existing generator building was originally intended to serve a VA office building that has since been razed. The old VA office building was located where the main parking lot is today. The existing generator building is approximately 85ft x 30ft in exterior dimension and is located approximately 1200ft away from the emergency power Switchboard E2 in the current VA office building that it serves today. The existing generators and equipment will need to be removed. VA PITC has established the generator capacity Need' ( N') to be 5000-Amps in order to maximize the capacity of 5000-Amp rated distribution equipment. Two generators will be synchronized and paralleled to provide the 5000-Amps. This requires that each generator provide at least 2500-Amps of current. This project will utilize (4) 1750KW, 2187KVA, 2630A generators to provide 2N redundancy.

Construction of the VA office building was completed in 1995.

Under this Sources Sought announcement, the Government is seeking information on firms that are experienced with generator replacement and interested in this project. This information is intended to assist the Government with market research and acquisition strategy planning.

The overall estimated construction project for this project is between $10,000,000 to $15,000,000.

The estimated period of performance is 800 calendar days after notice to proceed.

The North American Industry Classification System Code for this acquisition is 236220- Commercial and Institutional Building Construction. The Small Business size standard is an average annual sales and receipts for the past three years that are equal to or less than $45,000,000.

Work will be performed under design, bid, build methodology utilizing a construction manager and the designer of record for construction administration. Design is anticipated to be completed in approximately March 2024.

Submission Instructions:

Small businesses with a NAICS code of 236220 are invited to respond to the following questions and directions by email to ching.hung@gsa.gov no later than November 14, 2023 by close of business.

If you are an interested firm, you are invited to submit a written Letter of Interest to include a Capability Statement addressing the following questions (5-page limit). All information submitted is subject to verification. Additional information may be requested to substantiate responses. The Government will use this information to assess the likelihood of your firm's capability to perform this project.

1. Provide your firm's name, address, DUNS #, email address, and phone number, and main point of contact's name.
2. Provide your status as a small business, 8(a), woman-owned small business, service-disabled veteran-owned small business, and HUBZone small business.
3. Provide a capability statement.
4. Provide a short description of three similar projects performed in the past 5 years. Include the dollar value of the project and a name, phone number, and email address for a reference for each project.
5. Identify work that you can self-perform or will subcontract.
6. Provide subcontractors, if any, you have worked with the in the past and may intend to use for this project to include their names and addresses.
7. What is your current bonding capacity (individual and aggregate) and what is the largest bonding capacity you can obtain?