Planning And Design Of Advanced Research Center (Arc) A.K.A. Ammunition, Explosives, Toxics Center (Aec), Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey

f size. A firm-fixed-price contract will be negotiated. The contract is anticipated to be awarded in July 2025 and design completed by August 2027. A-E contract price is estimated to be less than $10,000,000. If a large business is selected for this contract, it must comply with FAR 52.219 -9 �Small Business Subcontracting Plan� regarding the requirement for a subcontracting plan on that part of the work it intends to subcontract. This action will be subject to FAR Clause 52.219-14 �Limitations of Subcontracting.� For the purposes of this solicitation, this acquisition is to be considered a service and as such, the government will not pay more than 50% of the amount paid by the Government for contract performance to subcontractors that are not similarly situated entities. Any work that a similarly situated entity further subcontracts will count towards the prime contractor's 50% subcontract amount that cannot be exceeded. When a contract includes both services and supplies, the 50% limitation shall apply only to the service portion of the contract; The subcontracting goals for the New York District which will be considered in the negotiation of this contract are: (1) at least 25%, but no more than 49% of a contractor's intended subcontract amount be placed with small businesses (SB); (2) at least 5 % of a contractor's intended subcontract amount be placed with small disadvantaged businesses (SDB); (3) at least 3% of a contractor's intended subcontract amount be placed with women-owned SB (WOSB); (4) at least 3% of a contractor's intended subcontract amount be placed with service-disabled veteran-owned SB; (5) at least 3% of a contractor's intended subcontract amount be placed with veteran-owned SB; and (6) at least 3% of a contractor's intended subcontract amount be placed with HUBZone SB. The plan is not required with this submittal, but will be required with the fee proposal of the firm selected for negotiations. To be eligible for contract award, a firm must register for an Unique Entity ID, a 12-character alphanumeric ID assigned to an entity by SAM.gov. New entities can get their Unique Entity ID at SAM.gov and complete an entity registration. 2. PROJECT INFORMATION: The scope includes the full design services for construction of the Advanced Research Center (ARC) A.K.A. Ammunition, Explosives, Toxics Center (AEC) at Picatinny Arsenal, NJ, 1500 Area. The facilities will be a complex of multiple structures and will be used for advanced research and characterization of insensitive munitions and detonation physics. The facilities will include administrative space with private and open offices, office support, conference rooms, storage, energetics laboratories, intentional detonation chambers and associated equipment, control room(s), energetics preparation and conditioning room(s), loading/staging area(s), magazine(s), and restrooms. The facilities will be used for full-scale insensitive munitions experimentation. The facilities will incorporate the newest technology, equipment, instrumentation, and photographic technologies to extract useful information from munitions experiments. The following is an overall summary description of the construction work for the project: demolition, abatement of hazardous/contaminated material, concrete, masonry, metals, woods, plastics, composites, thermal and moisture protection, openings, finishes, specialties, equipment, furnishings, special construction, fire suppression, plumbing, HVAC, integrated automation, electrical, communications, earthwork, exterior improvements, utilities, geothermal and solar energy systems. Cybersecurity measures, Electronic Security Systems, Intrusion Detection Systems, Energy Management and Control Systems (EMCS), building information systems, and fire alarm and protection systems will be included. Supporting facilities include privatized utility connections (water, wastewater/sanitary, electrical, gas), storm drainage, walks, curbs and gutters, landscaping, and site improvements. Comprehensive building and furnishings related interior design services are required. The Army intends to have the respective Utilities Privatization System Owners, American Water, New Jersey Natural Gas (NJNG), Sussex Rural Electric Company (SREC) make and own the necessary connections up to the facility service disconnect or other defined point of demarcation. This project will be designed for accessibility and usability by individuals with disabilities to the extent applicable. Facilities will be designed to a minimum life of 40 years in accordance with DoD's Unified Facilities Criteria (UFC 1-200-02) including energy efficiencies, building envelope and integrated building systems performance. Where applicable, sustainable principles, to include life cycle cost effective practices, will be integrated into the design, development and construction of the project and will follow the guidance detailed in the Army Sustainable Design and Development Policy - complying with all applicable laws and executive orders. Other A-E services to be included in the anticipated contract are blast containment design, blast modeling and analysis to meet UFC 3-340-02 and DESR 6055.09 requirements, pressure modeling, possible finite element analysis modeling verification and validation, cost estimating, commissioning, environmental services, wetland delineation, surveying, site visits, geotechnical investigations, sustainability/LEED consulting, acoustical consulting, value engineering, support during the construction acquisition phase, construction support services, modeling, rendering, and photography. The contract will require accomplishment of site investigation work. The contract will require preparation of parametric design considered to be 5 � 15 percent of the total design effort. The contract will require preparation of concept design considered to be 35 percent of the total design effort. As an option, the contract will require preparation of 60%, 90%, and final 100% designs. As an option, the contract will require delivery of construction phase AE services. The estimated construction cost of this project is approximately $80,000,000. Cost estimates must be prepared using the Corps of Engineers Micro Computer Aided Cost Estimating System (MCACES) � Second Generation (MII). The contractor shall be responsible for accomplishing designs and preparing drawings using Advanced Modeling and delivering the three-dimensional drawings in Autodesk Revit and Autodesk Civil 3D software. The Government will only accept the final product for full operation, without conversion or reformatting, in the target Advanced Modeling software format, and on the target platform specified herein. Drawings shall be compliant with the current A/E/C CAD standard available from the CAD/BIM Technology Center, Engineer Research and Development Center. 3. SELECTION CRITERIA: The selection criteria for this project are listed below in descending order of importance (first by major criterion and then by each sub- criterion). Criteria a-e are primary. Criteria f-g are secondary and will only be used as "tie-breakers" among firms that are essentially technically equal. a. Submit no more than ten projects which demonstrate specialized experience and technical competence in design of facilities similar to the project described herein. Submitted projects should ha