Z2DA--FY26: NRM (PROJ: 516-22-602) BB Install Alternate Connections for Steam and Chilled Water – Lee County

ilding components, installation of new components and furnish labor and materials and perform work for VAMC (Lee County Health Care Clinic) Cape Coral to Install Alternate Connections for Steam and Chilled Water. Provide all labor, materials, equipment, and services to supply, install, test, and commission permanent exterior alternate connections to support temporary/mobile steam and chiller equipment (e.g., trailer-mounted boilers and chillers) without disrupting hospital operations. Work includes civil, mechanical, electrical, controls, and safety provisions necessary for reliable, code-compliant, and maintainable hookups PART I GENERAL INFORMATION All references to Bid or Bidder shall be understood to mean Offer or Offeror . MAGNITUDE OF THIS PROJECT: Between $1,000,000.00 and $2,000,000.00 SITE VISIT: An organized site visit is scheduled for 04/15/2026 at 11:00 AM EST. Please contact Engineering Technician Vincent Naimo at Vincent.Naimo@va.gov to confirm attendance. Technical questions are not allowed during the site visit. Please record your questions and submit them to the Contracting Officer as an RFI by the date indicated in #5 below. OFFER ACCEPTANCE PERIOD: Offers providing less than one hundred and twenty (120) calendar days for Government acceptance after the date offers are due will not be considered and will be rejected. REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION: Requests for Information (RFIs) shall be submitted by the prime contractor, by email to David.hernandez1@va.gov. No telephone RFIs will be accepted. The cutoff for submission of RFIs is 04/22/2026 at 2:00PM EST. SPECIFICATIONS AND DRAWINGS: All applicable specifications and drawings, if available, will be provided electronically in SAM.gov as attachments to this RFP. No hard copies will be made available to proposing contractors. Any reference contained within contract specifications and/or drawings to the VA Engineer , Resident Engineer , Senior Resident Engineer , Project Manager , Contracting Officer Technical Representative, or their abbreviations are to be replaced with Contracting Officer s Representative (COR) . SERVICE-DISABLED VETERAN-OWNED SMALL BUSINESS VERIFICATION: Subsequent contracts are 100% set asides for verified SERVICE-DISABLED VETERAN-OWNED SMALL BUSINESS (SDVOSB). The award of this requirement shall not be delayed due to loss of SDVOSB verification. QUOTEs submitted by non-certified by Small Business Search https://search.certifications.sba.gov/ shall be excluded from award consideration. Small Business Verification: The Government will review Small Business Search https://search.certifications.sba.gov/ to confirm SDVOSB status verification for the submitted QUOTE. Evaluations will be performed on QUOTEs submitted by verified SDVOSB only. The Contracting Officer will use the UEI to verify that the Offeror has an active Federal Government contracts registration in SAM. IAW FAR 52.204-7(b)(1)(iii). LIMITATIONS ON SUBCONTRACTING (Reference Contract Clause VAR 852.219-75 for further information) Please, fully complete and return the LIMITATION ON SUBCONTRACTING. FUNDS. Funds are not presently available for this contract. (Reference Contract Clause FAR 52.232-18) BONDS (Reference Contract Clause FAR 52.228-15 for further information on applicability). A payment and performance bond shall be provided. The penal sum shall be one hundred percent (100%) of order price. Bonds and other payment protection shall be provided within ten (10) calendar days of award of the Contract. Notice to proceed will not be issued until the Contractor provides sufficient bonding to cover the work being performed OFFER GUARANTEE: BID BOND (SUBMIT WITH YOUR PRICE QUOTE) per FAR Clause 52.228-1 -Bid Guarantee, the amount of the bid guarantee shall be 20 percent of the bid price or $3,000,000, whichever is less. Provide with PRICE QUOTE. NOTE: A scanned copy of the original is acceptable. Bond Seal must be visible. SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL RECORD (SUBMIT WITH QUOTE): Offerors shall submit information that specify the contractor in question has no more than three serious, or one repeat, or one willful OSHA or EPA violation(s) in the past three (3) years and has an Experience Modification Rate (EMR) that shall not exceed 1.0. If there is no EMR, state the reason way no EMR is available. EMR greater than 1.0 will not be acceptable. Offerors are required to complete and submit attached Past safety and environmental record or any other form that provided the above information. Offerors with an EMR greater than 1.0 will be considered ineligible and will not be evaluated. WAGE DETERMINATION: Wages for all contractors and subcontractors must comply with Davis Bacon Wage Determinations. The current Davis Bacon determination is General Decision Number: FL20260211 dated 01-02-2026. Be advised that the determination that is current at the time of the Contract award is the determination that will apply for the project. Current determinations are always available at: https://sam.gov/wage-determinations CONTRACT PERFORMANCE PERIOD: 180 calendar days after receipt of written Notice to Proceed performed in concurrent or sequential phases as indicated or required. If you anticipate long lead times for project materials, state this in the technical QUOTE with your anticipated lead time for the specific item II. QUOTE PREPARATION AND EVALUATION INFORMATION QUOTE PREPARATION INSTRUCTION: To ensure timely and equitable evaluation of QUOTEs, offerors must follow the instructions contained herein. In order for QUOTEs to receive full consideration for award, offerors should ensure that the information furnished in support of the QUOTE is factual, accurate, and complete, and directly responds to the requirements of this RFQ. NOTE: Your QUOTE shall be submitted as portable data files (pdf), and documents submitted shall be no larger than 7 Mega Bytes (MB) in size. Send document in separate files as deemed necessary. If separate files are submitted for specific submission, offeror shall include in the subject line right after required subject title, email number followed by the emails total to be submitted for specific submission. QUOTE SUBMISSION: All QUOTES shall be submitted by the prime contractor no later than (NLT) 05/11/2026 at 1:00PM EST. (subject to amendment) through the Point of Contact email David.hernandez1@va.gov. NO OTHER FORMS OF SUBMISSION WILL BE ACCEPTED. Undeliverable emails due to an offeror s QUOTE size, using wrong email address, or other transmission errors, is not the responsibility of the Government. NOTE: To be considered and accepted as timely the QUOTE must be received in its entirety prior to the deadline. Failure to provide a QUOTE in its entirety prior to the deadline will result in the quote will not be evaluated. BASIS FOR AWARD: BASIS FOR AWARD: The Government will award one firm-fixed-price contract to the responsible offeror whose quote conforms to the solicitation and represents the best value to the Government. The source selection process will utilize FAR Parts 15.103-1 (Tradeoff) and FAR 36 procedures when considering the factors set forth below: Factor 1 Technical/Management Approach Factor 2 Specialized Experience Factor 3 Schedule Factor 4 - Past Performance Factor 5 Price All non-priced factors are equally important. All non-priced factors (Factors 1-4) when combined are approximately equal to pri