Y1DA--FY25: NRM (PROJ: 673-25-704) EHRM Installation of Next-Gen Wi-fi – Tampa, FL

Bid or Bidder shall be understood to mean Offer or Offeror . 2. MAGNITUDE OF THIS PROJECT: Between $250,000 and $500,000. 3. SITE VISIT: An organized site visit is scheduled for 11/18/2024 at 09:00 AM EST. Meeting location is Building 42 at which point (depending on number attending) the group will make its way to the site visit location. Please contact General Engineer Marco Lopez at marco.lopez2@va.gov confirm attendance. 4. 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. 5. REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION: Requests for Information (RFIs) shall be submitted by the prime contractor, through the Point of Contact (POC) email David.hernandez1@va.gov. No telephone RFIs will be accepted. The cutoff for submission of RFIs is 11/25/2024 at 2:00PM EST, email to david.hernandez1@va.gov. Responses will be provided in a Question & Answer format to all Bidders. Do not send RFIs via the vendor portal this is not an acceptable method and will not be responded to by the Contracting Officer. 6. SPECIFICATIONS AND DRAWINGS: No hard copies will be made available to proposing contractors. 7. 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) . 8. SERVICE DISABLED VETERAN-OWNED SMALL BUSINESS VERIFICATION: Subsequent task orders 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. Proposals submitted by non-certified by the Veteran Small Business Certification (sba.gov) (VET-CERT) shall be excluded from award consideration. 8.1 SDVOSB Verification: The Government will review Veteran Small Business Certification (sba.gov)) to confirm SDVOSB status verification for the submitted proposal. Evaluations will be performed on proposals submitted by verified SDVOSBs only. Subsequent confirmation of SDVOSB verification status will be performed for the apparent awardee. 9. LIMITATIONS ON SUBCONTRACTING (Reference Contract Clause FAR 52.219-14 for further information): By submission of an offer and execution of a contract, the Offeror agrees that in performance of the contract, the concern will perform at least twenty five (25) percent of the cost of the contract, not including the cost of materials, with its own employees. 10. FUNDS (FAR 52.232-18): Funds are not presently available for this acquisition. No contract award will be made until appropriated funds are made available. 11. BONDS (Reference Contract Clause FAR 52.228-15 for further information on applicability). 12. OFFER GUARANTEE: BID BOND - SUBMIT WITH YOUR PRICE PROPOSAL 13. SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL RECORD (SUBMIT WITH PROPOSAL): Offerors shall submit information that specifies 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 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. 14. CONTRACT PERFORMANCE PERIOD: Refer to SF1442, Block 11, for task order performance period. Performance period shall be commenced upon receipt of written Notice to Proceed (NTP) performed in concurrent or sequential phases as indicated or required. 16. WAGE DETERMINATION: Wages for all contractors and subcontractors must comply with Davis Bacon Wage Determinations. The current Davis Bacon determination is General Decision Number: FL20240208 07/12/2024 Be advised the determination that is current at the time of the Task Order award is the determination that will apply for the project. Current determinations are always available at: http://www.wdol.gov/. II. PROPOSAL PREPARATION AND EVALUATION INFORMATION 1. PROPOSAL PREPARATION INSTRUCTION: To assure timely and equitable evaluation of proposals, offerors must follow the instructions contained herein. In order for proposals to receive full consideration for award, offerors should ensure that the information furnished in support of the proposal is factual, accurate, and complete, and directly responds to the requirements of this RFP. NOTE: Your proposal 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 will be 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. 2. PROPOSAL SUBMISSION: All proposals shall be submitted by the prime contractor no later than (NLT) closing date and time specified in SF1442, Block 13.A. (subject to amendment) through the Point of Contact email David.hernandez1@va.gov . NO OTHER FORMS OF SUBMISSION WILL BE ACCEPTED. 2.1 Undeliverable emails due to an offeror s proposal 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 proposal must be received in its entirety prior to the deadline. Failure to provide a proposal in its entirety prior to the deadline will render the proposal noncompliant. 3. BASIS FOR AWARD: The Government will award one (1) firm-fixed price contract resulting from this solicitation to the responsible offeror whose offer, conforming to the solicitation, will be most advantageous to the Government, All evaluation factors other than cost or price, when combined, are approximately equal to cost or price. As differences in factor ratings and relative advantages and disadvantages become less distinct, difference in price may become the discriminating factor in determining the most advantageous offer. Conversely, as differences in price become less distinct, differences in ratings and relative advantages and disadvantages between offers are determinative. The proposals must conform RFP requirements and judged to represent the Best Value to the Government. The source selection process will utilize FAR Parts 15 (Tradeoff) and FAR Part 36 to evaluate proposals and award the contract. 3.1 The Government intends to evaluate proposals and award a contract without conducting discussions with offerors but reserves the right to hold discussions. However, the Government reserves the right to hold discussions if the Contracting Officer determines them to be necessary. 4. SELECTION AND EVALUATION PROCEDURES: This part describes the mechanism for evaluating and selecting offers for this procurement. 5. PROPOSAL PREPARATION INSTRUCTIONS: The following must be included in the offeror s proposal: Cover Page with: Bid Build Project, RFP (Solicitation) Number, Project Title and Project Number, Company Information (Primary points of contact, email, address,