Z1DA--FY26: NRM (PROJ 673-26-112) DB Replace Fire Barrier Doors Buildings 32 and 38

OORS AT THE CONNECTIONS OF BUILDING 32 AND BUILDING 38 WITH FIRE-RATED SWING DOUBLE DOORS. The work includes, but is not limited to site investigation, design and preparation of drawings, phase planning, specifications, demolition, construction, and installation. These doors shall be held open, programmed to close automatically when the adjacent smoke detectors go off. Due to the high-traffic areas of work, some work may need to be completed during WHEN (Weekend, Holiday, Evening, and Night) hours. The DB Team is to include subcontractors performing professional services under this contract and shall perform its services consistent with the professional skill and care ordinarily provided by architects/engineers practicing in the same or similar locality under the same or similar circumstances. This will require licensing and certifications in line with the design and fire certification requirements. The DB Team shall perform its services as expeditiously as is consistent with such professional skill and care and the orderly progress of the project description in the SOW. OFFICE ISSUING THIS REQUEST: Department of Veterans Affairs Network Contracting Office (NCO) 8 Point of Contact (POC): David Hernandez Email: David.hernandez1@va.gov Phone: (813) 893-3904 PART I GENERAL INFORMATION All references to Bid or Bidder shall be understood to mean Offer or Offeror . DEFINITIONS: Design-Build (D/B) as defined by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is procurement by the Government, under one contract, with one firm or joint venture (JV) as identified in your basic contract, for both design and construction services for a specific project. Contracting Officer Representative (COR): The COR is responsible for administering contracts under the immediate direction of the Contracting Officer. Design Build Contract: This term, as used herein, refers to the Contract to perform the design and construction of the project. Contractor: This term, as used herein, refers to the contractor under this contract or the D/B team. AE: This term, as used herein, refers to the Architect-Engineer firm(s)that are a part of the D/B team, also referred to as D/B/AE. MAGNITUDE OF CONSTRUCTION: Between $150,000 and $200,000.00. SITE VISIT: An organized site visit is planned for 01/16/2026 AT 0900 AM EST. Meeting location is Building 42 at which point the group will make its way to the site visit location. Please contact Engineering Tech Roy Mason at Roy.Mason@va.gov 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 #6 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 through email only to david.hernandez1@va.gov No solicitation questions will be accepted in any other format. Do not discuss project requirements with any Tampa VAMC technical staff during solicitation Phases I and II. The cutoff for submission of RFIs for Phase I is 01/23/2026, at 10:00 AM EST. Send RFIs only to the Contracting Officer do not include VA technical representatives. Responses will be provided through an Amendment posted to SAM.gov in a Question & Answer format visible to all offerors. 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. SDVOSB VERIFICATION: SERVICE-DISABLED VETERAN-OWNED SMALL BUSINESS VERIFICATION(SDVOSB): Subsequent contracts are 100% set asides for verified 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. LIMITATIONS ON SUBCONTRACTING: (Reference Contract Clause VAR 852.219-75 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 fifteen (15) percent of the cost of the contract, not including the cost of materials, with its own employees. 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 10 calendar days of award of the Contract. The Notice to Proceed will not be issued until the Contractor provides sufficient bonding to cover the work being performed. Provide electronically only. NCO 8 no longer accepts bonds through the mail. OFFER GUARANTEE (BID BOND) (SUBMIT WITH YOUR PRICE QUOTES): 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 Quotes. SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL RECORD (SUBMIT WITH QUOTES): 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 determination is General Decision FL20260208 dated 01/02/2026. Be advised 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: http://www.sam.gov/. CONTRACT PERFORMANCE PERIOD: 270 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. WORK ELEMENT NO. 1 (Design Build Effort Required): Contractor shall develop project design documentation including drawings, specifications, design analysis etc. per the Statement of Work. Upon completion of design, and upon acceptance by the Government, construction execution shall commence and be completed in accordance with contract requirements. PART II QUOTE PREPARATION AND EVALUATION INFORMATION This RFP addresses both the Phase I and Phase II QUOTE requirements. Do not submit the pricing information requested in Phase II with the Phase I Quotes. The Phase I Quotes will be evaluated to determine which offerors will be invited to submit Phase II technical and price Quotes . A maximum of five (5) most highly rated Phase I Quotes will be invited t