(IDIQ) Appraisal and Consulting Services

General Description of Scope of Services: This contract is to provide real estate appraisal services within the (5) geographic areas. The NAICS code for this procurement is 531320 with a size standard of $7.5 million.

This will be a firm-fixed price contract. All work to be acquired under the contract will be accomplished by the issuance of individual task orders. The overall estimated contract ceiling is $1.9 MIL it will be shared by all awardees and serve as the maximum value (not to exceed amount) for the entire multiple award contract group.

This contract vehicle may be utilized by both GSA Regional and Field Office personnel for Region 7. Each contract will have a one-year base term with four (4) one-year renewal options.

Services will be required under these contracts on an as-needed basis. Task orders will be prepared based on defined scopes of work for specific projects and issued as firm-fixed price tasks orders.

The contract will be acquired using Source Selection Procedures as identified in FAR 15.3 with a firm-fixed price award to the offerors who provide the best value to the Government. Offerors will be evaluated based on technical merit and price proposals. For this procurement, technical evaluation factors, when combined, are significantly more important than total evaluated price. The trade-off process under the best value approach will be used. The technical evaluation factors, in order of importance, are:
1. Relevant Experience and Past Performance, 2. Key Personnel 3. Quality Assurance Control Plan, 4. Technical Approach, 5. Technical Questions. When combined the technical factors are significantly more important than price.
The Government's intent is to award up to thirteen (13) contracts to offerors who submit proposals which will provide the best value to the Government in terms of technical qualifications and price.

The Government intends to award without discussion. Therefore, offerors are requested to submit their initial proposals to the Government on the most favorable terms based on technical and price factors. The Government reserves the right to conduct discussions if the Contracting Officer later determines them to be necessary.

Additional Qualifying Criteria:

The Offeror(s) firm must have a physical office location in at least one of the following States, Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas.

The offeror(s) must provide a copy of a current Certified General Real Estate Appraiser license in the geographic area where the property is located.

The Offeror(s) must be able to provide at least one of the two sample reports requested from a property in the area of proposal.

The Offeror(s) must have completed, at a minimum, the following or equivalent Professional Course Education;

Advanced Income Capitalization
Advanced Market Analysis & Highest and Best Use
Advanced Sales Comparison Approach
Advanced Sales Cost Approach
Advanced Concepts & Case Studies

The solicitation package (offer forms, clauses, and provisions) will only be available electronically on FedBizOpps. Potential offerors will be responsible for downloading the solicitation and for monitoring the website for possible amendments and/or additional information. All information, amendments and questions concerning this solicitation will be electronically posted at the following page: http://www.fbo.gov.

In order to participate in this procurement, offerors MUST be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) database, which is the Official U.S. Government system that consolidated the capabilities of CCR/FedReg, ORCA, and EPLS. There is NO fee to register for this site. Entities may register at no cost directly from this page. User guides and webinars are available under the Help tab. The website for SAM is http://www.sam.gov.

Any information taken from other publications is used at the sole risk of the offeror. The procuring office cannot guarantee the accuracy of information contained in other publications.

The solicitation and associated information will be available from the FedBizOpps site mentioned above. No telephone requests will be accepted. This solicitation is not a sealed bid procurement and there will not be a formal public bid opening. All inquiries must be in writing and will be available on the aforementioned FedBizOpps posting.

Offerors will not be reimbursed for proposal submittal expenses.

All questions must be submitted in writing by email to the attention of Darryl Henderson (email: darryl.henderson@gsa.gov. All questions must be submitted no later than 12 noon on November 25th, 2016.

DISCLAIMER: The official solicitation package will be located on the official government web page and the Government is not liable for information furnished by any other source. Amendments, if/when issued will be posted to the FedBizOpps site for electronic downloading. This will normally be the only method of distributing amendments prior to closing; therefore, it is the offeror's responsibility to check the website periodically for any amendments to the solicitation. Websites are occasionally inaccessible due to various reasons. The Government is not responsible for any loss of Internet connectivity or for an offeror's inability to access the documents posted on the referenced web pages. The Government will not issue paper copies of this solicitation.