U.S. Army War College (USAWC), General Instruction Building (GIB), Carlisle Barracks, Carlisle, PA   4

Project Description:

The General Instruction Building (GIB) will meet all Army Standards and GIB Standard Design Criteria. Project includes four large lecture halls which can be converted into a 600 person auditorium, seminar rooms divisible into break-out rooms and various configurations, conference rooms, private instructor offices, counseling rooms, library, resource center, computer lab, administrative offices, reception areas, tele-video classroom, student and instructor break areas, information systems processing center, computer training room, general and departmental storage, utility rooms, restrooms, mechanical, electrical and communications rooms, special foundations, automatic fire suppression and alarm system, fire pump, emergency and redundant power, information systems, Intrusion Detection System (IDS) installation, and Energy Monitoring Control Systems (EMCS) connection.

Heating and air conditioning will be provided by self-contained systems. Supporting facilities include utilities and reconfigured utility connections, infrastructure, landscape, lighting, pavements, paver covered terraces, site improvements, parking, walks, curbs and gutters. Measures in accordance with the Department of Defense (DoD) Minimum Antiterrorism for Buildings standards will be provided.

The magnitude of construction is between $25,000,000.00 and $100,000,000.00. Construction duration is approximately 1095 calendar days from Notice to Proceed.

Additional information in accordance with the Statement of Work will be included in the request for proposal (RFP) package.

This will be a Design-Bid-Build contract. The Baltimore District will be using a Two-Step Design-Bid-Build Bifurcated solicitation process to award the firm fixed price construction contract. The Bifurcated Solicitation Process is a split/two-step RFP utilizing the best value trade-off procurement process. An award will be made to the offeror whose proposal is determined to be the best value to the Government considering the evaluation factors. It is anticipated that the solicitation will be released on or about 27 June 2019.

The solicitation will be provided in an electronic format, free of charge, to all authenticated account holders of Federal Business Opportunities (FBO) System. To familiarize vendors with the system, please download the Vendor guide by logging into https://www.FBO.gov. The media through which the Government chooses to issue this solicitation will be the Internet only. This solicitation will not be issued in paper.

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