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THIS IS A SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE ONLY. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS. THERE IS NOT A SOLICITATION, SPECIFICATIONS OR DRAWINGS AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME. The intent of this notice is to identify potential offerors capable of performing these services. The Solicitation Number for this announcement is N4008523R2588; Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Mid-Atlantic (NAVFAC MIDLANT), Public Works Department (PWD) Crane, Indiana is currently seeking potential sources for requirements type contract for railroad trackage maintenance and repair at the Naval Support Activity ,Crane, Indiana. The contractor shall provide all labor, equipment, tools, supplies, transportation, supervision, quality control, and management necessary to perform all work requirements to provide railroad trackage maintenance and repair. This includes, but is not limited to replacement of rails, ties, crossings and accessories, surfacing, alignment, dressing of ballast, ditch maintenance, and incidental related work.

This will be a requirements type contract with pre-priced line items for railroad maintenance and railroad repairs. Task orders will be negotiated and issued after award for specific railroad maintenance and repair projects. The term of the contract would be for a base period of 12 months with three 12 month option periods to be exercised at the discretion of the government. The overall contract maximum is $50 million. The term of the contract shall not exceed 48 months or $50 million, whichever comes first. Note: Interested contractors shall have the capability to completing up to $800,000.00 worth of work in a 30-day period or $9,600,000.00 worth of work per 12-month period.

Applicable NAICS Code for this solicitation is 237990 Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction. The Small Business Size Standard is $39,500,000.00.

Under Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) guidelines, should the solicitation be set-aside for any type of small business, the prime contractor will not pay more than 75 percent of the amount paid by the Government for contract performance, excluding the cost of materials, to subcontractors that are not similarly situated entities. Any work that a similarly situated entity further subcontracts will count towards the prime contractor's 75 percent subcontract amount that cannot be exceeded

Sources are sought from 8(a) firms with a bona fide place of business located in Small Business Administration (SBA) Region V geographical area serviced by Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin SBA District Offices; Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Businesses (SDVOSB); Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) concerns; Woman-Owned Small Businesses (WOSB) or small businesses. The intent is to issue a solicitation on a set aside basis for 8(a) Region V businesses, SDVOSB, HUB Zone concerns, WOSB, or small business concerns. The type of set-aside to be issued will depend upon the responses to this sources sought synopsis. The Government must ensure there is adequate competition among the potential pool of contractors. Failure to submit all information requested below will result in a contractor not being considered as an interested 8a Region V business, SDVOSB, HUBZone concern, WOSB, or small business concern. If an adequate number of qualified responses are not received from these businesses, then the Government will issue the solicitation as unrestricted.

Interested 8a Region V businesses, SDVOSB, HUBZone concerns, WOSB, and small businesses shall indicate their interest to the Contracting Officer in writing via Statement of Qualifications. The Statement of Qualifications shall include the following information: (a) a copy of the certificate issued by the SBA of your qualifications as a 8(a) Region “V” contractor, HUBZone concern; or WOSB. SDVOSB must also provide documentation of their status (b) describe your partnering, teaming or joint venture intentions, (c) a positive statement of your intention to submit an offer for this solicitation as a prime contractor, (d) describe specific portions of this type of effort your company intends to subcontract as well as letters of commitment from each identified subcontractor; (e) provide description of work performed in the last three years that is similar in type, size, scope, and complexity; include contract numbers, project titles and descriptions, dollar amounts, and points of contact, along with telephone numbers; provide evidence of your company performing these efforts successfully (Indicators of successful performance as measured by percentage of award fee given or favorable past performance ratings, and or awards received, etc., and (f) demonstrate the capability to bond up to $10,000,000.00 in a 12-month period. The offeror shall provide a letter from their bonding company that describes the contractors bonding capacity.

Anticipate the solicitation will be released on or about 15 January 2023 with proposals due a minimum of 30 calendar days after the solicitation is issued. In accordance with FAR 5.102(a) (7) availability of the solicitation will be limited to the electronic medium and the Government will NOT provide copies. The Solicitation once issued will be available for download free of charge via the Internet on the Contracting Opportunities page at www.sam.gov.

The apparent successful offeror must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) database at the time an offer or quotation is submitted in accordance with FAR 4.1102. Failure to have an active SAM account on the proposal due date will make the Offeror ineligible for award. It will take several days for a SAM record to be activated; therefore, offerors not already registered in the SAM database are highly encouraged to do so now via Internet at: http://www.sam.gov. Registration in SAM is free.

All contractual and technical inquires shall be submitted via electronic mail to carrie.l.grimard.civ@us.navy.mil and to cassandra.c.hines.civ@us.navy.mil .

Statements of Qualifications shall be submitted to carrie.l.grimard.civ@us.navy.mil and to cassandra.c.hines.civ@us.navy.mil

Receipt of potential offerors Statement of Qualifications shall be received no later than 2:00 p.m. (EST) on Wednesday, 14 December 2022.

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