PRE-SOLICITATION NOTICE

Solicitation No.:  19GE5020R0033

The U.S Consulate General, Frankfurt provides the following Pre-Solicitation Notice regarding the issuance of a Request for Proposal (RFP) for:

DESIGN BUILD SERVICES FOR THE RENOVATION OF

THE CHIEF OF MISSION RESIDENCE,US EMBASSY QUITO, ECUADOR

The Regional Procurement Support Office in Frankfurt, Germany, intends to issue a Firm Fixed-Price Design/Build Construction Type Contract in the third or fourth quarter of Fiscal Year 2020.

The successful offeror shall provide complete design and construction services, contract coordination, and supervision, including but not limited to the design, management and construction necessary to meet the requirements of this contract within the established timeframe.

The scope of work requires the successful offeror to provide professional architect and engineering services and construction services necessary to meet the requirements of the contract within the established schedules including furnishing all labor, material, equipment and services required to complete the design and renovation of the CMR located at the edge of the colonial neighborhood of Gualpo in Quito. The successful offeror will need to demonstrate prior experience in the renovation of historical buildings. The renovation works include but are not limited to electrical, heating, cold and hot water upgrades, renovations to bathrooms, kitchen laundry, drainage, exterior works and complete interior renovation.

Pursuant to Subpart 36.204 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), the estimated magnitude for the entire project is between $500,000.00 and $1,00,000.00 U.S. Dollars (Note:  the prescribed FAR range determinations provide relatively wide ranges only, in order to give potential offerors a very general orientation as to the magnitude of the work.  However, the specified range is not meant to give any indication as to the Independent Government Cost Estimate for this project, which could be at the lower or the upper end of the range indicated). 

Qualified companies interested in the solicitation shall express their interest by written correspondence to the attention of Ms. Wencke Jacobsen at [email protected]  no later than March 15, 2020 using the solicitation number 19GE5020R0033 in the subject line.

DO NOT TELEPHONE. All requests for a copy of the solicitation MUST include the following information: Name of Firm, Unique Entity Identifier (Former Dun’s #), Name, Telephone and Email Address of Point of Contact and Complete Physical and Mailing Address of Firm. 

The solicitation package/documents shall not be placed on FedBizOpps as the document contains SBU information.  Only companies submitting a letter of interest shall receive a copy of the solicitation package/documents when available.

The solicitation package will only be available in the English language. All requirements for translations will be at the expense of the Contractor. Additionally, you are required to complete and include in your expression of interest the below checklist. All requests for the solicitation document that are submitted without the checklist, or with an incomplete checklist, will be rejected.

Firms shall be knowledgeable in written and spoken English and possess all appropriate permits and licenses to perform construction work in Ecuador.

A pre-proposal conference and site visit shall be tentatively scheduled for March or April 2020; precise dates will be provided to interested offerors with the solicitation package.