RFI - Grissom ARB, IN SABER - SIMPLIFIED ACQUISITION OF BASE ENGINEERING REQUIREMENTS

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1.0 INTRODUCTION & PURPOSE This Request for Information (RFI) is issued solely for market research, planning, and information-gathering purposes in accordance with FAR Part 10 and FAR 15.201. This is not a Sources Sought synopsis or a Request for Proposal (RFP). No contract will be awarded directly from this posting, and the Government is under no obligation to issue a solicitation based on this notice. The 434th Contracting Flight (434 CONF/PK), in coordination with the 434th Civil Engineer Squadron (434 CES) at Grissom Air Reserve Base, is seeking technical feedback from the commercial construction and unit-price estimating software industry. The primary goal of this RFI is to gather industry input on a streamlined, performance-based acquisition structure for a future SABER contract. The Government is particularly interested in receiving feedback on how to structure its pricing database requirements to maximize open competition, eliminate the administrative burden of traditional "mock projects," and prevent post-award "Non-Prepriced Item (NPI) creep." 2.0 PROGRAM DESCRIPTION & ANTICIPATED STRATEGY The Government is planning a Single-Award or Multiple-Award Indefinite-Delivery/Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) SABER contract with the following anticipated structure: Estimated Ordering Ceiling: $9,000,000.00 over a five (5) year ordering period. Minimum Contract Guarantee: $2,000.00 (to be obligated at time of basic contract award). Scope of Work: Multi-trade maintenance, repair, minor construction, and renovation projects across real property facilities at Grissom ARB. Core trades include carpentry, roofing, excavation, electrical, plumbing, HVAC, masonry, demolition, concrete, and localized hazardous material abatement. Streamlined Price Evaluation (No Mock Project): To drastically accelerate procurement lead times and eliminate unpaid proposal preparation costs for industry, the Government intends to evaluate price strictly based on competitively bidded coefficients (adjustment factors) applied to pre-disclosed, weighted government workload estimates. The traditional "mock project" estimating phase will be bypassed during source selection. Performance-Based Unit Price Database: To support a "no mock project" model legally and defensibly under FAR Part 16 and Part 36, the contract must rely on a highly comprehensive, pre-priced Unit Price Book (UPB) or Contractor Pricing Guide (CPG) that is locally researched, standardized, granular, and capable of keeping post-award NPIs under 10% of total task order values. 3.0 SPECIFIC AREAS OF INQUIRY & QUESTIONNAIRE Firms choosing to respond are requested to provide detailed, objective feedback on the following five administrative and technical categories: Section 3.1: Performance-Based Technical Equivalency vs. Database Size The Government wants to ensure the pricing database is comprehensive enough to prevent post-award "NPI creep" without establishing arbitrary restrictions that limit competition. Rather than relying on a raw line-item record count as a proxy for database quality, does your firm support defining technical equivalency based on performance outcomes? Specifically, how should the Government measure a database's ability to minimize NPIs to less than 10% of total task order values? To prove database capability without running a labor-intensive "mock project," would your firm support an automated "Coverage Mapping Report" during source selection? Under this method, the Government would provide a standard, historical list of approximately 100 typical Air Force repair and maintenance tasks. Offerors would run this list against their database to prove they can pre-price 90% or more of the workload value. Detail any software or database limitations to executing this type of coverage report. To ensure transparent bidding, does your estimating database allow prospective contractors to view bare labor, material, equipment (L/E/M) costs and crew compositions prior to award, or are these…

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