Legacy Joint Venture Group LLC, Warner Robins, Georgia, was awarded a $49,000,000 firm-fixed-price contract to provide rapid response with new construction, renovation, upgrades, improvement, maintenance or repair of government facilities. Bids were solicited via the internet with nine received. Work locations and funding will be determined with each order, with an estimated completion date of June 30, 2025. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah, Georgia, is the contracting activity.
Month: September 2020
SOURCES SOUGHT: Renovation of Veteran Affairs Medical Center Building One
The Department of Veteran Affairs, Office of Construction and Facilities Management (CFM), Acquisition Support, Eastern Region, 425 I Street NW, Washington, DC is conducting market research/seeking sources from small business construction firms that are classified under one or more of the following small business programs: (1) Section 8(a), (2) HUB Zone, (3) Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB), (4) Woman-Owned Small Business (WOSB), (5) Service-Disabled Veterans-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB), and/or (6) Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB), for the construction of Project 516-005, Building One (1) Renovation.
The place of performance is 10000 Bay Pines Blvd, Bay Pines, FL 33708. The firm must be a small business general construction firm with an approved NAICS Code of 236220. The Small Business Size Standard is $36.5 million. The estimated price range for Project No. 516-005 is between $20,000,000 and $50,000,000.
All interested parties will be required to respond to the solicitation separately from their response to this sources sought. Please submit capability packages via email to: [email protected] no later than 2:00 pm EDT on October 8, 2020.
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National Strategic Research Institute Awarded $92,000,000 IDIQ Contract For Research & Development Services
National Strategic Research Institute – University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, has been awarded a maximum $92,000,000 single-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for research and development services supporting U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) and other government agencies.
The contract is specifically for obtaining Department of Defense essential engineering, research and development capabilities and mission-related research including test, evaluation, and systems analysis of related topics for USSTRATCOM in the defined core competencies of nuclear detection and forensics, detection of chemical and biological weapons, active and passive defense against weapons of mass destruction and consequence management.
Work will primarily be performed at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska; and University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, and is expected to be completed Feb. 28, 2026. This award is a result of a sole-source acquisition. Fiscal 2020 operations and maintenance funds in the amount of $1,000 are being obligated at the time of award. The 55th Contracting Squadron, Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, is the contracting activity
SOURCES SOUGHT: Precision Equipment Repair and Maintenance
The purpose of this sources sought notice is to determine the interest and feasibility of small business set-asides. This synopsis is for information and planning purposes and is not to be construed as a commitment by the U.S. Government, nor will the U.S. Government pay for information solicited. The information from this notice will help the United States Department of Agriculture, USDA, Animal Plant Inspection Services, APHIS, National Veterinary Services Laboratory, NVSL, Ames, Iowa plan their acquisition strategy or plan.
- Product Service Code: J066 – MAINT/REPAIR/REBUILD OF EQUIPMENT- INSTRUMENTS AND LABORATORY EQUIPMENT
- NAICS Code: 811219 – Other Electronic and Precision Equipment Repair and Maintenance
- Place of Performance: IA 50010 USA
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Abbott Rapid DX North America Awarded $760,000,000 Contract For BinaxNOW
Abbott Rapid DX North America LLC Orlando, Florida, has been awarded a firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for the production and delivery of BinaxNOW rapid point-of-care antigen tests for COVID-19.
The initial order is valued at $760,000,000 for 150 million tests and distribution costs. This was a sole-source acquisition to meet an urgent and compelling national need. An Emergency Use Authorization has been approved and signed by the Food and Drug Administration for this contract award. This is a four-month contract with no option periods. Locations of performance are Florida and Maine, with a Dec. 31, 2020, ordering period end date. Using customer is the Department of Health and Human Services. The maximum dollar value on the contract is $1,500,000,000. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2020 CARES Act funding. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (SPE2DE-20-D-0027). (Awarded Aug. 27, 2020)
Abbott Rapid Dx North America, LLC is located in Orlando, FL, United States and is part of the Medical Equipment & Supplies Manufacturing Industry. Abbott Rapid Dx North America, LLC has 100 total employees across all of its locations and generates $23.11 million in sales (USD). There are 947 companies in the Abbott Rapid Dx North America, LLC corporate family. (www.dnb.com)
Rick Grams II: Building Multiple Successful ANC and Tribal 8a firms
Working for over 20 years in different Tribal and Alaskan Native-owned companies, Rick Grams II shares his experience and his insights in doing business with the federal government.
BACKGROUND
Rick Grams II graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration with a focus on Information Technology and a master’s degree in Management from Colorado Technical University.
He has also worked with multiple successful Tribal and Alaskan Native-owned companies for over 20 years in different roles including being a General Manager, Director of Operations, Executive Director, Vice President, Chief Operating Officer, and Chief Information Officer.
Grams also contributed volunteer service time in each of the company’s vicinities which include his position as a Chairman of a government ethics committee in Alaska and as a member of the Fairfax County Government Information Technology Board in Virginia.
Currently, he is the Vice President and General Manager of Miami Technology Solutions, an SBA certified tribally-owned 8(a) company.
EXPERIENCE IN THE MARKETPLACE
Rick Grams II started working with Alaskan-native companies in 2000 after his naval career. Then, he moved to Virginia where he grew along with the same career and became a program manager of larger agencies.
Over the years, he learned about the similarities of the Alaskan native corporation model and the tribal model.
“There is no difference. It’s simply a matter of the ownership. The tribes out of Alaska are part of the, you know, part of 13 regional corporations. So they’re considered the Alaska native corporation model. The tribal model is, is a very similar model, same structure, same organization, same regulatory aspects.”
On his current position in the Miami Technology Solutions, they continued to build on the same scope of areas which are logistics and information technology. They do everything at the level that is profitable, lean, and sometimes dynamic and creative.
“It’s not only going to be, we’re going to make this work but we’re going to make this work and we’re going to make sure that the client is satisfied with it.”
In order to achieve this goal and make an environmental success, Grams also understand that they need to create a new mindset from a technology perspective for their employees. With this, their company has team buildings and does office games during their breaks.
“I’m just getting up out of the desk, doing something non-professional… no goal set, no, no sitting there reading a proposal or critiquing anything, just displaying cornhole, you know, 15 minutes, total refreshment, everybody’s smiling at the end, you know, get back to work and do your thing. It’s good.”
ADVICE FOR BUSINESSES
1. Be Familiar With Your Vision.
For starting companies, Grams advised to be familiar with your vision for that company because as a startup, sometimes, you need to follow another path and get the necessary resources no matter where it’s coming from so that you can take the company to become what you want it to be.
“When we’re small, we don’t have the luxury while we may go into the market wishing to be, you know, company X, but you run across a revenue stream that would really only apply if you were company B instead of company X. You have to be willing to convert to company B for a time period. So you can get back on the path to becoming company X because without revenue, you’re not going to have company X to pursue over the long haul.”
2. Be Willing To Grow.
In the federal marketplace, you need to do market research and proposal writing apart from creating and providing solutions to the government.
Even if it’s not your strength, you need to learn how to do these activities because it provides you an understanding on how to do it differently the next time.
“I did not expect to also be the one, you know, sitting down writing proposals, mapping out far regulations, you know, search and reps, those types of areas. That was not something that I expected to do… but the determination and the willpower to, to get past that in order to make the projects that I was involved in successful.”
3. Be Out In The Midst Of The Market.
Conferences and events will be of no use if you don’t know how to target your clients. You need to talk to them directly in order to get their attention and to understand what they needed from constructors like you.
“Nothing that I’ve been a part of seeing a win in the environment with has had to do with the simple status of, of being either an AMC or a tribal aid. Most of it has had to do with walking the halls, knowing the agency that you’re targeting, knowing what their budget constraints are, and yet knowing their internal politics as well.”
4. Be People-Centered.
It might be an old cliche but the greatest businesses know how to deal not just with their clients but with their people… their employees.
This is due to the reason that when your client sees that you know how to take care of your employees, it speaks volume to what your company really is.
“Nothing in business happens, happens without people understanding each other’s capabilities, and needs, and goals.”
RESOURCES
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SOURCES SOUGHT: Indefinite Delivery Architect-Engineer Contract For Civil Works
INDEFINITE DELIVERY ARCHITECT-ENGINEER CONTRACT FOR CIVIL WORKS AND RELATED PROJECTS, PRIMARILY VARIOUS LOCATIONS, ALASKA
The US Army Corps of Engineers is conducting market research to facilitate a determination of acquisition strategy. The determination of acquisition strategy for this acquisition lies solely with the government and will be based on this market research and information available to the government from other sources. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Alaska District, is conducting this market research to identify businesses which have the capability to perform the following work:
The AE selected would be required to have sufficient staff, flexibility, and capability to be available on an as-needed basis. Typical types of services to be provided may include preparation of complete reports or portions of Corps of Engineers planning reports, environmental documents, engineering designs (including construction plans and specifications) for small boat harbor, navigation, ecosystem restoration projects, flood damage prevention, storm damage reduction, watershed studies, comprehensive relocation plans and comprehensive community plans for rural villages in Alaska, and other Corps Civil Works activities
- Original Set Aside: Total Small Business Set-Aside (FAR 19.5)
- Product Service Code: C211 – ARCHITECT AND ENGINEERING- GENERAL: LANDSCAPING, INTERIOR LAYOUT, AND DESIGNING
- NAICS Code: 541330 – Engineering Services
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Indefinite Delivery Architect-Engineer Contract For Civil Works: SOURCES SOUGHT
INDEFINITE DELIVERY ARCHITECT-ENGINEER CONTRACT FOR CIVIL WORKS AND RELATED PROJECTS, PRIMARILY VARIOUS LOCATIONS, ALASKA
The US Army Corps of Engineers is conducting market research to facilitate a determination of acquisition strategy. The determination of acquisition strategy for this acquisition lies solely with the government and will be based on this market research and information available to the government from other sources. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Alaska District, is conducting this market research to identify businesses which have the capability to perform the following work:
The AE selected would be required to have sufficient staff, flexibility, and capability to be available on an as-needed basis. Typical types of services to be provided may include preparation of complete reports or portions of Corps of Engineers planning reports, environmental documents, engineering designs (including construction plans and specifications) for small boat harbor, navigation, ecosystem restoration projects, flood damage prevention, storm damage reduction, watershed studies, comprehensive relocation plans and comprehensive community plans for rural villages in Alaska, and other Corps Civil Works activities
- Original Set Aside: Total Small Business Set-Aside (FAR 19.5)
- Product Service Code: C211 – ARCHITECT AND ENGINEERING- GENERAL: LANDSCAPING, INTERIOR LAYOUT, AND DESIGNING
- NAICS Code: 541330 – Engineering Services
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AAI Corp Awarded $84.7M Contract For S3I Directorate’s Joint Systems Integration Laboratory
AAI Corp., doing business as Textron Systems, Hunt Valley, Maryland, was awarded an $84,734,180 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to acquire technical, engineering, scientific and logistical services to support the S3I Directorate’s Joint Systems Integration Laboratory in the areas of research, development, integration, experimentation, test and evaluation, maintenance, sustainment and operation. Bids were solicited via the internet with one received.
Work locations and funding will be determined with each order, with an estimated completion date of Aug. 30, 2022. U.S. Army Contracting Command, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, is the contracting activity (W31P4Q-20-D-0029).
AAI Corp operates as aerospace and defense technologies company. The Company’s services include unmanned systems, test systems, training systems, strategic business solutions, and developing, producing, support, and upgrading defense equipment. AAI’s products include unmanned aircraft and ground control technologies, aerospace test equipment, and armament systems. (bloomberg.com)
RFI: Lease/Rental of Office Buildings In Jackson AL
This advertisement is hereby incorporated into the RLP 20-REG04 by way of reference as an RLP attachment. U.S. GOVERNMENT seeks to lease the following office space through the Automated Advanced Acquisition Program (AAAP).
Delineated Area:
- North: Westpoint Dr to US Highway 43 north to Bumblebee rd, then south on Highway 43 to Industrial Bypass
- South: US Highway 177
- East: Westpoint Dr to US Highway 177 (Industrial Bypass)
- West: US Highway 43 at Westpoint Drive
- Minimum ABOA Sq. Ft.: 4,852
- Maximum ABOA Sq. Ft.: 5,480
- Space Type: Office
*Offerors are encouraged to submit rates for all terms available in the AAAP for consideration against future GSA requirements.
The offered space must comply with the requirements in this advertisement and RLP 20-REG04 and must meet Federal Government, State, and Local jurisdiction requirements, including requirements for fire and life safety, security, accessibility, seismic, energy, and sustainability standards in accordance with the terms of the Lease. The Lease and all documents that constitute the Lease package can be found at https://lop.gsa.gov/aaap.
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