NOTICE OF INTENT TO SOLE SOURCE - BUILDING 1416 RENOVATION, FORT BELVOIR, VIRGINIA

THIS SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR BIDS/PROPOSAL.

PROJECT: W912DR23R0034 – Renovation of Building 1416, Fort Belvoir, Virginia

No reimbursement will be made for any costs associated with providing information in response to this notice or any follow-up information requests.

This is a SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE for Market Research ONLY to determine the availability of Brand Name Items.

The United States Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District intends to include the following proprietary items in a request for proposal for a construction contract acquisition under the authority of FAR 6.302-1(c)(1), authorized or required by statute.  This project may include a Brand Name only component, as described below, unless the results of this sources sought notification indicates otherwise.

This notification serves three purposes: (1) to notify potential Offerors of the Government's intent to solicit a brand name only component under a future construction project; (2) to identify potential sources that can provide the brand name only item and/or equivalent; (3) notification of the Army's intent to contract sole source for a Brand Name Only, if the market is unable to provide 'equivalent' products.

In the event no equivalent equipment exists, the Brand Name Only justification will be issued pursuant to FAR 6.302-1(c)(1). A subsequent market survey will not be published in support of a Justification and Approval (J&A) for sole sourcing the resultant product(s) or system(s) in the event an equivalent product is not submitted for consideration. In such instances, the brand name or equal component will be embedded in the construction project. Only that part of the project requiring brand name components will be sole sourced if no sources are able to prove an equal product.

SUMMARY OF REQUIREMENT: The construction project will include Brand Name only equipment as follows:

1. King Fisher BTX Fire Alarm Radio Transmitter to be sole sourced to King Fisher. This building will require the purchase of a fire alarm radio transmitter that requires the compatibility with Fort Belvoir’s Fire Department.
2. Alerton Digital Direct Control (DDC) System to be sole sourced to Alerton. This building requires this system so that it can be seamlessly integrated into the existing DDC system previously installed in the complex and will be consolidated and operate in the same manner.

Interested vendors must show clear and convincing evidence that alternatives to the specified items exist. Interested vendors wishing to be considered by the Government as described above must provide a copy of its brochure and any other capability statements/ data no later than 25 July 2023, 11:00 AM EST, to Contract Specialist, Qiana Bowman, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District, Contracting Division, via email to Qiana.L.bowman@usace.army.mil and tamara.c.bonomolo@usace.army.mil.

This is a market survey and notification of intent only. This is not a request to respond to a solicitation. A determination by the Government to compete this proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the direction of the Government.