PSTE 212010 Repainting of the Airfield Taxiways and Roadway Markings

Repainting of the Airfield Taxiways and Roadway Markings (PSTE 212010)

Classification Code: Z2BD— REPAIR OR ALTERATION OF AIRPORT RUNWAYS AND TAXIWAYS

Set Aside: Small Business NAICS Code: 237310- Highway, Street, and Bridge Construction

Size Standard: $45,000,000.00

Place of performance is McEntire JNGB Eastover, South Carolina.

The USPFO for South Carolina is issuing an Invitation for Bids to award a single firm fixed-price contract for services, non-personal, to provide all plant, labor, transportation, materials, tools, equipment, appliances, and supervision necessary for painting and striping various areas base-wide. The scope of this project includes but is not limited to restripe the airfield taxiways and the painting and/or repainting redlines of the parking apron, removal of identified excess paint, restripe main gate road markings, repaint two 30,000-gallon trinity style Propane Tanks, 8 swing gates, various curbs, and 384 Bollards around miscellaneous buildings across base. All work will be performed in accordance with the project statement of work and will be completed at McEntire Joint National Guard Base (ANG) near Eastover in Richland County, South Carolina. 

The base award contract line items (CLINS) and two optional contract line items (CLINS) are anticipated to be as follows:

CLIN 0001: Base Bid:

Contractor shall furnish all necessary equipment, labor, materials, tools, and transportation needed to restripe the airfield taxiways and to clean, prepare, and repaint the redline on the parking apron to include additional redline markings (entry control points and restricted area markings), and necessary paint removal.

CLIN 0002: Optional Item #1 Front Gate Roadway Markings and Various Curbs

Contractor shall furnish all necessary equipment, labor, materials, tools, and transportation required to remove and repaint roadway markings at installation main gate to meet current DOT standards. Additionally, curbs located at various locations need to be cleaned, prepared, and repainted.

CLIN 0003: Optional Item# 2 Propane Tanks, Swing Gates, and Bollards

Contractor shall furnish all necessary equipment, labor, materials, tools, and transportation required to clean and repaint two 30,000-gallon trinity style Propane Tanks white and install required signs and decals.  Additionally, there are eight (28 ft long) swing gates at various locations across the installation that need cleaned, prepared, and repainted; and 384 concrete bollards (averaging 4 feet tall and between 20 – 30 inches wide that need to be cleaned, prepared, and repainted.

The contract duration will be 60 calendar days after notice to proceed is issued to accomplish the scope of work contained in the base bid CLIN 0001 with an additional 30 calendar days if optional CLIN’s 0002 & 0003 are executed. This project is set aside 100% for (Small Businesses). The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code is 237310, with a small business size standard of $45,000,000. The magnitude of the project is between $250,000.00 and $500,000.00.

Prospective bidders are highly encouraged to attend a pre-bid conference and site visit: See Clause 52.236-27 for time and date. The date for the pre-bid conference is 12 May 2023, 10:00AM local time, at McEntire Joint National Guard Base 169th FW, CE Conference Room, 1325 South Carolina Road, Building 1071,Eastover, SC 29044. Interested contractors shall follow conference registration and base access requirements shown in the solicitation. A site visit will follow the pre-bid conference. All questions for the pre-bid conference must be submitted by 10 May 2023 via email to kathy.s.coleman2.civ@army.mil and jonathan.h.bailey.civ@army.mil. 

Submit Proposals no later than: See Box 13 and any amendments for Proposal Due Date. Interested offerors must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM). To register go to www.sam.gov. Instructions for registering are on the web page (there is no fee for registration). The solicitation and associated information and the plans and specifications will be available only from the Contract Opportunities page at SAM.gov.

Your attention is directed to FAR clause 52.219-14(e)(3) (DEVIATION 2021-O0008), LIMITATIONS ON SUBCONTRACTING, which states “By submission of an offer and execution of a contract, the Offeror/Contractor agrees in performance of the contract for General construction, it will not pay more than 85 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 85 percent subcontract amount that cannot be exceeded”.

In accordance with FAR 36.211(b), the following information is provided:

1. The National Guard has no agency-specific policies or procedures applicable to definitization of equitable adjustments for change orders under construction contracts other than those described at FAR 43.204, DFARS 243.204 and AFARS 5143.204.
2. Data for the prior 3 fiscal years regarding the time required to definitize equitable adjustments for change orders under construction contracts for the National Guard is currently not available but will be compiled and provided in future announcements.

DISCLAIMER: All contractual documents will be located on the official government webpage and the Government is not liable for information furnished by any other source. Amendments, if/when issued will be posted to Contract Opportunities for electronic downloading. This will normally be the only method of distributing amendments prior to closing; therefore, it is the offeror’s responsibility to check the website periodically for any amendments to the solicitation. Websites are occasionally inaccessible for various reasons. The Government is not responsible for any loss of Internet connectivity or for an offeror’s inability to access the documents posted on the referenced web pages. The Government will not issue paper copies.