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

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...