The U.S. Postal Service plans to issue a Fixed Price Contract to complete a CCTV Upgrades project at the Des Moines, IA P&DC located at 1165 2nd Street, Des Moines, IA 50318.  Meet at the Retail Unit.  All work will be done in accordance with USPS approved specifications and drawings.

The estimated cost range of the project is $1,400,000 to $1,600,000 with construction completion within 190 calendar days from receipt of notice to proceed.  Contractors must submit a Qualification/Evaluation Package with their price proposal.  Only the most qualified contractors will be considered.

To be considered, a company must meet the following minimum requirements:

(1)    Contractors must provide a copy of a General Contractors license as required by the State named in this solicitation, or copy of an application to obtain such license(s) to perform the work as stated in this solicitation. Contractors will be required to provide a General Contractors License from any state in which they perform if not required in the state the project is located.  USPS does not exempt suppliers from licensure for federal projects unless indicated otherwise in the solicitation.

(2)   Contractors must have been in the construction business for a minimum of five consecutive years as of the date of this solicitation.  There is no requirement that eligible contracting firms remained the identical entity for the five-year period, although legal entity changes (such as from a partnership to a corporation) that occurred during this five-year period should be clearly explained, and if key personnel were retained, this should also be clearly explained.

(3)  Contractor must be capable of obtaining performance and payment bonds for 100% of the contract price.

(4)  Contractors must provide their EMR rating on insurance company letterhead. If the EMR rating is greater than 1.0, the contractor must provide an explanation from its insurance company in order to be given further consideration for prequalification.  An EMR in excess of 1.0 may be grounds for eliminating a firm from further consideration by the evaluation team.

(5) Company must submit information for three comparable security upgrade projects that have either been completed within the past five years or are currently ongoing.  Comparable projects are defined as projects with similar scopes of work and costs of $750,000 or more.  A description of the work will be required that clearly demonstrates the relevance of that project to this solicitation.

The Qualification / Evaluation Package will be evaluated in accordance with the criteria stated. The price proposals for only the most highly qualified contractors will be considered. 

The Postal Service is more concerned with obtaining superior technical and management features than with making an award at the lowest overall price. However, the Postal Service may not necessarily make an award at a significantly higher overall price to achieve slightly superior technical or management features.  The evaluation factors outlined in Section 2-26.2 of the Supplying Principles and Practices will be used in the evaluation of proposals.

A PRE‑PROPOSAL MEETING WILL BE HELD AT THE SITE ON THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2020, AT 10:00 A.M. CENTRAL TIME AT THE USPS DES MOINES, IA P&DC LOCATED AT 1165 2nd STREET, DES MOINES, IA 50318.  MEET AT THE RETAIL UNIT.

QUESTIONS SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO Lauren Shaver at [email protected] or Nikhil Soni at [email protected]. Deadline for questions is noon Eastern Time on December 11, 2020.

Submit proposals via Emptoris, the USPS eSourcing venue. Registration in EMPTORIS is REQUIRED. Registration instructions are attached to this posting.  Once you have completed the registration, please email the individuals listed above so an Emptoris invitation can then be sent granting you access to the solicitation and corresponding documents.

The link https:// https://uspsprod.emptoris.com for help with the eSourcing program, please contact the USPS eSourcing at [email protected] or call 1-800-332-0317, options 4 and 5. All contractors are advised to use the tutorial in the upper right hand portion of the screen once you are logged in, to familiarize yourself with the system prior to the event taking place. If responding to a specific solicitation, please notify us after registration so that we may add you to the invitation list to view the documents.

There will be no public opening of offers.  All proposal information received is CONFIDENTIAL until award of a contract.  Upon award, the name of the successful offeror and the amount of the contract will be released as public information.  The names of offerors and the amount of their offers will not be released as public information.  This information is exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act, Exception 4.