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8/9/2023 - Amendment 0001: This amendment extends Bid Opening date to Wednesday, September 13, 2023 at 2:00 PM CST, Incorporate Pre-Bid Meeting Minutes. Questions and Answers are expected to be issued via an additional admentment at a later date.

The Federal Bureau of Prisons (FBOP) herein issuance solicitation 15BFA023B00000028 for the award of a firm-fixed-price construction contract for a project entitled Replace Fire Alarm at the United States Penitentiary (USP Canaan), located in Waymart, PA.

United States Penitentiary (USP) Canaan is a federal owned facility located at 3057 Eric J. Williams Memorial Drive, Waymart PA, 18472. The project consists of the following:

The contractor shall provide all labor, materials, equipment for the Replace Fire Alarm at USP Canaan. The project includes removing and replacing twenty-one (21) existing fire alarm panels, two hundred twenty (220) manual pull stations, three hundred seventy-eight (378) smoke detectors, one hundred forty (140) duct smoke detectors, eleven (11) heat detectors, one hundred eight (108) remote test switch/indicator for duct detectors, three hundred fifty-nine (359) horn/strobes, one (1) waterproof horn/strobe, four hundred fifty-six (456) strobes, forty-eight (48) water flow switches, thirty (30) tamper switches, six (6) smoke purge panels, two (2) pressure switches, twenty-three (23) monitoring modules, one hundred-one (101) control modules. All newly installed fire alarm panels and related components and systems, upon completion of installation, shall be tested by the contractor to demonstrate system functionality.

Any secure/locked documents uploaded with the solicitation will require an active vendor registration at https://SAM.gov. If you encounter problems accessing these documents, please contact the Federal Service Desk at 866-606-8220.

Pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 36.204, the estimated magnitude of the project lies between $1,000,000 and $5,000,000. (NOTE: This range is one of 8 available ranges from FAR 36.204 and is not meant to imply that the project has necessarily been estimated/budgeted to the maximum of the selected range. It merely conveys that the estimate/budget lies somewhere within that range).

The North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) code applicable to this requirement is 238210 with a corresponding small business size standard of 19 Million. The solicitation is set aside exclusively for small business contractors.

The solicitation will be distributed solely through the website at https://SAM.gov. Hard copies of the solicitation will not be made available. The website provides download instructions. All information about this solicitation, including any amendments, will also be distributed solely through the website. Interested parties are responsible for continuously monitoring this website to ensure that they have the most recent information about this proposed contract action.

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Pre-Bid Site Visit (See Instructions to Bidders):

(b) An organized site visit has been scheduled for Wednesday, August 2, 2023, at 9:00 A.M. Local time.

(c) Participants will meet at 3057 Eric J. Williams Memorial Drive, Waymart, PA 18472.

Electronic Bid Submission (See Instructions to Bidder):

Upload Bid Electronically to https://jefs.app.box.com/f/7fe5cb9c7ee645f9b5181e16d5cc6bc8

Electronic Bid Opening:

Held on Microsoft Team, see Instructions to Bidders Section V. Electronic Bid Submission & Bid Opening.

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