NAVFAC Northwest closed $9 billion and opened a $15 billion ceiling on September 30

On September 30 NAVFAC Northwest posted the award of the VENTI multiple award construction contract: $9,000,000,000 across 16 indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contracts. The term is not to exceed 96 months with an expected completion date of September 29, 2034. The scope is design-build or design-bid-build work on industrial, maintenance, warehouse, production, communications, personnel support, recreation, lodging, medical, training and aviation facilities, ranges and roads, special access program and sensitive compartmented information facilities, power and communication lines, substations, electrical upgrades and electrical distribution, highway, street and bridge construction, airfield pavement and culverts. The contracting office is CORE Planning Design and Acquisition at Silverdale, Washington.

An hour and twenty minutes later the same office posted the solicitation for the Shipyard Infrastructure Optimization Program Multi-Mission Dry Dock multiple award construction contract. The notice states a base period of five years and one five-year option, a maximum possible duration of ten years, or an aggregate maximum estimated value of $15,000,000,000 for all task orders, whichever occurs first. Typical major construction task orders will range from $2,000,000,000 to $6,000,000,000, with smaller orders possible for early contractor involvement and alternative technical concepts. The work predominantly supports the Multi-Mission Dry Dock at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility at Naval Base Kitsap Bremerton, and other areas under the cognizance of NAVFAC Pacific. Primary NAICS is 237990, secondary 236220, and each holder receives a $1,000,000 minimum guarantee. It is unrestricted and open to full and open competition, and large businesses are advised that an acceptable small business subcontracting plan is required.

Two dates decide whether this is your week. The pre-proposal conference for the dry dock contract is October 15, 9:00 a.m. to noon Pacific, held both in person and online, with in-person registration capped at the first 150 registrants and closing October 12, and proposals are due December 1 at noon Pacific. The task order range is the filter to apply first: a program whose typical major order starts at $2,000,000,000 is a bonding and balance sheet question before it is a technical one, and the notice is explicit that every large business bidding must carry an acceptable small business subcontracting plan. For firms that will not prime it, the 16 VENTI holders are a primary subcontracting market at that office for the next eight years, and each holder’s contract number is published in the award notice.