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Billions of dollars in construction funding in FY 2019 funding bills

October 2, 2018 By Andrew Smith

On Sept. 13, Congress passed a Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 appropriations bill — which the president is expected to sign into law —t hat will provide significant amounts of funding for military construction projects through the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC); hospital, medical clinic and cemetery projects through the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA); and harbor maintenance, lock, dam, levee and environmental restoration projects through the USACE Civil Works Program.

The bill provides a total of $10.3 billion for military construction projects. This is an increase of $241 million, or 2.4 percent, above the enacted FY 2018 level. The bill appropriates $1.6 billion to fund construction, operation, and maintenance of military family housing for fiscal year 2019. This is $173 million above the fiscal year 2018 level and the same as the president’s FY 2019 budget request.

Major and minor construction within the VA is funded at $1.8 billion. In addition, $2 billion is provided for infrastructure repair, with the funding allocated to major and minor construction and non-recurring maintenance. Within the infrastructure total funding, $750 million is targeted to seismic corrections at VA facilities nationwide.

Keep reading this article at: http://advocacy.agc.org/billions-of-dollars-in-construction-funding-in-fy-2019-funding-bills/

Filed Under: Contracting News Tagged With: budget, construction, contracting opportunities, DoD, NAVFAC, spending, spending bill, USACE, VA

Missing JV agreement sinks offeror’s proposal

April 11, 2017 By Andrew Smith

A small business joint venture’s proposal was excluded from the competition because the joint venture failed to submit a signed copy of its joint venture agreement, as required by the solicitation.

In a recent bid protest decision, the GAO held that the procuring agency acted properly in excluding the joint venture’s proposal, even though the joint venture’s price was more than $300,000 lower than the lowest-priced awardee’s.

The GAO’s decision in CJW Desbuild JV, LLC, B-414219 (Mar. 17, 2017) involved a NAVFAC solicitation for construction services.  The solicitation was issued as a small business set-aside, and contemplated the award of up to six IDIQ contracts.

The solicitation called for NAVFAC to make award on a best value basis, taking into account both price and non-price factors. The three non-price factors were construction experience, safety, and past performance.

Keep reading this article at: http://smallgovcon.com/uncategorized/missing-jv-agreement-sinks-offerors-proposal/

Filed Under: Contracting Tips Tagged With: bid protest, GAO, joint venture, NAVFAC, Navy, set-aside, small business

Ostensible subcontractor rule: Management alone wasn’t enough

March 23, 2016 By Andrew Smith

Ostensible Subcontracting RuleThe prime contractor’s management of a contract wasn’t enough to avoid ostensible subcontractor affiliation where the subcontractor would provide the labor, equipment, and facilities for performing the work.

In a recent size appeal decision, the SBA Office of Hearings and Appeals confirmed that, where the subcontractor will provide the goods or services that the agency “actually seeks to acquire,” the subcontractor may be deemed an ostensible subcontractor under the SBA’s affiliation rules.

OHA’s decision in Size Appeal of Hamilton Alliance, Inc., SBA No. 5698 (2015) involved a NAVFAC solicitation seeking a contractor to provide refuse collection and processing, as well as the collection, processing and sale of recyclable waste.  Under the solicitation’s Performance Work Statement, the contractor was to be responsible for providing all labor, supplies, materials, equipment, transportation, facilities, supervision and management necessary to collect and process refuse and recyclable waste.  The solicitation was a SDVOSB set-aside under NAICS code 562119 (Other Waste Collection), with a corresponding $38.5 million size standard.

Keep reading this article at: http://smallgovcon.com/sbaohadecisions/ostensible-subcontractor-rule-management-alone-wasnt-enough/

Filed Under: Contracting Tips Tagged With: affiliation, appeal, NAVFAC, OHA, ostensible subcontractor rule, SBA, size standards, small business

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