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NAVFAC Issues MMDD MACC Solicitation for Puget Sound Multi-Mission Dry Dock

The released solicitation begins the competition for a multiple-award, design-build contract vehicle supporting the Navy’s Multi-Mission Dry Dock program at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard.

NAVFAC Northwest has issued Solicitation No. N44255-26-R-0005 for the Multi-Mission Dry Dock Multiple Award Construction Contract, or MMDD MACC. The solicitation contemplates approximately five IDIQ MACC awards through a single-phase, one-step design-build competition. MACC awardees will later compete for task orders supporting the MMDD program.

The solicitation package frames the immediate competition around an offeror’s construction and design experience, past performance, financial information, small-business participation, pricing, and other proposal requirements. Its project-data sheet separately calls for construction and design experience and captures, among other things, the submitting entity’s role on prior work, project scope, contract type, delivery method, and—where applicable—the lead design firm.

A MACC competition with a future task-order component

The solicitation is not limited to a conventional single-project construction competition. Offerors are competing first for a place on the MACC, while later work will be awarded through task-order competitions among MACC holders. The initial solicitation materials also include a seed task order addressing Alternative Technical Concepts, or ATCs, for Package No. 1—Marine.
NAVFAC’s ATC scope anticipates that, following MACC award, each awardee will receive an ATC task order. The future process is intended to address cost, schedule, constructability, scope packaging, execution strategy, contract requirements, risk-sharing approaches, and other potential opportunities affecting Package No. 1—Marine.

Issues the solicitation puts in view

  • The materials put several subjects at the center of the competition:
  • Relevant experience and past performanceThe experience form calls for separate construction and design project information, including the firm’s role, scope elements, delivery method, contract type, and project value or design fee where applicable. The past-performance questionnaire asks clients to address performance and project relevance.
  • Team and entity structureThe experience materials contemplate submissions involving an offeror, joint venture, or other entity, and identify the role performed by the relevant firm on the cited work.[Attachment]
  • Small-business participationThe solicitation package includes both a Small Business Participation Commitment Document and a Small Business Subcontracting Plan, as well as historical small-business-utilization materials.[Attachment]
  • Pricing and commercial termsThe price-model form identifies government-provided direct-cost figures and calls for offeror-proposed markup rates, including rates associated with subcontractor overhead, home-office overhead, profit, bond premium, and Washington B&O tax.[Attachment]
  • Risk allocation and task-order development. NAVFAC’s ATC scope identifies potential subjects including bonding, economic price adjustments, payment structure, incentive milestones, liquidated damages, small-business utilization, contract-risk allocation, site access, security, outage requirements, logistics, long-lead items, scheduling, and sequencing.

Source

Solicitation No. N44255-26-R-0005