NOTICE OF INTENT - BRAND NAME OR EQUAL - CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER (CDC-V) - FORT MEADE, MARYLAND

THIS SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY.

THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR BIDS/PROPOSAL.

PROJECT: W912DR-25-R-13XY CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER – V (CDC-V), Fort meade, MARYLAND.

No reimbursement will be made for any costs associated with providing information in response to this notice or any follow-up information requests.

This is a SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE for Market Research ONLY to determine the availability of Brand Name or Equal Item.

The United States Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District intends to include the following proprietary items in a request for proposal for a construction contract acquisition under the authority of FAR 6.302-1(c)(2), Only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements. This project may include a Brand Name or Equal component, as described below, unless the results of this sources sought notification indicates otherwise.

This notification serves three purposes: (1) to notify potential Offerors of the Government's intent to solicit a brand name or equal component under a future construction project; (2) to identify potential sources that can provide the brand name or equal item; (3) notification of the Army's intent to contract sole source for a Brand Name Only or Equal Item, if the market is unable to provide equivalent' products.

In the event no equivalent equipment exists, the Brand Name or Equal justification will be issued pursuant to FAR 6.302-1(c)(2), DFARS 206.302-1(c)(2). A subsequent market survey will not be published in support of a Justification and Approval (J&A) for sole sourcing the resultant product(s) or system(s) in the event an equivalent product is not submitted for consideration. In such instances, the brand name or equal component will be embedded in the construction project. Only that part of the project requiring brand name components will be sole sourced if no sources are able to prove an equal product.

SUMMARY OF REQUIREMENT: The construction project will include Brand Name or Equal equipment as follows:

Fire Alarm System: The project specifications will also include one (1) instance of a list of two (2) acceptable manufacturers for the fire alarm equipment for this project. This list will be provided in Specification 28 31 76 which will provide all salient characteristics required for the equipment. Competition would be restricted to the two (2) vendors, Notifier and Fire-Lite Alarms, both subsidiaries of Honeywell, that are acceptable to the base Fire Department

Interested vendors must show clear and convincing evidence that alternatives to the specified items exist. Interested vendors wishing to be considered by the Government as described above must provide a copy of its brochure and any other capability statements/ data no later than 25 February 2025, 11:00 AM EST, to Contract Specialist, Amber Rose, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District, Contracting Division, via email to amber.L.rose@usace.army.mil and Gary Faykes at gary.faykles@usace.army.mil.

This is a market survey and notification of intent only. This is not a request to respond to a solicitation. A determination by the Government to compete this proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the direction of the Government.