This is a service / maintenance or supply contract in Anchorage, Alaska. Contact the soliciting agency for additional information.

Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Single Award Task Order Contract (SATOC) for Facilitation and A-E Services for Charrettes, VE Workshops and Similar Meetings, Various Locations in Alaska. The Alaska District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is conducting market research to determine acquisition strategy before releasing a solicitation for this project. This Sources Sought is for information only and does not constitute a solicitation for competitive proposals/bids. Services may include facilitation of programming, planning, and design charrettes, partnering meetings, value-based design charrettes (VBDC) with design functional analysis using a value engineering VE methodology, VE workshops, and attendance and participation at such meetings by professionally licensed architects and engineers. Facilitation involves guiding a group of participants through a structured process to achieve a specific outcome or goal, including planning and preparing the agenda, setting clear objectives, ensuring active participation, managing time, and maintaining focus throughout the meeting. Effective facilitation also requires managing dynamics, resolving conflicts, and fostering a collaborative environment. From time to time, the Alaska District does not have enough architects and engineers to attend these meetings. In such cases, the Contractor must provide architects and engineers as required to attend and participate in these meetings. The typical disciplines include geotechnical, civil, structural, architectural, interior design, mechanical, electrical, communications, fire protection, cybersecurity, physical security, cost, and other similar facilities-related disciplines. In addition to possible in-person attendance, virtual participation may be possible. Following the meetings, A-E personnel must participate in writing and reviewing charrette and VE workshop reports and creating construction cost estimates. The Contractor must furnish sufficient technical, supervisory, and administrative personnel and labor to ensure the expeditious accomplishment of the work specified in this synopsis as an independent contractor, and not as an agent of the Government. The Contractor must furnish all management, facilities, services, materials, supplies, equipment, instruments, investigations, studies, and transportation required. The Contractor must furnish all reports and other data, together with supporting material developed during the period of service. The Contractor must provide supervision and quality control to ensure accuracy, quality, completeness, and progress for all work. Location: Primarily various locations in Alaska but may be utilized outside Alaska on an exception basis. Facilities will generally be in arctic or subarctic environments. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Alaska District anticipates a Single Award Indefinite Delivery Contract (IDC) with a five-year ordering period and an estimated total contract value of $4M. It is anticipated that Task Orders issued under these contracts will be performed within the State of Alaska, which may include interior, coastal, and Aleutian Islands areas to include Wake Island. The solicitation will define task order procedures and minimum guarantee amount. The anticipated size of task orders against this contract is between $5,000.00 and $100,000.00. The Method of Contractor Selection has not been determined at this Time. *The value for this project is based on a financial range. The value is listed as the highest possible cost from the range provided by a stakeholder or official project document.