PROPOSAL SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS AND INSTRUCTIONS, BASIS OF AWARD, AND EVALUATION CRITERIA (PHASE ONE ONLY) DESCRIPTION OF WORK The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Office of Information & Technology (OIT), IT Space and Facilities Management, maintains the Capital Region Readiness Center (CRRC), a Mission-Critical facility, located on the premises of the VA Medical Center (VAMC) campus in Martinsburg, WV. This requirement is for a Design-Build (DB) contract to design and install a perimeter security hardening (fencing, guard gate, bollards, etc.) of the CRRC facility that meets the requirements of the current VA Physical Security and Resiliency Design Manual (PSRDM) and VA Technical Information Library (TIL). The Design-Build Contractor (DBC) shall provide all resources necessary for full design and construction including site verification (surveying, underground utility location, etc.), equipment, labor, material, installation etc., for the deliverables described in this Statement of Work (SOW), except as otherwise specified. GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS This requirement will be advertised as a 100% Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business set-aside. Offerors submitting as a joint venture must provide the agreement forming the joint venture. All proposals shall be submitted electronically, except for the Bid Bond (required in Phase Two). All submissions shall be in Adobe PDF format. Offerors may use compressions utility software such as WinZip or PKZip to reduce file size and facilitate transmission. Title the file(s) in the following format: 36C10F26R0037_COMPANY NAME_ VOLUME I 36C10F26R0037_COMPANY NAME_ VOLUME II Submit proposals electronically via email to the following: Kelly Hawkins, Contract Specialist, Kelly.Hawkins2@va.gov Andrew Page, Contracting Officer, Andrew.Page@va.gov SUBMITTAL OF OFFERS: Offerors submitting proposals for this project should limit submissions to data essential for evaluation of proposals in preparing information required herein. However, in order to be effectively and equitably evaluated, the proposals must include information sufficiently detailed to clearly describe the Offeror's experience and capability, past performance, and use of small business necessary for successful completion of the project. Requirements stated in this RFP are minimums. The Offeror s conformance with the specified format, submission requirements, and the Offeror s attention to detail will be considered during the technical evaluation and trade-off. Material omission(s) may result in a deficiency, which may cause the technical proposal to be rejected as unacceptable. Technical proposals that do not provide the specified information in the specified location in accordance with the submission instructions may be found to have weaknesses or significant weaknesses. The Government is under no obligation to search for information that is not in the specified location. Responses that are essentially blanket offers of compliance are not adequa…