Construction of Large Capacity Kennels for Military Working Dogs at Joint Base San Antonio

For FY27 JBSA Chapman MWD Large Capacity Kennel at Joint Base San Antonio, Texas

This is a SOURCES SOUGHT notice; a market survey, for information only, to be used for preliminary planning purposes.

THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION FOR PROPOSALS AND NO CONTRACT WILL BE AWARDED FROM THIS NOTICE. No reimbursement will be made for any costs associated with providing information or industry response to this notice or any follow up information requests. Not responding to this notice does not preclude participation in any future procurement. If a solicitation is released, it will be synopsized in the Government-Wide Point of Entry (GPE). It is the responsibility of potential offerors to monitor the GPE for additional information pertaining to this requirement. Responses to the sources sought will be utilized with other market research methods to establish the planned acquisition strategy. The planned acquisition strategy will be posted as a change to this synopsis, as required by regulation. The purpose of this notice is to gain knowledge of interest, capabilities and qualifications of industry, to include the Small Business Community: Small Business, Section 8(a), Historically Underutilized Business Zones (HUB-Zone), Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB), or Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB). All are highly encouraged to respond to solidify the acquisition strategy. Note: This project is subjected to Project Labor Agreements (PLA)

requirements. Please respond to the PLA-related

questions provided below. The acquisition strategy will be determined based on responses received from this notice and/or other market research methods. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers – Fort Worth District has been tasked to solicit for and award a firm-fixed-price, design-bid-build construction project for the construction of a large DoD Military Working Dog (MWD) kennel complex at Joint Base San Antonio, Texas. The Government is seeking experienced firms for the following

scope of work: Construct a large DoD Military Working Dog (MWD) kennel complex comprised of three kennel facilities, providing a total of 400 dog runs, and one Kennel Support Facility. Kennel facilities will include private indoor and outdoor dog runs for each animal, in accordance with Air Force MWD Facility standard designs, as well as interior and exterior corridors to access dogs from both the indoor and outdoor runs. Each kennel facility will also include central support spaces including a latrine, tack room, grooming/screening room, food prep areas, and storage rooms. Kennel facilities will also have a covered artificial turf exercise area running the length of the building, with fencing and gates to subdivide the area as necessary to isolate one or multiple dogs. Kennel buildings will be single-story structures with load bearing reinforced CMU walls at the perimeter of the buildings, brick veneer at the ends of the kennel wings and central support areas, standing seam metal roofs with a minimum 3:12 slope and sufficient insulation above deck to meet the local energy