USDA FORAGE ANIMAL PRODUCTION RESEARCH UNIT (FAPRU) INDUSTRY DAY

****ADDTIONAL INFORMATION IS TO BE POSTED CLOSER TO THE DATE OF THE EVENT

USDA FORAGE ANIMAL PRODUCTION RESEARCH UNIT (FAPRU) INDUSTRY DAY

MEETING LOGISTICS:

An Industry Day for upcoming projects at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, KY

The Industry Day will be held on 12 December 2024 at 9:00 am Eastern Time (ET). The Industry Day will occur from 9:00 am ET through approximately 12:00 pm EST.

The Industry Day will be located at the Cameron Williams Lecture Hall in the Plant & Soil Science Building at the following address:

1405 Veterans Drive

Lexington, KY 40546

Contractors are asked to arrive approximately 15 minutes prior to the Industry Day. Contractors planning to attend the event are asked to complete the Pre-registration Form attached to this notice. Opportunities for networking and questions will be available throughout the event.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

FORAGE ANIMAL PRODUCTION RESEARCH UNIT:

The project will construct a two-story, 47,840 SF laboratory office building with an integrated mechanical penthouse constructed of Kentucky regional materials inspired by agricultural influences such as rustic limestone, limestone gladding, high performance structural silicone glazing and oxidized metal panels located on the University of Kentucky campus. The facility interior will consist of laboratory, office space as well as informal/shared meeting area and personal/flexible spaces.

The new research facility for the United States Department of Agriculture – Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) has the “mission to provide improved sustainability and profitability of forage-based livestock enterprises” in the local region. The project will be in on the University of Kentucky’s College of Agriculture, Food and the Environment (UK-CAFÉ) campus and consists of Research Laboratories, Support Laboratories, Offices for principal investigators and their teams, collaboration space, along with Greenhouse and Headhouse facilities. Laboratory requirements/features include: daylighting, open and closed labs, chemical fume hoods, biosafety cabinets, lab air, lab vacuum, dedicated ventilation system and primary/secondary protection devices. Other requirements include compliance with ANSI Z-3581 Emergency Eye Wash & Shower Equipment standard and the installation of modern utilities such as deionized water, natural gas and custom gases. Specialized equipment installation will be required for items such as: walk-in cold room, walk-in freezer room, chemical fume hood, autoclave, glassware washer, liquid nitrogen freezer and storage tanks, etc.

The magnitude of construction for this project is expected to be between $25,000,000 and $100,000,000.

SOLICITATION WEBSITE:

The official solicitations, when posted, will be available free of charge by electronic posting only and may be found at Federal Business Opportunities website, http://www.SAM.gov. Paper copies of the solicitations will not be issued. Telephone and Fax requests for these solicitations will not be honored. Project files are Portable Document Format (PDF) files and can be viewed, navigated, or printed using Adobe Acrobat Reader. To download the solicitations for these projects, contractors are required to register at the System for Award Management website at http://www.SAM.gov. Amendments, if/when issued, will be posted to the above referenced website for electronic downloading. This will be the only method of distributing amendments prior to closing; therefore, it is the Offeror’s responsibility to check the website periodically for any amendments to the solicitations.

REGISTRATIONS:

Offerors shall have and shall maintain an active registration in the following database:

System for Award Management (SAM): Offerors shall have and shall maintain an active registration in the SAM database at http://www.sam.gov to be eligible for a Government contract award. If the Offeror is a Joint Venture (JV), the JV entity shall have valid SAM registration in the SAM database representing the JV as one business/firm/entity. If at the time of award an Offeror is not actively and successfully registered in the SAM database, the Government reserves the right to award to the next prospective Offeror.

POINT-OF-CONTACT:

The primary point-of-contact for this Industry Day posting is Jacob S. Pridemore at jacob.s.pridemore@usace.army.mil. All Pre-Registration Forms and Industry Day Inquiries should be directed to Mr. Pridemore’s email address, stated above.