GSA Seeks Office Space in Ft. Myers, Florida

Ft. Myers, Florida , June 20, 2017 -- The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) on June 20 released a sources sought notice in which it outlined plans to lease space in Ft. Myers, Florida, and in which it invited interested contractors to share information about space they have available.

The office space must be around 14,175 square feet and in the following delineated area:

North: Caloosahatchee Bay/Palm Beach Boulevard

East: Buckingham Road/Gunnery Road/Floyd Avenue South/Treeline Avenue South
South: Alico Road
West: Route 41-45/Victoria Avenue/McGregor Boulevard/W. 1^st  Street/Caloosahatchee Bay

The GSA in its sources sought notice also outlined other requirements:

• The lease must come with 10 parking spaces.
• The lease must have a firm 10-year term, and the possibility of extending the lease by five years for a full 15-year term.
• The space must be on contiguous floors, and contiguous itself (preferably on the second floor or higher).
• The space may be on the first/ground floor, but additional security may be required.
• If space is in multi-floor building, one elevator must have override control, and if the office is located on the sixth floor or above, the elevator must be on emergency power.

The proposed facility shall not be located in the immediate vicinity of any facilities identified by the Interagency Security Committee (ISC) as "hazardous materials transportation/storage facilities." Examples of hazardous locations include facilities with potential environmental threats, such as fuel storage areas, gas stations, chemical manufacturing facilities, etc., as well as railroad lines transporting hazardous material.

The GSA, in its sources sought notice, also indicated its preference that the proposed facility not be located near a low-risk facility, such as a day care center, senior center, school, hospital, and/or religious/rehabilitation/social service center. Proposed facility space must not be located within 640 feet of hazardous areas, such as bulk storage sites (e.g., hazardous materials storage sites, water purification centers, above ground fuel storage, rail yards).

The GSA also will not consider space near public defenders, immigration and customs enforcement, probation offices, or other businesses or facilities that the GSA’s physical security unit deems unacceptable, and also will not consider space or facilities in close proximity or adjacent to facilities associated with foreign powers on its National Security Threat List.

Finally, the GSA requires the space meet all fire safety, accessibility, seismic, and sustainability requirements; that the lease is fully services; and that the space is not in the 100-year flood plan.

Interested and capable contractors must submit responses by no later than 5 p.m. on July 13 to Erik Weiss at [email protected] and to Melissa Hein at [email protected].

The contractor who receives this contract also must be registered with the System for Award Management (SAM) database and have as part of the Registration all current Representations and Certifications.

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