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Questions and Answers

PVU Well Failure Evaluation

140RR027Q0004

Date Question

Submitted Questions BOR Response

1 October 14, 2026

Is this solicitation restricted to small businesses, and what are the applicable size and eligibility requirements?

Yes, this is a small business set-aside. Applicable size standard for the applicable NAICS is $19.0 million.

2 October 14, 2026

Are there minimum annual revenue, financial capacity, bonding, or prior federal contracting experience requirements that could preclude a smaller engineering consulting firm from bidding directly?

a. Annual Revenue - Size Standard is $19.0 million to be considered a small business.

b. Financial Capability - There is no specific financial capability required in the solicitation.

c. Bonding - This requirement is being solicited as a service, not construction, so no bonding is required.

d. Experience – Per the solicitation Technical Proposal

Section:

Personnel Qualifications: How existing personnel have the technical skills, security awareness, and training necessary to perform the work:

The contractor shall identify and provide resumes for the

Project Manager and all key technical personnel assigned to perform work under this Statement of Work. All studies, evaluations, analyses, and recommendations required under this Statement of Work shall be performed by qualified personnel with demonstrated experience in the design, drilling, completion, operation, and testing of deep brine disposal wells operating at high injection pressures. The contractor shall provide personnel with expertise in petroleum engineering; structural/petroleum geology and geomechanics; and reservoir and injection well analysis sufficient to evaluate well integrity, operational performance, subsurface conditions, and potential failure mechanisms associated with the PVU injection well. Each resume shall document education, professional qualifications, and demonstrate a minimum of ten (10) years of relevant industry experience in the area of expertise applicable to the individual’s assigned role.

Required experience shall include deep injection well design and operation; casing and tubing integrity evaluation; mechanical integrity testing, geomechanical evaluation, injectivity and injection pressure analysis, reservoir capacity evaluation, long-term formation response related to high-pressure brine disposal operations, evaluation of surface and subsurface physical plant systems, fatal flaw and failure mode analyses, physical plant and operations risk assessment, and quality control methods and procedures. Documented experience in deep disposal well projects within the Paradox Basin or similar geologic settings is preferred.

3 October 19, 2026

Will the data shared on the well include any of the following: -

Open-hole logs such as gamma-ray, sonic, neutron, spontaneous potential, and caliper logs

-Cased-hole logs such as temperature logs and cement bond logs

-Drilling records such as daily reports

-Injection test records

-Geomechanical test results

-Geochemical test results and injection zone brine composition

-Injectate composition

-Workover history

-Permit application

The following is provided: Injectate analysis, mechanical integrity test, well schematic, surface equipment red-line, Estimate of project life, injection history (daily average injection rate, daily average injection/wellhead pressure, daily volume data, cumulative volume data), Report of

Wireline Operation.

*Additional data, that is not available in a format that can be shared electronically, will be made available to the awardee*

Open-hole logs, Cased-hole logs, Drilling records, workover history, and permit application will not be provided.

4 October 19, 2026

Was there any conclusive evidence on the reason for rise on operational pressure as noted in sec.1.3?

No conclusive evidence has been identified to establish the specific cause of the increase in operational pressure.

5 October 19, 2026

Were any previous risk assessments conducted that helped

Reclamation assess the well’s operational life as noted in sec.

1.6?

No formal risk assessments have been conducted to date.

An estimate of the project's operational life was completed in 2005 and that estimate updated in 2010.

6 October 19, 2026

Does the PE certification need to be by an engineer registered in

Colorado?

No, the PE does not need to be registered in Colorado.

7 October 19, 2026

Will this project be contracted as firm fixed price, cost plus, or some other mechanism?

Firm Fixed Price

8 October 20, 2026

Has the original and current stress regime long the wellbore been measured? Will we be provided the data?

The current stress regime along the wellbore has not been measured.

9 October 20, 2026 Does this project need wellsite visits?

Wellsite visits are not necessary.

10 October 20, 2026

Does it need well intervention to exactly identify the actual well condition? Like via slickline or hydraulic control unit.

We expect the contractor to assess the available information, identify any uncertainties, and recommend the appropriate approach.

11 October 20, 2026

Does the project require us to just mention potential/possible well failure modes or possibilities in this well?

Potential well failure modes should be addressed for the

Paradox Salinity Control Well #1.

12 October 20, 2026

Will you provide us well data such as historical injection pressures and time and wellhead pressures during the injection periods as well as during well shutdown? Or you just need us to tell you what data should be gathered for now?

Daily average injection rate, daily average injection/wellhead pressure, and daily injection volume data will be provided from 1996 to the present.

13 October 20, 2026

Why do specialists think the well is near end of its operational life?

Is that one of the reasons why they need our evaluation?

Previous estimates of the well's operational life have been exceeded; the wells operating pressures have increased beyond the originally permitted limit, and injections rates have been progressively reduced to manage pressure and minimize induced seismicity.

14 October 20, 2026

Would you send us the well schematic? We can see well construction dimensions and casings. Would be helpful.

A well schematic will be provided.

15 October 26, 2026

We see in the solicitation document under Solicitation

Information Section 3.c. that Past

Performance information – in some detail and breadth – is required. Yet we also note in the

Solicitation NO.: 140R4026Q0115 document (p. 19) that under FAR

52.212-2 Evaluation—

Commercial Products and

Commercial Services, Section b.

Past Performance Ratings that “*A history of no past performance will be rated acceptable.” With the simple acceptable/unacceptable rating method, this implies that both past performance and no past performance will have the same rating: acceptable and further suggests that there is to be no comparative evaluation weight

(when rating and ranking

Solicitation Bidders) given to past performance. Please clarify how

BOR intends to evaluate and subsequently give comparative weight to past performance in the proposal’s evaluation

The solicitation requires offerors to submit past performance information as outlined in Section 3.c. of the

Solicitation Information. However, as stated in FAR

52.212-2, Section (b) – Past Performance Ratings

(Solicitation p. 19), “a history of no past performance will be rated acceptable.” Because the solicitation uses an acceptable/unacceptable rating method for this factor, the evaluation of past performance will be conducted on a non-comparative, pass/fail basis.

16 October 26, 2026

Will Reclamation provide more

RFP detail on evaluation criteria and on proposal evaluation scoring/rating?

FAR 52.212-2 Evaluation -- Commercial Products and

Commercial Services provides the evaluation criteria and evaluation scoring/rating. Per 52.212-2 "The Government intends to award a single fixed-price purchase order resulting from this Request for Quote (RFQ) to the responsible contractor whose quote represents the lowest price, technically acceptable offer and is the most advantageous to the Government."

17 October 26, 2026

We see under Past Performance that submitted past projects must have been completed within the last 5 years. Will Reclamation consider extending this criterion to the last 10 years?

Reclamation has updated the solicitation to allow projects completed within the last 10 years.

18 October 26, 2026

Per the SOW, and to better estimate scale and scoping for realistic proposal scheduling and pricing, will Reclamation provide a listing of “… project documentation [to be] provided by

Reclamation … [for the

Contractor to review and develop] an understanding of the Injection

Well, including surface and subsurface systems, subsystems, and associated components.”?

The following is provided: Injectate analysis, mechanical integrity test, well schematic, surface equipment red-line, Estimate of project life, injection history (daily average injection rate, daily average injection/wellhead pressure, daily volume data, cumulative volume data), Report of

Wireline Operation.

*Additional data, that is not available in a format that can be shared electronically, will be made available to the awardee*

19 October 26, 2026

We note the SOW document includes contact information for the Contacting Officer

Representative and the Technical

Point of Contact. Are Solicitation

Bidders free to contact these

Offices prior to proposal submittal?

During the solicitation phase, all correspondence must be through the Contracting Officer or Specialist. If a contractor has questions or requests, they must be submitted via email.

20 October 26, 2026

Does this solicitation carry a

“price not to exceed” qualification?

No

21 October 26, 2026

Reference the solicitation Section:

FAR 52.212-2 Evaluation—

Commercial Products and

Commercial Services (RFO

DEVIATION MAR2026) (b)

Options. Is Reclamation suggesting Solicitation Bidders propose and price potential options to the SOW or to

Solicitation Section 3?

That section is only applicable if the requirement has an optional CLIN. There are no optional CLINs in this requirement.

22 October 26, 2026

We note in the solicitation document under Solicitation

Information Section 3.b. Technical

Proposal that the proposal is limited to 10 pages but must include the:

a. Detailed Technical Approach;

b. Detailed Quality Control Plan;

and

c. Resumes for the PM and all key personnel.

Considering the breadth and detail requested of items a, b, and c above, would Reclamation consider allowing this page count to apply to a. and b. above, but allowing an additional page limit for resumes if multiple investigators will be involved?

Reclamation has updated the solicitation to exclude the

Personnel Qualifications from the 10-page technical proposal limit. The technical proposal shall include a

Technical Approach and Quality Control Plan that is limited to 10 total pages and Personnel Qualifications for any key personnel who will be assigned to this requirement.

23 October 26, 2026

The solicitation is identified as a total small business set-aside under NAICS 541690 and incorporates FAR 52.219-6.

However, FAR 52.219-14, Limitations on Subcontracting, does not appear among the incorporated clauses. Please clarify whether any limitation on subcontracting applies to this procurement, including whether there is a limit on the percentage of contract performance or amount paid to subcontractors that are other than small businesses.

FAR 52.219-14 is not applicable to this requirement. There are no limitations on subcontracting.

24 October 26, 2026

Section 3.9 requires all work to be performed under the direct supervision of a registered professional engineer and requires the final report to bear the signature and stamp of the supervising engineer. Please clarify whether the supervising professional engineer must be currently licensed in the State of

Colorado, or whether registration in another U.S. jurisdiction is acceptable.

The PE does not need to be licensed in Colorado.

25 October 26, 2026

We recognize that project documentation will be shared with the selected firm. Would it be possible to obtain a copy of mechanical integrity testing results and samples of other project documentation to help in preparation of our response package?

The following is provided: Injectate analysis, mechanical integrity test, well schematic, surface equipment drawings, Estimate of project life, injection history (daily average injection rate, daily average injection/wellhead pressure, daily volume data, cumulative volume data), Report of

Wireline Operation.

*Additional data, that is not available in a format that can be shared electronically, will be made available to the awardee*

26 October 26, 2026

Are proposers required to include

Cover Sheet information for subconsultants?

No.