A.02.09 Request for Information, A2 Reservoir.pdf

REQUEST FOR INFORMATION

W912EP20Z0033

A-2 Everglades Agricultural Area (EAA) Reservoir

This is announcement constitutes a Request for Information. This announcement seeks information from industry and will only be used for preliminary planning purposes. THIS IS

NOT A SOLICITATION FOR PROPOSALS AND NO CONTRACT SHALL BE

AWARDED FROM THIS NOTICE. Respondents will not be notified of the results of the evaluation.

The Jacksonville District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is seeking interest from prospective offerors regarding the forthcoming requirement. The purpose of this notice is to gauge of interest, capabilities and qualifications of various members of the Construction Community.

Instructions to Prospective Offerors

1. Please review the information provided below and respond accordingly, if interested and capable of performing the requisite work.

2. Include both a capabilities statement and respond to all questions posed in this Request for Information. Your response should not exceed 25 pages.

3. Both large and small businesses are encouraged to participate in this market research. Joint ventures or teaming arrangements are encouraged and are up to each industry partner. Please express your intentions in the questionnaire and capabilities package. If applicable, specify your small business classification.

Scope of Work The proposed A-2 Everglades Agricultural Area (EAA) facility is an above ground reservoir with approximately 240,000 acre-feet (ac-ft) of capacity located in Palm Beach County, Florida approximately 15 miles south of Lake Okeechobee via U.S. Hwy 27. It is bounded in the East by the A-1 FEB, U.S. Hwy 27 and the North New River (NNR) Canal, in the West by the Miami Canal, to the South by the STA 3-4 Canal and the Holey Land Wildlife Management Area, and to the North by privately owned agriculture lands. The project will operate with a 6,500-acre stormwater treatment area (STA) and conveyance improvements that are being constructed separately. Water will be pumped into the reservoir from a new Inflow/outflow canal that draws water from the Miami and North New River Canals where it will be stored and metered out into the adjacent STA and ultimately released south.

The A-2 (EAA) Reservoir includes approximately 17.3 miles of zoned earthen embankment with a total height above grade of 34.0-41.0 ft and have embankment slopes of 3h:1v. Blasting and processing of the onsite limestone material is anticipated to achieve the proper material to construct the embankment. Additional features include four (4) multi-barrel, vertical lift gate controlled outlet work structures and 17.3 miles of soil-cement bentonite cutoff-wall of approximately 45 ft in depth that will key into the internal embankment core.

General Information In accordance with (IAW) DFARS 236.204, the estimated magnitude of construction is over $500 million. The applicable North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code assigned to this procurement is 237990, Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction. The corresponding Small Business Size Standard is $39.5 million.

Submission Requirements Interested parties who consider themselves qualified to perform the work associated with the subject requirement, are invited to submit a response to this Request for Information no later than 25 June 2020 at 1:00PM, Local Time. All responses shall be sent via e-mail to Mr. Timothy Humphrey at Timothy.G.Humphrey@usace.army.mil and Ms. Tedra Thompson at Tedra.N.Thompson@usace.army.mil. The electronic format may be in Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF) or compatible with Microsoft Office suite of software.

Responses to this notice shall include the following information:

1. Company/Contractor name, address, point of contact, phone number and e-mail address.

2. Company’s Bonding Capacity (construction bonding level per contract and aggregate construction bonding level, both expressed in dollars) via letter from the bonding company.

3. Company’s capability to perform a contract of this magnitude and complexity.

Responses to this notice should, at a minimum, address the following:

a. Describe your organizational approach to executing a project of this size including staffing and bonding

b. Describe your past experience on Federal Civil Works projects in the past 10 years

c. Capabilities & Experience constructing zoned embankments (minimum 3 discrete material zones at various elevation and dimensions)

d. Capabilities & Experience with mass concrete monolithic construction

e. Capabilities & Experience with processing & stockpiling excavated material

f. Capabilities & Experience with dewatering & dewatering systems where groundwater is at or within 5 feet of ground surface mailto:Timothy.G.Humphrey@usace.army.mil mailto:Tedra.N.Thompson@usace.army.mil

g. Capabilities & Experience placing soil-cement & roller-compacted-concrete (RCC) on embankments

h. Capabilities & Experience organizing & synchronizing work/workflow through wet & dry season variability

Business Classification

• Please identify your business classification for below:

Small Business Other Than Small Business

• If your business classification is Small, do you anticipate remaining under the size standard of $39.5 Million for the next two years?

Yes No

• If your business classification is Small Business, do you qualify under any of the following certification programs and socio-economic categories?

HUBZone

Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB)

Women Owned Small Business (WOSB)

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Note: Prior Government contract work is not required for submitting a response to this Request for Information.

You must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM), in order to be eligible to receive an award from any Government solicitation. To register, go to www.sam.gov. For additional information visit the website for the Federal Service Desk (www.FSD.gov) which supports SAM or contact them at 866-606-8220 for assistance.

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