A12_Sources_Sought_Notice_GRCA_190083_1.docx

United States Department of the Interior

NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

DENVER SERVICE CENTER

12795 W. ALAMEDA PKWY

P.O. BOX 25287

DENVER, COLORADO 80225-0287

In Reply Refer to:

D5215 (DSC-CS)

GRCA 190083

This is a Sources Sought Notice (SSN) for the purpose of conducting market research. Proposals are NOT being requested, nor accepted at this time. Responses are being requested from both large and small businesses.

Purpose: The purpose of this notice is to gain knowledge regarding the type of interested businesses and their qualifications. The National Park Service (NPS) will use information obtained through this notice to develop an acquisition strategy.

The Government anticipates conducting a competitive acquisition for this requirement. The amount of interest or lack thereof will determine the possibility of a small business or other socio-economical small business set-aside for the solicitation. Analysis of the quality of responses to this source sought announcement will be considered in the market research being conducted, and in the making of any small business set-aside determination for this requirement.

Additional Information: No proposal package, solicitation, specification or drawings are available with this notice.

Cost Reimbursement: Response to this announcement is strictly voluntary; no reimbursement will be made for any costs associated with providing information in response to this sources sought announcement or any follow-up information requests.

North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code: 237110 Water and Sewer Line and Related Structures Construction

Small Business Size Standard: $39.5M

Solicitation: The NPS anticipates issuing a request for proposals in the summer of 2022.

Bonding: The NPS anticipates bid, performance and payment bonds will be required

Project Description:

Project Conditions

The project is located at Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona.

The construction magnitude is between $80M – $120M.

The surrounding area is rural with limited staging located at various locations on the south rim and inner canyon, pre-approved on construction drawings.

Material and equipment delivery will be to the south rim of the Grand Canyon. For work conducted inner canyon, materials and equipment will be required to be flow into specific project sites via contracted helicopter managed by contractor.

The closest cities to the south rim of the Grand Canyon are Williams AZ (60 miles), Flagstaff AZ (80 miles), Pheonix AZ (230 miles); two primary highways to access the south rim are 180 and 64.

The Park will remain open during construction, thus contract activities and logistics must be structured and scheduled to minimize visitor impact; some authorized closures will be permitted as per the construction documents.

The site requires protective measures to ensure the surrounding area remains undisturbed in order to protect cultural and natural resources during construction.

The anticipated period of performance of 915 calendar days including any potential weather shutdown.

There are additional restrictions of work by specific work sites in the construction documents.

Winter and summer construction may be required.

The inner-canyon work require the contractor to contract helicopter(s) and utilize the NPS’s heliport site as logistics staging area and coordinate with NPS heliport operations; some mandatory no fly days will occur due to emergency operations and or weather, contract documents provide more specifics on average shut down days per month.

Contractor housing is limited at the park and the surrounding area, park is in process of building 20 RV site with utilities on the south rim in support of contractor housing for projects on the south rim.

Significant elevation differences between project locations specifically the south rim and inner canyon make for diverse weather conditions and logistics challenges.

Project Scope:

This project will rehabilitate the parks primary water system that provides service to the south rim and inner canyon of the Grand Canyon National Park. Work includes new surface water intake (source) at Bright Angle Creek in the Phantom Ranch Delta that includes pump station, creek stabilization, surface water treatment plant, open cut replacement of water distribution and power system; replacement of water main, power and fiber micro-duct between Havasupai Gardens (former Indian Gardens), water distribution system at Havasupai Gardens, rehabilitation of pump station; replacement of water main via slipline between Havasupai Gardens and the south rim; new surface water treatment plant on the south rim to include new storage tanks and some distribution piping replacement; includes installation of point of use disinfection systems (UV) at upper northern inner canyon at cottonwood and manzanita districts. Limitations on closures and construction areas are specified in the contract documents and are intendended to minimize impacts to visitor, employee and concessions operations throughout the duration of the project. Coordination with permitting authority ADEQ (Arizona Department of Environmental Quality), power company APS (Arizona Power Service), and NPS heliport operations will be critical to success implementing the scope of this project.

Submittal Contents: Interested (small and large) businesses should submit the following information:

(4) Information demonstrating experience and capability on projects of same or similar size, scope and magnitude, and constructed under similar conditions.

(5) In addition businesses may submit existing marketing materials such as capability statements and brochures.

Submittal Due Date/Time: 3PM Mountain Time, Friday, March 11, 2022

Submit To: timothy_burger@nps.gov and edwin_berry@contractor.nps.gov image1.jpeg