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Grider & Walker Creek Road Repair, Klamath NF

AG-9AC7-S-17-0059 AMENDMENT 001

SECTION C – DESCRIPTION/SPECIFICATIONS/STATEMENT OF

WORK WALKER AND GRIDER CREEK EMERGENCY ROAD REPAIR

KLAMATH NATIONAL FOREST

PROJECT HISTORY

The subject watersheds experienced intense fire event during the 2014 fire season. Extensive areas of steep hillsides are severely burned with limited ground cover, reduced duff and organic layers and altered soil physical properties. Tree mortality in many areas approaches 100 percent, limiting crown interception of rainfall. All of these factors have served to increase the amount of water getting to the ground, and decreasing the water retention capacity of the soil from loss of organic material. Soil hydrophobicity has also likely increased runoff. The storms of last year and the current winter season’s storms have brought above average precipitation on sensitive granitic soils with impaired water retention capacity.

These conditions have led to extensive storm damage to the road system in these drainages. Debris flows have choked roadside drainages and plugged culverts leading to concentrated flows across roadways and subsequent roadbed failures. These roadbed failures deliver an increased amount of fine sediment runoff into Walker Creek and Grider Creek. All of these waterways provide critical habitat to threatened and endangered aquatic organisms requiring an immediate need for heavy equipment to open drainages, clean culvert, replace some damaged culverts, remove debris and slide material and perform surface grading to restore proper drainage and reduce the sediment being delivered the stream courses thereby protecting water quality and critical habitat.

SCOPE OF WORK

Supply required equipment: loader (Cat 950, or equivalent with 4CY bucket), excavator (minimum size of a Cat 316 or equivalent, with a hydraulic thumb) and 10 yard dump trucks with corresponding operators and laborers to perform the following work at locations designated by the Forest Service:

- Open plugged culverts and clean stream channels of debris and sediment.

- Clean road side drainages of debris and sediment to re-establish proper flow.

- Remove debris and sediment from road.

- Replace culverts as designated by Forest Service. Culvert pipe to be supplied by Forest

Service.

- All debris and sediment removed from road and drainages shall be deposited at sites designated by the Forest Service.

WORK DAYS AND HOURS

No overtime (more than 10 hours per day) or weekend work is expected. The Government anticipates awarding a single contract by number of work days. 10 – 15 work days are estimated.

CONSTRUCTION RFQ

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AMENDMENT 001

SECTION L--INSTRUCTIONS, CONDITIONS, AND NOTICES TO QUOTERS

FAR 52.216-1 Type of Contract (APR 1984)

The Government contemplates award of a firm fixed price contract resulting from this solicitation.

FAR 52.236-27 Site Visit (Construction) (FEB 1995)

The clauses at 52.236-2, Differing Site Conditions, and 52.236-3, Site Investigations and Conditions Affecting the Work, will be included in any contract awarded as a result of this solicitation. Accordingly, offerors or quoters are urged and expected to inspect the site where the work will be performed.

FAR 52.225-10 Notice of Buy American Act Requirement--Construction Materials (MAY 2014)

(a) Definitions. “Commercially available off-the-shelf (COTS) item,” “construction material,” “domestic construction material,” and “foreign construction material,” as used in this provision, are defined in the clause of this solicitation entitled “Buy American—Construction Materials” (Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) clause 52.225-9).

(b) Requests for determinations of inapplicability. An offeror requesting a determination regarding the inapplicability of the Buy American statute should submit the request to the Contracting Officer in time to allow a determination before submission of offers. The offeror shall include the information and applicable supporting data required by paragraphs (c) and (d) of the clause at FAR 52.225-9 in the request. If an offeror has not requested a determination regarding the inapplicability of the Buy American statute before submitting its offer, or has not received a response to a previous request, the offeror shall include the information and supporting data in the offer.

(c) Evaluation of offers.

(1) The Government will evaluate an offer requesting exception to the requirements of the Buy

American statute, based on claimed unreasonable cost of domestic construction material, by adding to the offered price the appropriate percentage of the cost of such foreign construction material, as specified in paragraph (b)(3)(i) of the clause at FAR 52.225-9.

(2) If evaluation results in a tie between an offeror that requested the substitution of foreign construction material based on unreasonable cost and an offeror that did not request an exception, the Contracting Officer will award to the offeror that did not request an exception based on unreasonable cost.

(d) Alternate offers.

(1) When an offer includes foreign construction material not listed by the Government in this solicitation in paragraph (b)(2) of the clause at FAR 52.225-9, the offeror also may submit an alternate offer based on use of equivalent domestic construction material.

(2) If an alternate offer is submitted, the offeror shall submit a separate Standard Form 1442 for the alternate offer, and a separate price comparison table prepared in accordance with paragraphs (c) and (d) of the clause at FAR 52.225-9 for the offer that is based on the use of any foreign construction material for which the Government has not yet determined an exception applies.

(3) If the Government determines that a particular exception requested in accordance with paragraph (c) of the clause at FAR 52.225-9 does not apply, the Government will evaluate only those offers based on use of the equivalent domestic construction material, and the offeror shall be required to furnish such domestic construction material. An offer based on use of the foreign construction material for which an exception was requested—

(i) Will be rejected as nonresponsive if this acquisition is conducted by sealed bidding; or

(ii) May be accepted if revised during negotiations.

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AGAR 452.204-70 Inquiries (FEB 1988)

Inquiries and all correspondence concerning this solicitation should be submitted in writing to the Contracting Officer. Offerors should contact only the Contracting Officer issuing the solicitation about any aspect of this requirement prior to contract award.

Instructions to Quoters

(a) Submission of quotes. Submit signed and dated quotes to the office specified in this solicitation at or before the exact time specified in this solicitation. Prices may be submitted via the Schedule of Items plus Technical Response documents of the Quoter’s design as specified in the solicitation. At a minimum, quoters must provide—

(1) Name, address and contact information of the company – Standard Form18

(2) Pricing (use Schedule of Items)

(2) Acknowledgment of any Solicitation Amendments;

(3) Response to non-price evaluation factors – see Section M.

(4) Quoter must be currently registered in SAM (System for Award Management) or expect to be registered at time of Contract Award, which may occur immediately after the solicitation close date.

(b) Period for acceptance of quotes. The quoter agrees to hold the prices in its quotes firm for 30 calendar days from the date specified for receipt of quotes, unless another time period is specified in an addendum to the solicitation.

(c) Late submissions, modifications, revisions, and withdrawals of quotes. Quoters are responsible for submitting quotes, and any modifications, revisions, or withdrawals, so as to reach the Government office designated in the solicitation by the time specified in the solicitation. Quotes received after the designated time may not be considered if the Contracting Officer has begun the evaluation process.

(d) Contract award. The Government intends to evaluate quotes and award a contract without discussions with quoters. Therefore, the quoter’s initial offer should contain the quoter’s best terms from a price and technical standpoint. However, the Government reserves the right to conduct discussions if later determined by the Contracting Officer to be necessary. The Government may reject any or all quotes if such action is in the public interest; accept other than the lowest quote; and waive informalities and minor irregularities in quotes received.

(e) Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS) Number. The quoter shall enter, in the block with its name and address on the Schedule of Items, the DUNS or DUNS+4 number applicable to Quoter’s appropriate SAM Entity. The DUNS+4 is the DUNS number plus an optional 4-character suffix that may be assigned at the discretion of the quoter for identifying alternative Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) accounts (see FAR Subpart 32.11) for the same concern. If the quoter does not have a DUNS number, it should contact Dun and Bradstreet directly to obtain one at http://fedgov.dnb.com/webform.

(f) System for Award Management (SAM). The quoter acknowledges the requirement that a prospective awardee shall be registered in the SAM database prior to award, during performance and through final payment of any contract resulting from this solicitation. If the quoter does not become registered in the SAM database in the time prescribed by the Contracting Officer, the Contracting Officer will proceed to award to the next otherwise successful registered quoter. Quoters may obtain information on registration and annual confirmation requirements via the internet at www.sam.gov or via the Federal Service Desk (FSD) at www.fsd.gov or 866-606-8220. USE OF SAM AND THE FSD IS

FREE.

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Electronic Submissions

a) Quotes may submitted electronically or hard copy. Email responses to this solicitation to ncasacontracting@fs.fed.us. Hard copies should be dropped off or mailed to Northern California Acquisition Service Area, 3644 Avtech Parkway, Redding, CA 96002.

b) Please limit the size of your file to 5 MB or less; more is not always better, so please be concise.

c) Include the solicitation number in the subject line of the email. Files in Adobe Acrobat are the preferred file type; other types may be accepted but the quoter may be required to change type if the Government cannot open the attachment.

(b) If any portion of a quote received by the Contracting Officer is unreadable to the degree that conformance to the essential requirements of the solicitation cannot be ascertained from the document--

(1) The Contracting Officer immediately shall notify the quoter and permit the quoter to resubmit the quote.

(2) The method and time for resubmission shall be prescribed by the Contracting Officer after consultation with the quoter; and

(3) The resubmission shall be considered as if it were received at the date and time of the original unreadable submission for the purpose of determining timelines, provided the quoter complies with the time and format requirements for resubmission prescribed by the Contracting Officer.

Facsimile Submissions

Facsimile submission are NOT accepted on this solicitation.

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