C02_01__Pre-solicitation_notice_Final_2.docx

The Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, Region 10 - California-Great Basin Region Acquisitions Office, Sacramento, CA intends to issue a solicitation for a construction project titled, “Aquaculture Raw Water Purification System Rehabilitation.”

The solicitation will include a liquidated damages clause, as well as a requirement for bid, performance, and payment bonds. The performance period is 250 calendar days to complete. Work is located at Tracy Aquaculture Facility of the Tracy Fish Collecting Facility, 6525 Lindemann Road, Byron, California 94514 on the border of Alameda county. Information pertaining to site visits of the work site will be addressed in the solicitation. The acquisition will be issued as an Invitation for Bid (IFB) in accordance with FAR Part 14. The IFB will be issued on or about February 16, 2023, with bids due on or about March 18, 2023. The anticipated award date is on or about June 16, 2023.

This procurement is a total small business set-aside. The Government will evaluate bids in response to this solicitation without discussions and will award a contract to the responsible bidder whose bid, conforming to the solicitation, will be most advantageous to the Government considering only price and the price-related factors

The applicable North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code is 237110, Water and Sewer Line and Related Structures Construction. The Small Business size standard for this code is $45 Million. This notice is not a request for offer and the information presented in this announcement will not obligate the Bureau of Reclamation in any manner.

The disclosure of the magnitude of construction is between $100,000 and $250,000.

PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS OF WORK

· Water free of pathogens and useful to aquaculture and finfish aquatic research

· Installation of multistage mechanical filtration and ultraviolet water treatment apparatus

· Flow output between 20 and 100 gallons per minute

· Retain capability for system water to cycle via bypass return or switch to treatment pipeline

· Integrate protein fractionator and mechanical filtration into cycled water treatment

· Integrated water flow controls

· Removal of obsolete ozone apparatus, control systems, sand filtration, and extraneous tanks

· Reduce raw water turbidity and enable ultraviolet disinfection

· Minimal impacts to regular facility operations during installation

The IFB will be issued via electronic posting on the Government-wide point of entry (GPE) webpage, sam.gov (formerly fedbizopps). Hard copies of the IFB will not be issued. It is incumbent upon contractors to monitor sam.gov for the release of the IFB, specifications, drawings and all subsequent amendments.

Offerors MUST be actively registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) database at http://www.sam.gov and obtain a Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS) number to be eligible for award.

For information concerning this acquisition, please forward inquiries via email to Sydney Johnson at sgjohnson@usbr.gov and Abelardo Carlos Lopez at aclopez@usbr.gov.