CRLA 198641 SourcesSought 9-21-20_edited_1.pdf

The National Park Service has a requirement for the following project. If you are interested, please submit your detailed capabilities in WRITING to demonstrate same or similar experience. This is not a request for proposal or invitation to bid. There is no bid package, solicitation, specification or drawings available with this announcement. This announcement has not been posted on FEDBIZops. Response 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. If you chose to submit a package, clearly identify the park and project on your package (CRLA 198641), confirm your socioeconomic status: (8(a), HUBZone, Service Disabled Veteran, WOSB, EDWOSB, Small) and follow-up two weeks after the announcement closes to check on the status of the project.

Your email capability information MUST be 6 pages or less and be SPECIFIC to the scope provided. Provide customer point of contact information including email and telephone (for example, contracting officers, project managers ) provide description of past projects (preferably same or similar past projects), contract numbers, dollar amounts, time frame, duration, location and any other pertinent information. You must also provide a letter from your bonding company verifying your bonding levels per contract and total.

Your response is due no later than COB Mountain Time October 9, 2020. All firms need to be certified in SAM. Email responses to Todd Stackhouse, todd_stackhouse@nps.gov and Kevin Ralston kevin_ralston@nps.gov.

Please refer to the SBA rules regarding HUBZone firms.

Please note there is no additional information to be provided at this time. Send your email responses to: Rosemary_Ortiz@nps.gov, Analysis of the quantity and quality of responses to this sources 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.

SUBJECT: Upcoming project at Crater Lake National Park, Oregon, with description of requisite competencies and experience needed for success on this project.

CRLA 198641 – Correct Structural Deficiencies & Stabilize Steel Visitor Center

Estimated Range: $7,500,000 - $9,000,000

NAICS – 236220 Commercial and Institutional Building Construction

Estimated Period of Performance: 13 to 15 months; May 2021 to August 2022

Project Description: The work consists of the rehabilitation of the Steel Visitor Center, which is located in the Munson Valley administration area/park headquarters. The Steel Visitor Center was constructed in 1932 and is a contributing structure in the Munson Valley Historic District, listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Therefore, all work undertaken should be in a mailto:todd_stackhouse@nps.gov mailto:Rosemary_Ortiz@nps.gov manner that maintains the building’s status on the National Register of Historic Places. The contractor should be familiar with historic preservation treatment procedures, as well as, demolition and hazardous material abatement.

Figure 1: Steel Visitor Center location within Crater Lake National Park

This project will replace 2011 temporary shoring of the first floor ceiling with a permanent solution to correct structural deficiencies throughout the 7,216 square feet (sf) two half story building as well as, provide appropriate code and sustainability related improvements. This includes addressing significant structural deficiencies in the first floor exterior stone wall/foundation and second floor/roof wood framing, providing improved load-bearing capabilities and seismic upgrades; along with replacing building systems, replacing roofing, rehabilitating the building to meet current codes, and improving the building’s energy performance. The stone wall reinforcing work includes core drilling approximately 50 anchor rods down into a new reinforced concrete footing under the historic stone walls of the building.

Site work will consist of utility replacement or disconnect and reconnect, and restoration after excavation around building perimeter.

The area is at the 6,450 foot elevation, subject to an average of 500 inches of snow fall each winter. This results in a seasonal shutdown starting as early as mid-October for many park activities. The Steel Visitor Center will be closed to visitors and staff during construction and can remain open to the contractor through the winter; however, the contractor will need to clear snow within the assigned construction staging areas and access to it. Snow can remain in the area into mid-July. While vehicle access to the site is maintained year-round, via Munson Valley Road and the park’s south and west entrances, roads are open only after snow removal activity is completed. The north entrance road, and rim road around Crater Lake is not open in winter.

Figure 2: Steel Visitor Center in summer

Figure 3: Steel Visitor Center in winter (if the contractor needs to access the outside of the building, he/she will be required to clear it of snow)

The project also includes the construction of a temporary visitor center, in the Mazama Village area, which is at a lower elevation in the park near Annie Springs entrance station. This temporary facility (approximately 3,000 sf) will consist of two modular buildings, a snow roof structure to protect the buildings from snow loads, and temporary utility connections, signage, and parking configuration. The site is on an existing paved parking lot.

Figure 4: Temporary Visitor Center location within Crater Lake National Park

The contractor will need to start with constructing the temporary visitor center, move the Steel Visitor Center’s contents to storage, complete the rehabilitation of the Steel Visitor Center, and then remove and restore the disturbed site area at the temporary visitor center. The project will be constructed under a single prime contract.

Interested contractors must address the following technical skills and experience in their responses to this sources sought notice. Roles and responsibilities in each past project must be clearly defined.

Seeking a construction contractor that has rehabilitated and completed structural and seismic upgrades to a historic building:

1. Demonstrated experience in rehabilitating historic structures as the prime contractor, especially on Federal property;

2. Demonstrated experience in structural upgrades, such as adding structural walls, core drilling into existing historic stone walls, excavating for foundations in tight spaces, installing supplemental floor and roof framing, and performing site work of similar size and scope while being the prime contractor

3. Demonstrated experience as a prime contractor leading and coordinating multiple subcontractors on projects of similar size and complexity.

4. Demonstrated experience in working in a high alpine area subject to heavy snowfall and experience in wintertime operations.

The contractor will need to start with constructing the temporary visitor center, move the Steel Visitor Center’s contents to storage, complete the rehabilitation of the Steel Visitor Center, and then remove and restore the disturbed site area at the ...