Notice of Intent to Sole Source- Cogeneration Plant Maintenance.pdf

NOTICE OF INTENT TO SOLE SOURCE

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The Department of Veterans Affairs, Network Contracting Office (NCO) 22, located at 4811 Airport

Plaza Drive, Long Beach, CA 90815 is issuing this Notice of Intent (NOI) to inform industry contractors of the Government’s intent to execute a Sole Source Award under FAR Part 13 – Simplified Acquisition

Procedures (SAP), specifically FAR Subpart 13.5 – Simplified Procedures for Certain Commercial Items.

The intended Contractor is Honeywell International Inc, located at 1118 North Gilbert St Anaheim, CA

92801.

The VA San Diego Healthcare System requires Maintenance, Preventive Maintenance and Full Repair

Services to the Solar Turbines M 50 Natural gas turbine, heat recovery boiler, switchgear, controls, all piping, diverter valve and all primary, secondary and auxiliary components.

This includes the Natural Gas fired Turbine, the heat recovery boiler, the recuperator, the diverter valve all structural and safety components, including the enclosure, all electrical, electronic systems and equipment, all controls and monitoring, Natural gas and steam piping, flanges, controls , sensors, all supports and catwalks, soundproofing and vibration equipment and sensors, all switchgear, protective and safety devices and all other equipment and systems involved with the safe efficient operation of the turbine. This work includes providing all labor, tools, equipment, parts, travel and all other necessary labor in order to maintain all cogeneration equipment, systems and subsystems, components, piping, ducting, conduit, electrical and electronic functional and safety devices operating at design efficiency and safety. All work shall be performed by a technician certified by the manufacturer of the equipment and possess a minimum of four years’ experience in the same or similar equipment.

The plant was designed and manufactured by Solar Turbines, Inc. and includes several proprietary components. Honeywell is certified by and are the sole manufacturer’s representatives of the equipment that needs to be maintained. It is imperative to the medical center that this cogeneration plant is maintained and repaired according to manufacturer’s specifications. The fuels source is high pressure natural gas and the generator section generates over 95% of all electricity used at this medical center, including the Hospital. This cogeneration plant is critical to the Medical Center for all operations, both clinically and administrative and is a critical component of the facility electrical grid for reliability. It has a high-pressure natural gas supply (250-280 PSI), generates high voltage electricity (12,000 Volts) and recovers 125 PSI steam.

All work shall be performed by the Manufactures representatives that receive propitiatory service bulletins. All technicians for all components of this contact must be certified by the Manufacturer to work on the piece of equipment. Scheduled work will be required after hours, weekend and holidays in order to minimize downtime during SDGE peak and especially CPP days. All Tools required specialty and standard will be provided by Honeywell.

Honeywell will be responsible for providing a designated technical focal point, InSight System for

Remote Monitoring & Diagnostics (RM&D), pre-paid trouble calls, maintenance, package parts and consumables; repair and turbine overhaul coverage, as set forth for the Covered Equipment. The InSight

System provides Remote Monitoring and Diagnostics (RM&D) capability that collects, stores, and analyzes operational data. The data extracted from the equipment is filtered and automatically analyzed in a central database, where a set of reports is automatically generated and posted to the Solar website.

Solar's InSight system may be made available to Customer, and Customer may view data for the Covered

Equipment. The RM&D system is expected to provide early warning capability of incipient faults or wear http://farsite.hill.af.mil/reghtml/regs/far2afmcfars/fardfars/far/13.htm#P427_61436

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The use of the RM&D system is essential to Honeywell’s ability to perform its obligations.

InSight System requires a dedicated network connectivity solution called InSight Connect. InSight Connect standardizes data acquisition and transmission and allows for secured access to critical operational information for the technical focal point and technical support team. InSight Connect delivers a secure, standard connectivity solution. InSight Connect includes Solar owned customer premise hardware and software for data collection and transmission, system and network engineering and design, technical support, network hosting and monitoring, and hardware and software maintenance

Honeywell shall provide all necessary rigging and lifting equipment and qualified operators to provide all the maintenance, repairs and overhauls for the equipment under the list of maintained equipment.

Honeywell shall cover all electrical components, systems and subsystems, including but not limited to the computers, cables, monitors and all points and sensors attached to the systems.

Honeywell shall provide all hardware and engineering services that are required to execute the HMI and

BOP panel upgrade. The software portion of the upgrade includes the cogen plant visualization, data acquisition and reporting software. Honeywell shall provide the upgrade in the first year of the maintenance service.

All personnel shall utilize Honeywell and Solar’s HSSE Management System as the guiding document to comply with applicable HSSE regulations. Supply all labor, materials, training and paperwork for all requirements of the LOTO and Confined space programs necessary for this service.

This procurement is being conducted using commercial item procedures pursuant to FAR Part 12 and

FAR Part 13, specifically FAR Subpart13.106-1(b)(1)(i) allowing the Contracting Officer (CO) to solicit from one source.

The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) for this requirement is, 561210– Facilities

Support Services. Product of Service Code for this requirement is J028 – Maintenance, Repair, and

Rebuilding of Equipment-Engines, Turbines, and Components. The Small Business Administration

(SBA) size standard for this sector is $38.5 Million.

This notice of intent is neither a formal solicitation nor a request for competitive proposals. No solicitation document is available and telephone requests will not be honored. No award will be made on the basis of unsolicited quotations or offers received in response to this notice. Any response to this notice must show clear, compelling and convincing evidence that competition will be advantageous to the

Government. The intent of this synopsis is for informational purposes only. Information received will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. A determination by the Government not to compete this action based on this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government.

All inquiries and concerns must be addressed in writing via e-mail to Kevin Ceponis at

Kevin.Ceponis@va.gov with the following information referenced in the subject line, 36C26221Q0165–

Cogeneration Plant Maintenance and Repair. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed procurement based on the responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the

Government. Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. All interested parties who are responsible, certified, and capable may mailto:Kevin.Ceponis@va.gov

P a g e 3 | 3 identify their interest and may submit capability statement which shall be considered by the agency no later than 4:00 PM Pacific Standard Time (PST) on December 21, 2020 to Kevin Ceponis at

Kevin.Ceponis@va.gov. The interested parties bear full responsibility to ensure complete transmission and timely receipt.

SDVOSB/VOSB respondents.

If respondent is or SDVOSB or VOSB, respondent is encouraged to provide proof of www.vetbiz.gov certification. In addition, SDVOSB/VOSB Contractors are asked to acknowledge that they understand the limitations on sub-contracting pursuant to FAR 52.219-14, Limitations on Sub-Contracting, which will be included in the impending solicitation. Further SDVOSB/VOSB contractors are asked to respond that they are capable of providing the requested services keeping within the parameters of this clause.

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