Pre_Solicitation_Notice-MORU_Energy_Plant_HVAC_Upgrade_2.docx

Pre-Solicitation Notice: The National Park Service (NPS), MWR NEKOTA Major Acquisition Buying Office (MABO) intends to issue a solicitation for Mount Rushmore National Memorial, Keystone, South Dakota to upgrade the heating and cooling equipment housed at the Energy Center which provides heated and chilled water for the memorial’s Visitor Center, Administration Building, and Security addition. The acquisition will be conducted using Invitation for Bids (IFB)/Sealed Bid process. The NPS intends to award a firm-fixed price, construction contract in response to this IFB.

Solicitation No.: 140P6321B0011.

Project Location: Mount Rushmore National Memorial, Keystone, South Dakota.

Project Description: The work consists of removing three 2,000,000 btuH Weil-McLain cast-iron section boilers with LPG Power flame burners and three (Taco) dedicated internal circulators; two (Taco) campus heating-pump circulating systems; Trane 100-ton helical rotary screw chiller condensing package (twin compressors) with remote tube-bundle heat-exchanger; two (Taco) campus cooling-pump circulating systems; two building-interconnect utility tunnel/manways (concrete). All supply and return chilled and heated water piping, refrigerant piping, valves, expansion tanks, air vents, dampers actuators, etc. Renovations will include installing new chiller with remote evaporator, two-chiller pumps, two condensing boilers, heating water pumps, two-unit heaters, two building-interconnect utility tunnel/manways (concrete). All supply and return chilled and heated water piping, refrigerant piping, valves, expansion tanks, air-vents, dampers, actuators etc.

Training:

Contractor is to provide training for designated staff of Owner’s representatives operations. Training shall be provided via instructor led sessions, computer-based training, or web-based training. Instructor(s) shall be factory-trained and experienced in presenting material. Training will be organized into sessions or modules for the three levels of operators (day to day operators, advanced operators, system managers, and administrators).

Period of Performance: 87 calendar days.

Magnitude: Between $500,000 and $1,000,000.

Notice of Set Aside: This acquisition is set-aside for Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB).

The associated NAICS code is 238220, Plumbing, Heating, and Air-Conditioning Contractors. The small business size standard is $16.5 million.

The government intends to issue a formal Solicitation with construction specifications and drawings on or about July 12, 2021. If this date is delayed, the solicitation will follow as soon as possible. This is the preliminary notice of a solicitation that will follow. The responses will be due approximately 30 days after the IFB issue date and it is anticipated that the bid opening date will be scheduled on/about Aug 11, 2021. The specific date and time will be announced in the solicitation that will follow this notice.

A Pre-bid site visit will be scheduled, and the details announced with the release of the IFB.

The IFB package, including applicable specifications and drawings, will be posted to http://www.sam.gov. No hardcopies or email copies will be provided. Offerors must have a DUNS number and be registered and active in the System for Award Management (SAM) http://www.sam.gov in order to be eligible for award. Bidding documents must be submitted in hard-copy format with bonding as per terms of the IFB that will follow this notice.

For questions, please contact Joanie Brzezinski, Contract Specialist, joan_brzezinski@nps.gov, 605-574-3130.