Sources Sought Hampton Three Pumpstation.pdf

SOURCES SOUGHT

For

Hampton Three Pumpstation

Posted 24 February 2025

Responses Due: 15 March 2025

This is a SOURCES SOUGHT announcement; a market survey for information only, to be used for preliminary planning purposes. THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION FOR PROPOSALS

AND NO CONTRACT WILL BE AWARDED FROM THIS SOURCES SOUGHT. No reimbursement will be made for any costs associated with providing information in response to this synopsis or any follow up information requests. Respondents will not be notified of the results of the evaluation. Not responding to this notice does not preclude participation in any future procurement.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers – Southwestern Fort Worth District has been tasked to solicit for and award a construction contract for a new interior drainage pumpstation, Hampton 3

Pumpstation, located in Dallas, Texas. Proposed project acquisition strategy will be best value trade-off, unrestricted, competitive, firm-fixed price, design-bid-build (DBB). Procurement methodology will be Request for Proposal (RFP) to be conducted under Federal Acquisition

Regulation (FAR) Part 15. 3.

The acquisition strategy outline under FAR Subpart 6.1, “full and open competition” or 6.2, “full and open competition after exclusion of sources” will be based on responses received from this announcement and other market research methods utilized.

The purpose of this sources sought is to gain knowledge of interest, capabilities and qualifications of various industries, to include the Large and Small Business Community: Small Business, Section 8(a), Historically Underutilized Business Zones (HUB-Zone), Service-Disabled Veteran-

Owned Small Business (SDVOSB), and Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB). The

Government must ensure there is adequate competition among the potential pool of responsible contractors. Small business, Section 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, WOSB businesses are highly encouraged to participate.

SCOPE OF WORK: The Hampton 3 project includes construction of a new pump station. The

Hampton 3 Pump Station includes the installation of five concrete volute pumps and each pump shall discharge to its own 84-inch steel discharge pipe. The discharge pipes shall go up and over the levee and discharge into a new outfall canal in the Trinity River Floodway. The Hampton 3

Pump Station also includes a loading dock, a monitoring station, trash grates, and mechanical and electrical rooms. Water, wastewater, electrical distribution, control, protection, instrumentation, grounding, and communications infrastructure shall be installed at the facility. Work also includes utility relocations and coordination, channel relocation, care and diversion of water, excavation and embankment, levee construction, structural concrete, drilled piers, reinforced box culverts, and other items to complete the project in accordance with the plans and specifications. In addition, the constructing agent will be required to maintain stormwater flow to adjacent pump stations during construction to avoid adverse water elevations upstream. Excavation and regrading to the existing levee will expose the vicinity to the vulnerabilities resulting from a potential flood event that may occur during the construction period. The Contractor will be responsible for providing any provisions of Temporary Flood Protection (TFP) measures that need to be deployed in case of such event, including, but not be limited to, cofferdams and continuous dewatering wells.

Magnitude of Construction: DFARS Part 236 Disclosure of the magnitude of construction is between: $100,000,000 and $150,000,000

Period of Performance: Approximately 1,457 Calendar Days

The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this procurement is

237990-Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction which has a small business size standard of $45M.

The Product Service Code is Y1KZ.

Small Businesses are reminded this effort shall be subject to FAR Part 52.219-14 Limitations on

Subcontracting (DEVIATION 2021-O0008) DEV (Sep 2021). Large Businesses are reminded that this effort will require the submission of a Small Business Subcontracting Plan.

Prior Government contract work is not required for submitting a response to this source sought request. However, respondents are reminded that all construction performance must follow the

USACE Safety and Health Requirements Manual, (EM 385-1-1, and must also comply with all

Federal, State and local laws, ordinances, codes and/or regulations.

Offerors response to this Sources Sought shall be limited to 25 pages and shall include the following information:

1. Unique Entity Identification (UEI), Offerors name, address, point of contact, phone number, e-mail address and cage code.

2. Offerors interest in bidding on the solicitation when it is issued.

3. Responses to the below Hampton 3 Sources Sought Questions.

4. Submit a minimum of three (3) to a maximum of five (5) projects identifying your Offerors capability to perform the magnitude and complexity of work outlined in the Scope of Work above within the past 5 years.

5. Please confirm if your Offeror will perform the following work as a prime contractor or as a subcontractor. If work will be performed as the prime contractor, does you Offerors have a pool of qualified subcontractors who can perform some or all of the following work:

a. Constructing superstructures to include formwork and placement of high strength concrete for concrete volute pumps

b. Excavation and earthwork of levee structures; drilling of earthen embankments

c. Work with steel piping up to 84-inches

d. Placement of erosion protection materials to include riprap and articulated concrete blocks.

e. Dewatering utilizing wellpoints and performing tabletop exercises for flood protection and decision making.

6. Offerors Joint Ventures (existing), including Mentor Protégés and teaming arrangement information is acceptable. One (1) page.

7. Offeror’s Bonding Capability (construction bonding levels per contract and aggregate construction bonding levels, both expressed in dollars) via a letter from the bonding company. One (1) page.

This announcement and correspondence will be issued via the Government Point of Entry, System for Award Management (SAM) at (https://sam.gov). Offerors must be active in

SAM.GOV to be eligible for award of Government contracts, including documenting Sec. 889

Compliance in SAM.GOV that include FAR Part 52.204-24 and FAR Part 52.204-25.

https://sam.gov/

Contracting will verify the 889(a) and (b) compliance – per FAR Part 52.204-26. Award cannot be issued for non-compliance until SAM Registration is complete, otherwise ineligible for award.

Offerors and interested vendors are to register electronically in SAM.gov to receive information.

Contractors are responsible for monitoring the site for updates.

The SUPPLIER PERFORMANCE RISK SYSTEM (SPRS) (https://piee.eb.mil/), summary report must be completed prior to an award. The Supplier Performance Risk System (SPRS) is the authoritative source to retrieve supplier and product PI (performance information) assessments for the DoD (Department of Defense) acquisition community to use in identifying, assessing, and monitoring unclassified performance. (DoDI 5000.79).

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) score in the Supplier Performance Risk

System (SPRS) prior to responding to this solicitation. The NIST score is a responsiveness item.

Bids/offers from contractors with a NIST score in SPRS will be considered responsive and evaluated/considered for award. Those without a NIST score in SPRS will be deemed NON-

RESPONSIVE and thus not evaluated/considered for award.

Interested Offerors shall respond to this Sources Sought Synopsis no later than [5:00PM

CDT] [ 15 March 2025]. All interested Offerors must be registered in sam.gov to be eligible for award of Government contracts. Email your response to Contract Specialist:

alexander.g.rust@usace.army.mil and Contracting Officer: Carl.S.Oelschig@usace.army.mil.

Hampton Three Pump Station

Sources Sought Questions

1. The forthcoming solicitation will be procured through a Best-Value Trade-Off. Have you successfully bid and executed a Design-Bid-Build contract(s)? What would you consider to be the most important technical factors of such procurement?

2. Would you serve as the prime contractor or a subcontractor? If you are the prime contractor, would you construct all of the features or what work features would you subcontract?

3. What is your experience managing or working as a specialty subcontractor? What difficulties have you encountered and how did you resolve them?

4. The potential subcontracting goals for this requirement are indicated below. Please review these goals and provide meaningful input and substantive data if you believe the Government should consider revising the subcontracting goals. Substantive data shall include your firms projected subcontracting percentages for revision of any subcontracting goal.

SB: 27%

SDB: 11%

WO: 4%

HZ: 1%

VO: 3%

SDVOSB: 2%

5. What experience do you have in constructing interior drainage structures, pump stations, hydraulic structures, building envelopes, SCADA equipment, and levee structures? What difficulties did you encounter?

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6. Do you have specific experience with construction of concrete volute pumps? Provide a description of equipment or sources used previously for such work.

7. Are there any cost/pricing considerations you would like to bring to the Government’s attention? Please provide any specific types of material, sources of labor, or other areas of cost that are considered high-risk for a project of this magnitude and period of performance. Provide any recommendations on how the Government could address these concerns when creating the solicitation.

8. Do you have any recommendations on the structure of the requirements or the contract type/structure that would potentially reduce total price and/or risk?

9. Is there any additional data the Government could provide that would assist you in pricing and preparing the proposal?

10. Are there any other pricing risks you see in regard to direct costs?