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PROJECT TITLE AND LOCATION: RECOVERY: PROJECT #: 013597, Carl E. Moses Harbor, Unalaska, Alaska This project is being funded under the American Recovery and Re-Investment Act 2009.

DESCRIPTION OF WORK: Construct two concrete barge-type floating breakwaters (one base and one optional item) to protect the new Carl E. Moses Harbor adjacent to the community of Unalaska, Alaska. Options Items also include bull rails for the two floating breakwaters. The floating breakwaters are built with thirty meter long modules which will be towed under their own buoyancy across the Gulf of Alaska and out to the project site. The floating breakwaters will be moored using stud-link anchor chain and large concrete anchor blocks. The ocean bottom consists of bedrock overlain by very soft organic material which is as much as seven meters thick.

CONTRACT VALUE: The magnitude of this project is between $10,000,000 and $25,000,000.

CONTRACT INFORMATION: This solicitation will be a issued as a Full and Open Request for Proposal. Award will be made to the lowest evaluated priced proposal that meets or exceeds the technical acceptability standards spelled out in the solicitation. Any resulting contract will be firm-fixed priced.

NAICS Code: 237990 with a size standard of $33,500,000.00 Offerors are advised that a contract resulting from this solicitation is contingent upon Congressional approval. Should Congress not authorize this project or appropriate the funds, the solicitation will be canceled. If the project is canceled, all proposal preparation costs will be borne by the offeror. The Davis-Bacon Act will apply. All responders are advised that this project may be canceled or revised at any time during the solicitation, selection, evaluation, negotiation and final award. Joint ventures must also be registered in CCR as a joint venture. We advise contractors begin this process when they prepare their proposal in order to ensure this registration is in place should they be selected for the award.

OBTAINING THE SOLICITATION: The solicitation for this project will be available by INTERNET ACCESS ONLY and will be available for download on or about 2 August 2010. Access to the documents will be through a link on the FedBizOpps website: http://www.fbo.gov. Use the Advanced Search function and use this solicitation number to Search by Solicitation/Award Number. Any future amendments to the solicitation will also be available for download from the FedBizOpps website. All responsible and eligible Business sources may submit an offer which will be considered by the agency. Note: This does not apply to Small Business Concerns. Offerors other than Small Businesses shall submit a subcontracting plan in accordance with FAR 52.219-9, Small Business Subcontracting Plan (Oct 2000), Section 00 72 00. The Government will evaluate the proposed subcontracting plan separately in accordance with Army Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (AFARS) Appendix DD. This subcontracting plan shall separately addresses subcontracting with small business, veteran-owned small business, service-disabled veteran-owned small business, HUBZone small business, small disadvantaged business, and women-owned small business concerns. If the offeror is submitting an individual contract plan, the plan must separately address subcontracting with small business, veteran-owned small business, service-disabled veteran-owned small business, HUBZone small business, small disadvantaged business, and women-owned small business concerns, with a separate part for the basic contract and separate parts for each option (if any). The plan shall be included in and made a part of the resultant contract. The subcontracting plan shall be negotiated within the time specified by the Contracting Officer. Failure to submit and negotiate a subcontracting plan shall make the offeror ineligible for award of a contract.

All notifications of changes to this solicitation shall be made through the Internet only. It is the contractor's responsibility to check for any posted changes to this solicitation. Contract Specialist is YOLANDA IKNER, 907-753-2528 or email yolanda.m.ikner@usace.army.mil