W9123623R4001 ANSOL Tank Farm Pre Sol Notice.pdf

W91236-23-R-4001

DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF AMMONIUM NITRATE SOLUTION (ANSOL)

TANK FARM

HOLSTON ARMY AMMUNITION PLANT, KINGSPORT, TENNESSEE

This is a pre-solicitation notice. This is NOT a solicitation. Do NOT submit proposals or questions in response to this notice.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Norfolk District intends to issue a Request for Proposal (RFP) for the Construction of a new Ammonium Nitrate Solution (Ansol) Tank Farm Facility at Holston Army Ammunition Plant (HSAAP). This procurement will be conducted in accordance with FAR Part 15, Contracting by Negotiation.

The requirement will be solicited as unrestricted full and open competition. It will be solicited as a design-build project utilizing two-phase design-build procedures in accordance with FAR

15.101 and 36.301. The applicable NAICS code is 236210 - Institutional Building Construction with a Business Standard of $39.5M. The Government intends to award a Design-Build (DB) firm-fixed-price (FFP) contract.

The magnitude of construction is between $100,000,000 and $250,000,000, in accordance with DFARS 236.204 - Disclosure of the magnitude of construction projects.

Project Description: HSAAP is a Government-owned, Contractor-operated (GOCO) explosives manufacturing facility located in Kingsport, Tennessee. HSAAP is a member of the U.S. Army Materiel Command’s (AMC) Organic Industrial Base and a subordinate command of the U.S.

Army Joint Munitions Command (JMC). The plant is a major supplier of research development explosive- (RDX-), high-melting explosive- (HMX-), and insensitive munitions explosive- (IMX-) based products for the United States. ANSol is a by-product of the explosives manufacturing process.

The construction of the new ANSol Tank Farm will provide HSAAP with a reliable means of storing increased amounts of ANSol that will be generated as a byproduct of the explosives production process which will be expanded over the next 3 years and preparing the ANSol for shipment off-site for deep well injection or commercial use. The Tank Farm will replace the plant’s existing storage tanks for ANSol that are not large enough to accommodate increased ANSol volume that will result from the expanded explosives manufacturing.

The ANSol Tank Farm will be capable of storing the maximum production rates of ANSol anticipated to be generated at HSAAP in a safe and efficient manner. The project includes an associated operations building for central controls and maintenance of the tank farm. In addition, storage tanks with a total capacity of approximately 425,000 gallons are included for up to 90-days of ANSol storage in accordance with permit allowances as well as a filtration facility for filtering ANSol that must be shipped off-site.

A draft site layout and Environmental Assessment will be provided with the Phase One solicitation to assist offerors with assessing the general scope of the project. The facility design will be dictated by process requirements that will be included in the DB RFP technical package and released with the Phase Two Amendment.

Estimated construction duration is 1,043 calendar days from notice to proceed.

Contractors will be required to submit bid bonds documents prior to award.

The Government intends to award a firm fixed priced contract to the responsible offeror whose proposal conforms to the terms of the RFP notice, is determined fair and reasonable, and offers the best overall value to the Government as determined through a Best Value Continuum Trade-off source selection process.

The contracting officer anticipates that the solicitation will include the following evaluation factors:

Phase One:

Factor 1 – Management Approach Factor 2 – Specialized Experience/Past Performance

Phase Two:

Factor 3 – Technical Approach Factor 4 – Small Business Participation Plan Factor 5 – Price

Factor 1 will be evaluated on acceptable/unacceptable basis. If an offeror is rated unacceptable for Factor 1, then they will not be considered for Phase Two.

It is anticipated that the relative order of importance of evaluation factors is Factor 2 and 3 are of approximately equal importance to each other; Factor 4 is less important than either Factor 2 or

3. When the proposal is evaluated as a whole (Factors 2-5), the non-price factors (2, 3, and 4), when combined are approximately equal to price (Factor 5).

The Solicitation and accompanying documents will be issued electronically and will be uploaded to www.sam.gov on or about February 1, 2023. A Site Visit to HSAAP will been planned for on/around February 22, 2023. Full details of the Tentative Site Visit will be provide with the Phase One Solicitation. Telephone calls or written requests for the RFP package will NOT be accepted. Prospective offerors are responsible for monitoring sam.gov to respond to the solicitation and any amendments or other information regarding this acquisition. Prospective Offerors are required to be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) (https://sam.gov) when submitting an offer, and shall continue to be registered until time of award, during performance, and through final payment of any contract

For inquiries about this notice, please contact Mr. Phil Mathews at (757) 201-7029 or philip.d.mathews@usace.army.mil