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DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY

Omaha District, Corps of Engineers

1616 Capitol Avenue

Omaha, Nebraska 68102-4901

:NOTICE: Failure to acknowledge : Solicitation No. W9128F 16 R 0021

:all amendments may cause rejec- :

:tion of the offer. See FAR : Date of Issue: 04 February 2016

:52.215-1 of Section 00 21 00 : Date of Receiving Proposals:

04 March 2016

Amendment No. 0001

08 February 2016

SUBJECT: Amendment No. 0001 to Request for Proposal Solicitation Package for Construction of Replace Motor Control Center, Fort Peck Dam, MT.

Solicitation No. W9128F 16 R 0021.

TO: Prospective Offerors and Others Concerned

1. The specifications and drawings for subject project are hereby modified as follows (revise all specification indices, attachment lists, and drawing indices accordingly).

a. Specifications. (Descriptive Changes.)

(1) Section 00 21 00 Page 14, paragraph 1.14 delete: “Questions and/or comments relative . . . Bid Results/Receipt of Bids: See Paragraph

AVAILABILITY OF BID RESULTS, below.

(2) Section 00 21 00 Page 14, after paragraph 1.14 OFFEROR'S

QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS add the following new paragraphs:

“Questions and/or comments relative to these documents should be submitted via

Bidder Inquiry as indicated below. See instructions on when e-mail or mailing is appropriate. Mailing address is shown on the Standard Form SF 1442, Item 8, unless directed otherwise.

Questions and/or comments relative to these bidding (proposal) documents that is proprietary in nature or if Bidder Inquiry system (See Below) is out of service should be submitted to the Contract Specialist with a courtesy copy to

Program Manager and Specifications Section via e-mail or mailed to:

Contract Specialist - Primary POC: Matthew Hibbert

Matthew.D.Hibbert@usace.army.mil

(402) 995-2480

Program Manager Andrew Wright

Andrew.D.Wright@usace.army.mil

(402) 995-2506

Small Business Matters POC

Hubert Carter

Hubert.J.Carter@usace.army.mil

402-995-2910 (Telephone) mailto:Matthew.D.Hibbert@usace.army.mil mailto:Matthew.D.Hibbert@usace.army.mil mailto:Andrew.D.Wright@usace.army.mil mailto:Andrew.D.Wright@usace.army.mil mailto:Hubert.J.Carter@usace.army.mil mailto:Hubert.J.Carter@usace.army.mil

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Small Business Questions that are proprietary in nature or if Bidder Inquiry system (See Below) is out of service should be submitted to the Contract

Specialist and Small Business Matters POC with a courtesy copy to the Program

Manager and Specifications Section via e-mail or mail.

1.14.1 BIDDER INQUIRY

Technical inquiries and questions relating to technical requirements, proposal procedures or bonds are to be submitted via Bidder Inquiry in ProjNet at:

https://www.projnet.org/projnet/ No Later Than ten (10) calendar days before due date of proposals, in order that they may be given consideration or actions taken prior to receipt of offers. Phone calls for non-technical or procedural type questions should be made between 8:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. (Central Standard

Time) Monday through Friday. The Bidder Inquiry system is to be used to ask and receive answers to all non-proprietary questions.

To submit and review inquiry items, prospective vendors will need to use the

Bidder Inquiry Key presented below and follow the instructions listed below. A prospective vendor who submits a comment /question will receive an acknowledgement of their comment/question via email, followed by an answer to the comment/question after it has been processed by our technical team.

All timely questions and approved answers will be made available through

ProjNet.

The Solicitation Number is: W9128F-16-R-0021

The Bidder Inquiry Key is: JFKG2V-M4T7AX

a. Registration for ProjNet Bidder Inquiry Access

If you are already registered, go to Entering Bidder Inquiries in ProjNet

Bidder Inquiry System below.

1. From the ProjNet home page linked above, click on Quick Add on the upper right side of the screen.

2. Identify the Agency. This should be marked as USACE.

3. Key. Enter the Bidder Inquiry Key listed above.

4. Email. Enter the email address you would like to use for communication.

5. Click Continue. A page will then open saying that a user account was not found and will ask you to create one using the provided form.

6. Enter your First Name, Last Name, Company, City, State, Phone, Email, Secret Question, Secret Answer, and Time Zone. Make sure to remember your Secret

Question and Answer as they will be used from this point on to access the

ProjNet system.

7. Click Add User. Once this is completed you are now registered within ProjNet and are currently logged into the system.

b. Entering Bidder Inquiries in ProjNet Bidder Inquiry System

1. For future access to ProjNet, you will not be emailed any type of password.

You will utilize your Secret Question and Secret Answer to log in.

http://www.projnet.org/projnet/

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2. From the ProjNet home page linked above, click on Quick Add on the upper right side of the screen.

3. Identify the Agency. This should be marked as USACE.

4. Key. Enter the Bidder Inquiry Key listed above.

5. Email. Enter the email address you used to register previously in ProjNet.

6. Click Continue. A page will then open asking you to enter the answer to your Secret Question.

7. Enter your Secret Answer and click Login. Once this is completed you are now logged into the system.

8. Follow online screen instructions to enter specific bidder inquiries for the project.

c. The Bidder Inquiry System will be unavailable for new inquires after ten

(10) calendar days in order to ensure adequate time is allotted to form an appropriate response and amend the solicitation, if necessary.

d. Offerors are requested to review the specification in its entirety, review the Bidder Inquiry System for answers to questions prior to submission of a new inquiry.

e. The call center operates weekdays from 8AM to 5PM U.S. Central Time Zone (Chicago). The telephone number for the Call Center is 800-428-HELP.

f. Offers will NOT be publicly opened. Information concerning the status of the evaluation and/or award will NOT be available after receipt of proposals.

1.14.2 PLAN HOLDER'S LIST

For Viewing a List of Interested Vendors (i.e. planholders List) and Receiving

Notifications or e-mail of changes regarding a solicitation, Federal Business

Opportunities has these features available (https://www.fbo.gov/). For this solicitation, go to https://www.fbo.gov/ and register as a vendor or enter user name and password to login. If you wish for General Contractors, Subcontractors, Suppliers, Plan Rooms or Print Shops to have the ability to contact you, click on the "Add me to Interested Vendors" for the solicitation.”

2. This amendment is a part of the proposing papers and its receipt shall be acknowledged on the Standard Form 1442. All other conditions and requirements of the request for proposal remain unchanged. If the proposals have been mailed prior to receiving this amendment, you will notify the office where proposals are received, in the specified manner, immediately of its receipt and of any changes in your proposal occasioned thereby.

a. Hand-Carried Proposals shall be delivered to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District, Contracting Division, 1616 Capitol Avenue, Omaha, Nebraska 68102-4901.

b. Mailed Proposals shall be addressed as noted in Item 8 on

Page 00 10 00-1 of Standard Form 1442.

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3. Offers will be received until 2:00 p.m., local time at place of receiving proposals, 04 March 2016.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District

1616 Capitol Avenue

Omaha, Nebraska 68102-4901

08 Feb 2016

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