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This document is a Questions and Answers file for Solicitation W9128F25QA099, concerning the Motor Vessel Missouri River Engine Rebuild contract issued by the Department of the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District Omaha. The solicitation involves rebuilding or replacing multiple marine engines: two Cummins K19 diesel main power engines on the MV Missouri and two genset engines (one on the MV Missouri and one on the MV Brandy Fitzhugh). Key contractual details include no contract period extensions, contractor responsibility for engine removal and transportation, no government-provided crane services, and a requirement for the contractor to provide insurance. Payment will be made upon completion of all Contract Line Item Numbers (CLINs), with the contractor submitting a single invoice after completing all services. The document also addresses specific technical queries about engine serial numbers, dock barge weight capacity, and access hatch removal, providing contractors with critical operational information for bid preparation.
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Questions and Answers W9128F25QA099 MV Missouri Engine Rebuild
1. Can I receive the engine serial numbers for the K19 engines?
Answer: The engine serial numbers are provided in the PWS and can be reviewed at the site visit.
2. Can I receive make, model, and engine serial numbers for the two genset engines?
Answer: The make, model, and engine serial numbers are provided in the PWS for the two genset engines and can be reviewed at the site visit.
3. Are the four of these engines to be pulled out of the vessel and transported to our facility for remanufacturing or are they be in-frame overhauled in the vessel?
Answer: See Section 5 Specific Tasks of the PWS. The two (2) Cummins K19 diesel engines are the main power engines for the MV Missouri, the means and methods of removal, rebuilding, replacing are the contractor’s responsibility.
There are two (2) genset engines, one (1) on the MV Missouri and one (1) on the MV Brandy Fitzhugh the contractor has the option to rebuild or replace these diesel engines. The genset in the MV Missouri shall be removed, rebuilt and/or replaced and installed by the contractor. The genset for the MV Brandy Fitzhugh shall be removed, rebuild, and/or replaced and will be delivered to the maintenance supervisor and NOT installed in the MV Brandy Fitzhugh.
4. Can an extension be granted?
Answer: An extension to the contract period of performance will not be granted due to operational constraints.
5. Just to verify, the government will not provide crane services to lift the engine(s) from the vessel to a transportation device, is that correct?
Answer: Correct. The government will not provide any assistance removing and vessel will be drydocked and the Missouri River Project Office Facility.
6. Insurance requirements: It states when contract involves use of a vessel, we need insurance for that. Does this include stepping foot in the Government’s to perform this contract?
Answer: This is a commercial service for the repair to the engines and a certificate of insurance must be provided by the awarded contractor to verify the company has insurance to complete the required repairs on government property and at the repair location.
7. The solicitation states that a final payment will be made after what I assume is a sea trial. Hypothetically, if we complete this project in a 30 day turn around are we expected to wait till May (3-4 months) before a sea trial can be made thus delaying payment for that long?
Answer: Payment will be made as stated in the PWS. Copied below.
6.1.6 Payment: The Government will make one (1) payment upon completion of all CLIN’s awarded in accordance with this PWS. For an invoice to be considered proper the Contractor must provide, on the invoice, the contractor’s name as registered, address, contract number, CLIN number, and amount requested. The Contractor shall submit one (1) invoice upon completion of all services in accordance with the period of performance stated in this PWS.
8. How much does the access hatch weigh on the MV Missouri?
Answer: Exact weight of the access hatch is not readily available and unknown. The contractor shall assume a minimum crane lifting capacity of 5 tons to remove the access hatch.
9. What is the weight capacity of the dock barge?
Answer: We have had equipment that weighed 70,000 pound out on the doc barge.
10. Can you share the crane specifications that the USACE has used on that dock barge to pull the hatches and/or gen set engines?
Answer: We have never pulled the hatch lids or engines from the doc barge, we have had a Bucyrus erie 250-c-sp crane out on the dock barge for other uses.
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