AIWW Facilities Operations and Maintenance, Atlantic lntracoastal Waterway, Norfolk District, Virginia and North Carolina

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This procurement is for AIWW Facilities Operations and Maintenance, Atlantic lntracoastal Waterway, Norfolk District, Virginia and North Carolina. The Contractor shall provide all services, materials, supplies, plant, labor, equipment, utilities and supervision, except as specified as Government furnished, to operate, maintain and repair two highway drawbridges, one highway swing bridge, three navigation locks, three water control spillways, approximately 40 miles of canal waterways, all real property facilities, and approximately 3,100 acres of land owned by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, Norfolk District, which is known as the Atlantic lntracoastal Waterway (AIWW}.

The northern boundary of the project for this contract is the Interstate 64 bascule bridge at approximately mile 7.1 on the AIWW. The southern boundary of the AIWW on the Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal (ACC) is the North Carolina state line, approximately mile 34. The southern boundary of AIWW on the Dismal Swamp Canal (DSC) is the mouth of the Pasquotank River where it joins the Albemarle Sound, approximately mile 68, in North Carolina.

The ACC project includes a drawbridge at North Landing, Virginia, operated 24 hours a day, and a navigation lock and support facility at Great Bridge, Virginia. The Great Bridge lock is 72 feet wide by 600 feet long with a normal lift of 2.7 feet. The lock prevents the inflow of salt water from the Southern Branch of the Elizabeth River to the fresh water to the south. Lockings are on demand and operated 24 hours a day.

The DSC project includes one highway drawbridge and navigation lock at Deep Creek, Virginia, one highway drawbridge and navigation lock at South Mills, North Carolina and three water control structures on the canal and at Lake Drummond. The Deep Creek Lock and South Mills Lock are 52 feet wide by 300 feet long, with a normal lift of 12 feet. Lockings are only 4 times a day, and Dismal Swamp Canal operating staff works 8 hours per day.

The contract will be a base year and two option years with a capacity up to 10M with issuance of average yearly contract between $2M to $3M. NAICS Code 488330 applies to this procurement. THIS IS AN UNRESTRICTED PROCUREMENT. The receipt date for proposals is 21 MARCH 2016.

Submission requirements (plans/specs) will be available on/about 18 FEBRUARY 2016 via Federal Business Opportunities (FedBizOpps, https://www.fbo.gov). Search on W91236% for solicitations issued by Norfolk District. No hard copies will be available. Prospective contractors must be registered Vendors with https://www.fbo.gov in order to download plans and specifications. Prospective contractors must be registered in the DOD System for Award Management (SAM) database in order to obtain access to FedBizOpps. SAM Registration must also be active and current to be eligible for contract award. Information on registration and annual confirmation requirements may be obtained by calling 1-866-606-8220 or via the Internet at https://www.sam.gov/portal/public/SAM/. Lack of registration in the SAM database will prevent access to FedBizOpps and will make an offerer ineligible for award. TELEPHONE OR EMAIL REQUESTS WILL NOT BE HONORED.

Contractors please note: Online Representations and Certifications Applications (ORCA) apply to this solicitation. With ORCA, you now have the ability to enter and maintain your representations and certification information. You no longer have to submit representations and certifications with your proposal. Instead this solicitation contains a single provision that will allow you to either certify that all of your representations and certifications in ORCA are current, complete and accurate as of the date of your signature, or list any changes.