Aquatic plant life machine

The Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Education seeks to procure duckweed removal and control equipment for St. Stephens Indian School in Saint Stephens, Wyoming, with proposals due July 1. The procurement is now full and open competition following Amendment 0003 issued June 29, which removed small business set-asides after initial ISBEE and subsequent SB competitions yielded unreasonable bids.

Place of performance is Saint Stephens, Wyoming. The equipment comprises one integrated system with nine line items: a duckweed screen, sump box with floats, two pump hoses, one 3-inch Honda trash pump, one 200-foot gathering boom, 50 feet of rope, one push pole, one 7-foot by 14-foot bumper pull trailer, and one 20-foot discharge pipe. Delivery must occur within 30 days following contract award to 128 Mission Road, PO Box 345, Saint Stephens, Wyoming 82524. The specification document details a Honda WT30 trash pump with GX270 engine (270cc displacement), 317 gallons per minute discharge capacity, 82 feet total head lift, and 12-month commercial warranty. The duckweed filter is aluminum-constructed at 6 feet by 4 feet screen dimension. The singlewall polyethylene piping must meet AASHTO M252 Type C or CP standards for 3- through 10-inch pipe and AASHTO M294 Type C or CP standards for 12- through 15-inch pipe, and comply with Build America, Buy America Act requirements. Award will be made to the lowest-priced technically acceptable responsible offeror on a firm-fixed-price basis. NAICS code is 339999, All Other Miscellaneous Manufacturing; PSC code is 9440, Miscellaneous Crude Agricultural and Forestry Products. Questions were due March 9. The contracting officer is Michelle Nahlee-Marshalek at the Indian Education Acquisition Office, Albuquerque, New Mexico.