Blue river fish barrier maintenance

The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation), Interior Region 8: Lower Colorado Basin intends to award a single fixed-price contract estimated to be between $250,000 and $500,000 to acquire contractor services to perform the following principle components at the Blue River Fish Barrier in Arizona:

1. Removal of four damaged existing 4 ft x 4 ft steel plates on the concrete apron.
2. Installation of steel plates at the locations as shown on the drawings:
3. 4 ft x 4 ft steel plates on the concrete apron of the fish barrier.
4. 3 ft x 4 ft steel plates on the concrete apron of the fish barrier.
5. 8 in steel plates centered on top of the crest wall.
6. Installation of steel angles and grout repair at the locations as shown on the drawings:
7. 6 in x 6 in steel angles on the downstream edge at the top of the crest wall and concrete apron as shown.
8. Nonshrink grout repair and placement on crest wall edge and edge of apron. Estimated quantity of nonshrink grout is 1 cubic yard.

Work is located approximately 15 miles northeast of Clifton, Arizona in Greenlee County, and approximately 2,800 feet upstream of the confluence of the Blue and San Francisco Rivers, on the Blue River.

Reclamation is by trade an engineering firm that is a contemporary water management agency with a strategic plan outlining numerous programs, initiatives, and activities that will help the 17 Western States, Native American Tribes, and others meet new water needs and balance the multitude of competing uses of water in the West.

This requirement will be solicited as a Small Business set aside. The applicable North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code is 237990, Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction. The small business threshold is $45M. The solicitation and any amendments to the solicitation will be available through SAM.gov. The extent of the work will be described in the solicitation. As a result of this pre-solicitation notice, the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, anticipates releasing the Request for Proposal (RFP) on or about 30 July 2024 on SAM.gov. The due date for receipt of proposals will be specified in the RFP. This requirement will be solicited and awarded using the procedures outlined in FAR Part 15. The anticipated period of performance is 1 October 2024 through 28 February 2025.

No further information will be available before the solicitation is posted.

Offerors are required to have an active record in the System for Award Management (SAM) at the time of proposal to be eligible for contract award. Offerors may register on SAM at https://www.sam.gov.

Written questions may be submitted to the contract specialist, the primary point of contact for this action, Larissa Bell via e-mail at lrbell@usbr.gov. Only questions submitted via e-mail will be accepted and addressed.