Broken Bow Lake Gate Closure Structure Pre-Solicitation Notice

This is a PRE-SOLICITATION notice for the design-bid-build construction project of a bulkhead assembly at Broken Bow Lake in Broken Bow, OK.  THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION FOR PROPOSALS AND NO CONTRACT WILL BE AWARDED FROM THIS SYNOPSIS.  No reimbursement will be made for any costs associated with providing information in response to this synopsis or any follow up information requests for solicitation number W912BV20R0063. 

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers – Tulsa District has been tasked to solicit for and award a total turn-key construction contract for a bulkhead assembly at Broken Bow Lake in Broken Bow, Oklahoma. 

This project will be for the construction of a bulkhead assembly used to block water from flowing through the Tainter gate bays while they are being serviced or inspected. The bulkhead assembly is comprised of seven (7) individual 51-foot long, built-up box segments (four flat steel plates welded together at the corners), which are assembled in the reservoir to create a single bulkhead. The assembled floating bulkhead will be ballasted with water using mechanical pumps on an equipment skid and rotated to a vertical orientation for placement against the Tainter gate piers. Bulkhead segment deployment, assembly, operation and retrieval will be completed by Army Corps of Engineers personnel. The bulkhead segment include construction and assembly of the mechanical equipment skid, and the procurement and placement of two (2) dry shipping containers, which are approximately 20-foot and 40-foot long.

The project also involves the construction of a storage facility east of the Broken Bow powerhouse, as well as a crane pad construction at the Deer Drive boat ramp for bulkhead launch and recovery. The storage facility will consist of a 60-foot by 80-foot metal storage shelter with mechanical devices for handling the bulkhead segments and two (2) reinforced concrete support walls for storing the bulkhead segments. Construction of the storage facility will also require sanitary sewer relocation, site grading and access drive construction. The crane pad will be constructed of rock fill placed adjacent to the boat ramp to provide a level surface for the Army Corps crane to receive delivery of the bulkhead segments from a low-bed transport trailer.

The project site for the new storage facility is located approximately 0.1 mile east of the Broken Bow powerhouse at 4905 OK-259A in Broken Bow, OK. The bulkhead assembly will be delivered to the new storage facility. The project site for the crane pad is located at the Deer Drive boat ramp in Hochatown State Park.

In accordance with FAR 36.204, the magnitude of construction project range for this project is between $1,000,000 and $5,000,000.

Estimated duration of the project is 450 calendar days.

The North American Industry Classification System code for this procurement is 237990 which has a small business size standard of $39.5M.  This will be solicited as an unrestricted acquisition.

Small Businesses are reminded under FAR 52.219-14, (Deviation 2019-O0003), Limitations on Subcontracting.  Firm will not pay more than 85% of the amount paid by the Government for contract performance, excluding the cost of materials, to subcontractors that are not similarly situated entities. Any work that a similarly situated entity further subcontracts will count toward the 85% subcontract amount that cannot be exceeded.  

Anticipated solicitation issuance date is on or about 29 July 2020, and the estimated proposal due date will be on or about 29 August 2020.