Construction of Energetic Waste Incinerator and Contaminated Waste Processor (EWI/CWP)

W91236-20-R-4000

ENERGETIC WASTE INCINERATOR/ CONTAMINATED WASTE PROCESSOR (EWI/CWP) AT RADFORD ARMY AMMUNITION PLANT (RFAAP), RADFORD, VIRGINIA

This is a pre-solicitation notice.  This is NOT a solicitation.  Do NOT submit proposals or questions in response to this notice. 

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Norfolk District intends to issue a Request for Proposal (RFP) for the Construction of a new Energetic Waste Incinerator/ Contaminated Waste Processor (EWI/CWP) at Radford Army Ammunition Plant (RFAAP).  This procurement will be conducted in accordance with FAR Part 15, Contracting by Negotiation.

The requirement will be solicited as unrestricted full and open competition. It will be solicited as a design-build project utilizing two-phase design-build procedures in accordance with FAR 15.101 and 36.301.  The applicable NAICS code is 236210 - Institutional Building Construction with a Business Standard of $39.5M.  The Government intends to award a Design-Build (DB) firm-fixed-price (FFP) contract.

The magnitude of construction is between $100,000,000 and $250,000,000, in accordance with DFARS 236.204 - Disclosure of the magnitude of construction projects.  

Project Description:  RFAAP is a Government-owned, Contractor-operated (GOCO) energetic materials manufacturing facility located in Radford, Virginia, established in 1941.  RFAAP is the principal domestic source of propellants for small, medium, and large caliber ammunition.   RFAAP is the only producer of nitrocellulose (NC) (a base component required in the manufacture of ammunition and missile propellants) within the National Technology and Industrial Base. The energetic nature of the NC produced at RFAAP requires a higher degree of safety across all systems than is typically found in DoD installations. Since RFAAP is the only producer of NC within the National Technology and Industrial Base, the production of NC at RFAAP is held to higher production standards than those found at other DoD installations.  

The construction of the new EWI/CWP will replace the current aged EWI facilities, relocate the waste treatment and decontamination activities into one centralized facility, and reduce/eliminate open burning conducted at RFAAP.  The new EWI/CWP will treat at a minimum, 95 percent of all hazardous energetic waste streams from RFAAP, in an efficient, emission controlled thermal treatment facility that is compliant with the plant operating permits and Army policy. The Assistant Secretary of the Army issued a Memorandum for Open Burning (OB) of Certain Waste Material dated 26 November 2019.  The memo provides Army policy concerning the use of OB and requires that a new contained technology should be in place and operational no later than 01 October 2026. The construction of the new EWI/CWP facility addressed by this plan will meet this requirement.

Estimated completion date is 710 calendar days from notice to proceed.

Contractors will be required to submit bid bonds documents prior to award.

The Government intends to award a firm fixed priced contract to the responsible offeror whose proposal conforms to the terms of the RFP notice, is determined fair and reasonable, and offers the best overall value to the Government as determined through a Best Value Continuum Trade-off source selection process. 

The contracting officer anticipates that the solicitation will include the following evaluation factors:

Phase One:

Factor 1 – Management Approach

Factor 2 – Past Performance

Phase Two:

Factor 3 – Technical Approach

Factor 4 – Small Business Participation Plan

Factor 5 – Price

Factor 1 will be evaluated on acceptable/unacceptable basis. If an offeror is rated unacceptable for Factor 1, then they will not be considered for Phase Two.

 The relative order of importance of evaluation factors is Factor 2 and 3 are of approximately equal importance to each other; Factor 4 is less important than either Factor 2 or 3. When the proposal is evaluated as a whole (Factors 2-5), the non-price factors (2, 3, and 4), when combined are approximately equal to price (Factor 5).

The RFP and accompanying documents will be issued electronically and will be uploaded to beta.sam.gov on or about September 24, 2020.   Telephone calls or written requests for the RFP package will NOT be accepted.  Prospective offerors are responsible for monitoring beta.sam.gov to respond to the solicitation and any amendments or other information regarding this acquisition.  Prospective Offerors are required to be registered in SAM when submitting an offer, and shall continue to be registered until time of award, during performance, and through final payment of any contract

For inquiries about this notice, please contact Mr. Phil Mathews at (757) 201-7292 or philip.d.mathews@usace.army.mil