Crane Rental Services

SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE
FOR
Crane Rental Services

This is a Sources Sought/Request for Information only. This is NOT a Solicitation Announcement, nor is it a Request for Proposal. This request does not obligate the Government in any contract award.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Wilmington District, is conducting research to determine the market capabilities of potential contractors to perform Crane Rental Services. It is the Government's intent to award a Firm Fixed Price Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) for a base year of twelve (12) months and four (4), twelve (12) month option years. All work shall be performed in accordance with each statement of work incorporated upon issuance of each task order. Supervision and direction of contract employees will be through the contractor and not the government. The Contractor shall provide crane rentals, operators, signalman, and riggerman as required by each individual task order. The crane, operator, signalman, and rigger must meet all safety standards outlined in the latest version of USACE EM 385-1-1. All cranes used for this contract shall have a safe load moment indicating system. The Contractor shall respond to all issued task orders within twenty-four (24) hours of issuance.

EACH CONTRACTOR MUST INCLUDE WITH THEIR RESPONSE, DOCUMENTATION OF THE AVAILABILITY TO PROVIDE EACH TYPE OF CRANE IN EACH OF THE FOUR WORK ITEMS:

WORK ITEM #1, 100 ton truck mounted crane service with minimum boom reach of 80 feet. Work could be located at each of the following locations:

1. USACE Engineering Yard
232 Battleship Road
Wilmington, NC 28401

2. USACE Operations Area
Snows Cut
304 Anne Road
Carolina Beach, NC

3. W.K. Scott Dam
499 Reservoir Road
Wilkesboro, NC 28697-7462

4. B. Everett Jordan Dam
2080 Jordan Dam Road
Moncure, NC 27559

5. Falls Dam
11405 Falls of the Neuse Road
Wake Forest, NC 27587

6. Wanchese Docking
928 Harbor Road Lot #16
Wanchese, NC

7. ohn H. Kerr Dam and Reservoir
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
1930 Mays Chapel Road
Boydton, VA 23917

8. Philpott Lake
1058 Philpott Dam Road
Bassett, VA 24055-8617

WORK ITEM #2, 50 ton truck mounted crane service with minimum boom reach of 80 feet. Work could be located at any of the locations listed in Work Item #1.

WORK ITEM #3, 50 ton rough terrain crane service with minimum boom reach of 80 feet. Work could be located at any of the locations listed in Work Item #1. The crane must be able to operate on the bridges at W.K. Scott Dam, B.F. Jordan Dam, and Falls Lake Dam as described in Appendix A.

WORK ITEM #4, 18 ton carry deck crane service with minimum boom reach of 50 feet. Work could be located at any of the locations listed in Work Item #1. The crane must be able to operate on all of the bridges described in Appendix A.

All interested firms with 238990 as an approved NAICs code have until 30 November 2018 at 4PM. to submit the following information:

- Name & Address of your Firm

- Point of Contact (Name/Phone/E-mail)

- Current SAM Record to included DUNS Number and CAGE Code

- Business Size, to include designation as HUBZone, 8(a), Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business, Small Disadvantaged Business, Woman-Owned Business, and Large Business. Any supporting documentation that confirms your socio-economic status should be provided, i.e., letter of certification from VA confirming SDVOSB status. The Government must be able to verify SBA certification of HubZone and 8(a) via SAM.

- Firm's capability to perform, to include required certifications, geographic span and project size. DOCUMENTATION OF THE AVAILABILITY TO PROVIDE EACH TYPE OF CRANE IN EACH OF THE FOUR WORK ITEMS.

The Government may not give credit to your socio-economic class if there is not sufficient documentation to support it or if the Government cannot verify through other means that your business is as such.

The requested information shall be submitted electronically to:

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Attn: Ros Shoemaker and Andrea Green
E-mail: Rosalind.m.shoemaker@usace.army.mil and andrea.m.green@usace.army.mil

The email should be titled: Crane Rental Services

Do not send hard copies of advertising or promotional materials. Please ensure that all responses are comprehensive and provide a name and point-of-contact for your firm for follow-up by this office or the procuring contracting officer. If you have responded to any previous e-mail messages or had other communications with our office regarding preliminary market research for this project, please be advised that it will be necessary for you to respond to this e-mail and the questions contained therein. Any responses involving teaming agreements should delineate between the work that will be accomplished by the Prime Contractor and work accomplished by the teaming partner

All information is to be provided on a voluntary basis at no charge to the Government. There is no entitlement to payment of direct or indirect costs related to or arising out of responding to this request for information. All information provided becomes property of the Government. There is no guarantee, expressed or implied, that the market research for this acquisition will result in any guarantee of award or acquisition strategy.

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