Design-Bid-Build (DBB), Building 633 River Water Cooling System, Philadelphia Naval Business Center (PNBC), Philadelphia, PA

This solicitation seeks design-build services to replace an aging 50,000 gallon per minute river water cooling system at the Philadelphia Naval Business Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Department of the Navy seeks to replace the 77-year old system with a new 8,200 gallon per minute cooling tower capable of rejecting up to 75 million British thermal units per hour. The new cooling water system must reliably provide up to 8,200 gallons of cooling water per minute on demand to support research, development, testing and evaluation activities performed in Building 633, including testing of the Columbia Class Program Integrated Power System. Proposals will be evaluated based on corporate experience, technical approach, past performance and price. The deadline for proposals is January 28, 2021.

There is no set-aside designation for this solicitation. The primary NAICS code is 237990 and the predominant PSC code is W505. The place of performance is Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The solicitation does not name any incumbent or current contractors. Key details include replacing a 50,000 gallon per minute river water system with an 8,200 gallon per minute cooling tower capable of rejecting up to 75 million British thermal units per hour to support activities in Building 633 at the Philadelphia Naval Business Center. The contractor must complete the work within 400 days of the award date.