Elizabeth Mine Superfund Site, Strafford, VT

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District will be issuing a Request for Proposal for a Single Award Task Order Contract (SATOC), Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) contract for Remediation Services at the Elizabeth Mine Superfund Site in South Strafford and Thetford, Orange County, in east-central Vermont. The total acquisition value of the contract awarded under this solicitation is not to exceed $25,000,000 and will have a five year ordering period. This will be a Small Business Set-Aside, Best Value Trade-off award.  The NAICS code for the work is 562910.   

The major efforts under this contract will include, but are not limited to, consolidation and capping of mining materials at the Lord Brook Source Areas, which comprise the South Mine, South Open Cut, and TP-4 to control the discharge of dissolved metals to the Lord Brook drainage area, installation of a passive treatment system to replace the Water Treatment Plant at the North/WBOR end of the Site, and closure of mine adits.  The work involves establishing safety zones and procedures near open cuts and mine inner workings, protection of existing environmental resources, pre-treatment of surface waters to raise pH, clearing of vegetation, temporary and permanent surface water diversions, dewatering of pit lakes and mine shafts, stabilization of open cuts through controlled blasting, crushing or blasting of large rock, excavation, relocation, consolidation and grading of rock, waste rock and tailing, application of shotcrete and/or flowable fill as necessary to fill voids, significant earthwork requiring appropriate erosion and sediment control best management practices (BMPs), installation of wells and/or other methods to assess water pressure within adits, removal and treatment of water within adits, installation of bulkheads to control discharge from adits, installation of a permanent cover consisting of geogrid, geotextile, low permeability soil, filter fabric, common borrow, topsoil and seed, installation of limestone channels and check dams, installation of mitigation wetlands and passive treatment wetlands, implementation of historic preservation measures (e.g., portion of cuts left exposed), potential installation of horizontal drains and/or lined French drains to intercept flow and treat to meet surface water quality standards, monitoring of surface and groundwater, including monitoring well installation, to ensure effectiveness of the remedy, performance of site-wide inspection and maintenance including but not limited to caps, roads, wetlands, and invasive species, implementation of institutional controls, and operation of metals removal treatment system. All work will be performed in accordance with the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA), the EPA Action Memoranda signed in September 2002 and March 2004, the Record of Decision signed in September 2006 and the associated September 2015 Explanation of Significant Differences, the OU1 Remedial Design, State of Vermont Solid Waste and Sediment and Erosion Control requirements, and EPA green and sustainability principles.

This is not a request for proposals at this time. The solicitation requirements and contract documents to include instructions for submission and the response date will be available on or about May 22, 2017. Contract award of the Base ID/IQ Contract and Seed Task Order is scheduled for October 2017 with Seed Task Order construction completion in 2019.  Award will be made to the offeror demonstrating the best value to the Government, taking into consideration the stated evaluation factors such as qualifications, experience, past performance on similar projects, and price, as well as their respective weightings as specified in the solicitation.  Specific instructions and evaluation factors will be provided in the solicitation.

Neither telephonic, mailed nor faxed requests for hard copies of this solicitation will be accepted. The solicitation will only be available online; in order to download the solicitation, offerors must access the Federal Business Opportunities website (www.fbo.gov).  All responsible sources may submit a proposal which shall be considered by the New England District.  Additional questions may be emailed to the Contract Specialist at Jessica.R.Loc@usace.army.mil.