Emergency Cooling Tower Repairs

Notice of a Local Area Set Aside

 The RRB has a requirement for Emergency Cooling Tower Cell Number One Repairs. The RRB has issued a solicitation, 60RRBH21Q0007, for Emergency Cooling Tower Cell Number One Repairs for the RRB Headquarters Building, located at 844 N. Rush Street, Chicago, IL 60611.

The RRB considers these repairs CRITICAL to the operation of the RRB. Therefore, the RRB has made this solicitation a Local Area Set Aside.

To ensure that the RRB obtains accurate quotations, contractors attending the site visit have the sole responsibility for determining the age, condition, maintainability and location of the existing RRB cooling tower equipment. No allowances shall be made for “unseen site conditions”. Therefore, the site visit is MANDATORY. NO OFFERS SHALL BE ACCEPTED FROM ANY OFFEROR WHO HAS NOT ATTENDED THE MANDATORY SITE VISIT.

 In order to be able to participate in this solicitation, the following conditions apply:

1) Potential Offerors must attend a MANDATORY site visit on March 25, 2021, 9:30 AM, CST, at the RRB headquarters located at 844 N. Rush Street, Chicago, IL 60611 2.

2) Potential Offerors must submit a timely request for the solicitation BEFORE the site visit to Mr. Scott Rush at scott.rush@rrb.gov and Mr. Ken Earp at ken.earp@rrb.gov.

3) All RRB contractors are required to register in the System for Award Management (SAM) at www.sam.gov database prior to submitting an offer.

4) Businesses must be physically located in Cook, DuPage, McHenry, Lake, Will and Kane Counties, Illinois or Lake County, Indiana.

5) Late requests for the solicitation (Any request received after March 25, 2021, 9:30 AM CST, shall not be considered.