GAOA FC Almanor CG ADA Toilet Replacements and Accessibility, Lassen National Forest

This is a pre-solicitation notice being released pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 5. 

The USDA, Forest Service (FS), Southwest Zone, has an anticipated requirement to furnish and

Provide all labor, equipment, and material to accomplish the work under this project

to remove seven existing vault toilet buildings: five double vault, one triple vault and one quadruple vault toilet buildings and replace them with eight new precast concrete double vault toilet buildings in the seasonally open Almanor Campground on the Lassen National Forest. Contractor shall construct Outdoor Accessible Routes (ORARs) to the new vault toilet buildings per “Forest Service Outdoor Recreation Accessibility Guidelines (FSORAG), 2013”. The use of native surfacing is specified for these Outdoor Accessible Routes to the new vault toilet buildings.

This project is in Plumas County, California.  The work site is at the USFS Almanor Campground, (40.2175 N, 121.1766 W) is 7.2 miles from Chester, CA

 This procurement will be solicited using North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) 237990— Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction with a small business size standard of $39.5M.

In accordance with FAR 36.204 the estimated magnitude of construction is between $250,000 and $500,000.

A Request for Proposal (RFP) for this acquisition will be released on or about May 16, 2022, and will close on or about June16, 2022.  It is anticipated that the contract will begin on or about July 5, 2022.  This acquisition will be competed as a Hub zone Small Business Set Aside.

This Pre-solicitation Notice seeks to provide information to interested parties about potential opportunity to perform the construction, additions, alterations, or maintenance and repairs as described above. This Pre-solicitation Notice does not commit the Government to contract for any supply or service.   Respondents are advised that the United States (U.S) Government will not pay for any information or administrative cost incurred in response to this Pre-solicitation Notice.  All costs associated with responding to this Pre-solicitation Notice will be solely at the responding party's expense.  Please be advised that all submissions become Government property and will not be returned.  Responses to this notice are not offers and cannot be accepted by the U.S Government to form a binding contract.