Generator Excitation System Replacements at Keswick and Shasta Powerplants

The Mid-Pacific Region of the Bureau of Reclamation intends to issue a Solicitation for a firm fixed-price contract for the Generator Excitation System Replacements at Keswick and Shasta Powerplants. This procurement is full and open competition. Solicitation will follow Lowest Price Technically Acceptable (LPTA) source selection process and will be issued as a Request for Proposal (RFP) using FAR Part 15, contracting by Negotiation procedures. The work to be performed is described below. The applicable North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code is 237130 and the related small business size standard is $36.5M. This notice is not a request for proposal and the information presented in this announcement will not obligate the Bureau of Reclamation in any manner. The estimated cost of this project is between $5,000,000.00 and $10,000,000.00. This procurement will require 100% performance and payment bonds. The work is located at Shasta and Keswick Dams, Redding, CA.

PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS OF WORK:

A. Remove and dispose of existing excitation voltage regulating equipment cabinets, cables, and instrumentation not to be reused.
B. Electrically isolate existing rotating DC exciters.
C. Remove the pilot exciter field poles, brushes and associated conductors (3 total units).
D. Furnish, install, and test fully static excitation systems (6 total units) including power potential transformers, protective relaying, excitation supply power circuit breaker, medium-voltage cable, connections to existing metal-enclosed bus, diesel locomotive cable (DLO), low-voltage power cable, and other associated equipment.
1. Three units with power converter bridge rating at 1,400 A DC continuous
2. Three units with power converter bridge rating at 800 A DC continuous.
E. Furnish, install, and test digital front-end automatic voltage regulator (AVR) and human machine interface (HMI) for existing static excitation systems (4 total).
F. Furnish, install, and test control cabling and associated conduits or wireways for control, protection and alarm circuits from excitation system equipment for a turn-key system.
G. Furnish and install removable cable tray system (3 total units).
H. Furnish spare parts for excitation systems.
I. Furnish as-built drawings (interface and manufacturer) and operations and maintenance manual.
J. Factory and field testing of each new excitation systems, PPTs and associated equipment.
K. Train Government personnel in operation and maintenance of new excitation systems.

Solicitation R17PS00307 will be posted electronically via www.fedbizopps.gov on or about May 10, 2017. The date for receipt of proposals will be approximately June 9, 2017. The solicitation must be downloaded at the above website; no paper copy of this solicitation will be distributed.

Prospective contractors MUST be actively registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) database at http://www.sam.gov to be eligible for award.