Great Smoky TREMONT & ABRAMS WATER TANKS REPAIR

Great Smoky Mts. NP TREMONT & ABRAMS WATER TANKS REPAIR
ACTION: Pre-Solicitation Notice

PRE-SOLICITATION NUMBER: 140P5323R0053

CLASSIFICATION CODE: Z1NE – MAINTENANCE OF SEWAGE AND WASTE FACILITIES
The NAICS Code for this requirement is 237110 – Water and Sewer Line Related Structures with a size standard of $39.5 million.

POINT OF CONTACT:
Geraldine Larsen, Contract Specialist, geralding_larsen@nps.gov

PLACE OF PERFORMANCE: Great Smoky Mountains National Park

PLACE OF PERFORMANCE POSTAL CODE: 37882

PLACE OF PERFORMANCE STATE AND COUNTY: Townsend TN Blount County

Title of Project: Water Tank Cleaning, Repair and Painting Project, Townsend, TN: Tremont Institute and Abrams Campground Area

Description: The park has a requirement for repair, painting, and coating of the entire exterior and interior of Tremont Institute's 30,000-gallon welded steel potable water tank, and the Abrams Creek Campground 12,000-gallon welded steel potable water storage tank. The Park is seeking proposals from qualified firms with demonstrated expertise, and success in this area as identified in this Performance Work Statement. Services to be provided include furnishing all labor, supervision, transportation, tools, equipment, materials, and supplies necessary to successfully perform the required cleaning, repairs, surface preparation and painting of all interior and exterior surfaces of each tank in accordance with the specifications set forth. A visual and physical inspection of the Tremont and Abrams Creek Water Tanks was conducted on February 16, 2021. The inspection noted various deficiencies and maintenance needs for each tank. The objective of this project is to provide the services as noted above for the cleaning, repairs, surface preparation and painting of all interior and exterior surfaces of each potable water tank to eliminate the deficiencies noted in the inspection reports.

GENERAL:
The National Park Service (NPS), Great Smoky Mountains National Park

The solicitation will be issued electronically on the website at https://www.sam.gov/. Proposal documents will be available for download in Microsoft Word, HTML, Microsoft Excel, and Adobe PDF; Specifications will be available in Adobe PDF format; and drawings will be available in PDF format. Please Note: Paper copies of the solicitation will not be made available.

Vendors can search for opportunities and award history on https://www.sam.gov/ without registering. Registering provides the opportunity to receive notifications; this is a tool of convenience only and does not serve as a guarantee of notification. Interested vendors and plan holders are required to visit the website periodically to check for amendments and other changes to the synopsis or solicitation documents. Prospective offerors desiring to conduct business with the DOI are required to have an active registration in the Systems for Awards Management (SAM) at https://www.sam.gov/. You are also required to have a Unique Entity number in order to conduct business with the Federal Government.

This pre-solicitation announcement is not a solicitation document, but pre-notice of an upcoming solicitation. Specific instructions on submitting your proposal will be contained in the solicitation documents to be issued on or after the date listed below.

Proposed Solicitation Issue Date: July 11th, 2023

NO phone calls accepted

36.204 Disclosure of the magnitude of construction projects: Between $ 100,000 to $200,000.

Completion Date: 4/20/2024

It is the policy of the government to provide maximum practicable opportunities in its acquisitions to small business, veteran-owned small business, small disadvantaged business, and women-owned small business concerns. Such concerns must also have the maximum practicable opportunity to participate as subcontractors in the contracts awarded by any executive agency, consistent with efficient contract performance. All offerors are strongly encouraged to contact their local Small Business Administration Office, to post their need for qualified subcontractors at http://www.sba.gov.

Construction Contraction Administration
Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 36.211(b) requires agencies provide description of policies and procedures that apply to definitization of equitable adjustments for change orders under construction contracts and data on the time required to definitize equitable adjustments for change orders under construction contracts. This information can be found at: https://www.doi.gov/pam/acquisition/policy/constructioncontract.