Lower Monumental Telephone System Upgrade

Added: Apr 08, 2016 12:31 pm Construction project: Lower Monumental Telephone System Upgrade

The work described herein at Lower Monumental Dam shall include but not be limited to the following:

1. Install new cable plant; copper plant shall be CAT 6a per Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.3an. Where additional fiber optic cable is required, fiber plant shall be 50/125 micron multimode.

2. Core drilling will be required, with requisite enclosures. Project will include conduit, cable tray/ladder and cable race installations.

3. Circuit breakers and 120 volt power feeds and uninterruptable power supplies installed to support existing telephone switching equipment.

4. Provide as-built drawings as specified. Shop drawings shall be created in MicroStation Version V8 or compatible equivalent.

Place of Performance is the Lower Monumental Lock and Dam located near Kahloutus, Washington, Franklin County.

All on-site work shall be performed in accordance with the Corps of Engineers Safety and Health Requirements Manual (EM 385-1-1).

Solicitation is open to both large and small business concerns. Solicitation Number W912EF-16-B-0002 will be posted to the FedBizOpps (FBO) website on or about 25 April 2016. The bid opening date will be contained in the solicitation and any solicitation amendments that may be issued.

A site visit will be offered approximately 2 weeks after the solicitation is posted. Refer to the solicitation for details regarding the site visit.

This will be a firm fixed-price construction contract. Magnitude of Construction is estimated between $500,000 and $1,000,000. A bid bond is required in the amount of 20 percent of the total bid price. Performance and Payment bonds in the amount of 100 percent of the total contract price are required. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this project is 238210 and the associated small business size standard is $15 million.

Important Note: The FedBizOpps Response Date listed elsewhere in this synopsis is for FedBizOpps archive purposes only. It does not necessarily reflect the actual bid opening date. The bid opening date will be contained in the solicitation and any solicitation amendments that may be issued.

When available, the solicitation documents for this project will be available via FedBizOpps.gov https://www.fbo.gov. NO CD's OR HARD COPIES WILL BE AVAILABLE. Bidders are responsible for checking the referenced page for any update(s) to the Notice. The Government is not responsible for any loss of Internet connectivity or for a bidder's inability to access the document posted at the referenced website. To obtain automatic notifications of updates to this solicitation, you MUST log in to FedBizOpps.gov and add the solicitation to your Watchlist. If you would like to list your firm so others can see you are an interested vendor, you must click the "Add Me" to Interested Vendors" button in the listing for this solicitation on FedBizOpps.gov.

ACCESS FOR FOREIGN NATIONALS: Security clearance for foreign nationals to attend a site visit requires approximately 4 weeks; therefore, clearance should be requested immediately. To request clearance, please submit the names of all foreign nationals proposed for site visit attendance, along with documentation to verify that he/she was legally admitted into the United States and has authority to work and/or go to school in the US. Such documentation may include a US passport, Certificate of US citizenship (INS Form N-560 or N-561), Certificate of Naturalization (INS Form N-550 or N-570), foreign passport with I-551 stamp or attached INS Form I-94 indicating employment authorization, Alien Registration Receipt Card with photograph (INS Form I-151 or I-551), Temporary Resident Card (INS Form I-688), Employment Authorization Card (INS Form I-688A), Reentry Permit (INS Form I-327), Refugee Travel Document (INS Form I-571), Employment Authorization Document issued by the INS which contains a photograph (INS Form I-688B). Send this information by email to Hillary.A.Morgan@usace.army.mil and Phyllis.L.Buerstatte@usace.army.mil. Foreign nationals must have received clearance prior to being granted access to the project site.