Marseilles, IL Wind Turbine

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Louisville District intends to issue a Request for Proposal (RFP) W912QR21R0005 for the Construction of a Wind Turbine, located in Marseilles, IL. The wind turbine project will also include installation of computer based monitoring and controlling systems that will monitor the speed, wind conditions, wind turbine direction, and energy capture. Contract duration is estimated at 630 calendar days. A pre-proposal site visit may be held. Meeting and site visit details will be provided in the solicitation.

Type of Set-Aside: This is a Full and Open procurement. In accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation 19.1307, this project requires the HUBZone 10% price evaluation.

Construction Magnitude: The magnitude of this construction project is anticipated to be between $1,000,000 and $5,000,000, in accordance with FAR 36.204.

Selection Process: This is a single-phase procurement. The proposals will be evaluated using a Best Value Tradeoff source selection process. The technical information contained in each offeror's proposal will be reviewed, evaluated, and rated by the Government.

Proposals for this procurement, at a minimum, will consist of the following: Prime Contractor Past Performance; DOR's Past Performance; Technical; and Price. Pro Forma information such as bonding and financial capability will also be required to meet the minimum requirements of this solicitation. All evaluation factors, other than cost or price, are considered approximately equal to cost or price. 

Discussions: The Government intends to award without discussions, but reserves the right to conduct discussion should it be deemed in the Government's best interest.

Solicitation Website: The official solicitation, when posted, will be available free of change by electronic posting only and may be found at Beta.SAM, website beta.SAM.gov. Paper copies of the solicitation will not be issued. Telephone and Fax requests for this solicitation will not be honored. Project files are Portable Document Format (PDF) files and can be viewed, navigated, or printed using Adobe Acrobat Reader. To dowload the solicitation for this project, contractors are required to register at beta.sam.gov. Amendments, if/when issues, will be posted to the above referenced website for electronic downloading. This will be the only method of distributing amendments prior to closing, therefore, it is the Offeror's responsibility to check the website periodically for any amendments to the solicitation.

Registrations:

Offerors shall have and shall maintain an active registration in the following database:

System for Award Managment (SAM): Offerors shall have and shall maintain an active registration in the SAM database at http://www.sam.gov to be eligible for a Government contract award. If the Offeror is a Joint Venture (JV), the JV entity shall have valid SAM registration in the SAM database representing the JV as one bussiness/firm/entity. If at the time of award an Offeror is not actively and successfully registered in the SAM database, the Government reserves the right to award to the next prospective Offeror.

Points of Contact: The point of contact for this procurement is the Contract Specialist, Miriaha Sigmon, at miriaha.d.sigmon@usace.army.mil.