McCook Groundwater Monitoring Wells

Amendment 0003 to Solicitation W912P6-14-B-0008 is hereby posted.

Amendment 0002 to Solicitation W912P6-14-B-0008 is hereby posted.

Solicitation W912P6-14-B-0008

The Pre-Bid Attendance Sheet is hereby posted after being inadvertently omitted from the Amendment 0001 package.

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Solicitation W912P6-14-B-0008 Amendment 0001

This amendment includes: amended Project Specification Sections, amended Project Drawing Sheets, answers questions submitted by Contractors and  the Pre-Bid Meeting Attendence sheet.

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Solicitation W912P6-14-B-0008 for McCook Groundwater Monitoring Wells.

Due to the large size of the files, the attachments were broken up into several parts. There are two attachments which contain the Specifications and Drawings for the solicitation. There are also five (5) additional Geotechnical Information attachments which corresponds with Specification Section 00 31 32.13 SUBSURFACE DRILLING AND SAMPLING INFORMATION.  

This Pre-Solicitation Notice is being issued by the United States Army Corps of Engineers - Chicago District to inform interested/potential contractors of the District's imminent issue of an Invitation for Bid Package for its construction project, entitled "McCOOK GROUNDWATER MONITORING WELLS."

PROJECT INFORMATION: The project consists of the installation of seven deep groundwater wells around the perimeter of the McCook Reservoir, the abandonment of one existing well, and initial chemical sampling of the newly installed wells. The wells will require a 10" minimum bore diameter, 300'-500' deep into bedrock. Groundwater wells will be outfitted with dedicated variable speed environmental sampling pumps that are compatible with a portable generator (provided by others), groundwater level transducers with internal power and data-logging capabilities, and a barometric pressure transducer.

PROJECT LOCATION:
McCook Reservoir
7601 S. LaGrange Rd (Approximate Address)
Willow Spring, IL 60480

ACQUISITION INFORMATION: Competition for this acquisition is set aside for Small Business Concerns. The Classification Code for this procurement is North American Industry System Code 237990, with a small business size standard in dollars of $33.5M. The magnitude of cost for construction is between $1M and $5M.

The Invitation for Bid (IFB) Package will be downloadable from the INTERNET ONLY. The project specification files are Portable Document Format (PDF) files and can be viewed, navigated, or printed using Adobe Acrobat Reader. Interested Offerors can download the IFB Package from: http://www.fbo.gov. The IFB Package will be available at the aforementioned Internet site on or about 3 June 2014, with bids due on or about 3 July 2014.

IN THE CASE OF A DISCREPANCY BETWEEN THE DATES PUBLISHED IN THIS NOTICE AND THOSE CALLED OUT IN THE IFB DOCUMENT, THE DATES IN THE IFB DOCUMENT OVERRIDES THOSE PUBLISHED HEREIN THIS NOTICE; THIS IS RELATIVE TO THE IFB ISSUANCE DATE AND THE DUE DATE FOR BIDS.

In order for contractors to be awarded contracts with the Department of Defense, the contractor must be registered in the System for Contract Management (SAM); Contractors can access the SAM database for free at http://www.sam.gov. The Government intends to award a firm-fixed price construction contract from this acquisition. FAXED OR ELECTRONIC BIDS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.

Request for solicitation packages made by telephone, fax or e-mail will not be honored. The Point of Contact for this acquisition is Alex Heinzel at (312) 846-5368.

** Please include Solicitation Number W912P6-14-B-0008 on all correspondence. **