Moose Creek Dam Quality Assurance Laboratory

This is a presolicitation notice only for CHL023 Moose Creek Dam Quality Assurance Laboratory, North Pole, Alaska. Offer or proposals will not be accepted for this notice.

This solicitation will be a Total Small Business Set-Aside Procurement. Any resulting contract will be firm-fixed priced. The solicitation for this project will be available by INTERNET ACCESS ONLY with an anticipated download availability date for this solicitation to be on or about 4 May 2021. 

Access to the documents will be through a link on the Beta.Sam website: http://www.Beta.SAM.gov. Use the Advance Search function and use this solicitation number to Search by Solicitation/Award Number. Any future amendments to the solicitation will also be available for download from the Beta.SAM website.

The Contractor shall comply with commercial and industry standards as well as all applicable Federal, State, and local laws, regulations, and procedures. The Service Contract Act Wage Rates will apply.

If the project is cancelled, all proposal preparation costs will be borne by the offeror. All offerors are advised that they must be registered in Beta.SAM (https://www.beta.sam.gov/) in order to receive an award. Joint ventures must also be registered in Beta.SAM as a joint venture. Offerors are advised to begin this process when they prepare their proposal in order to ensure registration is in place should they be selected for award. The North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) code will be 541380, which has a size standard of $16.5 Million.

The estimated award date of this contract is June/July 2021.

DESCRIPTION OF WORK:  Perform Quality Assurance (QA) duties on the construction of a partial-depth barrier wall through approximately 4.5 miles of the Moose Creek Dam (MCD) embankment consisting of soil-cement-bentonite material in North Pole, AK. This contract is to establish a validated material testing laboratory at the MCD Safety Modification project staging area to support field inspections, perform material sampling and perform testing required to independently monitor the soil-cement-bentonite and soils work for the duration of the project. Contractor will supply all labor, equipment and materials to perform the services described herein. The general scope of services to be provided must include, but not limited to, establishment of the physical structure for the QA materials testing laboratory and office including site preparation and temporary utilities, materials testing laboratory development to include equipment, QA processes, QA manual, and successful lab validation by the US Army Corps of Engineers, Engineering Research and Development Center (ERDC).