RECOVERY Red Bluff Pumping Plant and Fish ScreensARRA Project No. 16. 000TAS::14 0681::TAS Contractor Name: Balfour Beatty Infrastructure, Inc. Contractor DUNS: 783059074

Solicitation No. R10PS20R33 TAS::14 0681::TAS RECOVERY The Bureau of Reclamation, Mid-Pacific Region intends to issue a Request for Proposals (RFP) for a firm-fixed price construction contract for the new Red Bluff Pumping Plant and Fish Screens located near Red Bluff Diversion Dam on the Sacramento River, approximately 2 miles southeast of the City of Red Bluff, California in Tehama County. The principal components of the work to be performed under the specifications include the following: Construct a Fish Screen, Pumping Plant, Canal Transition, Canal Reach, and Switchyard to include: 1. Preparatory Work and Sitework - clearing, grubbing, and stripping of materials; demolition and debris removal; site excavation, grading, and removal of large volumes of material; stockpiling, testing and disposal of contaminated soils; constructing access roads, stormwater improvements, sediment pipe system and overflow structures and sheet pile walls; dewatering and unwatering for excavation. 2. Fish Screen - constructing cofferdams and excavate, dewater and prepare subgrade for structure; constructing reinforced concrete fish screen structure; providing and installing fabricated metal work including fish screens, solid panels, tuning baffles, catwalk, grating and safety rails; providing and installing screen cleaning and sediment jetting systems; constructing log boom and associated pipe pile structure; and providing supporting electrical, lighting and controls systems. 3. Pumping Plant - excavating and preparing subgrade; constructing reinforced concrete pumping plant substructure; constructing control building and unit bay canopy from prefabricated, insulated metal panels complete with steel doors and windows, roll-up door, roof hatches, and fall protection cable system; providing fabricated metalwork including frames, gratings, ladders, hatches, cable trench cover plates, and guardrail; providing fire extinguishers, clean agent fire extinguishing system, portable sump pumping unit, and packaged terminal air-conditioners; providing diesel engine-generator set and fuel system; providing open channel flowmeter; providing trashracks, and stoplogs, seats and guides, and lifting beams; installing Government -furnished vertical axial-flow pumps and vertical induction motors; providing supporting electrical, lighting, and controls. 4. Pumping Plant Canal Transition and Canal - driving sheet piles for canal; excavating between sheet pile walls; installing structural steel bracing and installing tie rods and concrete anchors; placing lean concrete base slab and reinforced concrete slab; erecting metal beam guardrail. 5. Switchyard - excavating for structure foundations, cable trench, direct-buried cable and conduit, and ductbank; constructing ductbank; constructing oil containment system; constructing cast-in-place concrete structure foundations and erecting structural steel switchyard structures; providing switchyard (69/4, I6-kV power transformers, 69-kV circuit breaker, and 69-kV disconnecting switches); erecting chain link fence and gates. The applicable North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code is 237990 and the related small business size standard in dollars is $33.5M. The estimated cost of this project is between $50,000,000.00 and $100,000,000.00. This is an unrestricted solicitation and all offers from responsible concerns will be considered. FAR Clause 52.219-4 "Notice of Price Evaluation Preference for HUBZone Small Business Concerns" applies. Solicitation R10PS20R33 will be posted at http://ideasec.nbc.gov on or about February 1, 2010. The estimated date for receipt of bids is March 3, 2010. This requirement will require 100% performance and payment bonds. Details concerning the site visit and how to register will be located in Section L of the solicitation. The solicitation and specifications must be downloaded at http://ideasec.nbc.gov. No paper copy of this solicitation will be distributed with the exception of the drawings. You must register on the Bidder's Mailing List to receive the drawings. To register: click on the solicitation number and then select the "Vendor Interest" tab taking the following steps: 1) click on the Vendor Interest Tab; 2) enter DUNS number; and 3) enter Password or Tax Identification Number. Also, Central Contractor Registration (CCR) as required by FAR 4.1102 applies to this requirement. In addition, FAR 4.1200 Annual Representations and Certifications, Online Representations and Certifications Application (ORCA) apply to this requirement. Prospective contractors must be registered prior to award. Lack of registration in the CCR and ORCA database will make an offeror ineligible for award. Information on CCR registration can be obtained via the Internet at http://www.ccr.gov. Furthermore, information on ORCA can be obtained via the Internet at http://orca.bpn.gov. Questions concerning this solicitation should be directed to Bettye Lou Mahoney via e-mail at bmahoney@usbr.gov. Please be advised that the Awardee will be subject to Section 1512(c) of the Recovery Act, which requires that each contractor report on its Recovery Act funds under the awarded contract. These reports will be made available to the public.