RECOVERY - Riverside Wastway 1 and Canal Improvements Project

RECOVERY - Riverside Wastway 1 and Canal Improvements Project.  This requirement has been set-aside under the SBA's Small Business Act 8(a) Program and has been determined that competition will be limited to 8(a) firms located within El Paso District and New Mexico District only and other 8(a) construction firms with a bona fide place of business within the geographical competitive area, and the assigned NAICS Code.  All other 8(a) BD Participants are deemed ineligible to submit offers.  Work requires contractor to provide all plant, labor and material for the construction of the Mission Levee Crossings in the Lower Rio Grande, Hidalgo County, Texas.  This project involves work on the levee along three crossings with a combined length of approximately .2 miles.  The project has an estimated magnitude between $1 and $2 million.  The project will include improvements at a railroad crossing at Penitas, a canal culvert crossing near the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge, and at the Bentsen Palm Drive crossing.  Solicitation, plans and specifications have been posted at the El Paso 8(a) District Office and are available thru this agency.  A mandatory pre-bid site visit has been scheduled for Oct 3, 2010 at 2:00 p.m. at the USIBWC building located at 4171 N. Mesa C-100, El Paso, Tx  79902.  This solicitation was previously synopsized as a small business set-aside under IBM10B0011 and has since been re-synopsized as an 8(a) set-aside.