Refurbish & Paint Tainter Gates, Greers Ferry Dam, Cleburne County, AR

SOURCES SOUGHT SYNOPSIS
Refurbish & Paint Tainter Gates, Greers Ferry Dam, Cleburne County, AR

This is a SOURCES SOUGHT announcement; a market survey for information only, to be used for preliminary planning purposes. THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION FOR PROPOSALS AND NO CONTRACT WILL BE AWARDED FROM THIS SYNOPSIS. No reimbursement will be made for any costs associated with providing information in response to this synopsis or any follow up information requests. Respondents will not be notified of the results of the evaluation.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - Little Rock District has been tasked to solicit for and award a requirement that includes the refurbish and paint the tainter gates at the Greers Ferry Dam in Cleburne County, AR. Proposed project will be a competitive, firm-fixed price, design/bid/build contract procured in accordance with FAR 15, Contracting by Negotiations. The type of set-aside decision to be issued will depend upon the capabilities of the responses to this synopsis.

The purpose of this synopsis is to gain knowledge of interest, capabilities and qualifications of various members of industry, to include the Small Business Community: Small Business, Section 8(a), Historically Underutilized Business Zones (HUB-Zone), Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB). The Government must ensure there is adequate competition among the potential pool of responsible contractors. Small business, Section 8(a), HUBZone, & SDVOSB are highly encouraged to participate.

The Government is seeking qualified, experienced sources capable of performing the requirement which consist of blast cleaning and painting, lead paint and material abatement, providing side and bottom seal assemblies, providing cathodic protection systems, providing and/or enlarging drain holes in the gate's girders and rib bottom plate, providing trunnion pin retainer bars at each trunnion pin, providing mesh coverings over each opening in the crosshead members, and performing fracture critical member (FCM) inspection for six tainter gates. Additional work items include repair of machinery platform base plate grout beds at each spillway pier, align and weld splice plates on the catwalk support beams at each spillway pier, blast clean and paint the underside of the catwalk and machinery platforms over the entire length of the spillway, provide bird protection on all six (6) tainter gates, and flood demobilization and mobilization.

In accordance with FAR 36/DFARs 236, the estimated construction price range for this project is: Between $1,000,000 and $5,000,000

Estimated duration of the project is 640 calendar days.

The North American Industry Classification System code for this procurement is 237990 which has a small business size standard of $36,500,000

The Standard Industrial Code is 1721 and The Federal Supply Code is Z2KA.

Small Businesses are reminded under FAR 52.219-14, Limitations on Subcontracting that they must perform at least 15% of the cost of the contract, not including the cost of materials, with their own employees for specialty construction-type procurement.

Should the acquisition be set-aside for the 8(a) program, 8(a) firms are reminded they need to have a bona fide office in the geographical area of consideration where the work is to be performed as determined by SBA.

Prior Government contract work is not required for submitting a response under this sources sought synopsis.

Anticipated solicitation issuance date is on or about 17 February 2016, and the estimated proposal due date will be on or about March 16, 2016. The official synopsis citing the solicitation number will be issued on Federal Business Opportunities www.fbo.gov and inviting firms to register electronically to receive a copy of the solicitation when it is issued.

Firm's response to this Synopsis shall be limited to 5 pages and shall include the following information:

1. Firm's name, address, point of contact, phone number, and e-mail address.
2. Firm's interest in bidding on the solicitation when it is issued.
3. Firm's capability to perform a contract of this magnitude and complexity (include firm's capability to execute construction contracts with a similar scope, comparable work performed within the past 5 years:
Brief description of the project, customer name, timeliness of performance, customer satisfaction, and dollar value of the project) - provide at least 3 examples.
4. Firm's Business Size - LB, SB, 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB.
6. Firm's Joint Ventures (existing), including Mentor Protégés and teaming arrangement information is acceptable
7. Firm's Bonding Capability (construction bonding level per contract and aggregate construction bonding level, both expressed in dollars) via letter from bonding company

Interested Firm's shall respond to this Sources Sought Synopsis no later than 10:00 am on 19 January 2016 All interested firms must be registered in System for Award Management (SAM) to be eligible for award of Government contracts. Mail, fax or email your response to Marcus Mitchell, Little Rock District Corps of Engineers, 700 W. Capitol Avenue Room 7315, Little Rock, AR 72201, marcus.d.mitchell@usace.army.mil EMAIL IS THE PREFERRED METHOD WHEN RECEIVING RESPONSES TO THIS SYNOPSIS.