Rehabilitate & Paint Tainter Gates, Greers Ferry Dam, Little Red River, Cleburne County, AR

Pre-solicitation Notice W9127S-16-R-0003: This solicitation will be advertised as a Total Small Business Set-Aside. The North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) Code is 237990(Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction). The small business size standard is $36,500,000.00. The solicitation is for a firm fixed priced construction 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.

The Magnitude of Construction is between $1,000,000 & $5,000,000.

Solicitation will be issued as a Request for Proposal (RFP) utilizing FAR 15. Proposals will be evaluated utilizing the Lowest Price Technically Acceptable (LPTA) method. This solicitation will be issued via Internet on the Federal Business Opportunities website, www.fbo.gov on or about 19 July 2016. It is each offeror's responsibility to download the solicitation from the internet website. No paper copies will be provided. Notification of amendments shall be made via the Internet as well. It is therefore the contractor's responsibility to check the website daily for any posted changes to this solicitation. Contractors may view and/or download this solicitation and all amendments from the Internet after solicitation issuance at the following Internet address:

https://www.fbo.gov and search for Solicitation Number W9127S16R0003

All offerors are encouraged to visit the Federal Business Opportunities Website at https://www.fbo.gov to view other business opportunities. Offerors must be registered with the System for Award Management (SAM), in order to receive a Government contract award. To register, the SAM Internet address is: http://www.sam.gov. The contract specialist for this solicitation will be Marcus Mitchell. All questions or comments should be forwarded in writing by fax at (501)324-5137 or by e-mail to marcus.d.mitchell@usace.army.mil.