Repair and Maintain Water Towers at FCI Terre Haute

THIS IS A SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE. THIS NOTICE IS ISSUED FOR MARKET RESEARCH PURPOSES ONLY. THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION OR INVITATION FOR OFFERORS TO SUBMIT QUALIFICATION DOCUMENTS OR PROPOSALS. SHOULD THIS REQUIREMENT MOVE FORWARD, A SYNOPSIS OF THE PROPOSED CONTRACT ACTION WILL BE POSTED AT A LATER DATE PROVIDING INSTRUCTIONS FOR OFFERORS TO RESPOND TO THIS OPPORTUNITY.

Please only respond to this sources sought notice if you are seriously interested and if your company is capable of performing the corresponding work required.

The Federal Bureau of Prisons (FBOP), Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) Terre Haute anticipates the issuance of a solicitation for the award of a firm-fixed-price construction contract for a project titled Repair and Maintain Water Towers at FCI Terre Haute located at 4700 Bureau Rd. South, Terre Haute, IN 47802.

The Federal Bureau of Prisons (FBOP), FCI Terre Haute, located at 4700 Bureau Rd. South, Terre Haute, IN 47802, seeks to award a single contract to a qualified and licensed contractor to provide all labor, materials, and engineering services to include the submittal of a comprehensive 100% Design Package for FBOP approval, encompassing technical material specifications for the following;

1. The Contractor shall provide all equipment, tools, specialized materials, skilled labor, competent supervision, safety systems, and incidentals necessary to clean, repair, and test the following two (2) elevated storage structures.

Tank A: FCI and FPC Water Tower

• Design & Capacity: 600,000-Gallon Spheroid Elevated Tank

• Original Fabricator/Year: Pittsburgh Tank (2007)

Specific Required Tasks:

1. Exterior Preparation: Perform high-pressure water washing to clear surface contamination.

2. Exterior Coating: Apply a multi-coat commercial-grade exterior urethane system.

3. Dry Interior Remediation: Spot power-tool clean failed coating zones.

4. Dry Interior Coating: Spot-prime and repaint all prepared areas with a specialized epoxy system.

5. Foundation Maintenance: Clean and apply high-durability protection sealant to concrete foundations. Remediate structural voids or failing grout lines beneath the steel baseplate.

6. Overflow Modifications: Furnish and fit an approved, insect/debris-screened flap gate over the overflow outfall.

7. Access Infrastructure: Anchor safety handholds adjacent to the wet interior roof hatch, access tube hatch, and painter's hatch.

8. Rigging Hardware: Weld a certified rigging lug onto the transition cone section above the upper platform hatchway.

9. Expansion Joints: Remove insulation to examine joints. If a glandular-style joint is present, extract it and replace it with an engineered bellows-type expansion joint.

10. Drainage Infrastructure: Install an engineered mud valve within the transition cone.

11. Corrosion Prevention: Test, tune, and systematically maintain the existing cathodic protection system.

12. Roof Barriers: Install a perimeter safety handrail system conforming to updated IDEM guidelines. Erect an integrated painter's rigging rail encircling the new handrail.

13. Seals & Deflectors: Fit food-grade watertight gaskets to the wet interior roof hatches. Anchor deflector bars securely at the draw pipe termination in the wet interior.

14. Structural Integrity: Inspect and reweld all cracked, compromised, or broken structural bracing welds.

15. Hatch & Ladder Upgrades: Extract obsolete hardware; supply and construct a modern structural manway, commercial roof hatches, and industrial ladders.

Tank B: USP Water Tower

• Design & Capacity: 600,000-Gallon Toroellipse Elevated Tank.

• Original Fabricator/Year: Caldwell Tank (2004)

Specific Required Tasks:

1. Exterior Preparation: Perform intensive high-pressure water washing (5,000–10,000 PSI) supplemented by mechanical spot power-tool cleaning.

2. Exterior Coating: Overcoat all exterior surfaces utilizing an industrial-grade acrylic coating system.

3. Dry Interior Remediation: Spot-clean failed coating zones via power tools.

4. Dry Interior Coating: Apply a field-matched interior epoxy coating system over prepared surfaces.

5. Foundation Protection: Apply deterioration-resistant protective sealant over the concrete foundation.

6. Safety Railings: Supply and permanently mount a structural handrail and a painter's rigging rail across the roof.

7. Rigging Tie-Offs: Mount fall-protection rigging couplings directly onto the roof near the new painter's rail. Install lower structural rigging couplings beneath the tank bowl centered between each leg assembly and the central riser.

8. Piping Integrity: Grind out and structurally reweld fractured overflow pipe braces. Fabricate and attach extra load-stabilizing support braces.

9. Riser Access: Cut out and construct an upgraded 30-inch diameter access manway into the bottom section of the riser.

10. Corrosion Prevention: Service, calibrate, and verify optimal functionality of the cathodic protection system.

11. Wet Interior Access: Swap out the old hatch for an upgraded 30-inch diameter wet interior roof hatch equipped with an ergonomic safety handhold.

12. Ladder Logistics: Completely substitute the original sidewall and roof ladders with a rigid vertical ladder system, complete with a step-off safety platform and continuous guardrails.

Please note that the attached Statement of Work is subject to change.  The attachments included with the solicitation will provide complete requirements for this project.  The solicitation will be posted at a later date.

Access to attachments will require an active vendor registration at SAM.gov as well as your Marketing Partner Identification Number (MPIN) associated with your SAM registration.  You will need to request access, to the controlled document(s), and receive approval prior to being able to view the files.  If you encounter problems requesting access to these documents, please refer to the Help section on SAM.gov or contact the Federal Service Desk at 866-606-8220.

The North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) code applicable to this requirement is 237110 (Water and Sewer Line and Related Structures Construction) with a corresponding small business size standard of $45.0 million average annual receipts for the firms preceding three fiscal years. The estimated magnitude of this project lies between $500,000 and $1,000,000.

Interested bidders must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) at https://sam.gov.

The FBOP is seeking small business contractors for this project. Your business size metrics information entered in your SAM registration must be less than or equal to the small business size standard specified above to qualify as a small business. Interested small business contractors are requested to respond to this notice by adding their names to the Interested Vendors List for this posting on the SAM website at https://sam.gov. You must be logged in to your vendor account in order to access the Interested Vendors List. Please add your business name only if you are interested in submitting a bid as a Prime contractor and are capable and eligible to compete for and perform this project.

This notice is intended only for those who would be entering into a Prime contract with the FBOP for the entirety of the project. The FBOP does not award subcontracts. Subcontracts (if applicable/necessary) are the responsibility of the Prime contractor. The FBOP has no privity of contract with subcontractors.

Interested parties are also requested to complete the attached Market Research Questionnaire and return the completed document to ofennell@bop.gov.

The synopsis of proposed contract action will include further instructions for responding to this opportunity. Interested bidders are advised to continuously monitor www.sam.gov for all future updates.