T. S. FREEDOM STAR - Pierside Ship Repairs

The Maritime Administration's Division of Atlantic Operations will solicit quotes for performing a work package for the TS FREEDOM STAR consisting of the following items:  upgrading the Integrated Shipboard Information System (I.S.I.S.), installation of an ECDIS System, replacing vessels gyro compass, accomplish miscellaneous steel piping repairs, accomplish annual critical gauge calibration, and replacing main diesel engine exhaust lagging.

All work shall be performed at the T.S. FREEDOM STAR pier located at the Harry Lundeberg Seamanship School at 45353 Saint Georges Avenue, Piney Point, Maryland 20674-0075.  The ship shall be available for work performance on or about January 20, 2016 with a completion date no later than March 21, 2017.

SHIP CHECK - SITE VISIT

A pre-quote conference and site visit will be conducted onboard the T.S. FREEDOM STAR Tuesday, December 06, 2016 at 10:00 a.m. POC: Mr. Tim McGeein, Marine Surveyor, phone 757‐322-5811 or cell 202-617-6912; email: Timothy.McGeein@dot.gov, or Ms. Monique R. Leake, Contracting Officer, phone 757‐322‐5820; Monique.Leake@dot.gov.  .  In order to make the site visit as productive as possible, offerors are also requested to submit any questions from the review of the solicitation package or as a result of site visit should be submitted in writing via email to the Contracting Officer Monique.Leake@dot.gov no later than 2:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on December 8, 2016 with solicitation number DTMA9217Q00006 in the subject line.  Responses to questions will be issued by an amendment to the solicitation package.

Failure of a prospective quoter to submit any questions or to attend the site visit will be construed to mean that the quoter fully understands all requirements of the solicitation. Prospective quoters are advised that the site visit will be held solely to allow quoters an opportunity to gain the best possible understanding of the working environment and specific work items to be addressed under contract in order that they may prepare an accurate and complete price quote. All prospective quoters are advised that at the conclusion of the site visit, unless this solicitation is amended in writing, it will remain unchanged and, that if an Amendment is issued, normal procedures relating to the acknowledgment and receipt of any such amendment shall be applicable.

A complete solicitation package (Request for Quotations) is expected to be available on the Federal Business Opportunities website on or before November 30, 2016.

ATTENTION: Minority, Women-Owned, and Disadvantaged Business Enterprises (DBEs). The Department of Transportation (DOT), Short-Term Lending Program (STLP) offers working capital financing in the form of lines of credit to finance accounts receivable for transportation related contracts. Maximum line of credit is $750,000 with interest at the prime rate, as published daily in the Wall Street Journal, plus 1.75 percent. For further information, call (800) 532-1169 or e-mail stlpinfo@dot.gov.