Tainter Gate Pocket Chain Machinery for Lock and Dams No. 24 and 25 in Missouri

The U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District, is seeking a company to furnish all plant, labor, material and equipment, including performing all operations required to fabricate, assemble, paint and deliver all tainter gate pocket machinery for Lock & Dam No. 24, Clarksville, Missouri and for Lock & Dam No. 25, Winfield, Missouri . This is a Request for Proposal (RFP) solicitation. There will be no public bid opening. The basis for award will be Best Value technique. The Government will award a contract resulting from this solicitation to the responsible offeror whose offer conforms to the solicitation requirements and drawings and will provide the best value to the government considering recent and relevant past/present performance , technical capability, timely delivery and price. The government reserves the right to award a contract to other than the low offeror. This is a supply indefinite quantity contract with a base and four additional option years to renew. The NAICS Code for this work is 333923. The SBA size standard is 500 employees or less. This announcement is open to all businesses regardless of size. If a large business is selected for this contract, it must comply with FAR 52.219-9 regarding the requirement for a subcontracting goals for the St. Louis District for each contract are that (1) a minimum of 70% of the Contractors intended subcontract amount be placed with small businesses (SB), including (2) small disadvantaged businesses (SDB), 6.2%; (3) woman-owne d small businesses (WOSB), 7.0%; (4) HUBZone small businesses, 9.8%; (5) Veteran-Owned Small Businesses, 3.0%; (6) Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses, 0.9%. The plan is not required with this submittal. The solicitation is expected to be iss ued on or about 15 Apr 08. The Government will not provide paper copies of the solicitation or the Interested Vendors List (IVL). Telephone, written, facsimile, or e-mail requests, for the solicitation package will not be honored. Potential off erors MUST register at FedBizOpps www.fedbizopps.gov./ in order to receive notification and/or changes to the solicitation. The Interested Vendors List (IVL) will be activated and may be accessed and printed from the FedBizOpps web site. Prospectiv e offerors who would like their company name included on the IVL list may do so on the Fedbizopps website under IVL. Potential offerors are responsible for monitoring this site for the release of the solicitation package and any other pertinent informa tion and for downloading their own copy of the solicitation package. All interested parties MUST be registered in the Central Contractor Registration (CCR) Database and have completed On-Line Representation and Certifications Application (ORCA) in orde r to receive a contract award. If you are not registered with CCR, you may request an application via phone at 1-888-227-2423 or register on-line at http://www.ccr.gov/. To register with ORCA, you may go online at http://www.bpn.gov/orca/. Poi nt of contact for this solicitation is Deborah Krems at (314) 331-8515, email: Debbie.Krems@usace.army.mil.