USCGC maria bray (WLM-562) dry-dock repair

The United States Coast Guard Surface Forces Logistics Center intends to issue a Commercial Request for Quote (RFQ) for Dry-Dock Repairs to the USCGC MARIA BRAY (WLM-562) a 175 FOOT KEEPER-CLASS BUOY TENDER. The Coast Guard intends to conduct the procurement in accordance with Federal Acquisition regulation (FAR) Part 12, Acquisition of Commercial Items, and FAR Subpart 13.5, Test Program for Certain Commercial Items. The Simplified acquisition will be issued as a Request for Quote (RFQ), on or about March 16, 2010. The RFQ will be issued via the Federal Business Opportunity (FEDBIZOPPS) web page at www.fbo.gov. Hard copies of the specification and solicitation will not be issued. It is incumbent upon contractors to monitor the FEDBIZOPPS web page for the RFQ release and all subsequent amendments. FEDBIZOPPS also contains an option automatic notification service. THE ACQUISITION WILL BE SOLICITED AS A SMALL BUSINESS SET ASIDE.

The small business size standard is less than 1000 employees the NACIS Code is 336611. The acquisition is for DRY DOCK repairs to the USCGC MARIA BRAY (WLM-562) a 175 FOOT KEEPER-CLASS BUOY TENDER. The 175 FOOT BUOY TENDER is home ported at Atlantic Beach FL. The contractor shall perform all work at the contractor's facility. There is a onetime geographic restriction for this dry-dock availability for a facility within 250 nautical miles (nm) total one-way (500 nautical miles round trip). The performance period will be 10 calendar days with a start date on or about April 5, 2010.

The scope of the acquisition is for repairing various items aboard the USCGC MARIA BRAY (WLM-562). This work will include, but not limited to: 1-D. Renew seals on both Z-DRIVES, 2-D. Dry-docking, 3-D Temporary Services, 4-D. Z-Drive Propulsion Unit Seal oil Tank, Relocate, A-O Composite Labor Rate, B-D. GFP Report, and Z-O. Laydays.
All welding and brazing shall be accomplished by trained welders who have been certified by the applicable regulatory code performance qualification procedures. All reference documents are available for viewing at 300 East Main Street, Suite 600, Norfolk, VA 23510-9102.

A CD-ROM containing all applicable drawings is available free of charge to contractors upon request not later than three (3) days from the solicitation issuance. The CD-ROM(s) contain WINDOWS compliant raster/vector formats (e.g.*.DWF, etc).
For information on this notice please contract Jack Rodman at (510) 637-5901 or email: Jack.E.Rodman@uscg.mil