Inactive
Total Small Business Set-Aside (FAR 19.5)
Notice ID:W9123722B0004
The US Army Corps of Engineers, Huntington District intends to procure a construction contract for the Cleaning and Painting of Tainter Gates located at Alum Creek Lake, Paint Creek Lake and Delaware ...
The US Army Corps of Engineers, Huntington District intends to procure a construction contract for the Cleaning and Painting of Tainter Gates located at Alum Creek Lake, Paint Creek Lake and Delaware Lake, Scioto Area, Ohio. The award of one (1) Firm Fixed price Construction Contract is anticipated. The project includes painting and cleaning of Tainter Gates at Alum Creek Lake, Delaware Lake, and Paint Creek Lake. Alum Creek Lake Project purposes are flood risk reduction, water supply for the Columbus metropolitan area, fish and wildlife, and recreation. The lake is impounded by a rolled earthfill dam, 93 ft. tall and 10,200 ft. long with a gated concrete spillway. The dam was completed in August 1974 and serves a drainage area of 123 square miles. The 118 ft spillway is gated concrete in the channel section of the dam with three 34 x 25 ft tainter gates supported by 8 ft piers. Delaware Lake Project purposes are flood risk reduction, low-flow augmentation, and recreation. The lake is impounded by a rolled earthfill dam 92 ft. tall, 18,600 ft. long, 15 ft. wide at the top and 480 ft. wide at the base with a gated concrete spillway. The dam was completed in July 1948 and serves a drainage area of 386 square miles. There is a 232 ft. long, gated spillway in the channel section of the dam with six 25 x 32 ft. tainter gates supported by 8-ft. piers and operated by individual electric hoists. Paint Creek Lake Project purposes are flood risk reduction, water supply storage for Greenfield, OH, low flow augmentation, recreation, and water quality improvement for Chillicothe, OH. Land includes 9,614 fee acres and 568 flowage easement acres. The lake is impounded by an earth and rockfill embankment dam, 118 feet tall and 700 feet long. The 1,900 ft. long spillway contains three 57 x 37 ft. tainter gates supported by 10-ft. piers. An organized site visit will be conducted on August 30, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. at Alum Creek Lake, interested bidders are highly encouraged to attend this site visit. See solicitation for full details. The contract will be awarded to the lowest priced bidder who is found to be responsive and responsible. This procurement is 100% Small Business set-aside. The NAICS code for this procurement is 237990, which has a size standard of $39.5 million average annual receipts. Solicitation documents will be available on or about August 20, 2022 and can be downloaded at sam.gov/. ALL SUBMISSIONS TO THIS BID ANNOUNCEMENT SHALL BE SUBMITTED ELECTRONICALLY THROUGH DOD SAFE. No paper copies, CD-ROMs or facsimile submissions will be accepted. Electronic Bid Submission is required through the Army’s Electronic File Sharing Service, DOD SAFE (https://safe.apps.mil). There are no user accounts for SAFE. Authentication is handled via email. Anyone has access to DOD SAFE, and the application is available for use by anyone. The SAFE “Getting Started Guide” has information on how to utilize the system (https://safe.apps.mil/about.php). Instructions for uploading are as follows: 1. Send an email to the Contracting Officer and Contract Specialist to receive the link to drop-off your bid. This will need to be completed two (2) business days prior to the bid due date. Karen L. Simmons, Contract Specialist at Karen.L.Simmons@usace.army.mil Katrina L. Chapman, Contracting Officer at Katrina.L.Chapman@usace.army.mil 2. You will receive an email with the link to submit your drop-off. 3. Short Note to the Recipients: Click the Add Files or Drag and Drop your files. For file description, enter W9123722B0004-FIRMNAME-Bid. 4. Click Upload button to send documents. Please note, as of April 2018, GSA’s System for Award Management (SAM) system is requiring new registrations and renewals of existing registrations to submit an original signed notarized letter identifying the authorized Entity Administrator. The notarized letter is not to be submitted to the Huntington Contracting Office as it is not our requirement. Vendors are encouraged to check their entity’s status in www.SAM.gov and plan accordingly. If the prospective contractor is not registered in the SAM database, the Contracting Officer will follow the procedures in FAR 4.1103. Contact the supporting Federal Service Desk at www.fsd.gov, or by telephone at 866-606-8220 (toll free) or 334-206-7828 (internationally) Monday through Friday from 8am to 8pm EDT, for free assistance. The SAM registration process may take several weeks to process once submitted. Please carefully consider this information when deciding to submit your bid. FAR clause 52.219-14 (DEVIATION 2021-O0008), "Limitations on Subcontracting" applies to this procurement which states it will not pay more than 50% of the amount paid by the Government for contract performance to subcontractors that are not similarly situated entities. Any work that a similarly situated entity further subcontracts will count toward the 50% subcontract amount that cannot be exceeded.
