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Purpose: The Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation (GLS) is seeking sources for small businesses qualified to fabricate ice buoys which will be used as aids to navigation for commerc... Purpose: The Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation (GLS) is seeking sources for small businesses qualified to fabricate ice buoys which will be used as aids to navigation for commercial vessels. Background: GLS is a wholly owned U.S. Government Corporation within the U.S. Department of Transportation which owns and operates that portion of the St. Lawrence Seaway (Seaway) in U.S. territorial waters between Lake Ontario and Montreal, Canada, including two navigation locks. Part of GLS’s mission is to facilitate the safe and efficient passage of commercial vessels through the Seaway, which includes maintenance, repair and/or replacement of structures and facilities. GLS will solicit the project requirements for a multi-year contract that would require several ice buoys to be fabricated and delivered in each year. Project Scope: GLS intends to order the fabrication and delivery of approximately 10 to 20 buoys per year, over a multi-year contract of an anticipated five-year period. There will be an optional requirement that, if awarded, would require the buoys to be painted to specification requirements. The attached drawing gives a preliminary general layout of the ice buoys. General details and items of note for the fabrication of the buoys for consideration include, but are not limited to: The buoys are approximately 20-feet in overall length and varying diameter conical shaped with a maximum diameter of approximately 7-feet. The fabrication elements of the buoys are mostly ASTM A36 steel plate of varying thicknesses ranging from 1/4” to 3/8” and requires rolling plates of such diameters to form conical shapes. The buoy fabrication requires the placement of concrete within the lower portion of the inner buoy structure to function as a counterweight. The paint system to be specified will be suitable for anticorrosive and antifouling requirements. Submission: Interested firms shall submit the following for this RFI: Please e-mail a capability statement and other relevant information. Provide your company name and point of contact. Provide a list of three projects similar in scope and size, or greater, completed in the last 15 years. The relevant projects shall include use of materials described. Brief descriptions of the relevant projects shall be provided along with contact information for references for each project. All e-mail subject lines must contain Ice Buoy Fabrication RFI in the subject line. Questions regarding this announcement shall be submitted in writing by e-mail to jason.brockway@dot.gov. Verbal questions will not be accepted and the GLS will respond to questions at its discretion. All communications will be sent via e-mail and shall not contain proprietary information. All responses shall be submitted prior to December 20, 2021, 10:00 am (est) to jason.brockway@dot.gov. Vendors who respond to this RFI should not anticipate feedback with regards to their submission other than acknowledgement of receipt. GLS reserves the right to review late submissions but makes no guarantee that they will be reviewed. THIS IS A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI) ONLY. In accordance with FAR 15.201(e), responses to this notice are not offers and cannot be accepted by the Government to form a binding contract. The RFI is issued solely for information and planning purposes; it does not constitute a Request for Quotation (RFQ), Request for Proposal (RFP) or a promise to issue a solicitation. Responders are advised that the U.S. Government will not pay any cost incurred in response to this RFI. All costs associated with responding to this RFI will be solely at the responding party's expense.