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Federal Highway Administration Eastern Federal Lands Highway Division Sources Sought Announcement No. 693C73-25-SS-0005 George Washington & Jefferson National Forests Project VA ERFO FS GWJEF808 2020-... Federal Highway Administration Eastern Federal Lands Highway Division Sources Sought Announcement No. 693C73-25-SS-0005 George Washington & Jefferson National Forests Project VA ERFO FS GWJEF808 2020-2(1) SUBMITTAL INFORMATION ISSUE DATE: December 18th, 2024 DUE DATE FOR RESPONSES: January 17th, 2025 2:00 PM EST SUBMIT RESPONSES TO: Mr. Michael Sun at eflhd.contracts@dot.gov SUBMITTALS SHOULD BE MADE IN ELECTRONIC FORMAT ONLY Synopsis: This is a Sources Sought announcement and is for information purposes only. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS, QUOTATIONS, OR BIDS. NO SOLICITATION IS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE. The purpose of this announcement is to determine the availability and capability of ALL QUALIFIED SOURCES for a construction project involving slide repairs and extensive soil nail/gabion wall construction in George Washington and Jefferson National Forests, located in Bedford, Scott, Tazewell, and Wythe Counties, Virginia. The project consists of traffic closure, drainage replacements, articulated block and reinforced concrete pavement, temporary bridges, bridge scour repairs, streambank revetment, and other miscellaneous work. The primary objective of the proposed contract is to repair damage from these ERFO events on all sites. The work is divided into bid schedules as follows: Schedule A (Base Contract) - Little Stony Road (FSR-700). The work includes geotechnical slide repairs with soil nail walls. There are 2 proposed walls of 105 and 55 feet long. Shoring and bracing will be required to construct the wall. The gravel roadway resurfacing will 400 feet long. The road will be closed during the construction. Schedule B (Option 1) - Punch and Judy Road (FSR-618). The work includes geotechnical slide repairs with an approximately 400-foot-long soil nail wall and 61-foot-long gabion basket wall. Shoring and bracing will be required to construct the wall. The gravel road resurfacing will be approximately 1,030 feet long. The rock cut slope will receive wire mesh draped rockfall protection. The road will be closed during the construction. Schedule C (Option 2) - Dry Run Road (FSR-14). The work includes replacing an undersized pipe culvert with a 4-foot span by 3-foot rise concrete box culvert with articulated block to reinforce approaches, surfacing aggregate for spot repair of road surface, and 3 locations of slope revetment with riprap and to repair scour holes under 2 bridge abutments. The road will be closed during the construction. Schedule D (Option 3) - Hussy Mountain Horse Camp Road (FSR-14A). The repair work includes replacing the existing damaged wooden Low Water Crossing (LWC) with a 10-foot span by 4.5-foot rise reinforced concrete open bottom box culvert, construction of minor reinforced concrete pavement to reinforce the LWC approaches, raising the existing approximately 0.1-mile long travel way surface by 2-3 feet with crushed aggregate, drainage improvements, replacement of the wooden fence and metal gate, and approximately 60 feet long riprap revetment at stream bank. The existing water line PVC pipe connected to the existing wooden LWC will need to be protected during the construction and reattached to the new LWC. The road will be closed during the construction. Schedule E (Option 4) - Blackhorse Gap East Road (FSR 186). The existing triple culvert (60-inch span by 46-inch rise pipe arches) LWC will be replaced with a 19-foot rise by 5.5 foot span open bottom concrete culvert. The profile will be raised about 2 feet. The culvert approaches with be paved with minor reinforced concrete pavement at the culvert approaches to strengthen and eliminate section loss. Riprap will be placed to protect stream banks. The work will require a temporary bridge placed next to the existing structure during the construction so that the local traffic can be maintained. The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), Eastern Federal Lands Highway Division (EFLHD), anticipates awarding a construction contract no earlier than September 2025. The cost of the entire project is estimated to be between $5,000,000.00 to $10,00,000.00. QUALIFIED PRIME CONTRACTORS shall submit the following information by e-mail to EFLHD.Contracts@dot.gov (Attn: Mr. Michael Sun no later than 2:00PM (EST) on January 17th, 2025. 1. A positive statement of your intention to submit a bid for the solicitation when it is issued as a Prime Contractor containing your full business name, address, point of contact, phone number, e-mail address, and web site (if any). 2. Your firm’s size standard under NAICS code 237310; Highway, Street and Bridge Construction ($45 Million). All firms shall be certified and registered under the NAICS code 237310 in the System for Award Management (SAM) located at https://www.sam.gov/ prior to the submission of bids or proposals. 3. Identify all applicable classifications for your firm such as small business; woman-owned small business; 8(a) small business; small-disadvantaged business; HUBZone small business; service-disabled veteran-owned small business; etc. This information must be provided to determine whether the "Rule of 2" has been met for any socio-economic category for set-aside purposes. Please note that the size of a small business firm includes all parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, etc. Refer to the Code of Federal Regulations 13 CFR 121.103 for information on how the SBA determines affiliation and 13 CFR 121.108 regarding the penalties for misrepresentation of size status. 4. Offeror's ability to perform at least 50% of the total amount of work to be performed under the contract as a large business prime contractor per FAR Clause 52.236-1 – Performance of Work by the Contractor; or ability to perform at least 15% of the cost of contract performance effort with its own workforce as a small business prime contractor per FAR Clause 52.219-14 Limitations on Subcontracting. 5. Offeror's capability to perform a contract of this magnitude and complexity including specialized construction, soil nail walls, gabion baskets, temporary bridge, slide repairs, road resurfacing, and concrete box culverts within the past 5 years, including a brief description of the project, customer name, timelines of performance, customer satisfaction, and dollar value of project. If a member of a joint venture (JV), the offeror should include relevant information from both members of the JV. 6. Offeror's experience in coordinating with multiple federal, state, and local agencies for the successful completion of a construction project performed within the last 5 years, including a brief description of the project, customer name, timelines of performance, customer satisfaction, and dollar value of project. If a member of a joint venture, the offeror should include relevant information from both members of the JV. 7. Commercial and Government Entity (CAGE) Code and Unique Entity ID; if a member of a joint-venture (JV) or mentor-protégé agreement with the SBA, please provide information on both members of the JV. 8. Please provide your current per contract and aggregate bonding capacities. RESPONSES TO THIS SOURCE SOUGHT ANNOUNCEMENT SHALL BE LIMITED TO 5 PAGES, single-spaced, with font size 12 or larger using Times New Roman or Arial. Page margins no smaller than 1” and page size shall be no greater than 8.5” x 11.” Submission shall be provided in electronic format readable and searchable by Adobe Acrobat or Microsoft Word. Do NOT submit marketing material, slide presentations, or technical papers. Do NOT submit resumes. Please reference “Sources Sought Announcement No. 693C73-25-SS-0005 for Project VA ERFO FS GWJEF808 2020-2(1)” in the subject line of your email.