SOURCES SOUGHT
S -- OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE OF UTILITY SYSTEMS DUE
- Notice Date
- 7/16/2004
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 221122
— Electric Power Distribution
- Contracting Office
- Department of Energy, Argonne National Laboratory (DOE Contractor), Argonne, 9700 S. Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL, 60439
- ZIP Code
- 60439
- Solicitation Number
- 4-EP65-I-00000-01
- Response Due
- 7/23/2004
- Archive Date
- 8/7/2004
- Point of Contact
- Ed Porlier, Contract Specialist, Senior, Phone (630) 252-3651, Fax (630) 252-4517, - Mary Hoff, Administrative Assistant, Phone (630)252-7026, Fax (630)252-4517,
- E-Mail Address
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erporlier@anl.gov, mhoff@anl.gov
- Description
- The University of Chicago, as the M&O contractor at the Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), seeks to identify responsible potential sources and obtain information in regards to operating and maintaining one or more of the utility systems at ANL. ANL consists of approximately 106 building on 1,700 acres and is located 25 miles south of Chicago, IL. Utility systems at ANL consist of a potable water storage and distribution system, a non-potable (canal) water treatment and distribution system, a laboratory water distribution system, a domestic wastewater collection and treatment system, a laboratory wastewater collection and treatment system, a steam generation and distribution system, an electrical distribution system, and a natural gas distribution system. PROCESS: In order to minimize costs both to potentially interested parties and the University of Chicago, this notice is being issued to determine the interest and feasibility of proceeding with a formal request for proposals. Should insufficient credible interest be identified for this action, it is highly likely that no formal solicitation will be issued. SHOULD INTEREST BE DETERMINED SUFFICIENT, A FORMAL REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS MAY BE FORTHCOMING. The Service Contract Act (SCA) will apply to any request for proposals issued. This requirement is unrestricted. Small Business interests should note the FAR Part 19 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) and Size Standards (SS) for the utility systems identified in this announcement. Some, all, or any combination of the following may apply. NAICS/SS: 221122/4 Million (M) Megawatt hours, 221210/500 employees, 221310/$6M, 221320/$6M, 221330/$10.5M. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this RFI is to determine the interest and feasibility of finding a contractor(s) to operate, inspect, maintain, and repair the utility system(s) located at ANL. The contractor(s) must furnish all labor, tools, confined space entry equipment, vehicles, and equipment necessary for the normal operation of the system(s) 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Contractor(s) must operate and maintain the facilities to meet all federal, state, and applicable DOE permits and regulations. POTABLE WATER STORAGE AND DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM: The Lab purchases potable water (also known as Lake Michigan water) from Dupage County Public Works. The potable water for the Lab enters through the potable water metering station located inside building No. 127, which is located adjacent to the Fire Water Tank and the Domestic Water Treatment Plant, Building 129. The Water Treatment Plant, including two aeration tanks and a soft water well, was used to treat well water from four on-site wells prior to purchasing Lake Michigan water. The potable water flows through one of the two aeration tanks and the soft water well to the 500,000-gallon Fire Water Storage Tank using any one of the three low lift pumps. Four high lift pumps take suction out of the Fire Water Storage Tank and pump the potable water through the domestic water distribution system to the three elevated domestic water storage tanks. The three elevated domestic water storage tanks maintain the pressure on the distribution system. The combined capacity of the elevated storage tanks is 950,000 gallons. The high lift pumps are operated in such a manner that proper water levels are maintained in all three domestic water storage tanks all the time and this assures proper pressure through out the distribution system. ANL purchased 184.6 million gallons of Lake Michigan water from the Dupage Water Commission in FY2003. ANL has four water wells that serve as a backup water source for the DuPage County Public Works Water Supply, if something caused a loss of water supply from the county. Maintenance of the four wells and the Domestic Water Treatment Plant, and operation, as necessary are in the scope of this effort. NON-POTABLE (CANAL) WATER TREATMENT AND DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM: Canal water is used extensively as cooling water for refrigeration condensers, as makeup for cooling towers, and for programmatic experimental work. Water is pumped from the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal by the Canal Water Pumping Station, which is located about 1 mile from the Lab on a separate piece of Lab-owned property. The Canal Pumping Station is equipped with a bar screen, a traveling screen, wet well and three low lift pumps, which transfer water from the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal to the Canal Water Treatment Plant. At the Canal Water Treatment Plant there are two 45-foot diameter accelerators, each with a capacity of 1,500 gallons per minute. The plant design capacity is 4,000,000 gallons-each plant is capable of 2,000,000 gallons These accelerators are used to remove most of the suspended solids in the canal water after chemicals are added to enable coagulation, flocculation and precipitation of the suspended solids in the raw canal water. Normal flow through the Canal Water Treatment Plant ranges from 280 to 350 gpm, but can peak at 700 to 900 gpm. These are seasonal flows. The sludge from the accelerators is pumped from the Canal Water Treatment Plant Sludge Lift Station to the Laboratory Wastewater Treatment Plant. Clarified water is pumped from the accelerators to the ground level 500,000 gallon Canal Cooling Water Reservoir Tank and on to the 228,000 gallon elevated Canal Water Storage Tank using one of the three high lift pumps located at the Canal Water Treatment Plant. The Canal Water Storage Tank provides the necessary head to the canal water distribution system to enable it to supply canal water to all buildings and locations at the Lab that use canal water. All the canal water distribution main pipelines were replaced in 1987 and 1988. NON-POTABLE (LABORATORY) WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM: The Laboratory Water Distribution System uses potable water from the potable water system. The 500,000 gallon elevated potable water storage tank fills with an Altitude Valve. There is an air gap between the two systems. When the water level in the potable water storage tank is too low to enable gravity flow to the Laboratory Water Storage Tank, a booster pump will engage and transfer potable water through the same line and air gap. The Laboratory Water Distribution System serves all the buildings with laboratories in order to prevent any possibility of backflow of contaminants from a working laboratory into the Potable Water Distribution System. DOMESTIC WASTEWATER COLLECTION AND TREATMENT SYSTEM: Sanitary wastewater is collected across the entire ANL site from all buildings and facilities that generate sanitary wastewater. The sanitary collection system consist of six sanitary lift stations and associated forced mains, along with the underground sanitary gravity sewers and manholes, which transport the sanitary wastewater to the Sanitary Wastewater Treatment Plant. The Sanitary Wastewater Treatment Plant is a secondary biological trickling filter plant with Imoff Clarigester type primary and secondary clarifiers. The treatment plant is split into two independent treatment trains. The plant is designed for a peak of 1,000,000 gallons and has an average of 350-400,000 gallons per day. A DuPage County Public Works wastewater tanker truck comes to Building # 576 and removes the sludge (about 6,000 gallons) from the sludge holding tank about every six weeks at about the same time the sludge is removed from the digester portion of the Clarigester. The sludge is hauled to the DuPage County Public Works Wastewater Treatment Plant for disposal. The secondary effluent flows through intermittent sand filters and then is monitored for compliance with the NPDES Permit for this outfall. It is then mixed with the effluent from the Laboratory Wastewater Treatment Plant. The combined flow from the two treatment plants passes through the old chlorine contact tank (no longer used), then through the Monitoring Building and to the final monitoring point where the combined effluent is monitored to ensure compliance with the NPDES Permit for this outfall. The combined effluent discharges into Sawmill Creek. LABORATORY WASTEWATER COLLECTION AND TREATMENT SYSTEM: Laboratory wastewater is collected across the entire ANL Site from all the buildings and facilities that generate laboratory wastewater, as well as from the Canal Water Treatment Plant Sludge Lift Station. There are three laboratory wastewater lift stations that are used for the collection and pumping of laboratory wastewater for the Advanced Photon Source (APS) Facilities. The laboratory wastewater collection system consist of these three laboratory wastewater lift stations and their associated forced mains, along with the Canal Water Treatment Plant Sludge Lift Station and its associated forced main and all of the underground laboratory wastewater gravity flow sewers and manholes, which transport the laboratory wastewater to the Laboratory Wastewater Treatment Plant. There are five additional lift stations serving the Boiler House area including the equalization pond that are included in this scope. The Laboratory Wastewater Treatment Plant is a physical/chemical wastewater treatment plant that utilizes chemical addition to provide and enhance coagulation, flocculation and sedimentation to separate suspended solids from the laboratory wastewater. The treatment process utilizes alum and a cationic polymer as the coagulants. Solids contact clarifiers are used to physically separate the suspended solids from the laboratory wastewater. The plant is designed for 1,100,000 gallons; the average flow through the Laboratory Wastewater Treatment Plant is in the range of 400,000 gallons per day. Sludge is dumped into a roll off container and later hauled to a landfill for final disposal. When the water leaves the solids contact clarifiers it is sampled for compliance with the NPDES Permit parameters for this outfall. The clarified laboratory wastewater effluent then combines with the effluent from the Sanitary Wastewater Treatment Plant. The combined flow from the two treatment plants passes through the old chlorine contact tank (no longer used), then through the Monitoring Building and to the final monitoring point where the combined effluent is monitored to ensure compliance with the NPDES Permit for this outfall. The combined effluent discharges into Sawmill Creek. STEAM GENERATION AND DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM: Steam is produced in the Boiler House (Building 108) and distributed across ANL utilizing a steam distribution piping system to all the buildings on site that require steam. Approximately 90% to 95% of the steam is used for comfort heating and for hot water heaters; a small amount is used for programmatic experiments. The original equipment in the Boiler House is late 1940s vintage, but has been well maintained. Steam is produced as saturated 190 to 200 psig using water tube boilers. The Boiler House has four 85,000 pound per hour boilers (#1 through #4) that use only natural gas as the fuel supply and one 170,000 pound per hour boiler (#5) that can utilize coal or natural gas as the fuel supply. The steam load for the Boiler House varies from a low of around 40,000 pounds per hour in the summer months to a high in the winter months of around 250,000 pounds per hour. During the winter months, #5 boiler is operated using coal as the fuel supply; however, the site is only allowed to burn 12,000 tons of coal a year. For this reason #5 boiler can only be operated on coal for about five months a year. 85% of the steam condensate is returned to the Boiler House steam condensate storage tanks and used as boiler feedwater. The balance of boiler feedwater is made up with purchased water that is treated with water treatment equipment and chemicals inside the Boiler House to produce the required boiler feedwater makeup. Boiler feedwater makeup water requirements range from 40 gpm to 100 gpm depending on the time of year. Steam is furnished to the ANL site through two main steam lines from two export steam headers located inside the Boiler House. All five steam boilers are capable of discharging steam into both main export steam headers through non-return steam valves. The majority of the steam distribution system is aboveground. NATURAL GAS DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM: Natural gas is provided from off-site by Northern Illinois Corporation (NICOR Gas) under contract with the Defense Energy Support Center (DESC). Gas is delivered by NICOR at 150 psig to a pressure-reducing station outside the Boiler House, Bldg. 108. The pressure-reducing station is owned and operated by NICOR. The gas pressure is reduced from 150 psig to 53 psig before it is piped into the Boiler House. Inside the Boiler House a 4-inch line branches off to supply the Lab through the natural gas distribution system, and a main header feeds the five boilers. Each of the five boilers receives natural gas at a further reduced pressure of 15 psig through another pressure reducing valve. The Lab natural gas distribution system operates at 10 psig after pressure is reduced from 53 psig in another pressure reducing valve outside the Boiler House. The main natural gas distribution pipelines across the Lab are 4 inch, 3 inch, and 2 inch. The main natural gas distribution lines were replaced across the Argonne site about three years ago with PE-2406 polyethylene pipe, schedule 40. At the building interfaces the pipe materials change from PE-2406 to carbon steel pipe. The natural gas pressure is reduced again from 10 psig to 6 ounces of pressure before it enters any of the buildings where it is used. ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM: Electricity is purchased under contract by the DESC and transmitted to the site through the Commonwealth Edison system. Commonwealth Edison brings the electricity to the Lab at 138 KV where it is transformed to 13.2 KV for distribution around the Lab, and further transformed down to 4160 V in some areas. The ANL electrical system includes three major substations and two smaller substations that deal with the overall distribution of electricity for the Lab, but there are other substations that handle electrical distribution for specific areas of the Lab. Distribution lines are a mixture of overhead and underground. Emergency power generators are not included in this scope except at Bldg 108, The Steam Plant. RESPONSE: Interested parties should provide a Statement of Interest on company letterhead (not to exceed 20 pages in length, printed on one side only, and double-spaced). The statement should include as a minimum the following criteria: (1) specific utility system or systems of interest and desired packaging/grouping of utilities, i.e. should more than one system be packaged into one contract; (2) capability and experience in operation and maintenance of similar utility system(s); (3) financial capacity to operate and maintain the utility system(s); (4) conceptual plan (excluding numerical analysis or proposed rates) for recovering O&M costs; (5) statement detailing your understanding of federal, state, and local environmental laws and regulations and familiarity and experience with environmental compliance procedures and regulations for the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; and (6) business size large, small, small-disadvantage, 8(a), women-owned, veteran-owned, service-disabled veteran-owned, HUBZone. In addition to information provided by your statement of interest, Past Performance information must be provided in order to receive any formal request for proposals that may be issued. Submit not more than five references for similar contracts that have a one-year or more performance period and that are active or that were completed within the past three years. Relevant contracts include similar contract types, similar contract environments and services that are considered to be similar in scope, magnitude and complexity when compared to the projected requirements described in this notice. Each reference must include a current point of contact with valid phone number for both contractual and technical disciplines, contract value, type of contract and period of performance, with a narrative description of the products/services provided by your firm. Experience needs to reflect work performed by your firm and not by a subcontractor. Offerors that are newly formed entities without prior contracts should list contracts as required above for all key personnel. Elaborate proposals or pricing information is neither required nor desired. Under no circumstances will cost data for the existing systems be provided. Any innovative and new conceptual ideas to achieve the stated objective are encouraged. If a site visit and the provision of additional data are later determined necessary, notification will be provided in the solicitation. Send Statement of Interest and Past Performance information to: Ed Porlier, Procurement Dept., Building 201, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439-4873 no later than 2:00 p.m., local time, July 23, 2004.
- Place of Performance
- Address: Argonne National Laboratory,, 9700 South Cass Avenue,, Argonne, IL
- Zip Code: 60439
- Country: United States
- Zip Code: 60439
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