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FBO DAILY ISSUE OF JULY 12, 2008 FBO #2420
SOLICITATION NOTICE

N -- Install Energy Metering System

Notice Date

7/10/2008
 

Notice Type

Presolicitation
 

NAICS

238210 — Electrical Contractors and Other Wiring Installation Contractors
 

Contracting Office

Department of the Air Force, Air Education and Training Command, Vance Air Force Base Contracting, 246 Brown Parkway, Vance AFB, Oklahoma, 73705-5036
 

ZIP Code

73705-5036
 

Solicitation Number

IFB117B
 

Response Due

8/21/2008
 

Point of Contact

Rick L Murrow, Phone: 580-213-6054
 

E-Mail Address

rick.murrow.ctr@vance.af.mil
 

Small Business Set-Aside

Total Small Business
 

Description

CSC Applied Technologies LLC (CSC) contemplates issue of an Invitation For Bid (IFB) for XTLF 08-1023 Install Advanced Metering System at Vance AFB, OK, as solicitation number IFB117B. Funds are not currently available for this solicitation and have not been promised or guaranteed. There shall be no legal liability on the part of the Government or CSC should funding not be provided. In the absence of funding no contract will result. CSC reserves the right to cancel this solicitation, either before or after the opening date in the absence of funding. Offerors will be required to provide for an acceptance period of 60 calendar days from Bid Opening. Bid bond in an amount of 20% of offer, issued by an acceptable surety listed in Federal Circular 570, must accompany all offers that exceed $25,000.00 and will be held for the entire acceptance period should funds not be readily forthcoming. It is recommended that offerors carefully consider the impact on their bonding capacity for the applicable acceptance period if an offer is anticipated. Project consists of providing initially a central metering system with an automatic meter reading platform, capable of automatically polling utility meters for information, receiving and storing utility metering information by facility, and developing and storing this information into descriptive spread sheets and graphs; developing a communications system between the central metering system and each utility meter installation; and installing one or more electric meters. The central metering system shall have the ability to add more electric meters, and gas, water and waste-water meters in the future by addition of meter identification and adding annotated meter/s with communications ability at the additional location/s. The sorted and stored information in the central metering system will be manually moved into a remote web page on a periodic basis. The central metering system shall include: 1. Central metering computer / server, complete with visual display, manual input, read/write CD drive, USB ports, and ability to drive printers, and connect to the internet. (Note: This interconnection will be the only internet connection of this project). 2. Scalable open-architecture software to receive and store metering data. 3. Software to select single, type, or all meters to pole for information, upload information, and using this information develop and store presentation spread sheets and graphs by facility. 4. Provisions to copy spread sheet files to optic disk or USB device. 5. Software, similar to that installed on the central metering computer, and required hardware, to be added to a Lap-Top computer running Microsoft Windows operating system with USB ports and read/write CD drive, to down load individual meter readings and stored data locally. The software when loaded on the lap top shall also have the ability to develop presentation spread sheets and graphs, and either upload to the central computer, store on board, or store to read/write CD or USB device. Provide and install electric meters and radios on existing facilities that communicate back to the central metering system. Selection and quantity of the facilities to receiver meters and radios is at the discretion of the Contracting Office. Install meters and radio as specified in section 262713 ELECTRIC METERING, consisting of five possible types: 1. Connection of existing automated meter/s on a 600V system and installation of radio communication equipment. 2. Provide and install an automated meter and radio communication equipment at an existing pad mounted transformer serving a facility, either on the transformer or an adjacent rack furnished by this project. 3. Provide and install an automated meter and radio communication equipment at a building electric service entrance panel, communicating with the central metering system. 4. Provide and install an automated meter at the building electric service entrance panel, with ring-down phone line, communicating with the central metering system. 5. Provide and install components to an existing automated metering circuit on a 12.47KV system and install a automated meter and radio communicating with the central metering system. NAICS 238210, Small Business Set Aside Small Business Size $13M. Magnitude <$50K Estimated Solicitation Issue Date: July 25, 2008 Once issued, please refer to the Solicitation Documents Folder of the solicitation download in the file Solicitation Offer and Award file to confirm the following dates Pre-Bid, August 5, 2008, 10:00 a.m. at Building 200 Conference Room 123. Bid Opening, August 21, 2008 at 2:00 p.m. to be held at Building 200 Conference Room 123. Both dates are subject to change. Please verify prior to dates shown to assure the scheduled meetings will occur as stated here. Please note: All interested persons wishing to attend the, non-mandatory but highly recommended, Pre-Bid Meeting to be held at Vance AFB must provide the following information a minimum of five (5) days prior to the Pre-Bid Meeting. Company, Address, City, State, Zip, Individuals Name expecting to attend, and a contact phone. Provide all of above via E-mail to rick.murrow.ctr@vance.af.mil. Failure to provide this information may result in not being given access to the Base. Questions or clarifications should also be directed to the same E-mail address rick.murrow.ctr@vance.af.mil. IFB117B package is expected to be available on or about the Estimated Solicitation Issue Date shown above at our Web page http://ifb.csc.com as a zip file. No hard copies of the solicitation will be available. Once solicitation zip file is posted for download, use an IBM compatible computer running Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher to access the http://ifb.csc.com Web page. Your browser must be set to accept cookies and if you are running a pop-up blocker or fire wall programs you may need to configure them to accept traffic from our page to allow the download page to work properly. IBM compatible computers running Windows XP with Service Pack 2 installed will need to add our site to the Trusted Sites of their Microsoft IE browsers and set the Privacy to Low to allow for our page to work properly. The solicitation file will be a zipped file which you must save to your computer and unzip before the files it contains will be usable. After solicitation issue it is your responsibility to check our Web page frequently for possible addenda or other items that may affect the solicitation.
 

Web Link

FedBizOpps Complete View
(https://www.fbo.gov/?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=2f77cc14f3ca5b68e747ab61aee496fc&tab=core&_cview=1)
 

Place of Performance

Address: Vance AFB, OK 3 miles S. of Enid OK., Enid, Oklahoma, 73705, United States

Zip Code: 73705
 

Record

SN01611535-W 20080712/080710222544-2f77cc14f3ca5b68e747ab61aee496fc (fbodaily.com)
 

Source

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