SOLICITATION NOTICE
S -- Utilities Privatization
- Notice Date
- 10/30/2008
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Army, National Guard Bureau, 171 ARW/LGC, 171 ARW/LGC, Pittsburgh International Airport, 300 Tanker Road #4202, Coraopolis, PA 15108-4204
- ZIP Code
- 15108-4204
- Solicitation Number
- W912KC09R0002
- Response Due
- 11/10/2008
- Archive Date
- 1/9/2009
- Point of Contact
- Anthony Abate, 412-776-7387<br />
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- NOTICE OF INTENT to Award a Sole Source Procurement. The Government intends to issue a sole source contract for the privatization of the electric distribution system for the Pennsylvania Air National Guard Base (ANGB) located at Pittsburgh International Airport (IAP), to Duquesne Light Company. Privatization is defined as the transfer of ownership and responsibility for the operations, maintenance, repair, future upgrades, and future utility system replacements. Duquesne Light Company (Contractor) will assume ownership of the above-mentioned utility systems and will be required to provide expansions to the system to meet future needs of the government. The resulting contract, if awarded, will require the Contractor to furnish all facilities, labor, materials, tools, and equipment necessary to own, maintain, and operate the utility system. The Contractor shall manage the maintenance, repairs, replacement, etc., of the system to ensure continuous, adequate, and dependable service for each Government or tenant connection within the service area. The Contractor shall be responsible for funding all capital investments required to acquire, maintain and operate the utility system in a safe, reliable condition and to meet the requirements listed in the contract. The utility system will be conveyed via a Bill of Sale upon award of the contract. The electric system being privatized is described as follows: The Pennsylvania Air National Guard 171st Air Refueling Wing (ARW) is located at the Pittsburgh International Airport, approximately 16 miles northwest of downtown Pittsburgh in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, and its primary mission is to provide aerial in-flight refueling and cargo transportation. The 171st ARW base employs full-time personnel during regular weekday shifts and Traditional guardsmen that are on the installation during their respective Unit Training Assembly (UTA) weekends. The UTA weekend occurs one weekend each month for each unit. The 171stARW occupies 176 acres leased from the Allegheny County Department of Aviation. Construction of the base began in 1949 for the 112th Fighter Group. After several unit and mission changes at the PA ANG, the 171st moved to the current base in 1964. The 171st maintains a mixture of mostly industrial and some administrative buildings. Major additions or deletions to the installation are not planned at this time. Electricity is provided to the 171st ARW through multiple lines owned and maintained by Duquesne Light Company. The lines enter a three-phase transformer and are stepped down to 4.16 kV for primary distribution to the Base. Electrical power for the Base is metered at an on-base substation. Government ownership starts at the substation demand-side of the fuses. There is no Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system for remote operation or monitoring of the electrical system. However, Duquesne Light Company has the capability to remotely read the electric meter at the substation through a modem. The existing system is primarily underground, with above ground lines in a few areas. The underground cable was installed in polyvinyl chloride (PVC) conduit with concrete casing between 1955 and 1975. Most of the overhead cable is original, installed in the early 1960s. Underground cables and ducts, and most of the overhead cables are in good condition. Transformers are generally in good condition, and the polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) contaminated electrical equipment has been replaced. Handholes and power poles are in good condition. Competitive proposals were requested in 2003 and no offers were received. This notice is not a request for competitive proposals. The proposed contract action is for services for which the Government intends to solicit and negotiate with only one source under the authority of DoD Utility Privatization Policy dated 2002. However, interested persons may identify their interest and capability to respond to the requirement. This information shall include: confirmation of your understanding that the requirement includes purchasing the distribution system, and then entering into a 50-year contract for the operation, maintenance, repair and replacement of the systems; furnish us with references indicating your prior experience operating, maintaining, repairing and replacing such systems; and indicate how you would meet the emergency response time requirement of one hour. All responses received within ten calendar days after date of publication of this synopsis will be considered by the Government. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the government. Information received will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. QUESTIONS CAN BE EMAILED TO: contracting@papitt.ang.af.mil
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- Place of Performance
- Address: 171 ARW/MSC Pittsburgh International Airport, 300 Tanker Road #4204 Coraopolis PA<br />
- Zip Code: 15108-4204<br />
- Zip Code: 15108-4204<br />
- Record
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