SPECIAL NOTICE
61 -- INDUSTRY FORUM FOR ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR SERVICES
- Notice Date
- 5/29/2014
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 238210
— Electrical Contractors and Other Wiring Installation Contractors
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, Office of Research Facilities/Office of Acquisitions, 13 South St., Room 2E43, MSC 5711, Bethesda, Maryland, 20892-5738
- ZIP Code
- 20892-5738
- Solicitation Number
- HHS-NIH-ORF-SBSS-14-005
- Archive Date
- 7/28/2014
- Point of Contact
- Giorgiana Chen, Phone: 3014510017, Aaron B Crawford, Phone: 301-496-3274
- E-Mail Address
-
giorgiana.chen@nih.gov, crawfoa@mail.nih.gov
(giorgiana.chen@nih.gov, crawfoa@mail.nih.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- INDUSTRY FORUM FOR ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR SERVICES The National Institutes of Health (NIH), Office of Research Facilities (ORF) intends to sponsor an Industry Forum on the NIH campus, Wednesday, June 18, 2014 from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm in Balcony A, Natcher Conference Center, 45 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892. An Outreach Forum is an event where interested parties are invited to meet with program and contracting officials to discuss specific contract opportunities. The contract opportunity for this event is Electrical Contractor services. The contract is anticipated to be awarded in the first quarter of Fiscal Year 2015. For more detail, please review the project description. Based on the market research, the upcoming solicitation is anticipated to be competed on a Full and Open basis. For information regarding the market research, please review the background. All Electrical Contractor firms are invited to attend, regardless of size standard. The project requirements suggest there might be significant subcontracting opportunities. We encourage construction firms, particularly those who specialize in heavy structural steel erection and mechanical trades, to attend and meet the firms who are likely to compete as prime Electrical contractors. Space is reserved to the first 100 attendees. To encourage maximum participation, we are limiting attendees to no more than two individuals per company. We anticipate having breakout sessions to allow and encourage firms to team with each other in pursuing this opportunity. All interested small and large businesses interested in this requirement must be registered with System for Awards Management, www.sam.gov to be eligible for award of Government contracts. 1) Firms interested in attending this forum should respond by 12:00 pm EST on Wednesday June 11, 2014 via e-mail to Ms. Giorgiana Chen at giorgiana.chen@nih.gov with the subject line: Vault 11 Access Forum Attendance Registration. The email shall contain the following information: • Name of Firm • Point of Contact (Name, Phone & E-mail) • Business Size (Small or Large) • Brief Description of Capability • Interested as Prime or Subcontractor • Attendees names (no more than two per firm) 2) ORF has allotted time to conduct one-on-one sessions between potential Prime Offerors and the Project Officer(s) and Contracting Officer(s). Pre-registration for a one-on-one session is mandatory. Spaces are limited to the first sixteen (16) registrants. Each session is limited to 15 minutes; one session per firm. Prime firms interested in securing a one-on-one session should respond by 12:00 pm EST on Wednesday, June 11, 2014 via e-mail to Ms. Giorgiana Chen at giorgiana.chen@nih.gov with the subject line: Vault 11 Access Forum 1-on-1 Registration. The email shall contain the following information: • Name of Firm • Point of Contact (Name, Phone & E-mail) • Business Size (Small or Large) • Brief Description of Capability • Attendees names (no more than two per firm) LOGISTICS The NIH is a secured campus so interested firms are required to go through security checkpoints at the visitor entrances to the campus. Visitors are required to show one (1) form of identification (a government-issued photo ID-driver's license, passport, green card, etc.) and to state the purpose of their visit. It is recommended that you add 30 minutes to your travel time to process through security and to travel to Building 45. Information about entering the NIH campus, parking, and shuttles is available on the NIH Visitors and Security page. You can travel to the NIH via the Washington Metrorail (Metro) subway system or by driving. We strongly encourage taking the Metro Red Line which has a convenient stop (Medical Center) on the NIH campus. There are very few visitor parking spaces at NIH and visitor parking lots on the campus can fill up quickly. The Natcher Conference Center is an 8-minute walk from Medical Center station. If you drive it is recommended that you park at the NIH MLP 11 Parking Garage located at NIH Gateway Drive, which is off Rockville Pike/Wisconsin Ave between South Drive and Center Drive. You must be headed south on Rockville Pike/Wisconsin Ave to gain access to NIH Gateway Drive. Daily parking is about $12. NIH will not reimburse the daily parking fee. The Natcher Building contains a cafeteria located on the first floor level, A Wing. Breakfast and lunch are served daily. Soda and snack vending machines are also available. The Natcher Conference Center is fully accessible. EVENT ACTIVITIES A final agenda will be sent to all registrants the week before the event. BACKGROUND On January 16, 2014, ORF posted a sources sought notice (REF_NO_HHS-NIH-ORF-SBSS-14-002) with the intent to locate qualified business concerns capable of providing the required services under North American Industry Classification Code (NAICS) 238210 - Electrical Contractors and Other Wiring Installation Contractors. The announcement closed February 6, 2014. None of the small businesses responding to this notice were considered qualified. Firms that responded failed to demonstrate project experience similar in size, complexity, facility type or with a comparable client. PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The world's largest clinical research hospital is a connected complex of buildings on the NIH campus, known as Building 10 or the Clinical Center Complex (CCC). With the original Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center at the hub, over the years the complex expanded from its original 1951 structure to encompass important additions including the 1981 Ambulatory Care Research Facility (ACRF) dedicated to research and outpatient clinics. There are two large electrical vaults (Vault 10 and Vault 11) located on the 14th floor of the two story Mechanical and Electrical penthouse of the ACRF tower. Vault 11 is a two story space approximately 1,375 SF and roughly 36' high. This project involves the replacement of four liquid-filled transformers and associated switchgear located in electrical Vault 11. The work area is located directly above occupied research and cancer patient clinic space. The four (4) existing Vault 11 transformers are liquid filled and are more than 30 years old and past their useful life. The 2000 KVA transformers are connected in a spot network N+1 configuration on 13.8 KV feeders 60, 70 and 80. The 500 KVA emergency power transformer is supplied power from the 13.8 KV emergency feeder W10. The 2000 KVA normal power transformer fed from feeder 80 has failed. The transformer is a Westinghouse liquid-filled 2000 KVA, 13,800 / 480/277V, 3Ø, 4W, 7.0% Z, weighing 14,500 lbs. when filled with cooling medium and 11,125 lbs. when dry. This transformer has been out of service and unavailable to perform its intended purpose for some time. In addition, associated switchgear elements have been comprised due to breaker misalignment resulting from an uneven floor. Although lightly loaded, the existing electrical distribution system has been compromised from a reliability standpoint due to the loss of its engineered N+1 arrangement. While various rigging / replacement options have been reviewed and presented for consideration, the NIH has opted to pursue the replacement of the entire transformer array (including primary feeders) as well as a total switchgear replacement. Existing loads are to be re-fed by intercepting feeders within the vault. Complete feeder replacements (switchgear to load) are not a part of this program. This building enhancement is to be performed without extended system outages, and without exotic rigging activities outside the vault itself. The work includes the procurement, fabrication, field assembly, installation, testing and commissioning of three (3 replaced) 2000 KVA, 13.8 KV-480 volt spot network normal power dry type transformers, one (1 upgraded from 500KVA) 1500 KVA, 13.8 KV-480 emergency power dry type transformer, 480 volt switchgear, interconnecting 480 volt bus ducts, incoming 15 KV cables from ACRF Vault 10, necessary cable terminations, three (3) 15 KV Fused Load Break Disconnect Switches for normal power feeders 60, 70, 80 and one (1) 15 KV Fused Load break Disconnect Switch for emergency power feeder 85L1(old W10). In addition to transformers and switchgear Vault 11 will be cooled by three (3) new 10-ton vertical floor mounted air conditioning units. 13,800 Volt feeders #60, #70 & #80 emanating from Vault 10 serve the three existing spot network transformers while Feeder #W10, also emanating from Vault 10, serves the existing 500 KVA emergency transformer. These existing feeders, bus-ways between each transformer, overhead conduit for the switchgear and the switchgear itself will be replaced by this project and are all below the line of the proposed new mezzanine platform that will house the new transformers. The upgraded emergency power transformer will provide the future capability of adding additional equipment such as the Air Handling Units that supply air to the ambulatory clinics and research laboratories in the ACRF. Additionally the project requires the removal of life safety equipment power for the Clinical Research Center (CRC) to be re-fed from the CRC Vault AB. This change will mitigate any interruption or disruption that might occur with shutdowns during construction in the vault that could impact the hospital (CRC). Included in the project will be redundant power sources for: 1) the radio communications supporting NIH fire and police; 2) re-circuiting of stairwells #15 and #16 lighting and pressurization fans in the stairwells; and 3) moving the redundant emergency power source for Pharmacy exhaust fans on ACRF roof to Vault-10, The first phase of the work will involve the removal of some minor distribution feeders that are in the way of the new transformer platform and the removal of the failed out of service network transformer #80. It is important to note that in its present configuration, the ACRF is completely landlocked and it is not possible to crane replacement liquid filled transformers to Vault 11 on the 14th floor of ACRF. There are no freight elevators in this area. The only passenger elevator that goes to 14th floor of ACRF is limited in hoisting capacity to 4000 pounds. Investigation with transformer vendors has indicated that dry type replacement transformers can be assembled, tested at factory, disassembled, and transported in parts, rigged, installed, tested and commissioned in ACRF Vault 11 itself. Passenger elevator 26 will be employed for the vertical transport (rigging point) of all equipment involved in this project. After installation of the structural steel mezzanine platform which encompasses the entire footprint of Vault 11, the sequential removal of each transformer will be accomplished and new dry type transformers assembled, installed, and energized on the new mezzanine platform. Along with each transformer each new section of the electrical switchgear will be installed and connected to the new transformer and distribution feeders to allow uninterrupted power service to the building. Once complete, the old switchgear will be disconnected and removed. A carefully orchestrated, phased transition shall be required for two distinct equipment block movements; the transition from liquid to dry-type transformers making way for the new switchgear, and the subsequent transition from the existing switchgear to the new. The replacement project must be phased such that two transformers remain in service at all times. Key Personnel that will be required to support this contract include: 1) Prime Personnel • Project Manager • Prime Superintendent • Prime QC Manager • Prime Safety Officer • Prime Industrial Hygienist 2) Major Subcontractor(s) Personnel • Project Manager • Superintendent
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- Place of Performance
- Address: The National Institutes of Health, Building 10, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, Maryland, 20892, United States
- Zip Code: 20892
- Zip Code: 20892
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