SOURCES SOUGHT
M -- Operation and Maintenance of Government Owned Facilities and Equipment, Black Warrior-Tombigbee and Alabama Rivers Waterways in Alabama.
- Notice Date
- 10/21/2014
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 561210
— Facilities Support Services
- Contracting Office
- USACE District, Mobile, P. O. Box 2288, 109 Saint Joseph Street (zip 36602), Mobile, AL 36628-0001
- ZIP Code
- 36628-0001
- Solicitation Number
- W91278-15-R-0001
- Response Due
- 11/5/2014
- Archive Date
- 12/20/2014
- Point of Contact
- MARY F. JACKSON, 251-441-5545
- E-Mail Address
-
USACE District, Mobile
(mary.f.jackson@usace.army.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Market Research and Sources Sought Notice for information on capability and availability of potential contractors interested in proposing on an Cost Plus Award Fee (CPAF) contract for Operation and Maintenance of Government-Owned Facilities and Equipment, Black Warrior-Tombigbee and Alabama Rivers Waterways for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District. The place of performance is Black Warrior-Tombigbee and Alabama Rivers Waterways Project Office, 101 21st Avenue, Tuscaloosa, AL, 35401. The anticipated period of performance is September 2016 - 2017, with four additional one-year option periods. This is a SOURCES SOUGHT SYNOPSIS and is NOT a solicitation announcement. NO PROPOSALS ARE BEING REQUESTED OR ACCEPTED WITH THIS SYNOPSIS. The purpose of this sources sought synopsis is to gain knowledge of potential qualified contractors to perform these services to include Certified Small Businesses, HUBZone Certified Small Business Concerns, Section 8 (a) contractors, Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Businesses, Women Owned Small Businesses, Small Disadvantaged Businesses, and Large Business Concerns. The primary North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) Code applicable to this requirement is 561210. The Small Business Size Standard for which is a concern, including its affiliates whose average annual gross revenues does not exceed $38M for the past three years. Responses to this Sources Sought Synopsis will be used by the government in making appropriate acquisition decisions. The Statement of Work includes the following: To provide for the maintenance, repair, and operation of facilities, vehicles, and equipment for the Black Warrior-Tombigbee and Alabama River Waterway by providing all planning, supervision, administration, labor, equipment, materials, supplies, and replacement or repair parts. The Black Warrior-Tombigbee and Alabama River Waterways currently offers project Navigation with a total of 9 lock and dams and 84 spillway gates. The Black Warrior-Tombigbee Waterway is a high-use waterway providing for approximately 20 million tons of commercial transportation annually. Recreational areas include six Class A Campgrounds and 26 additional recreation areas providing for boating, fishing, picnicking, swimming and other recreation activities. The project also includes 26 upland dredge material disposal areas that are critical to maintaining the commercial navigation channel. The Black Warrior and Tombigbee Waterway/Alabama River Project is located in the counties of Walker, Jefferson, Tuscaloosa, Hale, Greene, Sumter, Marengo, Choctaw, Clarke, Washington, Mobile, Baldwin, Monroe, Wilcox, Dallas, Lowndes and Autauga. The Black Warrior and Tombigbee River System was authorized for navigation by various River and Harbor Acts from 1884 through 1960 and is one of the busiest inland navigation systems in the nation receiving more than 20 million tons of commercial navigation traffic annually. The navigation project provides a navigation channel at least 9 feet deep and 200 feet wide from the mouth of the Tombigbee River 45 miles above Mobile, to the vicinity of Birmingham, Alabama via the Black Warrior and Tombigbee Rivers to mile 430.4 (waterway miles above Mobile) on the Sipsey Fork, miles 429.6 on the Mulberry Fork, and mile 407.8 on the Locust Fork. The project also provides for maintenance by snagging of the Mobile River above the mouth of Chickasaw Creek for a total waterway project distance of about 463 miles through 12 different counties in Alabama. Six lock and dams accomplish the waterway's total lift of 256 feet, and the project includes a total of 50 spillway gates. There are a total of 26 upland dredge material disposal areas. For recreation, there are over 3,000 acres of developed recreation sites including 5 Class A campgrounds with boat ramps; 10 major day use areas with boat ramps, picnic sites, picnic pavilions, fishing areas, and 2 beaches; and 10 lake access areas with boat ramps. The Alabama River Lakes Project begins at the confluence of the Alabama and Tombigbee River, and extends approximately 300 miles upstream to near Montgomery, Alabama through a total of 7 different counties in Alabama. The authorized navigation channel is 9 feet deep and 200 feet wide, and there are 3 lock and dams with a total lift of 120 feet and a total of 34 gated spillway gates. Two of the dams also include hydropower plants that are operated and maintained by government labor. Interested offerors must be able to meet the following criteria: 1.Ability to provide services for the maintenance, repair, minor construction, and operation of a large multipurpose navigation project that includes locks, dam, levees, dredged material disposal areas, riprap/concrete structures, buildings, offices, maintenance facilities, operation areas, riprap/concrete structures, buildings, offices, maintenance facilities, operation areas, project roads, vehicles, equipment, floating plant, boathouses, bathhouses, washhouses, toilets, gatehouses, security and other fences, sanitary disposal systems, launching ramps, playground equipment, bulletin boards, game courts, water and electrical systems, telephone lines, security systems, picnic sites, campsites, and other related facilities. Work required to perform this type maintenance includes carpentry, masonry, electrical, electronics, mechanical, structural, plumbing, chipping, caulking, sealing, cleaning, welding and replacing parts or equipment. Additional maintenance work includes guardrails, gates, electric barrier gates, signs, bumper blocks, landscaped areas, beaches, navigation or swimming buoys, paved roads, parking lots, trails, navigation aids, courtesy docks, and boundary lines. Services to be performed include general maintenance, cleaning, custodial service, garbage removal, grass mowing, saddle dike and overlook clearing, debris removal, repair to riprap slopes, repair to earthen slopes, excavation, and storage and disposal of hazardous and/or toxic materials. The project is used for navigation, recreation, and environmental stewardship. 2.Experience in performance of similar service contracts in last 5 years for operation and maintenance of large multipurpose lake project with similar size and scope to the Black Warrior-Tombigbee Waterway and Alabama River Waterway Project. 3.Experience and ability to perform cost plus award fee contracts for operation and maintenance services. 4.Experience and ability to provide contract services that successfully demonstrate contractor's timeliness/effectiveness of contract problem resolution without extensive customer guidance. 5.Experience and ability to provide effective on-site management, including management of subcontractors, suppliers, materials and labor force. Experience and ability to hire, apply, and retain a qualified workforce for this effort. 6.Experience and ability to provide adequate Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) approved accounting system for management and tracking of costs for multiple technical provisions and business lines. 7.Experience and ability to timely and accurately submit monthly invoices with appropriate supporting documentation, monthly status reports/budget variance reports, compliance with established budgets and avoidance of significant and/or unexplained variances (under runs or overruns). 8.Experience and ability to simultaneously manage multiple projects and disciplines. 9.Experience and ability to incorporate and manage changes of requirements and/or priorities within scope of contract including planning, execution and response to customer changes. 10.Experience an ability to successfully respond to emergency and/or surge situations (including notifying Contracting Officer Representative or Contracting Officer in a timely manner regarding urgent contractual issues). 11.Experience and ability to execute a successful quality control program. 12.Experience and ability to execute a successful safety program to include ability to maintain an environment of safety, adhere to its approved safety plan, and respond and correct safety issues. 13.Indicate all Business Types (Large/Small; HUBZone; 8(a); Woman-Owned; Veteran Owned). 14.Indicate Cost Plus Award Fee Contracts you have performed. Include contract number, dates, amount, location, final rating, and POC name/telephone number for verification. Responses are requested with the following information, which shall not exceed a total of fifteen (15) pages: 1. Provide Offerors' name, address, points of contact with telephone numbers and e-mail addresses. 2. Business size/classification to include any designations as Certified Small Business, HUBZone Certified Small Business Concern, Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business, Section 8(a) contractor, Small Disadvantaged Business, Women Owned Small Business and Large Business Concern shall be indicated on first page of submission. 3. Submit a statement of your current or past technical experience (what the firm has done) and current or past performance (how well the firm did it) similar to the same as the requirements and the criteria listed above. 4. Include a statement regarding your firm's bonding capacity. Responses should be submitted via e-mail to Mary Jackson, Contract Specialist at Mary.F.Jackson@usace.army.mil. Submittals are due no later than Wednesday, 05 November 2014, at 4:00 p.m. CDT. In the subject line of your email state: Response to Black Warrior-Tombigbee and Alabama River Waterway O&M. You may also mail submittals or send overnight courier to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District, 109 St. Joseph Street, Mobile, AL 36602-3620, ATTN: Plans Room, Contracting Division, Mary Jackson/CT-S. Telephonic/Fax responses will not be honored. Note 1: This is not a Request for Proposal, only a Request for Information. No award will result from this Sources Sought. Note 2: This sources sought synopsis is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government, nor will the Government pay for the information solicited. Note 3: Large Businesses need not respond. Note 4: All advertisements of Mobile District projects will be through the Federal Business Opportunities (FedBizOpps). Detailed information on this and other Mobile District Projects (Ordering Solicitations, Points of Contract, Synopsis of Work, etc) are available on the internet at http://www.fbo.gov. Note 5: Request for Information (RFI) specific to this sources sought notice may be answered by sending an email to Mary.F.Jackson@usace.army.mil. Other forms of communicating RFIs to the government will not be honored.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: BW&T/Alabama-Coosa Project Management Office 101 21st Avenue Tuscaloosa AL
- Zip Code: 35401
- Zip Code: 35401
- Record
- SN03555014-W 20141023/141021234427-609ab3cae437f47a32e0aeb7f4cbeb89 (fbodaily.com)
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