SOURCES SOUGHT
Y -- KSC CAMPUS SOLAR PLANT ADDITION
- Notice Date
- 4/29/2015
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 237130
— Power and Communication Line and Related Structures Construction
- Contracting Office
- NASA/John F. Kennedy Space Center, Procurement, Kennedy Space Center, FL 32899
- ZIP Code
- 32899
- Solicitation Number
- NNK15Glanowski_KSC_Campus_Solar_Plant_Addition
- Response Due
- 5/8/2015
- Archive Date
- 4/29/2016
- Point of Contact
- Robert J Glanowski, Contract Specialist, Phone 321-867-7345, Fax 321-867-1166, Email robert.glanowski@nasa.gov - Randall Gumke, Contract Specialist, Phone 321-867-3322, Fax 321-867-1166, Email randall.a.gumke@nasa.gov
- E-Mail Address
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Robert J Glanowski
(robert.glanowski@nasa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- KSC Campus Solar Plant Addition. Contracting Office Address NASA/John F. Kennedy Space Center, Procurement, Kennedy Space Center, FL 32899 Description SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE KSC Campus Solar Plant Addition, PCN 99035. INTRODUCTION The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) at the John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC) is soliciting information for the purpose of determining the appropriate level of competition and/or small business subcontracting goals for the KSC Campus Solar Plant addition at Kennedy Space Center, Florida 32899. Vendors having the capabilities necessary to meet or exceed the stated requirements are invited to submit capability packages, appropriate documentation, and references. The North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) code for the Solar Plant project is 237130, Power and Communication Line and Related Structures Construction, with a small business size standard of $36.5M. The estimated price range of this one-year project is more than five million US Dollars ($5,000,000.00). SCOPE OF WORK The work to be performed under this project consists of providing all labor, equipment, materials, tools, test equipment, specialized services, and subcontracts to install a solar plant at the Kennedy Space Center with between 1 to approximately 2MW of maximum generating capacity. The solar plant will deliver its power output to KSC by interconnection to KSCs 13.2 kV medium voltage distribution system. Requirements include, but are not limited to, the items listed below: 1.The contractor will be required to obtain a storm water permit from Floridas Saint Johns Water Management District. 2.Site work (excavation, grading, ground cover, backfill, concrete, concrete reinforcement, bollards, de-watering, directional boring, etc.) associated with an undeveloped site, maintenance roadway installation, fencing, underground electrical utility work, foundations for prefabricated buildings, solar panels, and electrical equipment will be required. 3.Detailed solar plant shop drawing submittals will be required prior to construction to include site development, solar panel foundations/installation, prefabricated building installation, electrical installation, and interconnection protection schemes required by the supplying utility (Florida Power and Light). 4.Installation of above ground and underground raceway systems, 15kV class medium voltage cable, manholes, duct banks, cable trays, conduit systems, and 600 VAC/VDC low voltage cable systems.Personnel certified in complex medium voltage cable splices must wear arc-flash personnel protective equipment in manholes and while terminating medium voltage cable to above ground dead-front switching and transformer equipment. 5.Installation of 15kV class pad-mounted switching equipment and power transformers up to 2000 KVA. 6.Shop drawing design and installation of prefabricated concrete buildings for housing solar plant electrical distribution equipment, power switchboards, associated interior/exterior lighting, service interior wiring, general use receptacles, grounding/lightning protection, and building counterpoise installation. 7.Shop drawing design, fabrication, and installation of utility grade fixed solar panel supports including installation of fixed solar panels with wind load ratings of 130mph. Shop design and test data for supplying vendors recommended fixed solar panel installation angle based on the required wind loadings noted. 8.Shop drawing design and installation of a solar generating plant of 1-2 MW maximum output including associated site work, 500 KVA DC to three-phase AC inverter equipment, electrical connections, utility interconnection, wire routing/trenching/cable tray routing and grounding counterpoise installation. 9.Shop drawing design and installation of utility grade power monitoring, protective relays, and safety systems required safety components for operation of a solar plant connected to a utility power distribution system including interconnection of devices to communications networks. 10.Shop drawing design and installation of a reference cell that aides in determining plant performance, along with all other weather instrumentation equipment that indicates air temperature, solar panel temperature, humidity, and wind speed that is used to determine plant performance based on weather conditions. 11.Planning and sequencing work to minimize both the quantity and duration of power outages. 12.Power system analysis, coordination studies, arc-flash studies, and protective relay settings. Performance of electrical safety hazard analysis, detailed job hazard analysis, and use of electrical personnel protective equipment, arc-flash and shock prevention. 13.Power system equipment testing and validation including as-built documentation, operations and maintenance documentation, factory testing, customized and comprehensive field testing (commissioning), and InterNational Electrical Testing Association (NETA) testing. 14.Sixty (60) day monitoring of solar plant performance after solar plant is brought on-line, to include, the adjustment/repair/replacement of components to ensure the plant is operating at optimal efficiency for a plant of similar size and location. CAPABILITY STATEMENT It is requested that interested firms having the capabilities necessary to meet or exceed all aspects of the effort described herein, submit to the contracting office a capabilities statement demonstrating ability to perform the services listed above. The capability package shall be no more than eight (8) pages in length and printed in not smaller than 12 point type. The capabilities statement will consist of: A one (1) page cover sheet referencing Source Sought Notice GLANOWSKI_KSC CAMPUS SOLAR PLANT ADDITION Capabilities Statement KSC Campus Solar Plant Addition at Kennedy Space Center, Florida 32899. The remaining seven (7) pages shall include the following: Provide your company name, address, DUNS number, description of principal business activity, number of employees, number of years in business, primary point of contact (E-mail address and phone number). State your current business size status for NAICS Code 237130. Specifically identify if you are a large or small business firm. If you are a small business, specifically identify if you are a HUBZone small business, a service-disabled veteran owned small business, a woman-owned small business, an economically disadvantaged woman-owned small business, or an 8(a) small business. Provide your bonding capacity per contract and aggregate and the firms average annual revenue for the past 3 years. Provide a summary of projects performed within the last 5 years demonstrating your capabilities and past performance relevant to the services required at KSC. Relevant work, for the purposes of this Notice, is defined as, but not limited to, the following: The contractor shall have demonstrated utility and power system construction experience with the procurement, installation, activation, testing, and documentation of utility grade solar plant type power systems described in the SCOPE OF WORK above. Contractor shall have demonstrated experience in work planning to maintain continuous facility operations and minimizing outages during substation replacement projects. The contractor shall have demonstrated experience with power system analysis (short circuit studies, protective device coordination studies) and electrical hazard (arc-flash) analysis as described in the SCOPE OF WORK above. Contractor shall have demonstrated experience implementing, validating, testing, and documenting protective relay settings, instrument and control schemes, and networking of components for remote monitoring and control. The contractor shall have demonstrated experience in installing, validating, testing, and monitoring utility grade solar plant installations of the size and type as noted in the SCOPE OF WORK above. The contractor shall have demonstrated experience with power system electrical hazard analysis, detailed job hazard analysis, and the wearing of arc-flash and shock prevention personnel protective equipment while working in the vicinity of energized equipment with energized insulated cables or un-insulated components present. Capability packages must be submitted electronically, via e-mail, to Robert Glanowski NASA Contract Specialist, at the following address: robert.glanowski@nasa.gov not later than 05/08/2015. NASA/KSC will review all responses that comply with the submission instructions using the following criteria: breadth, depth and relevancy of experience as it relates to the work described above. DISCLAIMER: This Sources Sought Synopsis is for planning purposes only, subject to FAR Clause 52.215-3, entitled Request for Information or Solicitation for Planning Purposes. It does not constitute a Request for Proposal, Invitation for Bid, or Request for Quotation, and it is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government to enter into a contract. Moreover, the Government will not pay for the information submitted in response to this Notice, nor will the Government reimburse an offeror for costs incurred to prepare responses to this Notice. This invitation to submit capability packages is for the purpose of determining the appropriate level of competition and/or small business subcontracting goals for a potential KSC acquisition. NASA does not plan to respond to individual responses and does not intend to post information or questions received to any website or public access location. No solicitation exists at this time; therefore, do not request a copy of the solicitation. If a solicitation is released it will be synopsized on the Federal Business Opportunities Website, FedBizOpps, ( https://www.fbo.gov/ ) and on the NASA Acquisition Internet Services, NAIS, ( http://prod.nais.nasa.gov/cgi-bin /nais/index.cgi ). Interested firms are responsible for monitoring these sites for the release of any solicitation or synopsis. Failure to respond to this notice does not exclude any interested party from future consideration for proposals which may be announced or solicited by NASA.
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