Commanding Officer, Civil Engineering Unit, P.O. Box 21747, 709 W. 9th Street, Room 817, Juneau, Alaska 99802-1747

Z -- GUY WIRE TENSIONING & MEMBER REPLACEMENT AT USCG LORAN STATION TOK, ALASKA SOL DTCG87-97-B-643025 DUE 040797 POC R. B. Wade, Contracting Officer, (907)463-2418 DTCG87-97-B-643025 -- Wire Tensioning & Memaber Replacement at USCG LORAN Station Tok, Alaska. DTCG87-97-B-643025 POC Rebecca Wade, Contracting Officer (907) 463-2418. Provide all equipment, materials, transportation, incidentals and perform labor for wire tensioning and member replacement at USCG LORAN Station Tok, Alaska. Work includes, but is not limited to providing all labor necessary for measuring and adjusting guy tensions on four (4) 700-foot towers. Total number of guys to measure/adjust is 116. Measuring and adjusting alignment of these same towers. Alignment is measured/adjusted at eight levels on each tower. Removal and replacement of six (6) diagonal tower members and three (3) horizontal membrs. All member replacements are on the same tower. Contractor will be responsible for fabrication of temporary horizontal and diagonal members as detailed in the contract drawings. Prepare and paint the top eighty-four (84) feet of one tower with brush-applied cold galvanizing compound. Towers are not eneregized. All work must be completed prior to 1 October 1997. The contractor will be required to furnish, at its own expense, proof of $3,000,000 liability insurance prior to commencement of work at the site. The work required by this solicitation is identified as standard subject identification code is 1623 and the average annual sales for the previous 3 years is $17.0 million. All responsible sources may submit a bid which shall be considered by he U. S. Coast Guard. Requests for bid documents must be submitted and received by his office no later than March 3, 1997. The estimated cost range for this project is between $100,000 and $250,000. This procurement is issued pursuant to the Small Business Competitiveness Demonstration Program, Public Law 100-656, as implemented by the OFPP Policy Directive and Test Plan dated 8/31/89. This is not a small business dset-aside. Notice is for informational purposes for Minority, Women-Owned and Disadvantaged Business Enterprises: The Department of Transportation (DOT), Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU), has a program to assist minority, women-owned and disadvantaged business enterprises to acquire short-term working capital assistance for transportation-related contracts. Loans are available under the DOT Short Term Lending Program (STLP) at prime interest rates to provide accounts receivable financing. The maximum line of credit is $500,000. For further information and applicable forms concerning the STLP, call the OSDBU at (800) 532-1169. For information concerning the acquisition, contact the contracting official listed above. Interested parties can obtain a bid package by contacting Commanding Officer (ko), Civil Engineering Unit, P. O. Box 21747, Juneau, Alaska 99802-1747. There are no charges for this bid pacage. R. Wade (907) 463-2418. R. Wade/CEUJuneau@internet.uscg.mil Civil Engineering Unit (0045)

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