43 -- SUPPLY AND OPERATE BARGE MOUNTED PUMPING EQUIPMENT FOR THE PURPOSE OF SUPPLYING RAW WATER TO THE RAW WATER INTAKE STRUCTURES, AT THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY'S STRATEGIC PETROLEUM RESERVE -- BIG HILL SITE, IN TEXAS.

Notice Date

February 23, 2001

Contracting Office

US Army Corps of Engineers, Dist New Orleans, PO Box 60267, New Orleans, LA 70160

ZIP Code

70160

Solicitation Number

DACW29-01-T-0068

Response Due

March 23, 2001

Point of Contact

POC Winifred Dyer, Contract Specialist, 504-862-1998

Description

TECHNICAL PROVISIONS SCOPE OF WORK The worked covered in this contract consist of furnishing all materials, labor, tools, equipment, supplies and services required to supply and operate barge mounted pumping equipment for the purpose of supplying raw water to the Raw Water Intake Structures (RWIS), at the Department of Energy's Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) Big Hill (BH) site, in Texas. The Contractor shall adhere to the following schedule: By Tuesday, May 22, 2001, the Contractor shall have at the site all plants as specified herein with his pumping equipment discharge line connected to the RWIS emergency intake flange. He shall be prepared, at this time, to pump raw water from the Intracoastal Waterway (IWW) according to the Pumping Requirement paragraph shown below. At the direction of the Contracting Officer (CO) or Contracting Officer's Representative (COR), the Contractor shall commence/terminate the pumping operation. On Tuesday, May 22, 2001, at the direction of the COR, the Contractor shall perform a Pre-pump Test to demonstrate equipment functionality, prior to the actual test on Wednesday, May 23, 2001. The Contractor may be required to standby from 0800 hours May 22, 2001 for as much as 72 hours before commencing pumping operation. THIS IS A RAW WATER PUMPING CONTRACT. NO DREDGING IS REQUIRED IN THESE SPECIFICATIONS. FOR DESCRIPTION OF DIMENSIONS LISTED IN THIS SPECIFICATION, THE USE OF ENGLISH UNITS SHALL SUPERSEDE THAT OF SI UNITS DURING CONTRACT EXECUTION. SITE VISIT scheduled 12 March 2001 at 1:00pm The DynMcDermott(DM) Big Hill Site Point of Contact for the Mar 5th Pre-Bid is Louann Holiday. Her telephone number is (409)981-8265. Driving Directions from Houston, Texas Take Interstate 10 (I-10) East approximately 60 miles to exit number 828. Take Texas Hwy 365 and proceed about 1 mile then there will be another intersection, Hwy 124, take a right. Continue on Hwy 124 until you reach Craigen road then take a left. Two blocks down you will make a right turn, this will be Wilbur Rd. Continue on Wilbur Rd, crossing over Hwy 73, and this will lead you onto the site. There are several signs showing direction. A map to site visit is available upon request -- POC: Winifred Dyer (504)862-1998. PROJECT SITE INFORMATION Location. The SPR BH RWIS is located on the north bank of the Intracoastal Waterway (IWW), Jefferson County, Texas, approximately 20 miles southeast of Winnie, Texas, and 5.25 miles south of the DOE SPR BH Crude Oil Storage Facility. Refer to the vicinity map on the attached drawing. Facility And Utility Accessibility. Vessels may access the RWIS site via the IWW. Motor vehicle access to the SPR is via Wilber Road, which connects to Texas Highway 73, which in turn connects to Interstate 10. Wilber Road is a two-lane, all-weather hard-surface road. Highway 73 is a four-lane hard-surface major highway. There is an unpaved road connection to the RWIS; however, this road is subject to seasonal outage. Land access to the RWIS is controlled at the BH SPR site. There is no fuel or power provision at the RWIS location available to the Contractor. RWIS Emergency Pipeline Intake Connection. The RWIS is connected to the BH SPR pipeline. The RWIS emergency intake connection stems perpendicularly from the RWIS. See attached drawing. The intake connection is fitted with a 30-inch (0.76 m)-diameter, ANSI 300-pound (1334-Newton [N]) flange with a blind plate flange attached. The work site identified is in general, located in the RWIS mooring/barge slip area adjacent to the IWW navigable waters of the United States and to boundaries of the RWIS, which is a U.S. Government reservation. The RWIS emergency intake flange and pipe extending seaward of the barge slip wall will be considered to reside off of the Government Reservation and is accessible to the Contractor to perform the work described in the paragraph titled Contractor's Responsibility shown below. See attached drawing. The Contractor is not permitted to perform any dredging in the barge slip or in the IWW to provide flotation for his plant nor to provide an intake sump for his plant. See attached drawing for the barge slip elevations. CONTRACTOR'S PLANT The Contractor shall furnish all floating plant, material, equipment, supplies, fuels, labor, per diem, supervision, transportation, calibrated pump flow rate and pressure instrumentation, and perform all work in strict accordance with this specifications to provide raw water pumping capabilities at the site listed in the paragraph titled Location. All work, materials, and services not expressly called for in this specification that may be necessary for complete and proper operation to carry out the contract in good faith shall be performed, furnished, and installed by the Contractor at no increase in cost to the Government. NOTE: Throughout this specification, either the terms "floating plant", "plant", or "pumping equipment" may be used to describe the Contractor's primary plant. No distinction is made between floating plant and pumping equipment of any kind. The Contractor shall provide floating plant at the work site, compatible with the DOE's on-site equipment described herein. Floating plant intake(s) shall be equipped with screen(s) having the capacity to exclude waterborne debris three-fourths of an inch effective diameter and larger from entering the RWIS emergency intake. All check valves in the Contractor's pump equipment discharge stream shall be in excellent working condition and shall operate without slapping or slamming due to sudden blocking or pulsations or sudden loss of pump discharge pressure. The Contractor must provide damage protection equipment for water hammer (such as a pressure release valve) that may occur during operations while his plant is connected to the RWIS. The equipment must be able to protect both the RWIS facility and the Contractor's plant. Water hammer damage protection measures provided by the Contractor shall include protection from any adverse pumping effects introduced into the SPR facility by the Contractor's plant and vise versa. PUMPING REQUIREMENTS Criteria constituting effective pumping for this test shall be defined as pumping raw water (specific gravity approximately 1.01) continuously for 14 hours or less as directed by the COR. All pumping shall be conducted using equipment as described in the paragraph titled Contractor's Plant. During effective pumping, the Contractor must provide a flow rate of 29,000 gallons per minute (GPM) (110m3/min.) while maintaining a pressure at the RWIS connection of at least 280 pounds per square inch (psi) (1930 Kilopascals [Kpa]). The Contractor's plant shall be able to deliver raw water to the RWIS intake, as described in the paragraph titled RWIS Emergency Pipeline Intake Connection, at pumping flows and pressures equal to or greater than those specified in this paragraph. The Contractor's plant shall not introduce sudden non-steady state conditions, i.e., pulses of raw water, hereinafter referred to as "water hammer", into the RWIS facility. PIPELINES Pipelines, including flexible couplings to allow for variations in the water surface elevation at the site, may be required for connecting the pumping equipment to the raw water intake, or for the pump intake. All pipeline equipment used by the Contractor must have the physical strength and capacity to sustain the pumping requirements listed in the paragraph titled Pumping Requirements. Leaks occurring in the Contractor's pipeline shall be promptly stopped. The Contractor will not be responsible for leaks in the DOE's pipelines. The Contractor's pipeline and all associated equipment shall be considered as part of the attendant plant. The Contractor shall not modify the RWIS facility in any way. This being the case, the Contractor shall provide equipment compatible to the RWIS emergency intake to successfully execute the work described herein. ATTENDANT PLANT Attendant floating plant shall consist of barges containing enough fuel or energy to support 24 hours of service per day to derrick barges, water barges, pipeline as described in the paragraph titled Pipelines, towboat tenders or other plant as is required for the effective mobilization, demobilization and operation of the pumps. The attendant plant shall be maintained in good condition and be of sufficient size and capacity to efficiently serve the pumping equipment. All barges shall comply with applicable U.S. Coast Guard and U.S. Public Health Service Regulations. POLYSTYRENE AND OTHER CHEMICALLY FORMED FLOTATION COLLAR MATERIAL USED FOR PIPELINES. The Contractor shall be responsible for removal of all debris caused by the use of pipelines equipped with polystyrene flotation, at the work site or any other locations used to install, store, or repair the floating pipeline. Suitable banding, mesh, or other covering will be required on the polystyrene to prevent deterioration during normal pumping operations. CREW The Contractor shall furnish and pay all necessary crewmen that will be required for the satisfactory and efficient operation of the pumping equipment and attendant plant, and for handling pipelines. Subsistence and per diem travel expenses for the crew shall be the responsibility of the Contractor. The Contractor shall be held responsible for ensuring that the employees and subcontractors strictly comply with Federal, State and municipal laws that may apply to operations under this contract. The contractor shall remove from duty any crewman who, in the judgment of the CO or the COR, constitutes a hazard to safety. All Contractor employees working under this contract must be U.S. Citizens. They must possess and carry some form of legally acceptable photo identification (i.e. driver's license, passport, etc.) while at the work site. The Contractor's employees, subcontractors and subcontractor's employees shall comply with the attached "Summary of Security Regulations". The following information shall be furnished to the CO for each of the Contractor's personnel no more than 5 days after contract award: 1. Employee's Name; 2. Home Address; 3. Date of Birth; 4. Proof of U.S. Citizenship; and 5. Social Security Number. CONTRACTOR'S RESPONSIBILITY Pipeline Connection. The Contractor shall be responsible for connecting his plant discharge flange to the RWIS emergency intake flange as described in the paragraph titled Facility and Utility Accessibility, supplying all necessary material, equipment, and labor to perform this work. Pump Intake Screen Maintenance. Various forms of debris may exist in IWW waters at the site. The raw water intaking process from the IWW has the potential to cause intake screens to clog with debris, resulting in noncompliance with specified pumping rates. The Contractor will be responsible for inspection and maintenance of intakes to prevent pump inlet clogging, vortexing, or other constraining conditions that has the potential to occur during pumping raw water. After completion of each pumping test or operation, the Contractor shall clear his pump intake screen of any debris that may have collected during pump operation. Pumping Activities Reporting. The Contractor shall report his pumping activities using recorded measurements of flow rate and pressure entering the RWIS emergency intake. The Contractor shall record these quantities by observing instruments as described in the paragraph titled Contractor's Plant. This shall include the date and time of each set of readings at the beginning of pumping, every half-hour thereafter, and just before termination of pumping. The Contractor shall submit this information in writing, along with pumping instrumentation calibration certificates, to the COR upon request at any time during the execution of the work and no later than 10 working days following the completion of the work. The final report shall include quantity measurements presented in both English and System International (SI) units. SUBMITTALS Offerors shall submit in both English and SI units (where as applicable) the following documentation (in triplicate) to the CO no later than 5 days after award. The submittals will require DOE approval. 1. Pump Performance Curves 2. Pump Engine Performance Curves 3. Commitment to Schedule Statement Offerors shall submit in both English and SI units, the following documentation (in triplicate) to the CO no later than 5 days after award: The submittals will require DOE approval. 1. Schematic of Barge(s) Overall Dimensions; 2. Diesel Fuel Capacity of Barge; 3. Schematic of Pump Equipment and Details of Intake/Discharge Pipeline Layouts; 4. Draft Requirements of Plant and Attendant Plant Barges. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION PROTECTION OF WATER RESOURCES Contamination of Water. The Contractor shall not pollute lakes, ditches, rivers, bayous, canals, groundwater, waterways, or reservoirs with fuels, oils, bitumens, calcium chloride, insecticides, herbicides, or other similar materials harmful to fish, shellfish, or wildlife, or materials which may be a detriment to outdoor recreation. Disposal of Materials. The methods and locations of disposal of materials, wastes, effluents, trash, garbage, oil, grease, chemicals, etc., within the right-of-way limits shall be such that harmful debris will not enter lakes, ditches, rivers, bayous, canals, groundwater, waterways, or reservoirs by erosion, and thus prevent the use of the area for recreation or present a hazard to wildlife. Debris disposal shall be conducted in accordance with and performed in a manner applicable Federal, State, and Local regulations. PROTECTION OF FISH AND WILDLIFE. The Contractor shall at all times perform all work and take such steps required to prevent any interference of disturbance to fish and wildlife. The Contractor will not be permitted to alter water flows or otherwise disturb native habitat adjacent to the project area, which are critical to fish, or wildlife. DISPOSAL OF MATERIALS. The Contractor shall provide daily trash collection and cleanup of the pump equipment and attendant plant. MAINTENANCE OF POLLUTION CONTROL FACILITIES DURING CONSTRUCTION. During the life of this contract the Contractor shall maintain all facilities constructed for pollution control under this contract as long as the operations creating the particular pollutant are being carried out or until the material concerned has become stabilized to the extent that pollution is no longer being created. REPORTING OF POLLUTION SPILLS. In the event that an oil spill or chemical release occurs during the performance of this contract, the Contractor is required to contact the National Response Center, telephone number 1-800-424-8802 as soon as possible, or if telephone communication is not possible, the nearest U.S. Coast Guard office may be contacted by radio to report the spill, (33 CFR 153.203). The Contractor shall comply with any instructions from the responding agency concerning containment and/or cleanup of the spill. The Contractor shall provide a complete written incident report to the Contracting Officer's Representative within 24 hrs after an oil spill or chemical release. ENVIRONMENTAL LITIGATION. If the performance of all or any part of the work is suspended, delayed, or interrupted, due to an order of a court of competent jurisdiction as a result of environmental litigation, then the CO, at the request of the Contractor, shall determine whether the order is due in any part to the acts or omissions of the Contractor, or a subcontractor at any tier, not required by the terms of the contract. If it is determined that the order is not due in any part to acts or omissions of the Contractor, or a subcontractor at any tier, other than acts required by the terms of the contract, then such suspension, delay, or interruption shall be considered as if it had been ordered by the CO, under the terms of the Contract Clause entitled "Suspension of Work". The period of suspension, delay, or interruption shall be considered unreasonable, and an adjustment shall be made for any increase in the cost of performance of this contract (excluding profit) as provided in that clause, subject to all the provisions thereof.

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