SOURCES SOUGHT
Y -- Forest Highway 20 Reconstruction
- Notice Date
- 11/20/2009
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 237310
— Highway, Street, and Bridge Construction
- Contracting Office
- Forest Service - R-10 Tongass National Forest
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- AG-0116-SS-10-0003
- Point of Contact
- Martha DeFreest, Phone: (907) 789-6248, Kim B Toland, Phone: 907-772-5804
- E-Mail Address
-
mdefreest@fs.fed.us, kimtoland@fs.fed.us
(mdefreest@fs.fed.us, kimtoland@fs.fed.us)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- (a)The Forest Service contemplates conducting a two-phase design-build acquisition using the procedures of FAR Subpart 36.3 for the Forest Highway 20 Reconstruction project from Coffman Cove junction to the Naukati junction on Prince of Wales Island. This project is intended to provide for a fully designed, permitted, and constructed two-lane road for 8.2 miles of the North Prince of Wales highway. Included in the design will be an option item for asphalt concrete surfacing. The estimated magnitude of the project is between $15,000,000 and $20,000,000. (b)The Forest Service has completed some preliminary work, and anticipates being able to make information from the Civil Alignment Study Report available to potential offerors; we are hopeful of conducting the two phases of the acquisition with a contract award to a single firm by the September 2010. The Civil Alignment Study Report, 2004, includes: •Design criteria standards •Hydrological discharge graphs, flow master and FishXing reports •Reconnaissance data forms for fish passage design structures •Fish passage photographs •Waste disposal sites investigation report and waste area review forms •Construction cost estimate and alternatives cost estimate •Fish passage construction cost estimate •Civil alignment study drawings and cross sections Also available is the Decision Notice and the Final Geotechnical Report from 2003. (c) The Forest Service desires that firms interested in this project as a prime contractor identify themselves by the submission of a brief white paper. We ask for this paper to be submitted as an Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) attachment in an e-mail to Martha DeFreest (mdefreest@fs.fed.us) with a cc to Kim Toland (kimtoland@fs.fed.us) by close of business on Wednesday, December 9, 2009. The white paper and any accompanying cover letter should be brief (no more than seven (7) pages), should not exceed 1MB in size, and should be written with the intent of helping the Forest Service craft its acquisition approach so we can enhance our ability to obtain the design and construction services at reasonable prices and with efficiency in contractor proposal preparation, proposal evaluation, negotiation, and contract award. The white paper should address the following topics: (1) The firm's name, address, DUNS number, and point of contact information; (2) The firm's size status, such as small business, small disadvantaged business, HUBZone small business, service-disabled veteran-owned small business, or 8(a) contractor; (3) The firm's experience as a prime contractor in design-build acquisitions and as a prime contractor for work similar to this project; (4) Advice on whether the Forest Service should issue one solicitation covering both phases, or two solicitations in sequence; (5) Advice on the timetable that the acquisition should follow in order to provide for a contract award at the end of phase two by September 2010; (6) Advice on the phase one evaluation factors, including the level of design work the Forest Service should seek from competing contractors as part of the phase one effort; (7) Advice on the phase two evaluation factors; (8) Comments on the suitability of this project for use of the two-phase selection process; and (9) Other advice, recommendations, or cautions for the Forest Service as we consider a two-phase design-build acquisition approach for this project. (d) The Forest Service is not scheduling a pre-solicitation conference at this time. We hope all interested parties will share helpful information with us through the white papers requested above. The Forest Service has not yet made a definitive decision to issue a solicitation, and it has not made any definitive decisions regarding work scope, acquisition strategy, extent of competition, NAICS code, and so forth. The information we learn from the white papers will help us as we make these decisions. Other exchanges with industry may occur in the near future; this may include a pre-solicitation conference or one-on-one meetings with some or all white paper submitters. Your participation and assistance through the submission of a white paper is appreciated.
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/USDA/FS/116/AG-0116-SS-10-0003/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: Prince of Wales Island, Alaska, United States
- Record
- SN02008111-W 20091122/091120235328-ec6279e404388ec2878f596cf8ad8980 (fbodaily.com)
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