SOURCES SOUGHT
Z -- Sources Sought
- Notice Date
- 12/11/2009
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 237990
— Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction
- Contracting Office
- Fort Bliss DOC, Directorate of Contracting, Attn: ATZC-DOC, Building 2021, Club Road, Fort Bliss, TX 79916-6812
- ZIP Code
- 79916-6812
- Solicitation Number
- W911SG-9183-1300
- Response Due
- 12/23/2009
- Archive Date
- 2/21/2010
- Point of Contact
- Rosalyn Dowell, 915-569-8368
- E-Mail Address
-
Fort Bliss DOC
(rosalyn.dowell@us.army.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Competitive 8(a)
- Description
- This is a sources sought notice and is not a request for proposals. This sources sought is to determine if there are 8a small businesses that are qualified and capable of preventive and corrective land rehabilitation, repair, and or maintenance practices that reduces the long-term impacts of training and testing on installation lands. It includes training area redesign and/or reconfiguration to meet training requirements at government owned facilities at Fort Bliss, Texas. This program supports sound natural and cultural resource management practices to provide stewardship of land assets, while sustaining those assets to support training, testing, and other installation missions. The Integrated Training Area Management (ITAM) Program consists of four major elements: 1) Training Requirements Integration (TRI), 2) Range and Training Land Assessment (RTLA). 3) Land Rehabilitation and Maintenance (LRAM), 4) Sustainable Range Awareness (SRA), plus a GIS component supporting all four ITAM elements. The major effort under this program will include: 1)Channel Stabilization-Hard Lined: A natural or constructed waterway that is lined with erosion-resistant concrete or stone with the area above the hardened or permanent lining vegetated or otherwise stabilized. 2)Check Dams: Small dam constructed in a gully or other small channel to decrease the flow velocity, minimize channel scour, and promote deposition of sediment. 3)Culverts: A culvert consists of a metal, plastic, or concrete pipe through which surface water can flow under roads, trails, embankments, and maneuver structures. 4)Dust Control Methods and Palliatives: Actions or methods that reduce the erosive effects of wind on dry soils. Dust control measures include the application of chemical tackifier or soil binder, the establishment of vegetation, soil inoculation, the use of aggregate material, and/or the combination thereof. Dust palliatives include water absorbing products, organic petroleum products, organic non-petroleum products, synthetic polymer products, clay additives, etc. 5)Erosion Control Blankets or Mats: Erosion control blankets or mats are designed to augment the processes of nature by protecting soil, seeds, topsoil, and fertilizer until vegetation is firmly established. 6)Gabions: Gabions are rectangular or cylindrical wire-mesh cages that are filled with rock and wired together to form a protective, but permeable structure for slope stabilization and erosion control. 7)Grade Stabilization Structures: A structure used to stabilize the grade or to control head cutting in natural or artificial channels. Commonly utilized grade stabilization structures include toe walls and drop spillways. A toe wall is a mechanical system that functions like a weir and contains a non-enclosed water over fall. A drop spillway is a mechanical system, which lowers water through a box or pipe structure. This system internally dissipates most of the energy produced by the water. Concrete catch basin, plastic drop pipes, and steel slopes culverts are all examples of drop spillways. 8)Gully Plugs: Gully plugs can be comprised of earthen or hardened materials. Gully plugs prevent the eroding and down cutting of gully heads while allowing sediment to backfill; thus, creating an improved micro-environment for the establishment of vegetative cover. Earthen gully plugs are typically constructed from topsoil, native or non-invasive grass seed, and certified weed free straw and are established in a gully after appropriate land shaping is completed. Hardened gully plugs (otherwise known as Maneuver Access Structures MAS) are typically constructed from hard angular rock and function as weirs, while simultaneously providing a dismounted or mounted troop crossing. 9)Hardened Tactical Areas and Trails: Concentrate and maintain areas of disturbance associated with training to allow access to trails, firing points, and maneuver and tactical areas (e.g. bivouac, forward operating base (FOB), tactical operational center (TOC)). 10)Land Shaping: Land shaping is moving soil around to planned grades to provide suitable topography for range activities. 11)Level Spreader: Level spreader is an earthen, vegetated outlet for dikes, diversions, or other concentrated runoff, which is slightly depressed allowing water to collect and then disperse uniformly over the surrounding vegetated area. 12)Low-Water Crossing: A low-water crossing is where a road, without a bridge, dips across dry, intermittent or low-flow channels. 13)Sediment Barrier: Sediment barriers, such as silt fences, straw bales or wattles, brush barriers, and coir fiber are structures placed perpendicular to the slope of the land to decrease the velocity of overland flow, or low to moderate channel flows, and prevent off-site or downstream transport of sediment. 14)Sediment Basin: A depression formed from the construction of a barrier or dam built to retain sediment and debris. Sediment basins are permanent structures. 15)Sediment Trap: A sediment trap is a temporary ponding area formed either by excavation of a depression or by constructing an earthen embankment. The ponding area allows sediment to settle out before the runoff is discharged through a stone outlet. 16)Seeding: Temporary or permanent seeding that produces a short-term or long-term protective vegetative cover. Seeding is applicable wherever disturbed soils exist. The method will depend on the site conditions. 17)Signage and Fencing: Downrange signage and fencing are controls used to limit access around safety hazards. 18)Turnouts and Aprons: Turnouts and aprons are transitions from flow diversions or channels that convey concentrated, high-velocity flows to discharges into undisturbed areas with low-velocity non-erosive flows. Turnouts and aprons are designed to convert concentrated flow into sheet flow NOT to filter or retain sediments. Turnouts may be a ditch, trench, or other conveyance used to divert stormwater runoff away from a road surface or adjacent ditch into undisturbed areas of vegetation. Turnouts may be used in conjunction with aprons or with level spreaders (see the Level Spreaders BMP). Aprons consist of permanent layers of loose angular stones or aggregate material with a filter fabric or granular underlining placed over an erodible soil surface. 19)Vegetative Rock Surface: A vegetated rock surface is a layer of rock, confined or unconfined, through which vegetation grows. 20)Water Bars: A shallow trench with a mound or a berm that provides cross drainage and intercepts runoff from trails, roads, and firebreaks. 21)Wattles: Wattles are made of live material, and are fabrication of poles interwoven with slender branches withes, or reeds used for erosion and sediment control. Generall, wattles are used for sediment control on slopes with limited to low-volume flows from smaller storm events. The Mission & Installation Contracting Command, Directorate of Contracting, Fort Bliss, Texas is seeking information to verify there are qualified and capable 8a sources available to perform rehabilitation on Fort Bliss, Texas. The Government is looking for those firms with experience performing this type of work and evidence that the contractor has complied with all laws and regulations when performing this work. The applicable North American Industrial Classification System Code (NAICS) code that this work falls under is 237990 (Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction) rehabilitation and repairs with a size standard of $33.5 million. The magnitude of this project is over a 5 year period and expected to be more than $10,000,000. The contractor must be able to obtain bonding in the form of bid guarantee and, payment and performance bonds. Those firms interested in providing information in response to this sources sought are requested to provide the following information to the Contract Specialist, Rosalyn Dowell at rosalyn.dowell@us.army.mil or the Contracting Officer, Michael Duffy at michael.r.duffy@us.army.mil on 22 December 2009: 1) Firm Name 2) Firm Address 3) DUNS/CAGE Code 4) POC Information 5) Size of Business (number of employees) 6) Bonding Capacity (single and total) 7) Annual Revenue 8) List the States you have performed work in 9) Provide information on previous work performed of preventive and corrective land rehabilitation, repair, and/or maintenance practices that reduces the long-term impacts of training and testing on installation lands to include training area redesign and/or reconfiguration to meet training requirements. A description of the project, point of contract (POC) name and phone number/email address for the owner, amount of contract award, date when it was performed, and the number of days it took to complete.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Fort Bliss DOC Directorate of Contracting, Attn: ATZC-DOC, Building 2021, Club Road Fort Bliss TX
- Zip Code: 79916-6812
- Zip Code: 79916-6812
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