SOURCES SOUGHT
99 -- Sources Sought: Renewable and Alternative Energy Power Production for Army Installations
- Notice Date
- 6/29/2011
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 221119
— Other Electric Power Generation
- Contracting Office
- USACE HNC, Huntsville, P. O. Box 1600, Huntsville, AL 35807-4301
- ZIP Code
- 35807-4301
- Solicitation Number
- W912DY-11-R-0036
- Response Due
- 7/28/2011
- Archive Date
- 9/26/2011
- Point of Contact
- Sarah M. Tierney, 256-895-1219
- E-Mail Address
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USACE HNC, Huntsville
(sarah.m.tierney@usace.army.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- In support of the Army Energy Initiatives Office, the U.S. Army Engineering & Support Center in Huntsville, Alabama seeks developers for large scale, renewable and alternative energy production on or near Army installations. 1. Contract Information: The U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center in Huntsville (CEHNC), Alabama intends to solicit and award multiple, indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) contracts for use in competing and awarding Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) task orders. The product/service will be the delivery of renewable and alternative energy for Army use that is produced on or near Army installations by production facilities that are financed, constructed, operated and maintained by the contractor. The length of contract for the sale of the energy to the Army cannot exceed 30 years. The task order and accompanying lease agreement will specify what is to become of the contractor-owned energy plant at the end of the contract term if no follow-on PPA or lease agreement extension. These contracts are being procured in accordance with FAR Part 15. The task order awards in excess of 10 year terms are conditional to project approval by OSD in accordance with 10 U.S.C. 2922a- Procurement of energy systems using renewable forms of energy. The Government is performing market research in order to determine which businesses, large and small, possess the interest and capability to execute the requirements of this anticipated request for proposal (RFP). Interested sources should respond to the questions presented within this announcement in order to facilitate the Government's market research efforts. The Government will analyze all responses and determine if the pool of qualified and interested small business firms is significant enough for a total set-aside competition restricted to small businesses or for a partial set-aside competition restricted to small businesses. If the determination is made that there are not enough qualified and/or interested small business firms to perform this requirement, the Government may solicit the acquisition as an unrestricted full and open competition. The Government does not intend to rank submittals or provide any reply to interested firms. The Army seeks to achieve energy security and meet its renewable energy mandates through the use of large scale renewable energy projects and the attainment of net zero energy status by its installations. The Army must consume or produce 25% of the electric it purchases by 2025. In addition it must attain a reduction of 34% of its green house gas emissions from 2008 levels by 2020. In addition, the Net Zero Energy initiative challenges installations to produce more energy on the installation than they consume, with emphasis on the use of renewable energy and alternative fuels. Since not all Army installations have the resources, land and availability to the national electrical grid to develop large scale renewable energy projects, some installations are challenged to develop more production capacity than they require in order to allow the Army to achieve its targets and mandates. The planned contracts described in this announcement will not be the only contract vehicles utilized to achieve the net zero energy goal, but they are anticipated to be frequently used. Multiple award ID/IQ contracts are anticipated to be awarded in 2013 with a minimum of one (1) year base period and a minimum of four (4) one-year option periods for a total ordering period of at least five (5) years during which to compete for PPA task orders. However, individual task orders awarded during that time frame may extend up to 30 years. The programmatic value of all task orders awarded under all of the ID/IQ contracts is $5 billion ($5B). Individual task orders are anticipated to range from $50 million to $900 million each. All of these dollar figures refer to the initial project investment cost to produce the renewable or alternative energy supply. 2. Project Information: The requirements include solar, wind, geothermal and bio-mass renewable energy (RE) projects and may include alternative energy sources that do not qualify as renewable but offer improvements or benefits in terms of greenhouse gas reductions, reduced overall energy costs and/or improved energy security. The basic contracts will establish a pool of pre-qualified offerors to compete for PPA task orders. It is anticipated that this acquisition will consist of separate pools of ID/IQ awards, one for each of the four RE technology areas, i.e., solar, wind, geothermal and bio-mass. Firms will be able to compete and win contracts in multiple RE technology areas. The geographic scope of these contracts will be 50 states, District of Columbia, U.S. Territories and the Republic of Marshall Islands. The structure of the basic contract competitive pools may change when the Intent to Issue a Request for Proposal is published. 3. Submission Requirements: This sources sought announcement is unrestricted to allow small and large businesses to respond. The Government is seeking to identify qualified sources either singularly or as part of an assembled team under North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) 22119 Electric power generation (except fossil fuel, hydroelectric, nuclear) and 237130, Alternative energy (e.g., geothermal, ocean wave, solar, wind) structure construction. NAICS 237130 also includes co-generation plant, nuclear plant and electric power transmission line and tower construction. Interested firms should submit a document describing relevant demonstrated experience and qualifications via email to sarah.m.tierney@usace.army.mil and tonju.l.butler@usace.army.mil no later than 28 July 2011 in the following format: Submissions should not exceed ten- 8.5 inches x 11 inches pages (five pages if printed two-sided). The submission should address all questions in the sources sought questionnaire below and your ability to perform the work, obtain the necessary financing, etc., as stated in the contract information section of this sources sought. In addition to submitting a response to the sources sought questionnaire, interested firms are invited to review the attached draft scope of work and provide comments. There is no specified page limit or format for feedback on the draft scope. This synopsis is for market research purposes only and is not a request for proposal (RFP) nor does it restrict the Government as to the ultimate acquisition approach. The Government will not reimburse respondents for any costs incurred in preparation of a response to this notice. No hard copy of facsimile submissions will be accepted. Cover letters and extraneous materials (brochures, etc) will not be considered. Questions concerning submissions should be directed to Ms. Sarah Tierney, Contract Specialist at Sarah.M.Tierney@usace.army.mil or Ms. Tonju Butler, Contracting Officer at Tonju.L.Butler@usace.army.mil. Personal visits for the purpose of discussing this announcement will not be scheduled. SOURCES SOUGHT QUESTIONNAIRE 1. What is the name of your business? 2. What is your business address? 3. Identify a responsible point of contact who can be contacted regarding your response, their phone number, and e-mail address. 4. Is your firm a large business, small business, a certified 8(a) small business, certified HUBZone business and/or Service Disabled veteran owned concern? (Specify all that apply.) 5. Would you be proposing on this project as a sole contractor, prime contractor with subcontractor(s), prime contractor with team member subcontractor(s), and/or a joint venture? (If you have proposed a joint venture, identify to the extent possible, your team members. Identify the business size of your team members or joint venture firms. If a teaming arrangement is planned, give details to the extent practicable on how the team likely will be composed. See FAR subpart 9.6 for Government policy on teaming arrangements, as well as 8(a) Program regulations described in 13 CFR 124.513.) 6. Provide at least 3 examples of renewable or alternative energy projects for which you were the prime contractor, joint venture partner or first tier subcontractor responsible for the development, financing, and/or management of the design, construction and/or post construction operation. Identify the scope of your contractual responsibilities, the location, client, and size of project in terms of construction cost and energy production capacity. Identify how and by whom each project was financed and how the capital investment was (is being) amortized, e.g., power purchase agreement, construction progress payments, energy savings payments, etc. Project examples should support any/all affirmative answers provided to the following questions. 7. Provide your company's project financing capability ($) for projects taking at least one full year to complete and produce a revenue stream assuming no advance payment or financial assistance from Government prior to or during the project construction phase. 8. Provide financing source reference(s) including point of contact for telephonic confirmation of the dollar amount claimed for project financing capability if not otherwise demonstrated by a past project example involving project development/construction financing by your company. 9. Does your company have the capability to identify and obtain all permits required by Federal, state, local and installation agencies, including compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)? 10. Does your company have the ability to work in 1) only a specific regional area, 2) throughout the entire United States, or 3) in the United States and all US Territories? 11. Does your company have experience in performing investment grade feasibility studies, economic analyses such as Life Cycle Cost, Risk, Return on Investment (ROI), etc., which may be required in order to determine/demonstrate the viability of a proposed project? 12. Does your company have experience in renewable energy development and working with utility companies for access to transmission and interconnection of utilities? 13. Identify with a "yes" or "no" as to your company's demonstrated expertise/experience in each of the following: Alternate Fuels Alternative Financing Biomass Central Energy Plants Cogeneration Combined Heat and Power (CHP) Systems Energy Savings and Performance Contracting Energy Storage Fuel Cells Geothermal Power Ground Source Heat Pump Community Loop Systems Government-Community-Corporate Partnership Ventures Low Head or Low Flow Hydropower Generation Power Purchase Agreements Small Nuclear Reactors Solar Power Utility Rate Structures[A1] Utility Energy Services Contracts Water Conservation Water Desalinization Water Treatment Wind Turbines
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- Place of Performance
- Address: USACE HNC, Huntsville P. O. Box 1600, Huntsville AL
- Zip Code: 35807-4301
- Zip Code: 35807-4301
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