SOURCES SOUGHT
Y -- Lower Granite Spillway PIT Tag Monitoring System
- Notice Date
- 1/15/2013
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 237990
— Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction
- Contracting Office
- USACE District, Walla Walla, 201 N. Third Avenue, Walla Walla, WA 99362-1876
- ZIP Code
- 99362-1876
- Solicitation Number
- W912EF-13-R-SS12
- Response Due
- 1/28/2013
- Archive Date
- 3/16/2013
- Point of Contact
- Elaine M. Vandiver, 509-527-7221
- E-Mail Address
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USACE District, Walla Walla
(elaine.m.vandiver@usace.army.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The US Army Corps of Engineers, Walla Walla District is seeking small business sources for a construction project entitled: Lower Granite Spillway PIT Tag Monitoring System. The work is located at Lower Granite Lock and Dam (Whitman and Asotin Counties, Washington). This will be a firm-fixed-price construction contract. The magnitude of construction is between $1,000,000 and $5,000,000 and 100% performance and payment bonds will be required. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this project is 237990 and the associated small business size standard is $33,500,000. This sources-sought announcement is a tool to identify businesses with the capability to accomplish the work. This is not a solicitation. Only those firms who respond to this announcement by submitting the following information will be used in determining whether to set aside this requirement. A)A list of current or past projects demonstrating technical experience with work of a similar nature to that listed in the Summary Scope of Work. For each project submitted, provide a brief narrative statement of the work involved, your firm's role in the project, the dollar value and the completion date. Include a statement detailing any special qualifications and certifications, applicable to the scope of this project, held by your firm and/or in-house personnel. B)A reference list for each of the projects submitted in #1 above. Include the name, title, phone number and email address. C)Provide a statement of your firm's business size (HUBZone, Service Disabled Veteran Owned, 8(a), small disadvantaged, or woman-owned) with regards to the NAICS code listed above. D)Provide a statement that your firm intends to submit an offer on the project when it is advertised. E)Provide a statement of your firm's bonding capacity. A statement from your surety is NOT required. F)Cage Code and DUNS number. Submit this information to Elaine Vandiver, Contract Specialist, via email to Elaine.M.Vandiver@usace.army.mil. Your response to this notice must be received on or before 3:00PM on January 28, 2013. Summary of Scope of Work: NOAA Fisheries and other regional fish managers use Passive Integrated Transponder (PIT) Tag data to track fish movement of anadromous species as they go downstream in their outmigration and as they come back upstream heading to their spawning grounds. Information collected can be used to estimate bypass passage rates, run timing, survival and smolt to adult return rates as well as evaluate the effects of project operations. Currently, the Corps of Engineers does not have a way to collect PIT Tag data from outmigrating juvenile salmonids and steelhead passing over spillways at Lower Granite Dam. Studies six to ten years ago indicated an average of 65% of fish passing the dam on their way downstream passed over the spillway and, as a result, were undetected by existing monitoring systems. In an attempt to collect PIT Tag information from some of the fish passing over the spillway at Lower Granite Dam, the Corps of Engineers will install a monitoring system in spillway bay #1. Spillway bay #1 functions as the surface passage route at Lower Granite and passes an estimated average of 75% of those fish passing over all eight of the spillway bays. The monitoring system will be installed at two locations in spillway bay #1. Part of the system will consist of a series of pass-over antennas recessed in the spillway surface in the lower part of the concrete spillway chute just above the tailwater surface. A second part of the monitoring system will consist of pass-by antennas suspended in the forebay just upstream of the RSW entrance. In the spillway chute location, a series of antennas will be recessed into the spillway surface so that the electromagnetic field projects up through the spillway flow and PIT Tag data is collected from tagged fish as they pass over the antennas. With flow in the spillway shut off, a contractor will mine or excavate two parallel trenches approximately 6.5 feet deep and 7 feet wide (approximately 170 cy) across the full 50-foot width of spillway bay one. Multiple government-furnished antennas will be installed in the trenches and covered with either a concrete cap or a system of UHMW skid plates to isolate them from spillway flow during spillway operation. Aluminum shield boxes will be fabricated and installed in the concrete to isolate the antenna fields from magnetic elements in the spillway. New concrete placed (approximately 130 cy) will require non-metallic rebar and non-magnetic aggregate. Associated signal and power cables will be recessed below the spillway surface as well or routed as required to connect the antennas to the regional PIT Tag data system. During concrete cutting/mining operations, all process water and waste material will be collected for treatment and upland disposal. Construction materials or fluids will not be allowed to come into contact with Snake River water. Communications cable will include copper antenna cables between the antennas and transceivers and fiber optic cables from the transceivers back to the existing data system. A personnel access walkway will be fabricated off-site and installed in the fishway channel to access government-furnished transceivers and other communication/power equipment. The walkway will be approximately 135 feet long by 6 feet wide weighing up to 25,000 pounds. It will be attached to the wall and ceiling of the fishway gallery supported by concrete anchors as required. Passages will be drilled, approximately 6 inches in diameter, 30 to 40 feet in length, between the antenna trenches and the fishway gallery to run cabling from the antennas to the communication/power equipment in the gallery. Drainage passages approximately 6 inches in diameter will also be drilled from the antenna trenches to the fishway gallery. In the forebay location, the contractor will fabricate and install a steel support structure (up to 30,000 lbs of steel) with up to 15-ton wire rope hoists and end trucks capable of raising the set of pass-by antennas up out of the water to clear debris or perform maintenance. Again, the antennas and transceivers will be government-furnished with the contractor providing all remaining required materials. The government expects to award a construction contract in August or September 2013 and the completed system will be tested in March of 2014 and begin operation in April 2014 with the annual spring spill season. The construction period will take place through the winter and will likely include severe weather with potential for freezing conditions and the associated hazards in the work area. Work will occur over or near water with fall and over-water hazards. The construction schedule is tight and there will be no room for schedule extension. The government expects to issue this project as a Request for Proposal, where contractors will be evaluated on previous experience with concrete excavation, concrete construction, electrical/communication/sensitive electronic grounding installation, heavy construction in marine environments, steel fabrication, and construction zone isolation from environmentally sensitive aquatic environments.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Lower Granite Dam 885 Almota Ferry Road Pomeroy WA
- Zip Code: 99347
- Zip Code: 99347
- Record
- SN02965437-W 20130117/130115234136-82af0a6ced7b31930dd0a02c5662b137 (fbodaily.com)
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