Tennessee Valley Authority Purchasing WR 3R 1101 Market Street P. O. Box 11127 Chattanooga TN 37401-2127

Z -- PARTNERING AGREEMENT FOR CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE OF TRANSMISSION SYSTEM SOL To Be Deterined POC Buyer: Darrell L. Parks Phone: (615) 751-4666 TVA intends to purchase the following goods or services by Competitive Negotiation: TVA intends to request proposals from a list of prospective qualified construction firms for entering into a partnering agreement for the performance of general construction/craft labor services and equipment for its generating plant switchyards, substations, electrical transmission system, and power control communication facilities. TVA intends to award up to three contracts with an anticipated annual contract workload of up to 250,000 workhours per contract; however, no minimum amount of work is guaranteed. The term of the contracts will be two years with two options for unilateral extension by TVA of up to two years each. TVA desires to select firms that have a history of successful experience in transmission line and/or substation power utility construction projects. TVA has certain minimum mandatory qualification requirements that respondents must meet before consideration including: A) 10 years of successful experience in transmission line and/or substation power utility construction projects; B) Demonstrated capability to simultaneously construct and/or provide craft labor services and equipment for up to 20 transmission line and/or substation electric system projects (up to 250,000 workhours annually) which are geographically dispersed throughout TVA's electric power system in the 7-state service area; C) Have an acceptable safety program with a current EMR no greater than 1.0 and an OSHA/BLS recordable injury frequency rate no greater than 7.0, with demonstrated ability to assign onsite safety professionals; D) Have a total quality program that is an integral part of day-to-day operations and demonstrates continuous process improvement; E) Have experience in use of computer-based work management/invoicing systems and agree to utilize TVA systems. All work is performed under the Project Maintenance and Modifications Agreement (PMMA) and/or Construction Project Agreement (CPA). Respondent agrees to be signatory to these project agreements. Due to the need to make an award under this procurement on an urgent basisin order to meet operations and outage schedules, TVA intends to issue solicitations ten (10) business days after date of CBD publication only to prequalified firms and to those who have certified in writing that they meet all of the above minimum mandatory requirements. Written requests for copies of the solicitation must contain a statement that the requester meets all of the above requirements and must be received no later than 5 p.m. EDT ten (10) business days following initial CBD publication. Solicitation will issue 10 days after date of CBD publication. Technical data will be furnished with solicitation. Delivery Date: TO BE DETERMINED. F.O.B.: SELECTED TVA FACILITIES. All responsible sources may submit an offer which will be considered by TVA. For copies of solicitations or further information contact Buyer. (0250)

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