USDA, ARS, AFM, PPD, Contracts Branch, Attn: Vince J. Chaverini, 6303 Ivy Lane, Room 762, Greenbelt, Maryland 20770- 1433

61 -- APPROXIMATELY 11,000 FEET OF ELECTRICAL POWER/FIBER OPTIC CABLE INSTALLED, TO RUN UNDERWATER FROM ORIENT POINT (OP), LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK TO ARS'S PLUM ISLAND RESEARCH CENTER SOL RFP 12-3K06-96 POC Contact Vince J. Chaverini, Contract Specialist, or Alvenia K. Pitts, Contracting Officer, on (301) 344-3786 The USDA, Agricultural Research Service (ARS) intends to purchase, for its Plum Island Animal Disease Research Center (PIADC), Plum Island, New York, approximately 11,000 linear feet of submarine electrical power/fiber optic cable inclusive of the following supplies and services: 1) the contractor shall furnish and install, near the fifth utility pole west of the Orient Point breaker house, a pad mounted 13.2/7.62 kV, 600 A, 3 PH, 4 W, 60 HZ, electrical switchgear, a precast concrete electrical vault, a fiber optic cable box, a chain link fence, and shall perform all associated site and utility work; 2) a combination electrical power/fiber optic cable approximately 11,000 feet long shall be furnished and installed from the Orient Point switchgear pad and fiber optic cable box, running under Long Island Sound and Plum Gut and extending to Plum Island, with the terminating portion of the cable being installed in a micro-drilled boring; 3) at Plum Island the contractor shall furnish and install two precast concrete vaults and an electrical switchgear; 4) the fiber optic portion of the cable will run in a trench approximately 1500 feet long to the telephone room in the existing warehouse; 5) the electrical power portion of the cable shall be run below grade from the first manhole up to a new pad mounted switchgear similar to the one noted above; and 6) the contractor shall furnish, install, perform and/or obtain all associated and appurtenant submittals, equipment, demolition and disposal, permits, testing and connections as set forth in the solicitation. The Government anticipates the release of an IFB in mid-July of 1996. This procurement is a total small business set aside (SBSA). All requests for the solicitation package must be made in writing to the address noted above, or faxed to (301) 344-3354, no telephone requests will be accepted. Reference solicitation number 12-3K06-96. See Note 1. (0172)

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