JACKSONVILLE DISTRICT OFFICE, U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS, P.O. BOX 4970, JACKSONVILLE, FL 32232-0019

N -- MANATEE PASS GATES, SYSTEM INSTALLATION, VARIOUS LOCATIONS, FLORIDA SOL 048&&&-9804-0002 POC Reena Henderson Contract Specialist FAX 904/232-2749 (Site Code DACW17) This announcement is for the purpose of seeking interested, qualified sources to provide all material, labor, and equipment to fabricate, install, and test manatee detection systems. The manatee detection systems shall be installed on selected water control structures located in south Florida. The gate systems shall use sensing devices based on piezo- electric film technology. The piezo-electric sensors, potted and sealed in urethane are produced by Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution, for this specific purpose. The system shall be capable of discerning and differentiating, or filtering, signals from various sources and allow only those related to a manatee presence to initiate the alarm modes during gate closings. The devices shall be positioned and affixed to the channel floor adjacent to the existing gate seal at both upstream and downstream of the gate-to-seal contact area. Control signals shall not interfere with normal gate openings and closings and shall interface with the existing gate controls. Sensor activation shall halt and reverse the lowering gate movement about six inches. At this same time, audio and visual signals shall be activated intermittently to alert gate operations personnel. Included in this work is the dewatering of the selected structures prior to the installation of the manatee detection systems. The contractor shall have the piezo-electric sensing devices completely fabricated and all the electronics and sensors calibrated and tested prior to the final installation. The contractor shall have the equipment, parts and labor available for installation of the sensing devices and electronic boxes and controls at each structure prior to the start of dewatering. Sources interested in bidding this work should provide the company name, point of contact, address, telephone number, and business size to Ms. Reena Henderson at fax number 904/232-2749. The SIC code and small business size (0105)

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