Tennessee Valley Authority, Procurement, 400 West Summit Hill Drive, Knoxville, TN 37901

Z -- FOSSIL AND HYDRO POWER MODIFICATION AND SUPPLEMENTAL MAINTENANCE SUPPORT CONTRACT SOL PW-232187 DUE 061198 POC John W. May, 423-632-1092 or Sandra L. Goan, 423-632-1091 E-MAIL: John W. May or Sandra L. Goan, jwmay@tva.gov or slgoan@tva.gov. Tennessee Vally Authority (TVA) plans to enter into a partnering agreement with a qualified construction firm to conduct modification and supplemental maintenance work at a minimum of four fossil generating plants, three hydro production areas and possibly work at other TVA controlled facilities. This work principally consist of major modification work (capital improvements and additions). The total annual modification and maintenance work is estimated at 1.5 million craft manhours. TVA desires to select a firm that has a history of successful experience in fossil and hydro plant modification work. In addition, the firm must have a corporate philosophy consistent with the concept of partnering and a genuine desire to enter into such an agreement. TVA has certain minimum mandatory requirements that Respondents must meet for consideration. The following summarizes the minimum mandatory requirements. A) Has successfully completed or currently working on four modification services projects at a fossil electrical generating plant in the United States since January 1, 1993. Must directly employ and manage almost all craft labor with craft labor being obtained through union referral. The craft labor and supervision for one of these four modification projects is to be greater than 150,000 manhours and each of the remaining three modification projects is individually to be greater than 50,000 manhours. Continuing services provided on a long-term basis at multiple sites with multiple work releases will not be considered in the whole with regard to project magnitude. These four experiences shall have been performed in an outage environment. This experience requirement must be met by the Respondent and not through the experience of others (no flow through). B)Has successfully completed or currently working on four modification services projects at a hydro electrical generating plant in the United States since January 1, 1993. Must directly employ and manage almost all craft labor with craft labor being obtained through union referral. The craft labor and supervision for one of these four modification projects is to be greater than 10,000 manhours and each of the other three modification projects is individually to be greater than 5,000 manhours. Continuing services provided on a long term basis at multiple sites with multiple work releases will not be considered in the whole with regard to project magnitude. Some of these experiences shall have been performed in an outage environment. This experience requirement must be met by the Respondent and not through the experience of others (no flow through). C)Has an acceptable safety program with a current EMR greater than 1.0 and an OSHA/BLS Recordable Injury Frequency Rate no greater than 7.0. Must have demonstrated ability to assign on-site safety professionals. Must be willing to submit corporate safety records including workers compensation costs per manhour and environmental compliance record. D) Has an established Total Quality Program. Can provide as a minimum specific examples documenting program success as related to continuous improvement, awards associated with quality teams, etc. E) Has experience in computer based project control systems (Primivera), Microsoft Office software package, and agrees to utilize TVA project control system for TVA modification work. Technical data will be furnished with solicitation. Start Date: July 1999. For copies of solicitations contact John W. May, TVA, 400 W. Summit Hill Drive, SMW 1A-K, Knoxville, TN 37902-1499. (0141)

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