Federal Highway Administration, 21400 Ridgetop Circle, Sterling, VA 20166

Y -- COLONIAL PARKWAY PROJECT PRA-COLO 19A3 SOL DTFH71-98-B-00031 DUE 091598 POC Project Manager, Kenneth Atkins, 703-285-0050. Contracting Officer, Mary Daigle This procurement is being issued as a COMMERCIAL ITEM. Sealed bids from all business concerns will be accepted for the Colonial Parkway Project PRA-COLO 19A3, in Williamsburg, Virginia. The project consists of constructing a minimum of seven different pavement test sections on the Newport Avenue/Colonial Parkway Ramps. The test sections will consist of different surface treatments applied to both existing and new asphalt pavements to determine the feasibility of using these treatments on future Colonial Parkway Projects. Each test section will be approximately 3.35 meters (one travel lane) in width by 30 meters in length. Standard Industrial Code 1611 (Highway and Street Construction) applies to this project. Principal items of work and approximate quantities are as follows: Hot Asphaltic Concrete Pavement (HACP) Type-VA SM-2A, 150 tons; HACP, Type-VA SM-2A modified (using cracked-face brown aggregate), 15 tons; Open Graded Asphalt Friction Course (using cracked-face brown aggregate for use with Resin Modified Concrete Surface Treatment), 40 tons; Single Course Asphalt surface treatment (using RC-250) 240 m2; Single Course Asphalt surface treatment (using AC-5), 240 m2; Single Course Asphalt surface treatment (using epoxy-fortified acrylic emulsion to color pavement)240 m2; Single Course Asphalt surface treatment (Using CRS-2L), 120 m2; Single Course Asphalt Surface Treatment (Sprinkle Treatment), 120 m2; Single Course Asphalt Surface Treatment (VA Modified Single Seal asphalt surface treatment), 120 m2; Single Course Asphalt Surface Treatment (filling voids in open graded asphalt friction course with a resin modified portland cement grout), 120 m2; Asphalt milling, 50 mm depth 1800 m2. The project is expected to fall within the price range of $50,000 and $200,000, and is anticipated to take place between October 15, 1998, and December 1, 1998. Invitation for Bids No. DTFH71-98-B-00031 will be issued on or about August 17, 1998. Bid documents will be available on or after the issuance date, from the Federal Highway Administration, Eastern Federal Lands Highway Division, 21400 Ridgetop Circle, Sterling, Virginia 20166-6511, telephone: 800-892-8776, at no charge to bidders, subcontractors, and suppliers. Please call 703-285-0006 to verify availability of the bid documents. All requests for bid documents and planholder's lists will be mailed first class. It is strongly recommended that all requests for bid documents and planholder's lists be received 7 calendar days before bid opening to ensure receipt of requested materials. Requests for 'faxing' or overnight mailing will not be accepted. The following applies for Minority, Women, and Disadvantaged Business Enterprises: The Department of Transportation (DOT) Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization has bonding programs to assist Minority, Women-owned, and Disadvantaged Business Enterprises to acquire short-term capital and bonding assistance for transportation-related contracts. Loans are available under the DOT Short-Term Lending Program (STLP) atprime interest rates up to $500,000 per contract to provide accounts receivable financing. The DOT bonding assistance program enables firms to apply for a bid, performance and payment bonds up to $1,000,000 per contract. DOT provides an 80 percent guaranty on the bond amount to a surety against losses. For further information and applicable forms concerning STLP and Bonding Assistance Program, please call (800) 532-1169. Bids will be opened at 2:00 pm, local time, on September 15, 1998, at the address listed above for the office of the Division Engineer. Posted 08/05/98 (W-SN233015). (0217)

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