U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District, P.O. Box 4970, Jacksonville, Florida 32232-0019

66 -- IDT FOR MANATEE PROTECTION SYSTEM ON VERTICAL LIFT GATES, VARIOUS LOCATIONS, FLORIDA SOL DACW17-99-R-0014 POC Contract Specialist, Reena Mobley, 904/232-3702 WEB: Click here to view further information and bidders, http://www.saj.usace.army.mil. E-MAIL: Click here to contact the Contract Specialist, Reena.Mobley@saj.usace.army.mil. This procurement is for manatee protection systems to be installed on selected water control structures located in south Florida. The contractor will provide all material, labor, and equipment to fabricate, install and test manatee protection systems. The gate systems shall use sensing devices based on piezo-electric film technology. The piezo-electric systems, 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 protection 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. This procurement is being synopsized as "UNRESTRICTED". All businesses are encouraged to respond to this synopsis. The SIC code is 3812, 750 employees is the size standard. The solicitation will be issued on or about 5 April 1999 with proposals due on or about 5 May 1999. Please include telephone and facsimile number, tax identification number on response request. Request for CD ROM may be made to: Reena.Mobley@saj.usace.army.mil. You may respond by facsimile to: ATTN: REENA MOBLEY at 904/ 232-2749. If your response is returned by delivery service, the street address is 400 West Bay Street, Room 883, Jacksonville, FL 32202. NOTE: Contracting information for the Jacksonville District is now available at our web site: http://www.saj.usace.army.mil. You must be registered in the Central Contractor Registration in order to be eligible to receive an award from this solicitation. Call 1-888-227-2423 for more information. Posted 02/17/99 (W-SN299277). (0048)

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