U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 600 M.L. King, Jr. Pl., Rm 821, Louisville, KY 40202-2230

Y -- OLMSTED APPROACH WALLS, OLMSTED, IL SOL DACW27-99-R-0019 DUE 060699 POC Contract Specialist, Denise Gill (502) 582-6544; Technical POC -- Terry Sullivan (502) 582-6967 Work consists of construction of navigation lock approach walls at Ohio River mile 964.5, near Olmsted, Illinois. Construction includes four floating post-tensioned concrete walls assembled from individual pontoons cast in graving dock, drydock, lock chamber or other facility furnished by contractor. Construction location is contractor's option. Floating walls have isolated compartments, waterproof hatches, lighting, power circuits, and CCTV. Power transferred via motorized cable reels. Stainless/galvanized steel appurtanances, including ladders, platforms, handrailing, brackets, etc. Walls have concrete parapet walls and rubber fenders. Pontoons floated out of construction facility, transported to Olmsted site, and integrated into full-length walls. Construction includes pontoon test section and one fixed precast concrete wall founded on drilled shafts. Fixed wall installed at Olmsted site with no cofferdam provided. Construction includes four precast concrete pylons founded on drilled shafts. Construction includes four nose piers each founded on three drilled shafts. Shafts support steel and concrete elements, handrails, platforms, navigation lights and CCTV. After completion of all nose piers, pylons and pontoon integration, the floating walls will be installed at the site. Some maintenance of existing Olmsted construction site required. This is a request for proposals and offers will be evaluated on the following basis, listed in descending order of importance: (1) Past Performance Information; (2) Price Proposal; (3) Administration/Management Information; (4) Proposed Schedule and Sequence of Work; (5) Performance Capability Information and (6) Socio Economical Goals (Subcontracting Plan). This project is available on Compact Disk (CD) only. Project files are Portable Document Format (PDF) files and can be viewed, navigated, or printed using Adobe Acrobat Reader (available on CD). System requirements are: 386- or 486-based personal computer (486 recommended), Microsoft Windows 3.1 or greater, 4 MB application RAM, 4 MB hard disk space, and compact disk drive. Request for solicitation package should be mailed to the above address, or you may fax request to (502) 582-5554, ATTN: Denise Gill. No telephone requests will be honored. Company's street address should be included when requesting solicitation package. One copy of the CD will be made available free of charge. Requests for CD will be honored until supply is exhausted. Posted 03/02/99 (W-SN303954). (0061)

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