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

Y -- CONSTRUCTION OF A CELLULAR SHEET PILE COFFERDAM AT THE MCALPINE LOCK & DAM, LOUISVILLE, KY SOL DACW27-00-R-0013 POC Contract Specialist, Debra Bruner (502)582-5926 COFFERDAM CONSTRUCTION, MCALPINE LOCK REPLACEMENT PROJECT, LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY The work consists of construction of a cellular sheet pile cofferdam for construction of a new 1200-foot navigation lock at the McAlpine Locks and Dam in Louisville, Kentucky. The work includes dewatering the cofferdam, excavating the overburden within the cofferdam and demolishing portions of existing lock walls. Construction of the cofferdam will require in-the-wet demolition of existing concrete lock guidewalls. The cofferdam construction will include placement of a stability berm, cell dewatering wells and instrumentation for monitoring. The work includes stabilizing portions of existing concrete lock walls by drilling and placing high capacity structural anchors bonded to the rock foundation. Placement of tremie concrete will also be required. Demolition within the cofferdam will include removal and disposal of portions of two existing locks. This demolition will include concrete lock walls, sandstone masonry lock walls, metal miter gates, metal culvert valves, metal emergency closure systems, miter gate and culvert valve machinery, hydraulic and electric lines to machinery, concrete paving and miscellaneous fill. Upon completion of the demolition, the dewatered cofferdam will be turned over for use in construction of the new lock. This is a Request for Proposal and offers will be evaluated on the following technical basis, not necessarily in this order of importance, (1) Past Performance/Experience; (2) Technical Approach; (3) Project Management; (4) Subcontracting Plan; (5) Proposed Schedule and Sequence of Work. NOTE: The Subcontracting Plan will be point scored as an evaluation factor. The Price Proposal will be submitted under a separate cover. The contract period will be 730 days. This project will be available on approximately 14 FEB 2000 and will have a 45 day bidding period. There will be no charge for this solicitation package and it will be available on CD ROM ONLY. Interested offerors MUST register through theLouisville District Homepage at http://www.lrl.usace.army.mil/ebs in order to receive the CD. Any subsequent amendments to this particular solicitation may be downloadable from this same site. Once you have accessed the web site, click on Construction/Environmental Solicitations, and select the reference solicitation number. Telephone requests/faxes WILL NOT be honored. Any Technical questions MUST be faxed to Larry Dalton at 502-582-5108. This project is a continuing funded contract, $1 million is available for fiscal year 2000. Posted 01/24/00 (W-SN418518). (0024)

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