Department of Transportation, United States Coast Guard (USCG), Commanding Officer, USCG Civil Engineering Unit Cleveland, 1240 East 9th Street, Cleveland, OH, 44199-2060

Z -- REPLACE DAYBEACON PILES, MICHIGAN INLAND WATERWAY, ST. IGNACE, SOL DTCG83-00-Q-3WF164 POC Carolyn Melton, Contract Specialist, Phone 216-902-6275, Fax 216-902-6277, Email cmelton@ceucleveland.uscg.mil WEB: Visit this URL for the latest information about this, http://www.eps.gov/cgi-bin/WebObjects/EPS?ACode=P&ProjID=DTCG83-00-Q-3 WF164&LocID=256. E-MAIL: Carolyn Melton, cmelton@ceucleveland.uscg.mil. Provide all labor, material, equipment, transportation and supervision required to perform all work necessary or incidental for the placement of 11 day beacons and the removal of 2 damaged day beacons. There are currently eleven (11) wood pile aid to navigation structures requiring installation in the Michigan Inland Waterway. Three of these locations are new, two are currently damaged and six are replacements. The structures will consist of sixty (60) foot length timber piles. The piles shall be Douglas Fir or Southern Pine clean peeled Class B round timber piles that conform ASTM D25. The lengths shall be 60 foot with a tolerance of plus or minus 6 inches. The diameter shall be 13 inches at the butt (when measured 3 feet from the end) and a minimum of 7 inches at the tip. All piles shall be pressure treated with CCA (Type C) in accordance with AWPA C1 and C3, minimum retention shall be .8 pcf. Timber piles shall be installed at the loctions in the Michigan Inland Waterway (Cheboygan River, Mullett Lake, Indian River, Burt Lake, Crooked River and Crooked Lake). The Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) code assigned to this project is 1629. Estimated range of the project is less than $25,000; therefore pursuant to FAR 52.219-20, Notice of Emerging Small Business Set-Aside (JAN 1991), offers or quotations under this acquisition are solicited from Emerging Small Business concerns only. Offers that are not from an Emerging Small Business shall not be considered and shall be rejected. Emerging Small Business as used in this solicitation, means a Small Business concern whose size is no greater than 50 percent of the numerical size standard applicable to the SIC code assigned to a contracting opportunity. The numerical size standard applicable for SIC code 1629 is $13.5 million. Therefore, the offeror's average annual gross revenues for the last 3 fiscal years can not exceed $6.75 million in order to be considered. Performance Period is 60 calendar days after Notice to Proceed. A due date for quotes has not been scheduled. All relevant solicitation documents, including specifications and drawings shall be available for download exclusively from the Internet in approximately one week by accessing the U. S. Coast Guard Civil Engineering Unit Cleveland website at: http:..www.uscg.mil/mlclant/ceucleveland or GSA's Electronic Posting System (EPS) website at: http://www.eps.gov. Any amendments issued to this solicitation will be posted solely on these websites. Attn: Minority, Women-Owned and Disadvantaged Enterprises (DBEs)! The Department of Transportation (DOT), Short-Term Lending Program (STLP) offers working capital financing in the form of lines of credit to finance accounts receivable for transportation related contracts. The maximum line of credit is $500,000 with interest at the prime rate. For further information, call (800) 532-1169. Posted 03/15/00 (D-SN434668). (0075)

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