Directorate of Contracting, Attn: ATZS-DKO, P.O. Box 12748, Fort Huachuca, Arizona 85670-2748

S -- FEASABILITY STUDY FOR THE USE OF WIND POWER GENERATORS/TURBINES TO PROVIDE ELECTRICITY TO FT. HUACHUCA, AZ DUE 061900 POC Vince Suarez, Contract Specialist, 520-533-2815 E-MAIL: Click here to contact the contract specialist via, vince.suarez@huachuca-emh1.army.mil. The Directorate of Contracting, Ft. Huachuca, Arizona (the Fort) is in the process of issuing a Test/Demonstration Agreement (the Agreement) to a firm that is interested in installing wind turbines on the Fort, to include attendant transmission lines, for the purpose of selling power to the Fort on a long term power purchase agreement. The Agreement will allow this company to conduct a no cost to the Government feasibility study through the placement of various wind monitoring towers throughout the Fort to measure wind velocity and/or direction. Other firms that are interested in participating in installing wind turbines on Ft. Huachuca with the power being sold to the Fort on a long term power purchase agreement must also obtain their own wind velocity and direction data at no cost to the Government. All interested parties have the option of availing themselves of the metrology data that the Fort already has on hand for temperature, barometric pressure and relative humidity, or they are more than welcome to duplicate the effort by collecting their own. Since the data gathering phase will take anywhere from 3 to 12 months to accomplish it will be necessary for all interested parties to commence with the data gathering at the same time. To this end it is hoped that all interested parties will come to some cost sharing arrangement with each other to simplify the data-gathering phase and reduce the overall cost of obtaining this data for the prospective offerors. Prospective participants are advised that the Fort will only consider entering into a long term power purchase agreement if the life cycle cost of power is lower than the current average of $67.60 per Megawatt-hour, which includes all taxes and regulatory assessments. It is requested that all interested parties furnish the contract specialist with their notice of intent to participate in the wind velocity and direction gathering data collection effort, via e-mail, not later than 4:00 p.m. (MST) on 19 June 2000. Please note that Arizona does not participate in Daylight Savings Time. It is the Government's intent to proceed with this entire project on a non-competitive basis in the event that no other interested parties are identified as a result of this Notice. The cut-off date of 19 June 2000 is necessary because of the time required to complete a data-gathering phase, which the Government considers crucial to the submission of a competitive proposal. Please bear in mind that all data gathered belongs to the firm(s) conducting the data-gathering phase since they are assuming all costs associated with the data gathering phase. The Government is not participating in the data gathering phase except to enter into the no-cost Agreement and to approve or disapprove any sites proposed as future wind turbine locations, which will also serve as the data gathering sites. Posted 05/19/00 (W-SN456560). (0140)

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