Y -- TRACY FISH TEST FACILITY

Notice Date

December 7, 2000

Contracting Office

U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Mid-Pacific Region, Attention: MP-3810, 2800 Cottage Way, Room E-1815, Sacramento, CA 95825-1898

ZIP Code

95825-1898

Solicitation Number

01SP202142

Point of Contact

Kathleen Kurtz, (916) 978-5139

Description

TRACY FISH TEST FACILITY This project is located near Tracy, California in Contra Costa County. There iscurrently no funding for this requirement. It is being issued ?contingent upon the availability of funding.? The work is described below. This procurement is pursuant to the Small Business Competitiveness Demonstration Program. Your firm does not have to be a small business to be considered for an award. The solicitation will not be avaialable until February 2001. To request a copy of the solicitation, please send a ?non-refundable? check in the amount of $20.00 to: Bureau of Reclamation, 2800 Cottage Way, Sacramento, California 95825-1898 Attention: Solicitation No. 01SP202142. It is recommended that you request a copy in early February. Further inquiries should be directed as follows: Technical Questions -- Richard Welsh (530) 934-7066 Questions regarding the Solicitation -- Kathleen Kurtz (916) 978-5139. I. PROJECT DESCRIPTION The following is a summary of the main components of the Tracy Fish Test Facility (TFTF) and Infrastructure which include a variety of civil, structural, mechanical, and electrical work. The estimated value of this procurement is more than $10,000,000.00: (1) The anticipated volume of structural concrete is approximately 40,000 CY. (2) A sheet pile retaining wall/cofferdam approximately 2,400 feet long with approximately 65 feet long Government furnished steel sheet piles. (3) Installation of a Contractor-designed dewatering/unwatering, foundation hydrostatic pressure relief system, and slope protection system (e.g. cutoff/shoring wall system). (4) A reinforced concrete test channel structure approximately 600 feet long, 24 feet wide, and 25 feet deep with trashracks, fish screens, fish louvers, trash conveyors, trashrakes, fish screen cleaners, gantry crane, and three return flow pumps with variable speed motors, approximately 330 cfs each. (5) Two open reinforced concrete fish bypass channels; each approximately 600 feet long, four feet wide, and 15 feet deep. Two 60-inch diameter fish bypass pipes; each approximately 600 feet long. (6) Two open reinforced concrete crossover vaults. One vault is 120 feet long and 14 feet wide and one vault is 110 feet long and 42 feet wide with each vault being 25 feet deep. Each includes steel flumes and steel-pipe-to-open channel transitions. (7) Two reinforced concrete dewatering vaults, each 10 feet square and 40.5 feet deep. (8) One fish separator/holding facility, approximately 425 feet long and 160 feet wide and 20 feet deep reinforced-concrete based substructure. This facility will include design, fabrication and installation of a 255 feet long by 160 feet wide by 53 feet high pre-manufactured steel superstructure. (9) The fish separator/holding facility will include internal flumes, gates, pumps, work stations, trashracks, horizontal sweeps, fish separators, piping, overhead bridge cranes, fish screens, and miscellaneous metalwork. (10) Three return flow 66-inch diameter pipelines to the canal with a concrete valve vault. The vault is approximately 20 feet wide by 35 feet long and 15 feet deep. This also includes an outlet structure approximately 50 feet wide by 20 feet long and 30 feet deep. (11) A reinforced concrete access ramp 250 feet long by 20 feet wide and up to 18 feet deep used for fish transfer facilities. (12) One reinforced concrete bridge across the canal for the county road; approximately 200 feet long and 32 feet wide which will include large diameter drilled shafts for the center pier and abutments with cast in place piers and precast girders. (13) One operating bridge approximately 160 feet long and 14 feet wide. (14) Relocation of approximately 2,500 feet of existing levee. (15) Relocation and upgrading of approximately 1,900 feet of existing county road. (16) One maintenance building, which will include design, fabrication, and installation of an approximately 100 feet long by 75 feet wide by 35 feet high pre-manufactured steel superstructure on a reinforced concrete shallow foundation, overhead crane, HVAC, piping, power, lighting, and miscellaneous metalwork. (17) Channel dredging or wet excavation to re-shape the inlet channel. (18) Installation of 10-foot diameter Government-furnished Archimedes pump. (19) Underwater removal of some concrete structures. (20) Install 15 kV powerline and communications conductors from the Tracy Pumping Plant to the project site with one highway/railroad crossing. (21) Relocate or coordinate the relocation of PG&E gas line and 69 kV power line, and a Pacific Bell telephone line. (22) Install permanent transition steel sheetpile structures. (23) Install systems for a water supply, for potable water, service water and fish handling water including constructing wells, treatment systems, and distribution pipes. (24) Site drainage, including drain inlets, culvert pipe, pumping, and possibly a treatment system or irrigation system. (25) Sanitary facilities, site lighting, fencing, and security systems. This project is a fastrack design and research effort. The degree of completeness of the plans and specifications at the time of submitting offers may require subsequent adjustments after award of the contract. Offerors must be capable of adjusting their efforts to adapt rapidly to ensure project completion date is met. II. DRAWINGS Limited design and schematic drawings are available electronically. To view a copy of the drawings please go to http://www.usbr.gov/aamsden/2142.html These drawings are available to assist potential offerors to understand the general scope of this project and are considered preliminary. If you do not have the capability of accessing these drawings, please contact Kathleen Kurtz at (916) 978-5139. III. CONSTRUCTION SCHEDULE The project completion date is considered critical to the CALFED organization and the facility operation must begin by December 2002. This schedule, with award anticipated to be in April or May of 2001, will require intense effort and may require multiple shifts to complete while minimizing impact to the surrounding public. Construction will be done in a manner that ensures that operation of the existing facilities can continue without interruption. IV. PROCUREMENT A. Description: This procurement will be advertised as a negotiated request for proposal (RFP) procurement. The RFP requires submission of both technical and price proposals. The technical proposal will be required to include the following: 1. Construction Schedule -- Develop a detailed construction schedule/plan which demonstrates the offeror?s capability to perform the work, knowledge of the work, available resources to perform the work, and associated project and design related constraints. 2. Preliminary Foundation Treatment Design -- Submit an integrated preliminary design (concept level with calculations) to include a hydrostatic pressure relief system to protect the foundation from excessive pressures during construction, slope stability, dewatering, and unwatering. The design shall incorporate the Government-designed South retaining wall/cofferdam wall which includes installing Government-furnished sheetpiles. The design shall be stamped by a Professional Engineer registered in the state of California. 3. Offerors Qualifications: Offerors may desire to form Joint Ventures or teams of subcontractors to provide the expertise required for the construction of this project. Offerors will be required to demonstrate specific past performance and experience/capabilities in the following areas: a. Dewatering, foundation cutoff systems, and sheetpile cofferdam construction. b. Reinforced concrete construction. c. Bridge, utility relocation, and road construction. d. Pump and associated control system and metalwork e. Design and construction of steel superstructures. f. Labor, equipment, and financial resources. g. Project management and the ability to adjust construction operations rapidly. h. Past construction safety statistics. B. Criteria -- Award will be to the offeror whose proposal is determined to be the best value to the Government. The evaluation criteria listed below will be rated significantly more important than cost. Some of the key criteria planned for this project are: 1. Construction schedules and preliminary foundation design which are technically acceptable. 2. Meet minimum standards of past performance in the areas of dewatering; cofferdams; reinforced concrete placement; steel superstructure design, fabrication, and construction; bridge and road construction; installation of pumps and pump controls; and project management. 3. Demonstrate adequate manpower, equipment, corporate resources, and project management capabilities for meeting the rigorous schedule. 4. Past construction safety record. C. Schedule -- The initial procurement action for the construction will occur in the Spring of 2001. The procurement is expected to require development by offerors of a detailed technical and price proposal in a short time frame. It is currently anticipated the time allowed from receipt of the RFP to the required submission by offerors to be 45 calender days. No time extensions are anticipated to be allowed. D. Stipend -- In order to offset a portion of the offeror?s proposal preparation cost, the Government intends to provide a stipend -- in the amount of $20,000.00 -- to all offerors who submit a technically acceptable preliminary foundation design, which is adequately integrated into the construction schedule.

Web Link

Preliminary Drawings (http://www.usbr.gov/aamsden/2142.html)

Record

Loren Data Corp. 20001211/YSOL006.HTM (W-342 SN5083P5)