Y -- INDIANA HARBOR & CANAL SUBSURFACE INVESTIGATION AND CUTOFF WALL, E. CHICAGO, IL

Notice Date

August 10, 2001

Contracting Office

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

ZIP Code

40202-2230

Solicitation Number

DACW27-00-R-0030

Response Due

October 15, 2001

Point of Contact

Contract Specialist, Debbie Lardner (502) 315-6181, Technical POC, John Breslin (312) 353-6400x3007

Description

Work consists of subsurface survey investigations and obstruction removal of abandoned petroleum, processed oil and fuel pipes, utilities, possible underground storage tank and other obstructions and debris; installation of pipeline plugs or caps; utility relocation coordination; well decommissioning; dewatering process, oil/water separator and oil boom system installation, operation and maintenance; cutoff wall test section installation, testing and sampling; and construction of approximately 380,000 square feet of vertical barrier cutoff wall capable of achieving a permeability no greater than 1x10-7 cm/sec over a horizontal distance of 30 inches. The work will be performed in conditions which contain hazardous and/or contaminated materials regulated under various Federal and state laws and regulations, including but not limited to, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act and the Toxic Substantive Control Act. The investigation, removal, capping and plugging of subsurface obstructions, well decommissioning, and the test section will be completed prior to start of the cutoff wall construction. The work includes optional bid items for part of the obstruction investigation and inspection trench, and part of the cutoff wall installation. This is a Request for Proposal and offers will be evaluated on the following factors: (1) Specialized Corporate Team Experience, (2) Individual Personnel Experience, (3) Past Performance, (4) Project Organizational Chart, (5) Proposed Layout of Work, (6) Small Business Utilization, (7) Subcontracting Plan for Large Business (if Applicable), and (8) Price. Factors (1) through (7) are of equal importance and award will be made to the lowest priced, technically acceptable offer which satisfies all of the evaluation factors. The estimated cost range for this project is $10,000,000 to $25,000,000. This project will be available on approximately 31 August 2001 and proposals will be due on 15 October 2001 at 1630 hours local time. THIS PROJECT IS AVAILABLE ON COMPACT DISK ONLY. Project specification files are Portable Document Format (PDF) files and can be viewed, navigated, or printed using Adobe Acrobat Reader. The drawing files are in CAL format and can be viewed, navigated or printed using Source View Reader. Both readers are contained in the solicitation package. Minimum system requirements are 486 based personal computer, Microsoft Windows 3.1 or greater, 8 MB application RAM, 4 MB hard disk space, and compact disk drive. To request the CD for this project and to register as a plan holder go to Internet site http://www.lrl.usace.army.mil and click on Construction/EBS. FTP process is through ftp://www.lrl.usace.army.mil/advertisements/. This announcement serves as the advance notice for re-advertisement of this project. Plan holders who registered in the year 2000 when this request for proposal was first advertised need not register again. NOTE THIS IS AN UNRESTRICTED PROCUREMENT. NAICS Code: 234990 ($27.5M) Offerors are cautioned that award may be made without discussions.

Record

Loren Data Corp. 20010814/YSOL002.HTM (W-222 SN50U6A0)