S -- PRIVATIZATION OF NAS WHIDBEY ISLAND UTILITY SYSTEMS

Notice Date

September 6, 2001

Contracting Office

Engineering Field Activity, NW, NAVFACENGCOM, 19917 7th Ave NE, Poulsbo, WA 98370-7570

ZIP Code

98370-7570

Solicitation Number

N44255-01-R-8007

Point of Contact

Contracting Officer, Donald Myers, (360) 396-0236

E-Mail Address

click here to contact the contracting officer via (myersdr@efanw.navfac.navy.mil)

Description

Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Engineering Field Activity Northwest (EFANW), in conjunction with the Commander, Navy Region Northwest, plans to offer for privatization, existing electrical distribution, natural gas distribution, and steam distribution systems at NAS Whidbey Island in Washington State. Privatization is a process that (1) conveys a utility system or a part of a utility system under the jurisdiction of the Secretary concerned to a municipal, private, regional, district, or cooperative utility company or other entity and (2) obtains a utility service contract from the entity to whom the system is conveyed or their agents and assignees. As a result of this solicitation, a firm will be selected to assume ownership of the utility system. The successful firm will be required to purchase the existing system from the Government and may be required to provide expansions to the system to meet future needs of the Government. The successful firm may or may not be the supplier of the commodity procured by the Government. The resulting contract, if awarded, will require the Contractor to furnish all facilities, labor, materials, tools, and equipment necessary to own, maintain, and operate the utility system. The Contractor shall manage the upgrades, maintenance, repairs, and replacement of the system to ensure continuous, adequate, and dependable service connection within the service area in accordance with industry standards. The Contractor shall be responsible for funding all capital investments required to acquire, upgrade, maintain and operate the utility system in a safe, reliable condition and to meet the requirements listed in the contract. The utility system will be conveyed via a Bill of Sale upon award of the contract. The Contractor's proposals and plans may become a part of the contract upon the decision to award. Past Performance information from potential Offerors shall be submitted as directed in the RFP. No Offeror will be denied the opportunity to submit a proposal in response to the RFP. Proposal due dates will be identified in the solicitation. The utility systems being privatized are described as follows: 1. NAS Whidbey Island Main Base (Ault Field) Electrical Distribution System: NAS Whidbey Island Main Base (Ault Field) has two incoming service connection points. Porter Substation is 115 kV and Clover Valley is 12.47 kV. The electrical distribution system consists of the following: approximately 6.5 miles of primary overhead lines, 17.6 miles of primary underground lines, substations, manholes, cable ducts, transformers, and a read only SCADA monitoring station. The main portion of the electrical distribution system is 12.47 kV with a small portion of the system being 2.4 kV. There are approximately 205 service connections (116 three-phase and 89 single-phase). The area lighting fixtures are included with the system, the majority being of the high-pressure sodium type ranging between 100 and 400 watts. 2. NAS Whidbey Island Sea Plane Base Electrical Distribution System: NAS Whidbey Island -- Seaplane Base electrical distribution system has two delivery points at 12.47 kV. The electrical distribution system consists of the following: approximately 1.41 miles of primary overhead lines, 0.4 miles of primary underground lines, substations, manholes, cable ducts, a capacitor bank, and transformers. There are 425 service connections (25 three-phase and 400 single-phase). The area lighting fixtures are included with the system, the majority being of the high-pressure sodium type ranging between 100 and 400 watts. 3. NAS Whidbey Island Coupville Electrical Distribution System: Power is supplied to NAS Whidbey Island -- Coupville at one 7.2/12.47 kV three-phase service point and is distributed at 7.2/12.47kV three-phase and 2.4 kV single-phase. The electrical distribution system consists of approximately 0.58 mile of primary underground lines and supplies three service connections (one three-phase load and two single-phase loads). 4. NAS Whidbey Island Main Base (Ault Field) Natural Gas Distribution System: In addition to Whidbey Apartments, there are only six of the buildings on NAS Whidbey Ault Field served by Navy-owned natural gas lines. The remainder of the natural gas distribution system is owned and maintained by Cascade Natural Gas and, therefore, is not included in the privatization initiative. Within Whidbey Apartments there are 7,615 feet of two-inch distribution lines and 4,230 feet of -inch service lines with service being provided to 74 housing units. The remainder of the system is 3,015 feet of two to six inch lines for six industrial connections. 5. NAS Whidbey Island Sea Plane Base Natural Gas Distribution System: The natural gas distribution system for NAS Whidbey Island -- Sea Plane Base has 10 delivery points. The natural gas distribution system consists of the following: approximately 10,520 feet of inch to 3 inch PE pipe, 4,575 feet of inch to 3 inch PVC pipe, and 5,070 feet of inch to 2 inch steel pipe with cathodic protection. There are 24 industrial and 181 residential connections. 6. NAS Whidbey Island Main Base (Ault Field) Steam Distribution System: Fifty-seven major buildings totaling 2.1 million square feet of space on NAS Whidbey Island (Ault Field) currently receive heating service from a Navy-owned central steam plant utilizing an extensive steam distribution and condensate recovery system. The steam distribution system consists primarily of underground lines with 11.9% of the piping aboveground. The system consists of the following: approximately 73 manholes, 18,505 feet of pipe buried in concrete tunnel, 29,700 feet direct buried in Class A conduit, 6,540 feet aboveground, and 350 feet in crawl space. Thermal expansion is addressed through the use of pipe loops, both above and below ground. The steam distribution piping uses orifice traps with inlet Y strainers discharging into the condensate return pipe. The plant occupies approximately 19,850 square feet on two floors and houses three water tube boilers. The primary fuel is natural gas with JP-8 as secondary fuel. There is a standby electric generator rated at 681 kVA and 545 kW with a 500-gallon diesel oil tank. Units 1 and 2 have Power Flame low NOx burners and controls with flue gas recirculation. Unit 3 is equipped with a Coen Burner. Two 20 hp Quincy rotary-screw air compressors provide instrument air supply. The boilers are operated to maintain 180-psig-steam header pressure. Potable water is softened and dealkalyzed for boiler make-up. The solicitation will be provided for download free of charge via the Internet at http://esol.navfac.navy.mil/. Amendments and notices will be posted on the web site http://esol.navfac.navy.mil/ for downloading. This will be the only method of distributing the solicitation. It is the Offeror's responsibility to check the web site periodically for any amendments and notices to this solicitation. The official plan holders list will be maintained on and can be printed from the web site. All prospective Offerors and plan centers are encouraged to register as plan holders on the web site. Plan holder lists will not be faxed and will only be available from the web site. The solicitation, plans and specifications will be available on or about 28 September 2001.

Record

Loren Data Corp. 20010910/SSOL022.HTM (W-249 SN50X074)