CHICAGOLAND UNDERFLOW PLAN (CUP) MCCOOK RESERVOIR TUNNEL SYSTEM REPAIRS located in the COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS.

This Pre-Solicitation Notice is being issued by the United States Army Corps of Engineers - Chicago District to inform interested/potential contractors of the District's imminent issue of a Request for Proposal Package for its construction project, entitled "CHICAGOLAND UNDERFLOW PLAN (CUP) MCCOOK RESERVOIR TUNNEL SYSTEM REPAIRS located in the COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS." PROJECT INFORMATION: The MTS will consist of repair and/or replace various electrical and mechanical systems, Valve Chamber drainage improvements, concrete repairs, re-coating of valves, piping and other equipment, partitioning a room within the Control Building and other miscellaneous work. ACQUISITION INFORMATION: Competition for this acquisition is set aside for Small Business Concerns. The Classification Code for this procurement is North American Industry System Code 237990, with a small business size standard in dollars of $36.5M. The magnitude of cost for construction is between $5M and $10M. The Request for Proposal (RFP) Package will be downloadable from the INTERNET ONLY. The project specification files are Portable Document Format (PDF) files and can be viewed navigated or printed using Adobe Acrobat Reader. Interested Offerors can download the RFP Package from: http://www.Fbo.gov. The RFP Package will be available at the aforementioned Internet site on 30 September 2014, with proposals due on 18 November 2014 at 4:30pm (CST). IN THE CASE OF A DISCREPANCY BETWEEN THE DATES PUBLISHED IN THIS NOTICE AND THOSE CALLED OUT IN THE RFP DOCUMENT, THE DATES IN THE RFP DOCUMENT OVERRIDES THOSE PUBLISHED HEREIN THIS NOTICE; THIS IS RELATIVE TO THE RFP ISSUANCE DATE AND THE DUE DATE FOR PROPOSALS. In order for contractors to be awarded contracts with the Department of Defense, the contractor must be registered in the System for Contract Management (SAM); Contractors can access the SAM database for free at http://www.sam.gov. The Government intends to award a firm-fixed price construction contract from this acquisition. FAXED OR ELECTRONIC BIDS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. Request for solicitation packages made by telephone, fax or e-mail will not be honored. The Point of Contact for this acquisition is Greg M. Hermsen at (312) 846-5376. -- Please include Solicitation Number W912P6-14-R-0024 on all correspondence.