Cooling Tower for FERF

The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Engineering Research and Development Center, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (ERDC-CRREL) has a requirement for the procurement and installation of an evaporative condensing tower ("cooling tower") at their Frost Effects Research Facility (FERF) located in Hanover, New Hampshire, and intends to award a contract on a sole source basis to Berkeley Building Company upon the basis of the authority provided at FAR 13.501(a)(2)(i). The contractor shall install a new evaporative condenser (cooling tower) to replace the ailing process water system of the FERF. This system shall be capable of providing all cooling needs of 2 x 60 RT, 0 degree F chillers and 1 x 35 RT, -47 degree F chiller. It shall integrate with new filters for the minimum input of process water still required and shall circulate closed-loop cooling water through the three chiller/compressor sets of the listed tonnages above. The system shall be installed as a single unit with the new chiller/compressor sets with its electrical, glycol and water piping integrated with that of the chiller/compressor sets to allow for integrated functionality of the entire system. This general scope of this firm fixed-price contract entails the Contractor to perform all necessary work to deliver and rig the cooling tower, integrate it with the glycol, process water and electrical systems, and plumb it into the three chiller/compressor sets in the new FERF refrigeration complex. The proposed cooling tower must be a 2,900 MBH/Unit rated system or better. Additionally, the Contractor shall install the external equipment on a 35x20ft concrete pad with 2ft of standoff distance from the side of the building, sheds, and external tank farm. Pad is 4,000 psi, six inches thick, reinforced with No.6 bars on 12-inch centers and has 8-10 inch in sum total of lifts. Any equipment external to the building shall be sized for this pad; pass-thrus must be installed in the building as required. ERDC-CRREL intends to sole-source this requirement to Berkeley Building Company. The Berkeley Building Company possesses the unique intellectual capital to provide the highly specialized services required to meet the Government's scope of work. A recent contract for the installation of refrigeration equipment was awarded to Berkeley Building Company under contract number W913E519C0005. That contract did not account for the additional load that reactivating dormant equipment would have on the process cooling water. As a result, this emergent requirement for the procurement and installation of a cooling tower created a situation in which the original scope of that contract will no longer deliver a functional product when it is complete. In order to maintain schedule and ensure proper Quality Assurance for both contract requirements it is essential that both requirements be executed by Berkeley Building Company. The associated North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code is 333415 which has a size standard of 1,250 employees. This is not a small business set aside. This Notice of Intent is not a request for competitive quotations. However, interested parties may identify their interest and capability to respond to this requirement. Any interested party that believes they can fulfill this requirement should submit a capability statement to be reviewed. All submissions will be considered, however there is no guarantee that submissions in response to this notice will in any way alter the Government's acquisition strategy. Please provide responses to this notice no later than Friday, 2 August 2019 at 12:00 PM, Central Standard Time (CST), to: contact@example.gov Telephone responses will not be accepted. Responses to this notice will not be considered as a response to any solicitation, a request to be added to a prospective offerors list, or to receive a copy of any solicitation. A determination by the Government not to compete the contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. Note: In order to be eligible for award of a Government contract, vendors must be actively registered in the System for Award Management (SAM), have no active exclusions, and complete the FAR and DFARS representations and certifications.