F -- Exigency EWP - Collin County Watershed Site 18A

USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service is announcing a project under the Emergency Watershed Protection Program for Collin County, Texas using EWP Exigency procedures. This project involves the exigent repair of the embankment slope slides on Site 18A, Collin County. The upstream and downstream slopes of the embankment will be excavated to remove the slides and replaced with lime-treated earthfill. The project is located approximately 1.6 miles north of Celina, Texas on State Highway 289. The repair project will consist of excavating soil from the embankment slopes, treating the removed soil with lime and placing the lime-treated soil back in compacted lifts on the embankment. The lime processing area and the embankment will be covered with topsoil after the placement of the lime-treated earthfill. The work will require constructing an access to the site from State Highway 289 and removing and salvaging approximately 2,700 linear feet of barbed wire fence and 300 linear feet of pipe fence. The construction will consist of stripping, salvaging and replacing approximately 27,000 square yards of topsoil; excavating approximately 25,000 cubic yards of soil from the embankment; mixing approximately 700 tons of quicklime with the soil; and placing approximately 17,000 cubic yards of lime-treated earthfill on the slopes of the embankment. The performance time for this work is estimated to be 88 calendar days. Range is $500,000 to $1,000,000 Solicitations will be handed out at the site showing. Contractors must be prepared to submit a bid on October 25, 2007, at 2:00pm, Attention Kat Pinckney, 101 S Main Street, Texas 76501 or fax to +1 (555) 000-0000/9967 and be prepared to start mobilizing on October 29, 2007. The soliciation has a ten day mobilization period to allow time for obtaining the NOI from TCEQ and payment/performance bonds (100% of the contract price). No bid bond is required.