J--The Dalles Dam Head Cover Supply Contract, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE).

The Army Corps of Engineers Portland is hereby issuing a Request for Information (RFI) on behalf of the Dalles Dam Office, from all potential sources on the fabrication. The information provided in this RFI is subject to change and is not binding on the Government. All submissions become the property of the Federal Government, and will not be returned. This RFI is an advance notice for information and planning purposes only and is not a solicitation. The North American Industry Classification System is 332710 and the size standard is 500 personnel. The attached DRAFT Performance Work Statement, and potential CLIN schedule are provided for industry review. The Army requests industry input related to the attached documents and potential approaches that might be incorporated into the eventual solicitation. The industry is welcome to provide questions, comments, and any suggested changes to any of the draft documents in order to reduce cost, schedule, and technical risks. If there are any known ways to reduce pricing or approaches that could reduce individual clin costs or total costs please show how that would occur on the PWS and the attached CLIN structure. Potential participants in the solicitation need not participate in this RFI as a prerequisite for responding to the final solicitation, but participation will enable them to provide innovative cost, schedule, and technical risk reduction prior to submitting their responses to the solicitation. Responses to the RFI do not constitute a commitment on the part of the Government to purchase or acquire services. The Government will not pay for data or time expended to respond to this notice. All information provided in response to this notification will be used for informational and planning purposes only. All information submitted in response to this announcement is voluntary. The United States Government will not pay for information requested nor will it compensate any respondent for any cost incurred for any activities related to this announcement. Responses Responses can be in any form the sender deems necessary to propose innovative cost, schedule, technical risk cutting ideas and solutions to the proof of concept the government has proposed. Detailed proposals are not requested but will be accepted. Respondents will not be notified of the results of the RFI but solutions proposed may be detailed in the subsequent solicitation. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers- Portland has been tasked to solicit for and award procurement under a competitive, fixed price contract. The type of solicitation to be issued will depend upon the responses to this RFI. The official Synopsis citing the solicitation number will be issued on Federal Business Opportunities www.fbo.gov and inviting firms to register electronically to receive a copy of the solicitation when it is issued. Interested Firm's shall respond to this RFI no later than 15:00 Pacific Standard Time (PST), 20 July 2015. All interested firms must be registered in SAM to be eligible for award of Government contracts. Please send all emails to contact@example.gov. INQUIRIES All inquiries regarding this solicitation are to be submitted via ProjNet-Bid. Telephone and email inquiries will not be accepted. ProjNet-Bid is a web-based program that allows bidders to post questions regarding the solicitation and to view all questions by other bidders and answers by USACE. ProjNet-Bid can be accessed through ProjNet at https://www.projnet.org/projnet/ To access the ProjNet-Bid website: 1. Click on the Quick Add. 2. Select USACE from the Agency menu. 3. How to retrieve information: (a) Enter the following information for access: (1) The Bidder Inquiry Key ZU6N74-96D5G4 (2) Valid business contact information (e.g. Company name, contact person, business address, phone number and email address). Required for first time users. (3) Establish secret question and answer which will be used as a password. (b) For subsequent access use your email address, the Bid Inquiry Key and response to the secret question to access the ProjNet- Bid Module. 4. Submit questions or review questions and answers. (A bidder who submits a question will receive an automated email notification that their question has been received. When an answer is posted to a question, the question and answer is then available for all other bidders to review. 5. For additional step-by-step on how to gain access, please view Bidder_Inquiry_Instructions.pdf. 6. 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