Updated 18 August 2015: Important Information Regarding Site Visit Date and Time. The Site Visit for this project will be held on Wednesday, Sept 2, 2015, beginning at 8:30am, local time, in Jackson, Wyoming. (This is two days after the solicitation is issued on 31 August 2015.) There will be only one site visit offered for this project. Bidders are urged and expected to inspect the site where the work will be performed. Participants will meet at the Teton County Road and Levy Department Office, 3190 South Adams Canyon Road, Jackson, Wyoming. Directions: Adams Canyon Road is located about 5 miles south of Jackson, WY on US Highway 89. Driving from Jackson, turn left (east) off Highway 89 onto Adams Canyon Road. Persons planning to attend must register for the site visit by sending an email to
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contact@example.gov Site visit attendees must provide the following information in order to register for the site visit: (1) Solicitation Number W912EF-15-B-0018; (2) Project Title (Jackson Levee Rehabilitation II, 2015-2018); (3) Names of individuals attending the site visit; (4) Are all individuals U.S. citizens? (if not, see the Important Note Regarding Access for Foreign Nationals paragraph below); (5) Name of the company represented at the site visit; and (6) Phone number of the company represented. Site visit participants must abide by the US Army Corps of Engineers Safety and Health Requirements Manual, EM 381-1-1, Section 5, ,"Personal Protective and Safety Equipment." It is the responsibility of the participants to wear personal protective and safety equipment as required by this regulation. Failure to comply could result in denial of access to the site visit location. The latest version of EM 385-1-1 is available online at http://www.usace.army.mil/SafetyandOccupationalHealth.aspx Construction Project: Jackson Levee Rehabilitation II, 2015 - 2018 , Jackson, Wyoming. The resulting contract will be an Indefinite Delivery Requirements contract for heavy construction. The work involves clearing and grubbing (vegetation removal) and levee repairs on the Jackson Project Levees located in the vicinity of Jackson, Wyoming. Levee repairs consist of hauling and placing riprap, hauling and placing fill material, and rekeying of existing riprap. All riprap and fill material will be Government-furnished. The repair sites are divided into two regions, local and alternate. Local regions include the JY Ranch Levee, the John Dodge Levee from Station 0+00 to 80+00, the 95 Ranch Levees, and the Solitude Levee. Alternate regions are all project levees and locations not included in the local regions. The Snake River in the vicinity of the work sites is considered Class 1 and 2 waters under Wyoming water quality laws, which are administered by the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality, Water Quality Division. This Requirements contract will cover one base year and up to two optional years, with task orders issued for specific work, beginning in October 2015. Performance and payment bonds (100% of the task order price) or alternate payment protections, as applicable, will be required for individual task orders. The solicitation is 100% set aside for small business concerns. The small business size standard for NAICS 237990 is no more than $36,500,000 in average annual receipts. Invitation for Bids No. W912EF-15-B-0018 will be posted to the FedBizOpps (FBO) website approximately 31 Aug 2015. Bids will be due no sooner than 30 days after the solicitation is issued. See solicitation for details about the bid opening date. When issued, the solicitation documents for this project will be available at https://www.fbo.gov Please Note: The FBO Response Date listed elsewhere in this announcement is for FBO archive purposes only. It may have no relationship to the actual bid opening date. The bid opening date and time will be contained in the solicitation and any solicitation amendments issued. Important Note Regarding Access for Foreign Nationals. It takes from 2-4 weeks to obtain clearance for foreign nationals to enter the project site. If your company wishes to have a foreign national participate in the site visit for this project, you are strongly encouraged to submit the required identification immediately. To request clearance for foreign nationals, submit the names of all foreign nationals proposed for site visit attendance, along with documentation to verify that he/she was legally admitted into the United States and has authority to work and/or go to school in the US. Such documentation may include a US passport, Certificate of US citizenship (INS Form N-560 or N-561), Certificate of Naturalization (INS Form N-550 or N-570), foreign passport with I-551 stamp or attached INS Form I-94 indicating employment authorization, Alien Registration Receipt Card with photograph 9INS Form I-151 or I-551), Temporary Resident Card (INS Form I-688), Employment Authorization Card (INS Form I-688A), Reentry Permit (INS Form I-327), Refugee Travel Document (INS Form I-571), Employment Authorization Document issued by the INS which contains a photograph (INS Form I-688B). Send this information by email to
contact@example.gov. Foreign nationals must have received clearance prior to being granted access to the project site. No CDs or hard copies will be made available by the Government. Downloads are available only through the FBO website. Bidders are responsible for checking the FBO website frequently for any update(s) to the notice. The Government is not responsible for any loss of internet connectivity or for a bidder's inability to access the document posted on the referenced website. To obtain automatic notifications of updates to this solicitation, you must log in to www.fbo.gov and add the solicitation to your Watchlist. If you would like to list your firm so others can see you are an interested vendor, you must click the Add Me To Interested Vendors button in the listing for this solicitation.
