Lower Monumental Floating Guide Wall Replacement

Construction Project: Lower Monumental Dam. This will be a firm fixed-price construction contract located at Lower Monumental Dam, Walla Walla County, Kahlotus, Washington. Estimated construction magnitude is between $100,000 and $250,000. Performance and payment bonds will be required. DESCRIPTION OF WORK: The work for this project consists of providing an efficient and reliable repair to existing damaged structural components of the Lower Monumental Navigation Lock Floating approach guide wall. Work includes installation of Government Furnished Property (GFP) of guide wall key and assembly parts, replacement to existing anchor cable, and repair to a pneumatic bubbler system. The work will be required to be performed from the floating guide wall, and may require diving in addition to mobile crane equipment. The Contract must secure the floating guide wall in place during the replacement of the guide wall key in order to safeguard employees and the guide wall. The contract requires completion of all work at the navigation lock within a finite work window during in water work window of 5 March 2018 through 23 March 2018. Work must be completed within the specified work window in order to return the navigation lock to service in accordance with a coordinated Columbia/Snake River navigation system outage plan. The Contractor must be able to staff (supervision and labor) and provide on-site physical plant to support multiple daily work shifts to meet the requirements of the aggressive construction schedule constraints. All on-site work shall be performed in accordance with the Corps of Engineers Safety and Health Requirements Manual (EM 385-1-1). Solicitation Number W912EF18Q0013 is a Request for Quotes and will be posted to the FedBizOpps (FBO) website approximately December 8, 2017. The quotes will be due on or before December 29, 2017. The information will be contained in the solicitation and any solicitation amendments that may be issued. A site visit will be offered December 12, 2017 at 10:00 am. See solicitation for details about the site visit. Only ONE site visit will be offered. Important Note: The FedBizOpps Response Date listed elsewhere in this synopsis is for FedBizOpps archive purposes only. It does not necessarily reflect the actual bid opening date. The bid opening date will be contained in the solicitation and any solicitation amendments that may be issued. When available, the solicitation documents for this project will be available via FedBizOpps.gov https://www.fbo.gov. NO CD's OR HARD COPIES WILL BE AVAILABLE. Quotes are responsible for checking the referenced page for any update(s) to the Notice. The Government is not responsible for any loss of Internet connectivity or for a quoters inability to access the document posted at the referenced website. To obtain automatic notifications of updates to this solicitation, you MUST log in to FedBizOpps.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 on FedBizOpps.gov. ACCESS FOR FOREIGN NATIONALS: Security clearance for foreign nationals to attend a site visit requires approximately 4 weeks; therefore, clearance should be requested immediately. To request clearance, please 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 (INS 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 and contact@example.gov nationals must have received clearance prior to being granted access to the project site.