McNary Powerhouse Seals Purchase

The U.S. Army Engineer District Walla Walla awarded Contract W912EF26QA032 to B&H International LLC for the procurement of replacement seals for the McNary Lock and Dam Powerhouse, specifically for draft tube stoplog assemblies and watertight door systems. The contract is a firm fixed-price agreement with a mandatory delivery timeline of fifteen weeks from award receipt, requiring all items to be shipped FOB destination to McNary Lock and Dam in Umatilla, Oregon, with the contractor bearing all transportation costs and risks until formal government acceptance at the site. The seals must be molded, not extruded, with one-piece corners and constructed from natural rubber compounded with carbon black, zinc oxide, and approved additives, explicitly excluding reclaim rubber, silica, oils, or reinforcing cloth. All seals must comply with rigorous ASTM physical performance standards including Shore A durometer hardness of 60–70, minimum tensile strength of 3000 PSI, elongation of at least 450%, and low water absorption, with dimensional accuracy and surface integrity strictly enforced. The contract further necessitates the use of government-furnished property (GFP) molds for certain seal assemblies, requiring pre-use inspection, condition reporting, and post-use cleaning and preservation under government supervision, with no unauthorized modifications permitted. All shipping and packaging must adhere to military standards including MIL-STD-129 for labeling and MIL-STD-130 for Unique Item Identification (UID), with machine-readable barcodes compliant with MIL-STD-15434 and MIL-STD-15418, ensuring traceability and automatic data capture throughout the lifecycle of the delivered items. The contractor must register and maintain an active SAM account, provide CAGE and UEI codes, and comply with a comprehensive suite of FAR clauses covering cybersecurity (52.223-7012), prohibited supply chain products (including Chinese-made telecom equipment and TikTok), sustainable sourcing, labor standards including prevailing wages and paid sick leave, whistleblower protections, ethics compliance, pollution prevention, and prohibition of Kaspersky and American Security Drone Act-covered technologies. Invoicing must be submitted through Wide Area WorkFlow (WAWF), and all deliverables are subject to inspection and acceptance at the destination by the Contracting Officer’s Representative, Krista Timm, with corrective action at the contractor’s expense for non-conforming items. No socioeconomic set-asides were specified, and the award basis and evaluation criteria are not