McNary Navlock Downstream Gate 2016 Interim Repairs

SYNOPSIS: Construction Project: McNary Navlock Downstream Miter Gate 2016 Interim Repairs This will be a firm fixed-price construction contract located at McNary Navigation Lock in Benton County, Washington. Estimated construction magnitude is between $250,000 and $500,000. Performance and payment bonds (100%) will be required. The full onsite work window, to include the pre-work and post-work checks, is expected to be 09 March 2016 to 23 March 2016. See solicitation for details. DESCRIPTION OF WORK: The purpose of this work is to resurface the quoin and miter surfaces on the middle 30-feet of both miter gate leaves on the downstream navlock gate at McNary Dam. Work involves quoin and miter surface repairs to be accomplished during the 2016 Nav-Lock Outage. This work will consist of welding up the deficient areas and machining down the surfaces to remove defects and to restore the surface plates to their original thickness. Welders Qualification will be in accordance with AWS D1.1/D1.1M or AWS D1.5/D1.5M Section 12. Welders and welding operators must pass the qualification tests prescribed by AWS D1.1/D1.1M or AWS D1.5/D1.5M within 12 months prior to performing work on this contract. All welding work will be inspected using a Nondestructive Testing (NDT) method. Once the metal work is finished there will be approximately 40 sq ft of touch up painting using Vinyl paint. Work also includes the installation of GFP stiffener plates at 16 locations within the quoin and miter posts on the Miter Gate leaves. Stiffener plate installation will involve welding in accordance with AWS D1.5 requirements.? The contract requires completion of all work at the navigation lock within a finite work window, as stated above. 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. All on-site work shall be performed in accordance with the Corps of Engineers Safety and Health Requirements Manual (EM 385-1-1). The Contractor will be responsible for establishing and managing an effective on-site Safety and Health program in accordance with EM 385-1-1 that will require the development and submission of a comprehensive project specific Accident Prevention Plan for Government acceptance. In addition, the Contractor will be required to develop and submit for Government acceptance Activity Hazard Analyses for each phase of work and a project specific Fall Protection Plan that comply with OSHA and State Regulations, EM 385-1-1, and ASSE/SAFE A10.32 and ASSE/SAFE Z359. A qualified Fall Protection Competent Person shall be provided by the Contractor for each shift of the contractor's on-site operations that involves work that exposes workers to fall hazards. This contract will require the Contractor to furnish mobile crane equipment, crane operators, and rigging equipment that comply with the certification and testing requirements of EM 385-1-1 as well as all applicable OSHA requirements. The Contractor will be responsible for various equipment to support elevated working positions such as scaffolding, scissor-lifts, and boom-lift equipment. The Contractor will be required to use the Government-furnished Construction Contractor Module (referred to as QCS) of the Resident Management System (RMS) to record, maintain, and submit various information throughout the contract period. QCS is a Windows-based program that can be run on a stand-alone personal computer or on a network. The Government will make the QCS software available to the Contractor after contract award. The project will involve the development and management of Contractor furnished submittals for items such as pre-construction plans, product data, test reports, and contract close-out documentation as required by the technical specifications of the contract. Miscellaneous work within the project includes the delivery of As-Built Drawings to the customer. Invitation for Bids No. W912EF-16-B-0001 will be posted to the FedBizOpps (FBO) website approximately near the end of October 2015. Bids will be due no sooner than 30 calendar days after the solicitation is issued. See solicitation for details about bid opening. When issued the solicitation documents for this project will be available at https://www.fbo.gov. 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. Important Note: The FBO Response Date listed elsewhere in this synopsis 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 that are issued. A site visit will be offered generally within 2 weeks after the solicitation is issued. The site-visit is HIGHLY recommended if a bid is intended. See solicitation for details about the site visit. Only ONE site visit will be offered. 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. 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