RECOVERY--Y--PROJECT NUMBER 114785, SRINGFIELD MILL RACE ECO RESTORATION PHASE II

Contract Award Amount equals $1,279,175.34 Recovery Funds, and $803,781.75 Non-Recovery Funds. This contract action was accomplished using other than competitive procedures because a statute exists that expressly authorizes or requires that the acquisition be made from a specific source or through another agency (FAR 6.302-5); specifically, Sole source awards under the 8(a) Program. Per FAR 6.302-5 a J&A is not required for this award. This project will restore the Springfield Mill Race back to a stream and remove the existing pond. The contract will includ the replacement of the diversion culverts and sluice gates to Gorrie Creek and the installation of fish screens; Placing fill material to reduce bank slope and channel width between F Street Bridge and the Mill Pond to match the rest of the Mill Race channel and provie a buffer from the lumber mill; Removal of the Mill Dam and bridge and associated sheet piling, fill, fish ladder, and retaining walls; Cutting back storm drain outfalls near the Mill Dam and routing existing subsurface vault outlets into two storm water detention basins designed to treat storm water from the Booth-Kelly site prior to discharge into the Mill Race; Excavation and grading of a new Mill Race channel through the Mill Pond and creation of wetlands and backwater sloughs.