SLBE 234498 - Emergency Shoreline Stabilization, South Manitou Island, Sleeping Bear National Lakeshore, MI

The National Park Service has a requirement for the following project. If you are interested, please submit your detailed capabilities in WRITING to demonstrate same or similar experience. This is not a request for proposal or invitation to bid. No proposal package, solicitation, specification or drawings are available with this announcement. Response to this announcement is strictly voluntary; no reimbursement will be made for any costs associated with providing information in response to this sources sought announcement or any follow-up information requests. If you choose to submit a package, clearly identify the park and project on your package (SLBE 234498 South Manitou Island, Emergency Shoreline Stabilization) and identify your socioeconomic status (8(a), HUBZone, Service Disabled Veteran, WOSB, EDWOSB, and Small). Your email capability information MUST be 6 pages or less and be SPECIFIC to the scope provided. You must also provide a letter from your bonding company verifying your bonding levels. Your response is due no later than 2:00 pm Mountain Time on March 27, 2017. The Government anticipates conducting a competitive acquisition for this requirement. The amount of interest or lack thereof will determine the possibility of a competitive set-aside or full and open competition (the size of a small business firm includes all parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, etc.-see 13 CFR 121.108.) Misrepresentation of size status can result in penalties. All firms should be registered and certified in www.SAM.gov. Please refer to the current SBA rules regarding HUBZone firms, effective October 1, 2011. Send your email responses contact@example.gov Analysis of the quality of responses to this sources sought announcement will be considered in the market research being conducted, and in the making of any small business set-aside determination for this requirement. Sleeping Bear National Lakeshore South Manitou Island, Emergency Shoreline Stabilization NAICS Code: 237990 Estimated Cost Range: $500,000 - $1,000,000 Estimated Period of Performance: June 2017 - November 2017 Project Description The contractor shall provide for the protection of 780' of shoreline from wind, wave and ice damage. A breakwater system consisting of sheet piles, dredged backfill and concrete cap will be constructed as part of this design / build contract. The contractor will work with National Park Service (NPS) to complete all remaining permitting and compliance necessary to protect the lighthouse complex property from further damage. Stabilization may require dredging along the existing toe of the revetment to allow driving sheet pile wall (approximately 6,500 sq. ft.), the placing of geotextile fabric, 1,000 LCY armor stone, 800 LCY bulk head stone and dredged lake bottom sand. The completed shoreline protection shall have a design life of more than 100 years. The shoreline must be highly resistant to any shifting or other damage caused by ice formation, breakup, or movement. It shall be designed to withstand expected storm, ice, wind, and water forces. Required Capabilities & Evaluation Criteria: Contractors shall address the following criteria in their response to this notice: Prior Experience Contractors will be evaluated based upon the extent of their team's successful completion of projects similar to that noted below. Presented projects shall demonstrate experience working on projects: - Of similar size based upon project contract price, - Of similar scope. - In similar environments. - demonstrate experience with regulatory compliance / permitting 401/404 Clean Water Act and Section 10 Rivers and Harbors Act as well as in the State of Michigan and work conducted within the Shorelands Protection and Management, of the Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Act, 1994 PA 451, as amended, and the corresponding Administrative Rules. - Other Significant Similarities Bonding Capability Interested firms MUST provide a letter from their bonding company to confirm their bonding capacity.