Stage 2 Slope Stabilization Construction at the McCook Reservoir

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Buffalo District is issuing a Request for Proposal (RFP), W912P4-14-R-0004, for the Stage 2 Slope Construction at the McCook Reservoir, Hodgkins, Illinois. The general work includes building retaining walls along two sides of the McCook Reservoir in the Stage 2 area with permanent slope stabilization and incidental related work including: surface water pumping, fine grading, soil nail wall, permanent slope stabilization, rock bench. The Contract Duration is two hundred seventy days (270) calendar days from Notice to Proceed. The site visit is planned for January 24, 2014. All details are contained in the attachment. The Government intends to award one (1) Firm-Fixed-Price (FFP) contract. The North American Industrial Classification System Code (NAICS) for this effort is 237990 - Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction. This will be a full and open competitive procurement. The Government intends to award without discussions, but reserves the right to conduct discussion should it be deemed in the Government's best interest. The magnitude of this construction project is anticipated to be between $10M and $25M, in accordance with FARS 36.204. This solicitation will be available free of charge by electronic posting only and may be found at Federal Business Opportunities website, http://www.fbo.gov. Paper copies of the solicitation will not be issued. Project files are Portable Document Format (PDF) files and can be viewed, navigated, or printed using Adobe Acrobat Reader. Amendments, if/when issued, will be posted to the above referenced website for electronic downloading. This will be the only method of distributing amendments prior to closing; therefore, it is the Offerors responsibility to check the website periodically for any amendments to the solicitation. Offerors shall have and shall maintain an active registration in the following database: System for Award Management (SAM): Offerors shall have and shall maintain an active registration in the SAM database at http://www.sam.gov to be eligible for a Government contract award. If the Offeror is a Joint Venture (JV), the JV entity shall have valid SAM registration in the SAM database representing the JV as one business/firm/entity. If at the time of award an Offeror is not actively and successfully registered in the SAM database, the Government reserves the right to award to the next prospective Offeror.