Y--Contract 2, East (NSD), Napa River/Creek Flood Protection Project, Napa County, California.

Project Title & Location: Contract 2 East (NSD), Napa River/Napa Creek Flood Protection Project. Napa, California. This procurement is 100% set-aside for 8(a) firms serviced by either the SBA San Francisco District Officer or the SBA Fresno Distri ct Office, and must possess a bona fide place of business within the territories of either of these two district offices. Job Description: Work consists of excavation of marsh plain and flood plain terraces in the east overbank of the Napa River from Imo la Avenue to New Tulocay Creek (Approximately 1,300 linear feet (LF)). This will entail excavating approximately 206,000 cubic yards (CY) of material. Existing riverbank stone protection and concrete rubble will be removed. Approximately 2,400 LF of new levee will be constructed. A portion of the excavated material (75,000 CY) has elevated levels of chromium and other metals and will require special handling during disposal on site. The remaining excavated material (131,000 CY) will be used to construc t levee embankment or be disposed at the Ghisletta Disposal Area and Gasser Disposal Area (Approximately 4.5 mile and 1.5 haul round trip respectively). The excavated material below elevation 5 foot NGVD is in the daily tidal range of the Napa River and wi ll require special care and or methods of excavation. Another portion of the remainder of the excavated material is old fill material and contains some construction debris. This material will have to be screened to remove large particles of debris. Fina l excavated grades will be seeded with native grass seed. A Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan will be provided to the Contractor for implementation and maintenance. NAICS CODE: This procurement will be conducted under NAICS Code 237990. The size st andard for this NAICS code is $28.5 Million. Estimated cost is between $1,000,000.00 and $5,000,000.00. The acquisition method is Invitation for Bids (IFB). For more information on the solicitation please contact Contract Specialist, James Garror, e-mai l address: contact@example.gov or call 916/557-5229. ORDERING PLANS & SPECIFICATIONS: The solicitation for this project will be available on the Sacramento District Contracting Division Internet Home Page at http: //ebs.spk.usace.army.mil/ for downloading. Any future amendments to the solicitation will also be available for download from this website. If you experience problems registering for the plan holder's list or have problems downloading plans and spe cifications or amendments, please contact Tim Boyd at +1 (555) 000-0000. It is important that you first go to this website and under Contracting Division homepage click on the advertised solicitation you are interested in. Go to Plan Holder Registration. Th is will require you to establish a user name and password. Keep the user name and password and share it with anyone else in your organization who is responsible for registering your firm on planholders lists. With our new system you only have to do the f ull registration one time. If you have your user name and password you can always go back into the system and register for other jobs without having to go through the entire registration process. However, you can only do this by using your initial user n ame and password. In order to receive notification on any amendments to the solicitation you are required to register for the planholder list. Please complete all requested information. The solicitation will be available for download approximately Apri l 19, 2005. To download the solicitation go to the Sacramento District Contracting Division Internet Homepage at http://ebs.spk.usace.army.mil/ From there click on Sacramento District, then it will take you to a list of advertised solicitations and from t here click on the desired solicitation number, on the bottom of this page there will be a bar that says download/view solicitation files. Select plans or specs from the drop down box and press go button. On next page, right click on the File Name and a menu pop up appears. Choose Save Target As. Left click Save Target As and a Save As Window appears. At this Window choose location on your computer for file download. To download amendments: Access the list of advertised solicitations. Select the desired solicitation and then click on the amendment number. On next page, right click on the File Name and a menu pop up appears. Choose Save Target As. Left click Save Target As and a Save As W indow appears. At this Window choose location on your computer for file download. Please note that all contractors and potential contractors must be registered with the Central Contractor Registration (CCR) database. For instructions on registering with the CCR please see our webpage.