Z--Ice Harbor Navigation Lock Anchor Bolt Replacement

The work is at Ice Harbor Dam, located near Burbank, Washington in Walla Walla County. Work entails installing new anchor bolts for the upstream Navigation Lock Gate. The main features of this work are remove upstream gate, drill out existing anchors bolts, install new anchors bolts, sandblast, inspect, and repaint trunnion hub, reinstall pins with new thrust washers and keeper plates, and reinstall gate. The upstream Navigation Lock gate is 87 feet long, 25 feet high, 23 feet wide, and weighs 142,000 lbs. The contractor may need to orchestrate a four to five point critical lift with two or more cranes to move the gate with little maneuvering room, under diverse weather conditions, and with a high degree of control. The period of performance for the onsite work will be during the first two weeks of the annual navigation lock maintenance period which starts March 6, 2010. Solicitation No. W912EF-09-B-0013 will be posted to the FBO website on or about August 6, 2009. Bids will be opened no sooner than 30 calendar days after actual solicitation issuance date. The bid opening date will be contained in the solicitation and any solicitation amendments that may be issued. Important Note: The FedBizOpps Response Date listed elsewhere in this synopsis is for FedBizOpps archive purposes only. It has no relationship to the actual bid opening date. A site visit will be offered approximately 2 weeks after the solicitation is made available to bidders. See solicitation for details about the site visit. Solicitation is open to both large and small business concerns. NAICS code for this project is 237990, and the small business size standard is $33,500,000 average annual receipts. Estimated magnitude of construction is between $250,000 and $500,000. When available, the solicitation documents for this project will be posted on FedBizOpps.gov https://www.fbo.gov. NO CDs OR HARD COPIES WILL BE AVAILABLE. Offerors are responsible for checking the referenced page for any update(s) to the Notice. The Government is not responsible for any loss of Internet connectivity or for an offeror's inability to access the document posted at the referenced website. To obtain automatic notifications of updates to this solicitation, you MUST log in to FedBizOpps.gov and add the solicitation to your Watchlist. If you would like to list your firm so others can see you are an interested vendor, you must click the Add Me To Interested Vendors button in the listing for this solicitation on FedBizOpps.gov.