The 319th Contracting Squadron, Grand Forks Air force Base intends to award a construction contract with the work requirements to be performed by the contractor consisting of the the replacement of 60 existing valves within the base's potable water supply system, varying in size from 4" to 14". Replacement of these valves will require excavation, removal of the existing valve and a small amount of pipe, installation of a new valve and a small amount of new pipe, installation of a new valve box, installation of cathodic protection measures, backfilling and compacting, and restoration of surface improvements. The project also contains all other support construction as required located at Grand Forks Air Force Base, North Dakota. All work shall be in conformance with the requirements of the contract including furnishing all plant, labor, and materials in strict accordance with plans and specifications of the contract and as specified in the Technical Provisions and drawings. This is an unrestricted acquisition. The resulting contract will be a Firm Fixed Price contract with a magnitude between $500,000 to $1,000,000. The performance period will be 90 days with a winter exclusion of 1 Nov through 1 Apr. This acquisition is being synopsized under North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code is 237110, and the small business size standard is $33.5 million.

This will be a Request for Proposal (RFP), Performance Price Tradeoff (PPTO) solicitation. There will be no public bid opening. Award will be made based upon Best Value to the Government IAW FAR Part 15 and the terms in the solicitation. The government reserves the right to award a contract to other than the lowest price. Evaluation factors will be set forth in Section L & M of the solicitation.

All prospective offerors are required to be registered in the Central Contractor Registration database and ORCA database or their proposal will not be considered for award. Contractors can obtain further information on the Central Contractor Registration database at web site http://www.ccr.gov/ and http://orca.bpn.gov/. The solicitation will only be available for viewing and downloading at http://www.fedbizopps.gov/. No paper copies or CD-ROMs will be issued. Expected posting of the solicitation will be on or about 6 July 2010. Questions regarding this synopsis may be directed to A1C Nathan Blackmer at 701-747-3904 [email protected] or Jeremiah Snedker at 701-747-5299 [email protected]
Notice to Offerors: Funds are not presently available for this project. No award will be made under this solicitation until funds are available. The Government reserves the right to cancel this solicitation, either before or after the closing date.