The project consist of general repairs to the Canaveral Lock including: painting gates and walls, replacing gate walkway, adding chamber ladders, constructing a new storage area for the dewatering truss and needles, constructing a new north chamber guide wall, replacing manatee screens and frame work, upgrading hydraulic units, replacing gate grounding wires, installing surge protector at commercial service, replacing gate switches, replacing gate wire ropes, sheaves, and frames. Magnitude of constr uction is between $1,000,000.00 and $5,000,000.00. Estimated construction time is 270 calendar days. Award will be made to the offeror whose proposal represents the best value to the Government. Proposals will be evaluated on technical, past performance and price. This solicitation will be issued on or about 28 May 2004 with proposals due on or about 15 July 2004. Solicitation will be issued in electronic format only and will be posted on our website. NOTE: A CD-Rom will not be issued for this solici tation. Interested offerors must register electronically. If you are not registered, the Government is not responsible with providing you with notifications of any changes to this solicitation. The registration form is located at https://ebs1.saj.usace. army.mil/ebs/AdvertisedSolicitations.asp. THIS ACQUISITION IS UNRESTRICTED, being issued pursuant to the Small Business Competitive Demonstration Program. Note: Contracting information is now available at our web site: http://www.saj.usace.army.mil/ (S elect Contract/Business Opportunities). All responsible sources may submit a proposal, which will be considered. There will be a price preference for identified HubZone small business concerns that comply with the requirements of the solicitation as stip ulated in FAR 19.1307. You must be registered in the Central Contractor Registration in order to be eligible to receive an award from this solicitation. Call 1-888-227-2423 for more information or visit the CCR web site at http://www.ccr.gov. NAICS Code 237990, size standard $28.5 million.

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