Bonneville Dam Metering Enhancements

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Portland District is soliciting a Contract for the Bonneville Dam Metering Enhancements project. The proposed project will be a competitive, firm-fixed price (FFP) contract.Project Scope: The scope of this project consists of the Contractor furnishing all supervision, engineering, labor, materials, and equipment to perform the following work in accordance with the detailed requirements of this contract.Background: Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) would like to enter the Energy Imbalance Market (EIM), to do so, BPA needs additional high accuracy class instrument transformers. The requirement for CTs (Current Transformers) to be installed approximately 26 feet above the existing roof elevation, above truss-beam. New mounting supports will also need to be installed for the CTs and pedestals on top of the existing roof. The structural and electrical design, provided by the Hydro Design Center (HDC), provides supports for the new CTs, station

post insulators, and busses at locations that provide the required electrical clearances. The HDC designs also evaluates the requirements of supporting the new CTs, station post insulators and busses on legacy roof structural system. The Government will provide the metering-grade CTs and PTs (Potential Transformers), and three deflection insulators. PT’s will be replaced in existing location. The Contractor will maintain the maximum distances from ground for each phase to add the real time metering accuracy PT’s and CT’s as directed by the requirements.Description of Requirement: The Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) has the required metering CTs and PTs in inventory and will provide these to The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Portland District, as Government-Furnished Equipment (GFE) for the metering enhancement installation contract. This eliminates the over one-year lead time for commercial procurement of the CTs and PTs after contract award, which would be an unacceptable delay. Bonneville Project O&M staff have committed to furnishing and installing the low-voltage conduit and wiring to the RTU room in the powerhouse. BPA will design and separately install the new control board in the RTU room and will complete the wiring connections. This reduces the installation contractor's scope to fabrication and installation of the new CT supporting structures as detailed in the Plans and Specifications, installing the CT's, replacing the PTs on their existing supporting structures, and field acceptance testing of the GFE instrument transformers.The project is located at Bonneville Dam in Multnomah County, Oregon.Contract Period of Performance: Contract duration is estimated to be from projected Notice to Proceed in April 2024 through November 30th 2024.Magnitude of Construction: $1,000,000.00 to $5,000,000.00Set Asides and Codes: Full and Open Competition. The North American Industrial Classification Code (NAICS) for this potential requirement would be 238210, “Electrical Contractors and Other Wiring InstallationContractors”. The related size standard is $19M. The Product Service Code (PSC) is Z1KA - Maintenance of Dams.Selection Process: This is a Full and Open competitive acquisition using Best Value Tradeoff (BVTO) source selection procedures. The Government intends to award a single, firm-fixed price construction contract to the responsible offeror whose proposal represents the best value after evaluation in accordance with the evaluation factors in the solicitation. The Government reserves the right to accept other than the lowest priced offer or to reject all offers. Offerors shall submit a technical proposal and a price proposal. The evaluation results of the non-price and price proposals will determine an awardee. All non-price factors are approximately equal in importance. All non-price evaluation factors other than price, when combined, are significantly more important than price. THE SELECTION PROCESS MAY CHANGE IN THE SOLICITATION.Discussions: The Government intends to make an award without discussions but reserves the right to conduct discussions should discussions prove to be necessary or advantageous to the Government. Because the Government does not intend to hold discussions, offerors are encouraged to include their best pricing in their initial proposal.Anticipated Solicitation Release Date: The government anticipates releasing the solicitation in late February 2024. The closing date for proposals will be approximately 30 days later. Actual dates and times will be identified in the solicitation. Responses to this synopsis are not required. Additional details may be found in the solicitation when it is posted.System for Award Management (SAM): Offerors must register in the SAM at https://www.sam.gov/portal/public/SAM/ prior to submission of bids and prior to receiving an award.Point of Contact: The USACE-NWP points of contact for this action are Andrew Sprys at andrew.j.sprys@usace.army.mil and Cory Pfenning at cory.r.pfenning@usace.army.mil. Email is the only method for receiving responses to this pre-solicitation notice.Point of Contact for small business questions or assistance is the Portland District Deputy for Small Business, Carol McIntyre at 503-808-4602 or Carol.A.Mcintyre@usace.army.mil.THIS PRE-SOLICITATION NOTICE IS FOR THE PURPOSE OF INFORMING INDUSTRY THAT THIS SOLICITATION WILL BE POSTED ON SAM ON OR ABOUT 15 FEBRUARY 2024. THIS NOTICE IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS AND PROPOSALS RECEIVED AS A RESULT OF THIS PRE-SOLICITATION NOTICE WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED OR EVALUATED.THE GOVERNMENT RESERVES THE RIGHT TO CANCEL THIS SOLICITATION EITHER BEFORE OR AFTER THE CLOSING DATE. NO REIMBURSEMENT WILL BE MADE FOR ANY COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH PROVIDING INFORMATION IN RESPONSE TO THIS PRESOLICITATION NOTICE OR ANY FOLLOW-UP INFORMATION REQUEST.