Fox River Upper & Lower Sluiceway, Spillway and Walkway Repairs project in Appleton, WI   3

This presolicitation notice is being issued by the United States Army Corps of Engineers - Chicago District to inform interested/potential contractors of the district's imminent issue of an invitation for bid package for its construction project entitled "Fox River Upper & Lower Sluiceway, Spillway, and Walkway Repairs Project in Appleton, WI."

PROJECT INFORMATION: The Appleton Upper Dam and the Appleton Lower Dam are concrete gravity dams keyed into bedrock. Each dam has a spillway section and a sluiceway section with eight tainter gates, each 20 feet wide. The maximum head differential occurs at Appleton Upper Dam and is 14.5 feet.

Work involves removal and replacement of all sluiceway tainter gates and trunnion assemblies and anchorage, removal, and replacement of steel spillway walkways, full demolition, and replacement of all spillway concrete piers and partial demolition and replacement of all sluiceway concrete piers at both dams. Repair of bedrock scours downstream of the Appleton Upper dam will also be repaired. No more than two gates will be removed at any given time.

CONTRACTING OFFICE: USACE Chicago District, 231 South LaSalle Street, Suite 1500, Chicago, IL 60604

ACQUISITION INFORMATION: Competition for this acquisition is unrestricted with a HUBZone 10% price evaluation preference pursuant to FAR 19.1307. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code is 237990, with a small business size standard in dollars of $39.5 million. The magnitude of cost for construction is estimated at between $5,000,000.00 and $10,000,000.00.

The solicitation (invitation for bids [IFB]) will be downloadable from the INTERNET ONLY. The project specification files wil be portable document format (PDF) files and to be viewed, navigated, or printed using Adobe Acrobat Reader. Once the package is released into advertisement at betaSAM.gov, interested bidders may download the full package, including the specification and drawings files. The solicitation package is planned for advertisement on or about 31 July 2020, with bids due on or about 31 August 2020.

IMPORTANT POLICY: Bidders are REQUIRED to be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) AT THE TIME BID IS SUBMITTED to comply with the annual representations and certifications requirements. Registration may be completed free of charge at www.sam.gov.

Requests for solicitation packages made by telephone, fax or e-mail "will not" be honored.

**Please include Solicitation Number W912P6-20-B-0007 on all correspondence.**