MODIFICATION
19 -- Floating Boat Dock with Mobility System - Responses to Questions
- Notice Date
- 8/10/2010
- Notice Type
- Modification/Amendment
- NAICS
- 488310
— Port and Harbor Operations
- Contracting Office
- Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, EROC Intermountain, 740 Simms Street, Golden, Colorado, 80401, United States
- ZIP Code
- 80401
- Solicitation Number
- AG-82B1-S-10-0467
- Archive Date
- 8/31/2010
- Point of Contact
- Patricia D Kain, Phone: 3032755315
- E-Mail Address
-
pdkain@fs.fed.us
(pdkain@fs.fed.us)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Boat Ramp Pictures ************ The following questions received from suppliers and Forest Service responses are provided: 1. The rollers on the forward section of 8 Ft x 20 Ft float, will they roll across a concrete or asphalt boat ramp surface, or other. • The rollers will roll across a concrete ramp. 2. You mention in your project narrative the need to daily adjust the boat dock system. How do you plan to adjust 16 anchoring points (4 per 8 Ft x 20 Ft section) to dead man weights each day. This seems unpracticable and a lot of unnecessary work. Would you be open to a guide cable system down the center or edge of the boat ramp. • Our current system and plan is very similar to your concept. We currently use a guide cable system and only use 2 or 3 anchoring points at a time. However, which anchoring points we use can change throughout the season based first on how many sections of dock we are using at a time (when the water is low we start with one section and then add on as the water comes up and vice versa as the water goes down). Secondly, one side of our ramp is going to be longer than the other due to terrain issues, so during peak season the ramp will be centered on the ramp to allow traffic on both sides. In the earlier and later parts of the season we need the ability to switch the dock to the other side of the cable to utilize the longer portion of the ramp and to only allow traffic on one side of the dock. Having numerous attachment points will give us the flexibility that we need to move the anchor cables where we need them to be. 3. Is it a requirement that the pontoons be aluminum, or would you accept polyethylene if they had UHMW drag on skis underneath them - would dramatically lower the overall cost, as aluminum will just as easily cut and wear out over a short time if left unprotected. • We have decided to stay with aluminum due to experiences that we have had with our current dock which has polyethylene floats. Over the years the durability and damage they have incurred has been a serious maintenance issue for us. Drag skis wouldn't solve the problem as most of the damage we've had is on the sides of the pontoons. After researching the various options we've decided that aluminum pontoons would much better withstand the type of abuse that our current polyethylene pontoons haven't been able to take. 4. Do you have any site pictures you can provide? • Pictures attached. ************
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Lake Como Recreation Center, Bitterroot National Forest, Darby, Montana, 59829-0388, United States
- Zip Code: 59829-0388
- Zip Code: 59829-0388
- Record
- SN02235097-W 20100812/100810235536-034f7773a4ddc100dd894143f33b6843 (fbodaily.com)
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