SOLICITATION NOTICE
Y -- Low Voltage Station Service Switchgear Retrofill
- Notice Date
- 3/24/2011
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- Contracting Office
- Bureau of Reclamation - LC - Lower Colorado Regional Office P.O. Box 61470 Boulder City NV 89006
- ZIP Code
- 89006
- Solicitation Number
- R11PS30236
- Archive Date
- 3/23/2012
- Point of Contact
- Dennis Campbell Contract Specialist 7022938569 dcampbell@usbr.gov;
- E-Mail Address
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Point of Contact above, or if none listed, contact the IDEAS EC HELP DESK for assistance
(EC_helpdesk@NBC.GOV)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation), Lower Colorado Region, has a requirement to retrofill the low voltage (480Volts) Station Service Switchgear for the hydro-electric power plant at Headgate Rock Dam, Arizona. The dam is located approximately one mile north of Parker, Arizona in La Paz County on the Colorado River Indian Reservation and is operated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The Bureau of Reclamation provides engineering and procurement support to the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) at Headgate Rock Dam. Through a retrofill, Reclamation expects to improve the functionality, reliability, and most importantly, the safety of the 480 Volt station service switchgear. The switchgear has two ABB LKE 1600 electrically operated main circuit breakers. One of the two main LKE 1600 circuit breakers was replaced with an ABB, RMAX 1600amp, Low Voltage Roll-in circuit breaker. During testing operations of the RMAX circuit breaker and subsequent re-installation of an LKE 1600, BOR switching guidelines were not followed and cubicle safety devices malfunctioned allowing a closed breaker to be installed resulting in breaker and cubicle damage and flash burn injuries to a Reclamation Electrician. There exists a real concern about a possible design flaw with the circuit breaker control system and cubicle safety devices and the fact that the re-installation of the LKE 1600 was allowed while it was in the closed position. Reclamation is seeking current state-of-the-art solutions in circuit breaker technology for the replacement of the circuit breakers and the associated cubicle/cradle hardware in order to increase the safety of racking operations and to mitigate the arc flash hazard. The contractor will be required to furnish all labor, equipment, materials and incidentals necessary to design, manufacture and install all retrofill components within an allotted outage period. The contractor will be required to perform a qualified retrofill design for the low voltage switchgear circuit breakers and related components. The switchgear must be compatible in form, fit and function with the current switchgear and cradles in the Headgate Rock Dam power plant. Reconditioning of the existing circuit breakers and the existing cubicles/cradles is not acceptable and will not be considered. Remanufacturing of the existing breakers and cubicles/cradles to "like new" condition is not acceptable and will not be considered. The Government intends to award a firm fixed-price construction contract. The estimated magnitude of this project is between $250,000 and $500,000. This acquisition, when announced, will be conducted under North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code 335313, Switchgear and Switchboard Apparatus Manufacturing. The small business size standard for NAICS Code 335313 is 750 employees. This solicitation is unrestricted. It is anticipated the solicitation, in the form of a Request for Proposal (RFP), will be issued on or about April 25, 2011. Responses are due thirty days after issuance. The RFP will include evaluation factors such as technical approach, relevant experience, past performance, and price. It is anticipated that one contract will be awarded. The estimated contract award date is June 1, 2011. However, all dates in this announcement are subject to change. No documents will be available until the solicitation is issued. The solicitation will only be issued electronically via www.FedBizOpps.gov. The Government reserves the right to issue the solicitation on paper or CD if the FedBizOpps (FBO) web site becomes inoperable or if the Contracting Officer determines it is in the Government's best interest to do so. Offerors should register at the FBO to be included on the offeror list in order to receive notifications pertaining to the solicitation, or visit the FBO website after issuance download the solicitation and any subsequent amendments. Offerors are required to have a current registration on the Central Contractor Registration (CCR) to be eligible for contract award. Offerors may register on CCR at http://www.ccr.gov. Questions may be submitted to Dennis Campbell at dlcampbell@usbr.gov or by fax at 702-293-8499.
- Web Link
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Headgate Rock Dam, Arizona
- Zip Code: 92267
- Zip Code: 92267
- Record
- SN02408293-W 20110326/110324234319-ad05fc1dbc9d15955b2a252ee30440ca (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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