SOLICITATION NOTICE
56 -- Sequoia Form Liners
- Notice Date
- 2/25/2004
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 327390
— Other Concrete Product Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), Central Federal Lands Highway Division, Room 259 555 Zang Street, Lakewood, CO, 80228-1010
- ZIP Code
- 80228-1010
- Solicitation Number
- DTFH68-04-RFQ-00061
- Response Due
- 3/16/2004
- Archive Date
- 3/31/2004
- Point of Contact
- Kathy Mooney, Contract Specialist, Phone (303)716-2289, Fax (303)969-5971,
- E-Mail Address
-
Kathy.Mooney@fhwa.dot.gov
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- This is a Combined Synopsis/Solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in Subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; proposals are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. Solicitation DTFH68-04-RFQ-00061 is being issued as a Request for Quotations. Provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 2001-20, effective 23 February 2004. This acquisition is set aside 100% for Small Business concerns. The NAICS code is 327390 and the small business size standard is 500 employees. The contract line item is 0001, Form Liner as described in the Statement of Work. The following Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Provisions and Clauses are applicable to this acquisition: 52.212-1, Instructions To Offerors-Commercial Items; 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certifications-Commercial Items; 52.212-4, Contract Terms and Conditions-Commercial Items; 52-212-5, Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders-Commercial Items including subparagraphs (11) 52.222-21 Prohibition of Segregated Facilities, (12) 52.222-26 Equal Opportunity,(13) 52.222-35 Equal Opportunity for Special Disabled Veterans, Veterans of the Vietnam Era, and Other Eligible Veterans,(14) 52.222-36 Affirmative Action for Workers with Disabilities, (15) 52.222-37 Employment Reports on Special Disabled Veterans, Veterans of the Vietnam Era, and Other Eligible Veterans,(16) 52.222-19 Child Labor-Cooperation with Authorities and Remedies,(18) 52.225-1 Buy American Act-Supplies, (21) 52.225-13 Restriction on Certain Foreign Purchases,(24) 52.232-33 Payment by Electronic Funds Transfer-Central Contractor Registration; and, 52.212-2, Evaluation-Commercial Items that states the Government will award a contract resulting from this solicitation to the responsible offeror whose offer conforming to the solicitation will be most advantageous to the Government, price and other factors considered. The following factors shall be used to evaluate offers: Technical understanding of the item offered to meet the Government requirements; Past Performance/Work Experience including Visual Aesthetic Appearance; and Price. Technical understanding, past performance and visual aesthetics, when combined, are considered equal in importance to price. Full text of the provisions and clauses may be accessed electronically at the following addresses: http://www.arnet.gov/far/ or http://farsite.hill.af.mil/. Submit one copy of your quote along with a completed copy of provision 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certifications-Commercial Items, to the attention of Kathy Mooney, Federal Highway Administration, Central Federal Lands, 555 Zang Street, Room 259, Lakewood, CO 80228. Quotes are due on Tuesday, March 16, 2004 at 3:30 P.M. Fax and e-mail quotes shall not be accepted. Questions concerning this solicitation should be addressed in writing to Kathy Mooney, Fax (303) 969-5971. For purposes of responding to this Request for Quotations, the Contractor is required to provide Qualifications, Experience, Past Performance Information, and Price to develop drawings and a mockup form liner, in accordance with this scope of work. The contract awarded as a result of this Request for Quotations will consist of Items (1) Preliminary Shop Drawings, (2) Final Drawings, and (3) Mockup Form Liners contained the Statement of Work. Qualifications, Experience, and Past Performance: The Contractor shall have a minimum of five (5) consecutive years work experience making custom form liners to create formed concrete surfaces to match natural stone shapes and surface textures. Submit a list of three (3) recently completed installations (no more than five (5) years from present) that represent custom form liner development for a specialized project using simulated natural stone-walls with textured vertical surfaces. Include the project name and location; project budget for the simulated natural stone portion of the textured concrete work performed by the Concrete Installer; and the address and phone number of the owner or owners representative with knowledge of the work performed. This information will be used to evaluate past performance and the Contractors understanding of the technical requirements of the Statement of Work. Submit a minimum of three (3) recent 8 inch by 10 inch color photographs of each installation stated above as evidence of the experience and ability to produce textured vertical surfaces with the use of form liners. The photographs are to be taken at various distances (10 feet, 20 feet, and 50 feet) from the textured vertical surfaces to distinguish details and overall quality of the work. The photographs will be used to determine the aesthetic appearance of the walls. Provide a work plan and a proposed schedule for completing the work (Items 1,2, and 3 listed under Drawings & Submittals) within the required time. This information will be used to evaluate the Contractors understanding of the technical requirements of the Statement of Work. All Work must be completed within 120 calendar days. DESCRIPTION OF WORK: This work consists of creating a textured form liner for a special surface texture. The design will be such that it replicates the exiting mortared schist retaining walls at Sequoia National Park near Three Rivers, California. The form liner will emulate the size, shape, texture, stone spacing, joint sizes, and overall appearance of these existing walls. The form liner will be used on cast-in-place type concrete cantilever retaining walls and cast-in-place type guard walls. The chosen form liner pattern will be used as the standard wall facing for a 2.565 km roadway reconstruction project in Sequoia National Park. It is estimated that 225 meters of the road will have retaining walls that are required to be faced with the form liner, and that 225 meters of the road will have guardwalls that are required to be faced with form liner. Retaining wall heights will range from 0.785 to 4.835 meters throughout the project; the height of guardwalls is 0.785 meters. Form Liner Requirements: The form liner panels shall simulate the natural stone masonry and texture of the existing schist masonry retaining walls located in Sequoia National Park. The form liner panels shall provide a variety of sizes of the natural stones as well as variance in the spacing of the stones as exhibited in the existing schist masonry walls. Exercise care to eliminate nesting or bunching of similar sized stones. This requires the smallest stone size to fall within the following ranges: 150 mm by 225 mm or 300 mm by 450 mm. Stones with unique and visually identifying character that become apparent when reused in a wall panel or easily identifiable will not be allowed. The individual stones in the form liner pattern shall have a realistic look of schist stone, and have a variety of surface relief consisting of but not all inclusive to smoothness, roughness, dimples, cracks, undulations, etc. Stones of maximum or minimum bulge shall not be bunched together, but shall be randomly placed throughout the retaining wall. The bulge of individual stones shall be irregular to provide a variety in the texture of the entire surface. The form liner relief should vary; should not be uniform. The jointing plan of the individual stones will vary throughout the total patterning to give a variety of relief in the overall appearance of the natural stone pattern. Form liner panels shall abut to each other in the joint regions of the stone pattern when configuring the form liner panel layout. No noticeable abutting lines, or pattern created by abutting lines, shall be visibly apparent on the finished wall. All construction expansion and control joints shall occur in the recess joint regions of the stone pattern with careful design of long horizontal stone lengths being avoided. The arrangement of the form liner panels shall provide a continuous stone pattern without visual disruption or repetition within 19 meters horizontally. Vertically, the appearance of the stone pattern is to have a maximum amount of variety and no two liners can be connected to each other. No liners of like kind shall be placed adjacent to each other. Drawings and Submittals: Approval of custom designed, natural stone, special surface texture (form liner) will be a follows: (1) Preliminary Shop Drawings. The Contractor shall submit five (5) sets of preliminary shop drawings to the COTR for review. The preliminary shop drawings will be of simulated schist stone pattern form liner panels based on the specifications stated in the scope of work. Provide preliminary shop drawings on 24 by 36 inch sheets. Reduced-sized drawings will be required as necessary. The preliminary shop drawings will include but not be limited to the following: Plan view, elevation view, and details showing overall patterns of natural schist stones in the form liner; Individual form liner panel designs, patterns, and gang panel layouts; Stone pattern descriptions, dimensions, and sequencing of form liner sections; Representative drawings of form liner panel layouts for the retaining walls. Representative drawings shall show: the retaining wall back-side and actual height, and the height of the tallest wall, showing stepped footings. The arrangement of form liner panels that provide a continuous stone pattern without visual disruption or repetition. On the drawings, show representative views of completed form lined walls with each form liner panel outlined in a dark line, and completed from lined walls without each form liner panel outlined. Critical features include but are not limited to irregularities in stone patterns such as rock clusters, rosettes, linear rocks, and mortar joints. Details showing typical cross section of walls, joints, corners, step footings, stone size, working line, joint and bed depths, joint locations, and end, edge, and other conditions. Allow the COTR three (3) weeks of review time per shop drawing submittal. After each review of preliminary shop drawings, comments will be returned to the Contractor so the necessary changes can be made. If drawings are returned for revision, correct and resubmit for approval. Reviews will continue until the COTR approves the preliminary shop drawings. (2) Final Drawings. Following approval of the preliminary shop drawings, the Contractor shall submit five (5) sets of final drawings to the COTR for approval. For all concrete surfaces receiving special surface texture (form liner), provide the types, quantities, widths, and lengths of form liner panels required for the job. Show the location and spacing of joints. Provide final drawings of all form liner patterns and gang panel layouts to the COTR for approval prior to form liner development. (3) Mockup Form Liners. The Contractor shall fabricate one (1) mockup form liner for each panel approved in the final set of drawings. During mockup form liner development, a representative from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) will be present. The approximate size of the mockup is 3 meters by 3.6 meters. The FHWA representative will be present as all fabricating of mockup form liner panels are prepared, and will inspect them at the manufacturers fabrication site, prior to casting final molds. During the inspection of the mockup form liner panels, the Contractor shall be prepared to make adjustments to the form liner pattern where imperfections are found by the FHWA representative. If initial mockup panel(s) is (are) found to be unsatisfactory, the Contractor shall be required to construct additional mockup panel(s) at no additional cost to the Government. Additional reviews and inspections of the mockup form liner panels will be repeated until approved by the COTR. During the inspection of the mockup form liners, the following items will be considered critical for approval: individual stone spacing, sizes and shapes; stone surface texture; stone patterning; joint size, width and depth. This list of items is not all inclusive and additional items may be necessary. Demonstrate all special applications of the form liner (joints, corners, step footings, etc.) that will be necessary during construction. (4) Master Form Liner Panels. The master form liner panels for the future construction project shall be fabricated based on approved final drawings and mockup form liners. The Contractor shall construct master form liner panels from approved mockup panels. Photos taken in Sequoia National Park show examples of a schist retaining wall and examples of types of rocks and rock groupings that SHOULD NOT be reproduced in the form liner pattern layout. To obtain copies of the photographs, request from Point of Contact.
- Place of Performance
- Address: Contractors Facility
- Record
- SN00530530-W 20040227/040225222056 (fbodaily.com)
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