U.S. DOE, Western Area Power Administration, P.O. Box 3402, Golden, CO 80401 ATN:A1500

Z -- LOVELL SUBSTATION, STAGE 08, BIG HORN COUNTY, WYOMING SOL DE-FB65-96WJ29466 DUE 070296 POC Frank A. Armstrong, Contract Specialist, (303) 275-1516, James E. Dickey, Contracting Officer. The Western Area Power Administration has a requirement for a Contractor to provide all the labor, materials, equipment, and other resources necessary to complete this project. The work consists of REMOVE: concrete foundations, steel structures, and electrical equipment, excavation for substation site, access approach, foundations, and trenches, corrugated metal pipe, chain link fences, barbed wire fence, gravel surfacing, riprap, soil applied herbicide, and seeding, concrete foundations for steel structures, electrical equipment, cable trench, galvanized weld steel structures, INSTALL: Government - furnished autotransformer, power transformer, power circuit breakers, duplex switchboard sections, station battery system, instrument transformers, disconnect switches, and unit substation, furnish and install disconnecting switches, fuses disconnecting switches, disconnecting switches with grounding blades, voltage transformers, current transformers, coupling capacitor voltage transformers, outdoor ac distribution panelboards, ground system, conduit, insulated, conductors and cable, bus systems, substation signs, and indoor dc distribution panelboards. This project is located near Big Horn County, Wyoming. The estimated order of magnitude of this project is between $500,000.00 and $1,000,000.00. The solicitation will be issued FREE OF CHARGE on double-sided, high-density DOS-formatted 3.5-inch floppy diskettes. The solicitation and specifications are formatted using WordPerfect 5.1. Copies of the solicitation may be obtained in one of the three following ways: A) Solicitation and the specifications on diskette but no drawings, or on B) Solicitation and the specifications on diskette with drawings on hardcopy, or C) Solicitation, specifications and the drawings by hard copy. Please indicate your selection on your written request. Note: In accordance with Western's Acquisition Handbook, ''Western procurement officials shall limit availability of solicitations''. Therefore, only A LIMITED NUMBER of copies of this solicitation, will be available to be distributed by this office. Copies of this solicitation will be issued on a ''first-come first-served bases''. Additional copies of this solicitation will be available through various ''plan holders rooms''. All work for all of the Contract Line Item Numbers (CLIN) must be completed within 365 calendar days after the Agency issuance of the ''Notice to Proceed''. All the CLINs will be delivery FOB destination. There will be only one award made from this solicitation. Therefore, all Bidders must submit their bids on an ''all or none basis''. This solicitation will be issued on or about May 20, 1996. The projected bid opening date is on or about July 7, 1996. This proposed procurement is unrestricted (full and open). All responsible Business Concerns may submit a bid which shall be considered by this Agency. All requests must be in writing. Information hours are from 7:30 AM to 4:00 PM (MST), Monday through Friday. (0065)

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