PreSolicitation Notice for Evan Hewes Highway Repair and Rehabilitation

The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) has a requirement for repairing the Evan Hewes Highway located in Imperial County, CA roughly mile West of Gordon's Well Interstate 8 (I-8) (Exit 151) interchange to just West of the Brock Research Center I-8 (Exit 146) interchange and is about 4.5 miles long. Project Description: The Evan Hewes Highway is an existing highway originally constructed to replace the Old Plank Road through the sand dunes between Yuma, AZ and El Centro, CA and continuing through to San Diego, CA. The original asphalt road was constructed in the mid 1920's by the state of California and decommissioned in the mid 1960's when I-8 was built. During its period of service it was replaced once and received numerous overlays and repairs. This section of road has been used primarily for access to the sand dunes recreation area in low volume traffic conditions. Most recently, Evan Hewes Highway has been used for construction traffic for the building of the new Brock Storage Reservoir and associated structures. The principal components of work to be performed include the following: 1. Removing existing pavement on Evan Hewes Highway to depth indicated on drawings.2. A total rebuild of the section of Evan Hewes Highway that was removed for the Brock Reservoir project.3. Resurfacing of Evan Hewes Highway with an ARHM on traveled way.4. Crack repair on shoulders of Evan Hewes Highway to include slurry seal where applicable.5. Striping of the new roadway. This solicitation is 100% set aside for Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code assigned to this project is 237310 Highway, Street, and Bridge Construction with a corresponding small business size standard of $33.5M. Therefore, invitation for bids will be extended to firms eligible under the Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business Program. There will be a formal public bid opening. This requirement will be solicited and awarded using the method outlined in FAR Part 14 - Sealed Bidding. The resulting contract will be a firm fixed price construction type. The project period of performance is anticipated to begin August 1, 2011 with an anticipated completion date of November 29, 2011. Bid Bond, Payment and Performance Bonds are required. The magnitude of this construction project is estimated to be between $1,000,000.00 and $5,000,000.00. The anticipated period of performance is 120 calendar days from Notice to Proceed. The solicitation and any amendments to the solicitation will be available only through Federal Business Opportunities (FBO) (www.fedbizopps.gov) website. The extent of the work will be described in the solicitation when it is posted on or about April 29, 2011. A site visit/pre-proposal conference will be held on or about May 12, 2011. Bids will be due on or about June 1, 2011. All bid forms, bid bonds, and other normal documents required for the bid submittal, including amendments to the bid submittal, shall be in paper medium. Electronic medium for the bid submittal documents will not be allowed. All dates in this announcement are estimated and are subject to change. No other information will be available before the solicitation is posted.