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ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS -- CONTRACT NO. BR-23-2019 PAINTING AND STEEL REPAIRS THRU-TRUSS AND PENNSYLVANIA APPROACH SPANS

Agency: Delaware River Port Authority
Level of Government: State & Local
Category:
  • J - Maintenance, Repair, and Rebuilding of Equipment
  • Z - Maintenance, Repair or Alteration of Real Property
Opps ID: NBD15499633285578499
Posted Date: Sep 29, 2022
Due Date: Nov 9, 2022
Source: https://www.drpa.org/procureme...
Upcoming Purchases & Bid Solicitations Upcoming Purchases and Bid Solicitations ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS -- CONTRACT NO. BR-23-2019 PAINTING AND STEEL REPAIRS THRU-TRUSS AND PENNSYLVANIA APPROACH SPANS

I. PURPOSE AND INTENT

The Delaware River Port Authority (“Authority”) hereby invites interested qualified Contractors to submit a Bid for Contract No. BR-23-2019, Painting and Steel Repairs Thru-Truss and Pennsylvania Approach Spans. One (1) electronic copy of the Bid, along with other technical and commercial documents shall be submitted, via SAP Ariba, no later than 2:00 p.m. EST on Wednesday, November 9, 2022. Bids will be publicly opened and read, via Zoom. The Zoom information for the bid opening meeting is as follows:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83640043062?pwd=L0xsbVdnQjl1RTVOblFseE9pVTJXQT09
Meeting ID: 836 4004 3062
Passcode: 488658
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The Work to be completed under Contract No. BR-23-2019 (“the Project”) is on the Thru-Truss Spans, Dolphins and the Pennsylvania Approach spans of the Betsy Ross Bridge (BRB) in addition to the Richmond Street Overpass and the New Jersey Toll Plaza. The Thru-Truss consists of forty-one (41) panel points over three (3) total spans. The Deck Truss consists of nine (9) panel points per span with a total of four (4) spans. The girder spans consist of seventeen (17) multi-girder spans with five (5) continuous units and one (1) single-span unit. The Scope of Work under the Project includes, but is not limited to miscellaneous steel and concrete repairs, work platform installation, containment construction (SSPC Class 1A), surface preparation utilizing expendable abrasives or recyclable steel grit abrasives to remove all existing lead based paint to the bare metal in order to achieve the required surface profile (SSPC-SP 10 "Near White Blast Cleaning") and application of a new coating system. The new coating system shall consist of an organic zinc primer, an epoxy intermediate coat and an aliphatic acrylic urethane finish coat; silica sand abrasives shall not be used. The existing coatings on the Betsy Ross Bridge and Richmond Street Overpass contain lead, chromium, cadmium and other hazardous metals. The following surfaces are not included in the Scope of Work: walkway gratings, all utilities, electrical conduits, cabinets and junction boxes, aluminum railings, galvanized conduits, and other aluminum or galvanized appurtenances.
Additional Work to be completed under the Project includes, but is not limited to: structural steel repairs, pack rust repairs, miscellaneous bolt replacement, bearing shimming, barrier splice repairs, above deck railing repairs, below deck railing repairs, platform modifications, pier railing modifications, drainage repairs, concrete spall repairs, concrete crack repairs, protection of existing utilities, caulking steel joints, maintenance and protection of traffic, removal and re-installation of walkway gratings, and coordination with other projects.

The Contractor is advised of the presence of communication lines, power lines, and high voltage lines located within and below the Work Site. The Contractor shall be required to coordinate with all applicable utility companies to de-energize non-DRPA owned lines when and where possible. The Contractor is also advised of the presence of commercial and DRPA fiber optic and DRPA internal communication lines, high voltage power lines, electrical junction boxes and other utilities on the BRB. The Contractor shall take all precautions necessary to ensure that all fiber optic lines, electrical power lines, and utilities are properly protected and shielded so as to ensure that blast cleaning, painting, building containment, or other Project Work does not cause damage to the said lines and utilities.

The CONTRACTOR shall coordinate all Work over railroad property with the appropriate landowner and/or operating entity.

It is the intent of the Contract that access to all steelwork for cleaning and painting Work be gained from barges staged adjacent to Piers W1 and E1 for the Thru-Truss Spans, from DRPA property beneath the Pennsylvania Approach (Piers W23 to W14; bridge to grade containment), and from the bridge structure (Piers W14 to W6; platform containment). A series of long-term and short-term lane closures on the Betsy Ross Bridge will be required to access the area behind the steel barrier and above the roadway. These lane closures will be designed with minimal impact to traffic as possible.

The Contractor shall also be responsible for monitoring the air quality in the Work Site and shall coordinate with local, state and federal agencies.

The Contractor is responsible and obligated to successfully complete the entire Project and to complete each and every necessary detail of every item specified and/or shown on the Contract Drawings and in the Specifications, regardless of whether or not a particular detail is specifically mentioned in either the Contract Drawings or the Specifications. Any detail of Work called out on the Drawings but not called out in the Specifications, or any item of Work or detail not called out on the Drawings, but called out in the Specifications, shall be considered the same as if it was called out in both the Specifications and the Drawings.

II. ARIBA REQUIREMENT AND ACCESS TO ITB DOCUMENTS

All contract specific documents relevant to the ITB can be found on the Authority’s SAP Ariba Network site. In order to participate in this ITB and receive an invitation to the solicitation event, please send a request, via e-mail, to the following Contracting Officer: Amy L. Ash, Manager Contract Administration - alash@drpa.org. If a response is not sent to you within one (1) business day, please resend the request.

In order to access the ITB documents, you must be registered on the Ariba Network and have completed the Authority's supplier registration questionnaire. If you have not already done so, you can register on the Ariba Network at any time. Registration is free, quick, and easy. Please go to the DRPA Procurement website: http://www.drpa.org/procurement for registration instructions and additional information. For questions about the Ariba registration process or registration technical issues, please send an e-mail to vendors@drpa.org.

The Authority will post a list of interested/invited Contractors on the drpa.org website seven (7) days prior to submission due date.

The Authority will consider only those Bids received from parties who have obtained the ITB and contract documents directly from the Authority. Contract documents are not transferable to other parties for proposal purposes. Bids received from firms whose names are not recorded by the Authority as having secured documents for this Project will be rejected.

III. EQUAL OPPORTUNITY

The Delaware River Port Authority is firmly committed to providing full and equal business opportunities to all persons regardless of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, or non-job-related disability. In that regard, the Delaware River Port Authority will affirmatively assure that minority and female-owned business enterprises are afforded equal opportunities to submit bids and/or proposals for consideration for all purchases and contracts issued in connection with this Project. Prospective bidders should understand that the participation of certified MBEs and WBEs is a matter of great interest in the evaluation of all bids. To that end, the DRPA has established MBE and WBE goals for this project. MBE and WBE team members must be named, and commitment levels must be noted at the time the bid is submitted.
IV. BID SUBMISSION AND DUE DATE

Responses to this ITB must be submitted electronically via the Ariba Network, no later than 2:00 p.m. EST on Wednesday, November 9, 2022 (“Bid Due Date”).

LATE, FAXED, E-MAILED, AND/OR HARDCOPIES WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. The Bid Due Date and Ariba submission requirements are mandatory and non-waivable.

Contractors should ensure that they can access and upload files in Ariba prior to the submission deadline. It is the Bidder’s responsibility to ensure delivery of its Bid to the proper place at the proper time. Absent an emergency or unanticipated event that interrupts normal Authority processes so that Bids cannot be received via Ariba by the exact time specified in the ITB, the Authority will not extend the submission deadline for an interested firm due to technical difficulties.

V. PRE-BID CONFERENCE AND SITE VISIT

A non-mandatory Pre-Bid Conference will be held on Wednesday, October 12, 2022 at 1:00 pm EST via Zoom. The Zoom information for this meeting is:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83596823271?pwd=OGlnaGJzdkNiSXhiMGhiWFdYaGZxdz09
Meeting ID: 835 9682 3271
Passcode: 803535
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+19292056099,,83596823271#,,,,*803535# US (New York)

Attendance by Bidders, subcontractors, and suppliers is strongly encouraged. All Bidders shall be expected to completely and thoroughly examine all Contract Documents to become fully aware of the scope and requirements of the Project prior to submitting a Bid.

No site visit is scheduled for this project.

VI. SINGLE POINT OF CONTACT

The DRPA has established a Single Point of Contact for this ITB. From the issue date of this advertisement and until full execution of the Contract Agreement, the Single Point of Contact shall be the Contracting Officer whose name and contact information appears below. Please refer all inquiries related to the Project, including Ariba technical issues to the Contracting Officer.

Any violation of this condition (excluding any Ariba supplier registration questions and issues, which should be addressed by e-mailing vendors@drpa.org) may be cause for the DRPA to reject the offending Bid or rescind the Contract Award. Bidders agree not to distribute any part of their Bids beyond the Authority’s Contract Administration Department. A Bidder that shares information contained in its Bid with other DRPA personnel and/or with a competing Bidder may be disqualified and its Bid may be rejected.

The Single Point of Contact for this Project is:

Amy L. Ash, Manager Contract Administration/Contracting Officer
alash@drpa.org / 856-968-2084

VII. QUESTIONS

Any and all questions or requests for clarification relating to this procurement including, but not limited to, questions concerning Bid submission requirements, technical requirements, scope of work, and specifications, should be addressed to the Single Point of Contact no later than 5:00 p.m. EST on Wednesday, October 26, 2022.

NOTE: NO questions will be accepted after this date.

Responses to questions will be provided, via e-mail, by the Single Point of Contact to those firms who have registered and requested participation in the ITB.

Only information supplied by the Single Point of Contact, including responses to questions regarding the ITB, should be used in preparing Bids.

DELAWARE RIVER PORT AUTHORITY
By: Richard J. Mosback, Jr., Esq.
Director, Procurement
Phone: 856-968-2412

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