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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers looking for local construction companies
USACE, Honolulu District, is seeking capability statements from construction companies interested in providing design-build construction services for the retrofit of pre-existing buildings and facilities.
Thursday, March 26th 2020, 8:30 PM HST by KITV Web Staff
HONOLULU, Hawaii – With emerging space capacity for medical facilities in Hawaii and the Pacific region due to the COVID-19 outbreak, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Honolulu District contracting branch is seeking capability statements from construction companies interested in providing design-build construction services for the retrofit of pre-existing buildings and facilities.

USACE is requesting capability statements from interested firms located within the State of Hawaii, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands (CNMI), American Samoa, and those capable of mobilizing to other areas within the Pacific.

Capability statements will be accepted via email only through 10 p.m. (Hawaii Standard Time), Friday March 27, 2020.

Construction firms will be required to mobilize within two to three calendar days of contract award and be prepared for an aggressive completion of any project. Various buildings and facilities to potentially be retrofitted include hotels and convention centers, stadiums or arenas. Hotels and convention centers may be configured as an alternate care facility or a non-acute alternate care facility. Additional projects contemplated are modular containerized isolation units. Note that locations and boundary restrictions are subject to change based on mission requirements.


Responses to this sources sought request must be submitted electronically (via email): Subject: US Army Corps of Engineers, Honolulu District (CEPOH) Potential Retrofit of Pre-existing Buildings and Facilities for Increased Medical Capacity – COVID-19

Email to Lt. Col. Aaren Hanson, Aaren.M.Hanson and Stuart Christianson at Stuart.C.Christianson. In lieu of the immediacy of this sources sought request, submission requirements are provided below:

A firm’s response to this Sources Sought shall be limited to five pages and must include the following information:

Firm’s name, address, point of contact, phone number, e-mail address, CAGE and DUNS number, and the Construction Bonding Level per contract and aggregate bonding capacity.
Discussion of firm’s ability to mobilize within two to three calendar days of contract award to begin work and ability obtain labor and equipment within the islands of the state of Hawaii, Guam and CNMI. Capabilities statements may include a listing of owned (or accessible) equipment and information regarding the firm’s workforce. Please DO NOT include: personally identifiable information in the capabilities statement. Discussion of firm’s ability to meet acceptable accounting system criteria as outlined in DFARS clause 252.242-7006, Accounting System Administration (FEB 2012).
Firm’s business size and small business category (when applicable): Small Business (SB), Small Disadvantaged (SDB), including 8(a) firms, Historically Underutilized Business Zones (HUBZone), Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB), including Economically Disadvantaged Women-Owned Small Business (EDWOSB), and Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small business (SDVOSB).
Provide relevant information on the Firm’s experience/Capabilities as it pertains to the proposed work outlined in the Project Description.
All interested firms must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) at https://www.sam.gov and remain current for the duration of the contract to be eligible for award of a Government contract.
Disclaimer and Important Notes. This notice does not obligate the Government to award a contract. No reimbursement will be made for any costs associated with providing information in response to this Sources Sought or any follow up information. The Government reserves the right to use information provided by respondents for any purpose deemed necessary and legally appropriate. Any organization responding to this notice should ensure that its response is complete and sufficiently detailed to enable the Government to correctly assess the organization’s qualifications to perform the work.
Respondents are advised that the Government is under no obligation to acknowledge receipt of the information received or to provide feedback to respondents with respect to any information submitted. After a review of the responses, a solicitation may be published on beta.SAM.gov, however, responses to this notice will not be considered adequate responses to a solicitation.
More information for this initiative is available on the System for Award Management (SAM) webpage.


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How much to expect in your coronavirus stimulus check
Zeke Hartner
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Shallow depth of field close, up of the eagle, from the US Coat of Arms, on a wrinkled, American, one dollar bill.

After days of back-and-forth heated debate on partisan lines, the Senate passed its version of the coronavirus stimulus bill. Included in that bill is a relief check for qualifying individuals of up to $1,200 for individuals and $2,400 for couples.

The bill still needs to go back to the House of Representatives and then be signed into law by President Donald Trump before the checks can be sent out, but the Senate represented one of the largest hurdles in the process.

So how do you know how much you may be getting?

It’s based on your adjusted gross income in your 2019 tax filings — or 2018 filings if you haven’t filed yet. Individuals who make $75,000 a year or less, and heads of households who make $112,500 or less, all qualify for the full amount of $1,200.

Married couples who file their taxes jointly who make $150,000 or less qualify for all of the $2,400.

But what if your income is higher than those amounts?

Once you hit those limits, your check would be reduced by 5% of the total amount you earn above those limits. (The stimulus checks phase out entirely for single filers with incomes of $99,000 or higher and $198,000 or higher for married couples filing jointly).

If you really want to do the math, here’s an equation for figuring out how much you might be getting: Take the total amount you earn over $75,000 (or $150,000 for married couples filing jointly) and multiply it by 0.05. Then subtract that amount from 1,200.

Here’s a quick rundown on what stimulus checks will look like with a variety of incomes .

For single earners:

If you make $75,000 a year or less, your check will be $1,200
If you make $80,000 a year, your check will be about $950
If you make $85,000 a year, your check will be about $700
If you make $90,000 a year, your check will be about $450
If you make $95,000 a year, your check will be about $200
For the heads of households

If you make $112,500 a year or less, your check will be $1,200
If you make $117,500 a year your check will be $950
If you make $122,500 a year your check will be $700
If you make $127,500 a year your check will be $450
If you make $132,500 a year your check will be $200
For married couples who file taxes jointly:

If your household makes $150,000 a year or less, your check will be $2,400
If your household makes $160,000 a year, your check will be about $1,900
If your household makes $170,000 a year, your check will be about $1,400
If your household makes $180,000 a year, your check will be about $900
If your household makes $190,000 a year, your check will be about $400
The bill also provides an extra $500 for every child under 17 claimed by each filer, regardless of how much they are making. If you have children, use the previous equation and then add $500 for each child you claim on your taxes to get the amount you will receive in your stimulus check.

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More Covid-19 cases have been announced in the Pacific, with several countries increasing restrictions as the virus hits the region.

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Confirmed Covid-19 cases in the Pacific
Hawaii now has 90 Covid-19 cases.

Guam confirmed five more cases of Covid-19 overnight bringing the US territory’s official total to 37, including one death.

French Polynesia now has 25 cases of Covid-19.

Another four people in New Caledonia were confirmed to carry the Covid-19 virus on Wednesday, raising the tally within one week to 14.

Fiji recorded its fifth Covid-19 case on Wednesday and the patient is linked to the country’s first patient.

Papua New Guinea has one Covid-19 case.

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Vanuatu’s president has declared a State of Emergency in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Obed Moses Tallis made the declaration this morning in Port Vila.

Samoa became officially locked down at midnight Wednesday.

New Caledonia imposed restrictions on movement for two weeks.

The Fiji government has locked down the nation’s second biggest city of Lautoka where the first case was reported.

All schools in Tonga will shut down this Friday for two weeks as part of precautionary measures against the Covid-19 pandemic. Tonga has also declared a State of Emergency.

In Papua New Guinea, the James Marape-led government declared a State of Emergency which came into effect on Tuesday.

The Acting Governor General in Tuvalu declared a State of Emergency for the atolls in light of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Indonesian-administered Papua province has blocked entry at ports as it elevated its alert level over Covid-19.

Solomon Islands declared a State of Public Emergency on Tuesday night as the island nation ramps up its response to the global Covid-19 pandemic.

American Samoa is now under the new alert level – Code Blue – all education institutes will be closed, public service work hours staggered and public gatherings suspended.

Hawaiian Airlines has reduced its long-haul flights to the US mainland and to American Samoa, as Hawaii starts its 14-day quarantine requirement due to the pandemic.

As of Monday, all people travelling into the CNMI from a country with a Covid-19 outbreak are to be quarantined for a 14-day period. The Governor declared a State of Emergency last week.

The Marshall Islands and Federated States of Micronesia – have completely sealed their borders.

The Cook Islands’ Covid-19 alert status will be upgraded to ‘Code Yellow’ at 6pm today local time.

‘Code Yellow’ restricts mass gathering, including church services.

French Polynesia has tightened its borders and only residents will be allowed to enter Tahiti, and movements for locals have also been restricted.

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***WOKE*** Below is what a police officer has said about what is going on in our country now.
I don’t want any comments on this, I’m just posting.
NOW WHAT THE COP SAID:
I try not to live under a rock, let’s be real. I’m a cop and see things that aren’t reported in media. However, I also try my best to pay attention to my surroundings and with that being said. Our Government is under attack from within. If you don’t believe so, then you probably also believe that this is the first time the Corona virus has been identified.
Think about what’s transpired over the last few months. The government has presented every possible demographic including a self proclaimed socialist as a democratic candidate because they fear something they can’t control.
The impeachment hoax failed and immediately Pelosi vowed to exhaust efforts in overthrowing Trump. If you currently can see this post then until last week you were living in the most thriving economy this nation has ever seen in my lifetime. Only due to the fact that the person in control couldn’t be bought.
If you think for one second this “pandemic” is not media driven, and controlled by the radical people in powerful places….well…go back to sleep under the rock you crawled out from. Oh, and go ahead at this point and click on my name and follow the steps to unfriend or unfollow me as well because you really aren’t going to like this.
This thing has killed less people in the same time frame then cigarettes, cancer, drunk driving, domestic violence, car crashes, cross stitching accidents (j/k on the last one but probably close), stabbings, overdoses, and please don’t get me started on abortion.
Wake up!!! This is what the beginning of socialism looks like! They are controlling what you buy…bc it’s what you think you need, where you go…bc it’s where they tell you not to go, and how to live…bc you now fear the very existence of anything outside of your home and control.
They are leading with fear. Causing you to panic like sheep.
They are crashing the stock market to run on a failing economy, because it’s all they have left. What is this saying to all of the countries that have opposed us for decades but, couldn’t defeat us?
It’s saying…biological war fare will make these idiots glued to CNN and every other liberal news source panic and run for the hills.
You don’t need hand sanitizer, toilet paper, and Lysol. You need common sense, a sense of direction, faith, a will to fight, and of course guns!
Now wash your hands and live the life they don’t want you to have!
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Linda Unpingco-DeNorcey provided an update on the demographics of the confirmed COVID-19 patients on the island.

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• 2 are at the Skilled Nursing Unit COVID-19 isolation unit

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How are they doing?

• 21 are in stable condition

• 10 are hospitalized (seven at GMH, 1 patient is in the Intensive Care Unit, and 2 are in the Skilled Nursing Unit).

Where do they regularly reside?

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How are the health care provides doing?

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