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FBO DAILY ISSUE OF OCTOBER 27, 2002 FBO #0329
SOLICITATION NOTICE

C -- A-E SERVICES FOR TOPOGRAPHIC, HYDROGRAPHIC, GEODETIC, PROPERTY/BOUNDARY, AND CONSTRUCTION SURVEYS MAINLY WITHIN THE STATE OF FLORIDA, PUERTO RICO, AND THE US VIRGIN ISLANDS

Notice Date

10/25/2002
 

Notice Type

Solicitation Notice
 

Contracting Office

U.S. Army Engineer District, Jacksonville - Civil Works, P.O. Box 4970, Jacksonville, FL 32232-0019
 

ZIP Code

32232-0019
 

Solicitation Number

DACW17-03-R-0001
 

Response Due

11/25/2002
 

Archive Date

1/24/2003
 

Point of Contact

Sara Pines, 904-232-2083
 

E-Mail Address

Email your questions to U.S. Army Engineer District, Jacksonville - Civil Works
(Sara.D.Pines@SAJ02.usace.army.mil)
 

Small Business Set-Aside

N/A
 

Description

NA A-E SERVICES FOR TOPOGRAPHIC, HYDROGRAPHIC, GEODETIC, PROPERTY/BOUNDARY, AND CONSTRUCTION SURVEYS MAINLY WITHIN THE STATE OF FLORIDA, PUERTO RICO AND THE U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS. SOLICITATION: DACW17-03-R-0001 Contract Specialist Name and Phone No.: Sara D. Pines 904-232-2083 Technical POC: Luis R. Miranda, 904-232-3823 This solicitation is unrestricted and is open to large and small business firms. Up to three contracts may be awarded from responses to this announcement. The contracts will be Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity contracts for a period of one year from the date of award, with options to extend two additional years. The contract will not exceed a total of three years. The Government reserves the right to exercise the contracts option period before the expiration of the base contract period or prece ding option period, if the contract amount for the base period or preceding option period has been exhausted or is nearly exhausted. Work will be assigned by negotiated task orders. Maximum order limits are $1,000,000 for each contract year and $1,000, 000 per task order. The primary purpose of this proposed contract is to provide services for projects located within the geographic boundaries of the Jacksonville District. Additionally, the contract may be used to provide services within the geographic b oundaries of the South Atlantic Division. The contractor will have the right to refuse orders for services to be performed outside the geographic boundaries of the Jacksonville District. Criteria used in allocating task orders among the contracts include performance and quality of deliverables under current contracts, current capacity to accomplish the order in the required time, uniquely specialized experience, equitable distribution of the work among the contractors, and other relevant factors. PROJECT INFORMATION: The work will consist of utilizing the latest technology in surveying for the performance of the following type of surveys: topographic, planimetric, hydrographic (conventional and automated), cadastral/boundary, right-of-way, construction /route alignment and layout, dredged quantity measurement/payment, channel condition, tidal demarcation/zoning, beach nourishment, structural site plan detail, structural deformation monitoring, geodetic control, subsurface acceptance/clearance sweeps, and subsurface probing. The contractor shall furnish all equipment, land/floating plant, instrumentation, supplies and personnel to accomplish required services and provide the Government with completed maps, tracings, plats, computations, reports, disks, etc. to document work pe rformed. Two survey crews will be required to support the contract. The Chief of Survey Section may require additional crews. FACTORS FOR EVALUATION IN ORDER OF PRIORITY ARE: 1. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE AND TECHNICAL COMPETENCE: Firms must clearly demonstrate specialized experience and expertise in large scale surveying/mapping, data processing, and related drafting for detailed design and construction of major engineering proj ects, construction layout and alignment surveys, and boundary, property, mean high water (tidal) demarcation and ordinary high water demarcation surveys; surveys of surface/subsurface detail on beaches, levees, canals, breakwaters, groins, embankments, and other similar structures, and horizontal and vertical geodetic control surveys; performing hydrographic surveys for large scale river and harbor construction and maintenance. 2. SIZE AND EXPERTISE OF STAFF: Firms must have an adequate number of qualifi ed surveying and computing personnel including a Registered Land Surveyor in Florida or Puerto Rico as applicable, field party chiefs, instrument men, rodmen, CADD draftsmen, and computer persons. All drawings to be reviewed and certified by a Professiona l Land Surveyor registered in Florida or Puerto Rico as applicable. 3. SOFTWARE AND EQUIPMENT: Firms shall have the capacity to proc ess and provide digital surveying and mapping data that are readable and fully operational in MicroStation/J and MicroStation V8, InRoads SelectCAD, Hypack, and GeoDAS software as applicable. All GPS data (static, kinematic, RTK, etc.), in its native form at, must be compatible with GrafNav/GrafNet software (or in the process of being integrated into GrafNav/GrafNet). Firms must have full time availability of necessary equipment to accomplish required work, including, but not limited to, dual-frequency Glo bal Positioning equipment with NGS calibrated antennas (i.e., phase centers modeled and published at www.ngs.noaa.gov/ANTCAL/), fixed-height tripods, 1 second theodolites, digital data collectors, levels, electronic distance measurement instruments, 1 seco nd electronic total station devices, computational and plotting equipment capable of plotting an ?F? sized drawing, airboat, all terrain vehicles (ATVs), marsh-buggy, 20-30 foot hydrographic survey boat with cabin and trailer, fathometers, motion sensors, multibeam, automated hydrographic system utilizing GPS, as well as digital cameras, and cell phones. Firms must be capable of submitting all data sets on CD ROM with the means to provide datasets on DVD if requested. Firms must own and operate a dedicat ed FTP server with a dedicated high-speed line capable of transferring large data sets and image files. Any additional specialized remote-sensing sensors owned and operated by a firm, (e.g., side scan sonar, magnetometer, acoustic doppler current profiler , sub-bottom profiler, LIDAR, laser scanner, etc.) should be included in the submittal with sufficient information to demonstrate expertise. Demonstrate expertise in GIS field operations and ESRI software, with the pertinent equipment and software being i ncluded in the itemized list. The SF 255 submitted shall include an itemized equipment and applicable software list containing all pertinent information regarding each item, such as manufacturer, model, version, license, ownership (explicitly state name o f firm or leasing company), maintenance agreement, etc. Firms must state a willingness to update software and equipment as required throughout the duration of the contract. 4. CAPACITY TO ACCOMPLISH THE WORK IN THE REQUIRED TIME: Firms must have the cap acity to proceed with work and accomplish it in a timely manner once a notice to proceed is issued. 5. PAST PERFORMANCE: Firm must demonstrate its past performance in accomplishment of similar work. Firm must submit information for current relevant c ontracts and subcontracts including the name, address, and telephone number of references. (Relevancy is defined in the DOD guide to collection and use of past performance as ?information that has a logical connection with the matter under consideration a nd application time span?.). Pertinent issues are ability to meet established schedules, ability to accomplish work within budgetary limitations and quality of the delivered product. Past performance on contracts with Government agencies and private indu stry regarding quality and timeliness of work will be reviewed. Past DOD experience data available to the Government through the A-E Contract Administration Support System (ACASS) will be utilized to obtain performance evaluations on prior contracts. F irm may include supporting information in the proposal, such as letters of commendation from clients, on past performance on recent similar contracts. Firm may also include information on problems encountered in prior contracts and discuss actions taken t o remedy unsatisfactory performance. THE FOLLOWING SECONDARY CRITERIA WILL BE USED AS TIEBREAKERS: 6. GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION OF FIRM TO THE WORKSITE: Location of the firm relative to the worksite (considered the State of Florida) and demonstrating local knowledge of real property surveying and county courthouse platting procedures within the State of Fl orida will be given preference. 7. VOLUME OF DOD CONTR ACTS AWARDED: Work previously awarded to the firm by the Department of Defense, will be reviewed with the objective of effecting equitable distribution of work among qualified A/E firms. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS: Firms, which meet requirements described in this announcement and wish to be considered, must submit one copy each of SF 254 and SF 255 for the firm or joint venture and SF 254 for each subcontractor. In Block 4 of SF 255 list on ly the office personnel for the office to perform the work which is indicated in Block 3B. Additional personnel strengths, including consultants, should be indicated parenthetically, and their source clearly identified. In Block 7G of the SF 255, indicat e specific project experience for key team members and indicate the team member?s role on each listed project (architect, project manager, etc.). Submittal of supplemental attachments to SF 255 per evaluation factors 1-5 is strongly recommended. Submitta l package is to be received in this office at the address indicated below, no later than 4:00 P.M. Eastern Time on 25 November 2002. Submittals received after this date and time will not be considered. Unnecessarily elaborate brochures or other presenta tions beyond those sufficient to present a complete and effective response to this announcement are not desired. The Director of Defense Procurement has issued a final rule requiring that contractors must be registered in the CCR before receiving a contra ct from any activity of the Department of Defense. The rule authorizes contracting officers to reject offers from contractors that have not registered. (The CCR?s web site may be accessed at http://www.ccr.gov). Small and small disadvantaged firms are e ncouraged to participate as prime contractors or as members of joint ventures with other small businesses. All interested firms are reminded that the successful firm will be expected to place subcontracts to the maximum practical extent with small and smal l disadvantaged firms in accordance with the provisions of Public Law 95-507. If a large business firm is selected for award, the firm must comply with FAR 52.219-1, regarding the requirement for a subcontracting plan on that part of the work it intends to subcontract. Of those dollars the large business firm intends to subcontract, the Corps of Engineers target goals for subcontracting are 71.1% to small business concerns; 10.2% to small disadvantaged business concerns; 10.6% to women-owned small busine ss concerns; 3.0% for HUBZone certified concerns; 4.0% veteran-owned small business concerns; and 3.0% to service-disabled veteran-owned small business concerns. Large firms should keep these target goals in mind when considering qualifications of potenti al subcontractors and ensure that each proposed subcontractor?s socio-economic status is clearly identified in the submission of qualifications. An approved small business subcontracting plan will be required prior to award to a large business firm. The N AICS code is 541370, with a small business size standard of $4M. Response to this announcement should be in writing only; telephone calls and personal visits are discouraged. The required forms shall be submitted to the following address: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, ATTN: CESAJ-EN-T, P.O. Box 4970, Jacksonville, FL 32232-0019. This is not a request for proposal. Firms may post their name/address on the web site to facilitate contact between prime contractors, sub-contractors, and firms interested in joi nt ventures. However, copies of the listings of firms will not be provided. See our Web Page: https://ebs1.saj.usace.armu.mil/ebs/AdvertisedSolicitations.asp
 

Place of Performance

Address: U.S. Army Engineer District, Jacksonville - Civil Works P.O. Box 4970, Jacksonville FL

Zip Code: 32232-0019

Country: US
 

Record

SN00194102-W 20021027/021025213429 (fbodaily.com)
 

Source

FedBizOpps.gov Link to This Notice
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