SOURCES SOUGHT
C -- INDEFINITE DELIVERY CONTRACT FOR GEO-ENVIRONMENTAL AND GEO-TECHNICAL ENGINEERING SERVICES
- Notice Date
- 11/27/2002
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- Contracting Office
- US Army Engineer District, Philadelphia - Civil Works, 100 Penn Square East, Wanamaker Bldg (RM 643), Philadelphia, PA 19107-3390
- ZIP Code
- 19107-3390
- Solicitation Number
- DACW6103R0004
- Archive Date
- 2/24/2003
- Point of Contact
- Michelle Bertoline, 215-656-6914
- E-Mail Address
-
Email your questions to US Army Engineer District, Philadelphia - Civil Works
(Michelle.J.Bertoline@nap02.usace.army.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- NA The Philadelphia District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers intends to award a one-year Indefinite Delivery Contract for geo-environmental and geotechnical services with options for two additional periods. An option period shall not exceed one year. Although the maximum task order limit is $1,000,000 it is envisioned that most task orders will be less than $300,000.00. The cumulative total of all task orders for the base and option periods shall not exceed $3,000,000. Options may be awarded based on value u sed or time at the discretion of the Contracting Officer. 2. PROJECT INFORMATION: The selected firm will be used to supplement the District?s capability for providing geo-environmental, geotechnical and professional services for planning, design and con struction quality assurance in support of the military, work for others and civil work missions assigned to the District. Work outside the District?s civil works boundaries, which generally include the Delaware River basin and the coastlines of New Jersey and Delaware, may be required. For a map of the District boundaries view the website at www.nap.uasce.army.mil. The work will include, but is not limited to, the following items: A. Geo-Environmental Studies, Investigations and Related Work. These shall include as primary effort: (1) Phase I Environmental/Preliminary Site Assessments; (2) Preparation of Remedial Investigations/RCRA Facility Investigations. As a part of the above work the contractor will be required to complete geophysical investigations, groundwater investigations, s oil, groundwater and surface water chemical sampling, testing and analysis, preparation of baseline risk assessments, preparation of conceptual site models and other related work. Other related efforts shall include: (1) Preparation of Feasibility/Correc tive Hazardous, Toxic, and Radiological Waste (HTRW) Measures and Studies; (2) Ordnance and Explosive Waste (OEW) Site Assessments. The firm must have access to an unexploded ordnance specialist. The ordinance specialist must be a graduate of the U.S. Na val Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) School in Indianhead, Maryland and have been awarded the master EOD Skill Badge; (3) Preparation of Health and Safety Plans, including a safety, health and emergency response plan (SHERP) prepared by a certified indust rial hygienist, not necessarily on staff. B. Geotechnical Investigations, Testing and Analysis. Primary efforts shall include: (1) Subsurface Explorations, including, but not be limited to soil sampling, rock coring borings and vibrocoring for geotechn ical purposes. All sampling shall be continuous. Soil sampling and rock coring may be conducted either on land or on water; vibrocoring shall be conducted solely on water. Water work may be riverine, bay or in the ocean. Drillers or those involved in c ertain site investigations will be required to have the 29 CFR 1910.120 OSHA 40 hour basic health and safety requirements of the job?s health and safety plan, including medical monitoring. Surveyed locations of all land and water explorations will be requ ired; (2) Instrumentation installation shall include but not be limited to the installation, monitoring and analysis of piezometers, groundwater monitoring wells and inclinometers. This item shall include all appurtenant items such as monitoring well and piezometer development. Other related work shall include: (1) Technical support of field work, the contractor shall provide experienced, qualified degreed engineers, geologists or staff approved by the Government for all field work, including subsurface exploration. The contractor shall be responsible for: logging of soil samples and/or rock cores; handling, labeling, chain of custody and storing soil samples, rock core and environmental samples; related coordinating with other government, private and r elated groups in obtaining access, information, etc., performing any necessary air monitoring, and laying out the borings; (2) Soil testing shall include but not be limited to visual and laboratory classification, moisture-density relations, permeability testing, direct shear testing, triaxial shear testing, unconfined compression testing, consolidation testing, laboratory field compaction testing and other deformation testing. The collection and testing of HTRW contaminated samples may be required. It is not necessary for the soils or HTRW laboratories to be resident in-house. The designated laboratory must be capable of being certified and approved by the Corps of Engineers prior to work on the contract. C. Geo-Environmental and Geotechnical Design. This includes, but is not limited to, the design of remediation techniques of HTRW sites, embankments and cut slopes, retainin g structures, pavements, shallow and deep foundations, slope protection, geosynthetics, soil stabilization, site drainage, and the preparation of reports on same. Design work shall include the preparation of drawings on AUTOCAD Version 14, estimates and t echnical specifications according to COE formats (MCASES GOLD and SPECSINTACT). Reports shall be in Microsoft Word and scheduling shall use Primavera. The firm must be able to provide compatible digital products in CD ROM or 3.5? disk. D. Miscellaneous Professional Services. This secondary work shall include but not limited to environmental impact statements, environmental inventories, baseline ecological evaluation (BEE) reports, historical and archaeological investigations and reports and peer review of COE reports. If in-house capabilities in these areas are not available, a subcontractor may be utilized. All work shall comply with the jurisdictional regulations and laws to include the requirements for registrations, licenses and certifications. T he A/E should have the capability of executing a minimum of two (2) task orders simultaneously. All work shall comply with Corps of Engineers safety regulations. 3. SELECTION CRITERIA: The selection criteria which will be the basis for selection are: (1) Specialized experience and technical competence in the type of work required, including, where appropriate, experience in energy conservation, pollution prevention, waste reduction and the use of recovered material and general experience in related typ es of work; (2) Professional qualifications of the available staff necessary to perform the services required; (3) Capacity of the firm to accomplish the work in the required time; (4) Past performance, especially, on Department of Defense contracts; (5) E xtent of participation of Small, Small Disadvantaged, Women-owned Small, Veteran-owned, Service Disabled Veteran Small, Small, Hubzone Small, historically black colleges and universities, and minority institutions in the proposed contract team, measures as a percentage of the estimated effort. (6) Location will be a consideration in the final selection as a secondary selection criteria element provided a sufficient number of qualified A/E firms respond to this announcement 4. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS: Firm s which desire consideration and meet the requirements described in the announcement are invited to submit a completed SF 254 (revised 11/92) and SF 255 (revised 11/91) for the prime firm and SF 254 for all consultants, to attention of Mary Jane Jerrett, R oom 702 at the above address not later than the close of business of the 30th day after the date of this announcement. If the 30th date is Saturday, Sunday or Federal holiday, the deadline is the close of business of the next business day. Include ACASS number in Block 3b. of SF 255. Call the ACASS Center at 502-808-3459 for information on obtaining an ACASS number. In order to receive the contract award, the contractor will be required to have registration in the Department of Defense?s Central Contrac tor Register (CCR) (http://www.ccr.gov). It is required that all responding firms clearly present billing amounts for all Corps of Engineers work as well as a ll other Department of Defense work for the 12 months preceding this announcement. This is not a request for proposals. No other notification to firms for this project will be made.
- Place of Performance
- Address: US Army Engineer District, Philadelphia - Civil Works 100 Penn Square East, Wanamaker Bldg (RM 643) Philadelphia PA
- Zip Code: 19107-3390
- Country: US
- Zip Code: 19107-3390
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