SOLICITATION NOTICE
B -- URGWOM water accounting support
- Notice Date
- 6/22/2010
- Notice Type
- Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
- Contracting Office
- Bureau of Reclamation - UC - Albuquerque Area Office 555 Broadway NE Suite 100 Albuquerque NM 87102
- ZIP Code
- 87102
- Solicitation Number
- R10PS43024
- Response Due
- 7/6/2010
- Archive Date
- 6/22/2011
- Point of Contact
- Albert J Richard Purchasing Agent 5054623568 arichard@usbr.gov;
- E-Mail Address
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Point of Contact above, or if none listed, contact the IDEAS EC HELP DESK for assistance
(EC_helpdesk@NBC.GOV)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in Subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; offers are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. Solicitation number R10PS43024 is issued as a request for quotation (RFQ). The solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 05-41. This is a total small business set-aside under NAICS 115310 with an associated small business size standard of $15M. Rio Grande Compact and Imported Water Accounting Modeling and Technical Support Tasks - Water Accounting Related Modeling Support 1.Accounting Model Enhancements - Support to be provided for continued enhancements to the URGWOM Accounting Model to further improve the efficiency for creating accounting tables and to assist Reclamation with addressing comments from the Interstate Stream Commission (ISC) and other stakeholders. Further enhancements may also entail improving the efficiency for using the Accounting Model with the Water Operations Module of URGWOM for preparing Annual Operating Plans (AOP). Enhancements must be made as needed to facilitate development of the Hydrologic Database (HDB) and the use of the Accounting Model with HDB and Crystal Reports for generating accounting reports. The new RiverWare capabilities for the direct connection with HDB and DSS data files must be used to improve data management for providing inputs to the Accounting Model and post-processing output.2.Database Work - Support must be provided for updating and maintaining the current URGWOM database with most recent data and data needed for new model development. This work must be completed in close coordination with Reclamation, with lesser involvement with the URGWOM Technical Team, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that currently maintains the DSS files that contain model inputs. This task must include continued database support required by the incorporation of the Middle Valley Rework into URGWOM. Support for the movement from DSS to HDB, and ALBHDB to UCHDB2 on Windows RiverWare, with associated data source DMI changes is also required. Facilitation of the move from U.S. Army Corps of Engineers DSS input files to data from HDB for model inputs is included in his task.3.Use of the Accounting model to predict the effects on accounts of normal and atypical operations must be supported and enabled.4.Provide support for the Excel-based accounting reporting method until such time as a new method is accepted by the Rio Grande Compact Commission.5.Technical Team Meeting Participation - Monthly URGWOM Technical Team meetings must be periodically attended to provide update presentations on completed work and coordinate tasks with the Team.6.Accounting Reference Manual - A Rio Grande Compact and San Jaun-Chama Water Accounting Reference Manual must be completed and maintained that provides a detailed description of: model accounts, transfers, basin water rights (for adjudicated basins), ESA water leases and use, and borrow-payback transactions. 7.Training for Reclamation Accounting model operators must be provided to ensure proper Accounting modeling is performed, and new RiverWare functions and methods are incorporated and used to best advantage.8.Equal monthly level of effort anticipated. Deliverables Manuals, reports, presentations, consultations, Accounting model changes, new DMIs, hands-on manipulation of Reclamation IT systems under direct Reclamation supervision to effect necessary improvements and migration from DSS to HDB and from Excel to HDB/Crystal Reports reporting, using the latest Windows version of RiverWare, and related software, as needed to accomplish the Tasks above.. Requirements To be successful, the contractor must possess the following qualifications: - The contractor needs to be knowledgeable of all the various issues in theRio Grande basin in regards to Rio Grande Compact and San Juan-Chama water accounting, and supporting data and database processes that affect successful water accounting. - The contractor needs to be adept at implementing and managing model changes to improve efficiency, ease of use and accuracy, and have extensive experience workingwith accounting in RiverWare. Specific experience working with the Upper Rio Grande Water Operations Model (URGWOM) is required, including having a keen understanding of aspects of water accounting in RiverWare that are specific for URGWOM accounting of ESA leased water, Compact and San Juan-Chama Project water storage and delivery. - The contractor must be able to provide the support needed as though he had worked on all these tasks previously, and had played an integral role in the initial analyses and development of existing documentation, and the contractor needs to be capable of performing as though he already has extensive experience working with the data, accounting model, and unique methodologies to be used for these tasks putting the contractor in a position to complete this continued work much more efficiently than any other potential contractors, including knowledge of Reclamation IT systems and platforms used to perform internal model operation and data storage. - The successful contractor must be able to immediately be productive, as though he has already worked with Reclamation and is already knowledgeable of all the issues that must be considered to assure tasks are completed successfully in a timely fashion. The provision at 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors-Commercial applies to this acquisition. By the provision at 52.212-2, Evaluation-Commercial Items, technical capability of equipment and labor to meet the described government need, and price will be evaluated equally. It is advised that a completed copy of the provision at 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certifications-Commercial Items be submitted along with the offer; the provision may also be completed online by accessing http://orca.bpn.gov. The clause at 52.212-4, Contract Terms and Conditions-Commercial Items applies. No addenda are enclosed. The clause at 52.212-5, Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders-Commercial Items, applies to this acquisition. The following additional FAR clauses also apply: 52.204-06, Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS) Number; 52.204-07, Central Contractor Registration; 52.219-6, Notice of Total Small Business Set-Aside; 52.222-3, Convict Labor; 52.222-19, Child Labor-Cooperation with Authorities and Remedies; 52.222-21, Prohibition of Segregated Facilities; 52.222-26, Equal Opportunity; 2.222-35, Equal Opportunity for Special Disabled Veterans, Veterans of the Vietnam Era, and Other Eligible Veterans; 52.222-36, Affirmative Action for Workers with Disabilities; 52.222-41, Service Contract Act of 1965, as Amended (USDOL WD No. 1969-0115, Revision No. 33 applies); 52.222-44, Fair Labor Standards Act and Service Contract Act-Price Adjustment. Written offers on a company letterhead with contact information are due no later than July 6,2010 1600 hours here by mail to or in person at Bureau of Reclamation, 555 Broadway Blvd. NE, Albuquerque, NM 87102, by facsimile at 505-462-3681, or by electronic mail to arichard@usbr.gov. For information regarding this Request for Quotation, please contact enter CO's Albert Richard at 505-462-3568.
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