SOLICITATION NOTICE
B -- Geotechnical Field Services
- Notice Date
- 7/21/2010
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- Contracting Office
- U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, APS BRANCH OF ACQUISITION AND GRANTS3020 STATE UNIVERSITY DR. EAST, MODOC HALL STE 2002 SACRAMENTO CA 95819
- ZIP Code
- 95819
- Solicitation Number
- 10WRQQ0260
- Response Due
- 7/28/2010
- Archive Date
- 7/21/2011
- Point of Contact
- SASHA KLINGLER CONTRACT SPECIALIST 9162789333 ;
- 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
- N/A
- Description
- The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Earthquake Hazards Center, intends to award of a non-competitive purchase order to Shannon and Wilson of Seattle, Washington to provide field oversight of the drilling and well construction at nine boreholes at the Stanford Educational Center in Seattle, Washington. The nine boreholes will be instrumented to provide a state-of-the art liquefaction-monitoring array in the Duwamish Valley in Seattle. The USGS is working with the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) on the Stanford installation. The borehole drilling at the Stanford Educational Center must be accomplished within a very narrow time window set by the site owner, Seattle Public Schools. The Stanford Center is a major facility for Seattle Public Schools and houses much of the district's maintenance and operations capability. These functions require constant access to a large equipment storage yard that is accessed by an array of vehicles passing through the site of the liquefaction-monitoring array. These considerations limit access to the instrument site to two months over the summer, when district usage of the Stanford Center is lowest. Thus, all drilling, logging, and well construction must be completed during this time. Shannon and Wilson oversaw a series of deep boreholes drilled for the proposed Seattle Monorail on the property owned by Seattle Schools at the Stanford Center. One of those holes was in the middle of the array of nine holes the USGS plans to drill. The maximum depth of the monorail test hole was deeper than any proposed by the USGS, thus the previous drilling provides very detailed sampling of the geology expected at depth. The monorail drilling required nearly the same level of detailed geotechnical oversight as required by the USGS for this liquefaction array. The Stanford site has very complex sedimentary geology in the upper few hundred feet of the section. There is relatively little obvious variation in many of the layers comprising this upper section, and identifying cuttings from the boreholes is extremely tricky. However, because all USGS holes will be within 50' of the Seattle Monorail boring, we can take full advantage of Shannon and Wilson's detailed understanding and knowledge of the site geology. Indeed, our likely sample depths will be very close to those done by Shannon and Wilson for Seattle Monorail. Because we are meeting sample standards essentially identical to those done for the monorail exploration, the field geologist/engineer will be able to easily compare previous experience at laboratory reports at the site with cuttings as they exit the USGS boreholes. In addition to the test borehole for Seattle Monorail at the site of the nine USGS boreholes, Shannon and Wilson oversaw the drilling of another six boreholes for Seattle Monorail either on the Stanford Center property or within a few blocks. Thus, this firm has acquired a unmatched understanding of both the local expected site geology and variations as the USGS hole locations move away from those closest to the Seattle Monorail hole. The Seattle Monorail is the only project in the area that has had such a wide sampling of the sedimentary geology to the depths required by the USGS, and thus, Shannon and Wilson's experience is unique. This particular site knowledge of Shannon and Wilson allows several advantages to the USGS. First, most of the samples are expected to be heavily watered, and care must be taken to properly handle these samples to ensure proper geotechnical analysis in the lab. (Stanford Center was chosen for this monitoring precisely because of its proximity to known water-saturated sedimentary layers that have liquefied in previous earthquakes). Shannon and Wilson has handled these samples on the previous test borehole and has demonstrated their ability to use the sample test results to develop a borehole log. Second, the ability to rapidly determine geologic units as the drilling proceeds on each borehole translates into minimizing drilling time on the USGS boreholes. Because Shannon and Wilson has already done this identification at this site they are uniquely qualified to oversee the drilling and examine the cuttings as they exit the hole. Third, Shannon and Wilson, having worked through the entire section for Seattle Monorail, will be able to quickly notify the drilling contractor that the final desired hole depth has been reached for each borehole (the hole depths listed above are approximate-the final depths are dependent on verification by the field geologist/engineer that the target geology has been reached). The Government intends to award this requirement in accordance with the procedures of FAR 13.106-1(b)(1) and FAR Part 12, entitled, "Acquisition of Commercial Items." In accordance with FAR 5.207(c)(15)(i), other responsible sources that believe they can meet the requirement described above may submit a capability statement no later than the closing date of this announcement which will be considered by the USGS. All firms must be registered in the Central Contractor Registration (CCR) database at www.ccr.gov, as well as, the Online Representations and Certifications Application (ORCA) at https://orca.bpn.gov/ to be considered for award. Responses must be in writing, by e-mail to the Contracting Officer at sklingler@usgs.gov. This notice and any resulting solicitation or contract conforms to the requirements in place through FAC 2005-42, Effective 16 July 2010. NAICS - 541380, Testing Laboratories (Geotechnical Testing Laboratories and Services).Small Business Size Standard in Dollars: $12.0M
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Seattle, WA
- Zip Code: 98195
- Zip Code: 98195
- Record
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