SOURCES SOUGHT
C -- INDEFINITE DELIVERY CONTRACT FOR GEO-ENVIRONMENTAL AND GEO-TECHNICAL SERVICES
- Notice Date
- 5/3/2012
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541330
— Engineering Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Army, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, USACE District, Philadelphia, 100 Penn Square East, Wanamaker Bldg (RM 643), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19107-3390, United States
- ZIP Code
- 19107-3390
- Solicitation Number
- W912BU-12-R-0030
- Archive Date
- 10/1/2012
- Point of Contact
- Michele N. Evans, Phone: 2156566894
- E-Mail Address
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Michele.n.Evans@usace.army.mil
(Michele.n.Evans@usace.army.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- 1. CONTRACT INFORMATION: DISREGARD REGISTRATION INSTRUCTIONS NO SOLICITATION DOCUMENT WILL BE ISSUED. THEREFORE, IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO REGISTER. INTERESTED PARTIES PLEASE SEE PARAGRAPH 4. "SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS" BELOW. POC: Megan Coll (215) 656-6893. The Philadelphia District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) intends to award up to two one-year Indefinite Delivery Contracts for geo-environmental and geotechnical services with options for up to four additional periods. An option period shall not exceed one year. Although the maximum task order limit is estimated to be $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 or any option period is estimated to be about $1,000,000. The Contractor must be capable of managing and performing multiple task orders simultaneously, often with critical durations, with each task order having a dollar value in the range described above. The cumulative total of all task orders for the base and option periods shall not exceed $5,000,000. Options may be awarded based on value used 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 services during construction in support of the military, work for others and civil work missions assigned to the District. The use of approved innovative field screening technologies and methodologies are strongly encouraged. Work outside the District's civil works boundaries, which generally include the Delaware River basin, the coastlines of New Jersey and Delaware, and a portion of Maryland may be required. The work will include, but is not limited to the following items: A. Geo-Environmental Studies, Investigations and Related Work. These shall include the following types of primary efforts: (1) Phase I Environmental/Preliminary Site Assessments; (2) Preparation of Remedial Investigations CERCLA/RCRA Facility Investigations. As a part of the above work the contractor will be required to complete geophysical investigations, groundwater investigations, soil, 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 primary efforts shall include: (1) Preparation of Feasibility/Corrective 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. Naval 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) approved by a certified industrial hygienist, not necessarily on staff. B. Geotechnical Investigations, Testing and Analysis. These secondary efforts shall include: (1) Subsurface Explorations, including, but not limited to soil borings using traditional or direct push methodologies, rock coring, and vibrocoring for geotechnical 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 certain site investigations will be required to have the 29 CFR 1910.120 OSHA 40 hour basic health and safety training of the job's health and safety plan, including medical monitoring and current annual 8 hour refresher course. Supervisors and those tasked with safety and health responsibilities must have completed the 8 hour supervisor's course. Surveyed locations of all land and water explorations will be required; (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 essential items pertaining to monitoring wells and piezometer development. Other related secondary work shall include: (1) Technical support of field work, the contractor shall provide experienced, qualified degreed engineers, geologists or other qualified 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 shipping of soil samples, rock core and environmental samples; related coordinating with other government, private and related 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, gradation, moisture-density relations, permeability testing, direct shear testing, triaxial shear testing, unconfined compression testing, consolidation testing, laboratory field compaction testing and other physical and hydrological property testing. All final boring, vibracore, well, and test pit logs as well as all geotechnical laboratory testing results shall be processed using gINT software version 8.0 or later. The collection and testing of HTRW contaminated samples may be required. It is not necessary for the geotechnical or HTRW laboratories to be resident in-house. The designated geotechnical laboratory must be capable of being approved by the USACE MTC prior to work on the contract. The analytical laboratory must possess and maintain current National Environmental Laboratory Accreditation (NELAC) and comply with the DOD Quality Systems Manual Version 3 requirements. The approved analytical laboratory must be capable of providing Electronic Data Deliverables (EDD) in an approved USACE software format, Automated Data Review (ADR), version 7 or later, A1 and A3 or Stage Electronic Deliverables (SEDD) 2B. All analytical data generated by the contractor shall be reviewed against the ADR project library (generated by the contractor and approved by the USACE). All reviewed data shall be uploaded to the Environemtal Data Management System (EDMS), version 7 or later, for further data processing. Reviewed ADR EDDS and the EDMS data base shall be submitted to the USACE for review. All analytical summary tables shall be generated from EDMS. C. Geo-Environmental and Geotechnical Design. Other secondary efforts include, but are not limited to, support various Environmental Restoration project efforts, the design of remediation techniques of HTRW sites, embankments and cut slopes, retaining 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 2011 or later, estimates and technical specifications according to USACE formats (MII and SPECSINTACT). Reports shall be in Microsoft Word and scheduling shall use Primavera. The firm must be able to provide compatible digital products on CD ROM. 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 USACE reports. If in-house capabilities in these areas are not available, an approved subcontractor may be utilized. All work shall comply with the jurisdictional regulations and laws to include the requirements for registrations, licenses and certifications. The A/E should have the capability of executing a minimum of two (2) task orders simultaneously. 3. SELECTION CRITERIA: The significant evaluation criteria which are the basis for selection, are listed in relative descending order of importance: (1) Specialized Geo-Environmental experience and technical competence in the type of work required, as generally outlined in Section 2A above, including, where appropriate, experience in energy conservation, pollution prevention, waste reduction and the use of recovered material and general experience in related types of work; (2)Specialized Geotechnical engineering experience in Geotechnical design and miscellaneous environmental services, as generally outlined in Sections 2B, 2C and 2D above; (3) Professional qualifications of the available staff necessary to perform the services required; (4) Capacity of the firm to accomplish the work within the required timeframe; (5) Past performance, especially, on Department of Defense contracts; (6) Extent of participation of SB, SDB, historically black colleges and universities, and minority institutions in the proposed contract team, measures as a percentage of the estimated effort. (7) Location of the service provider's office may also be taken into 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: Responding firms must clearly present billing amounts for all Corps of Engineers as well as Department of Defense work for the 12 months prior to the date of this announcement. Firms which desire consideration and meet the requirements described in the announcement are invited to submit a completed SF 330 Parts I and II revised 6/04 or more recent, to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Philadelphia District, Wanamaker Building, Room 702, 100 Penn Square East, Philadelphia, PA 19107-3390, Attn: Paul D. Bacani, not later than the close of business on the 30th day after the published date of the announcement. If the 30th day is a Saturday, Sunday or Federal holiday, the deadline is the close of business the next business day. Include your DUNS number in block 11 of paragraph C of Part I of the SF 330. All Contractors are advised that registration in the DOD Central Contractor Registration (CCR) Database is required prior to award of a contract. Failure to be registered in the DOD CCR Database may render your firm ineligible for award. All firms are encouraged to register as soon as possible. Information regarding this registration may be obtained by accessing Web Site http://www.ccr.gov/ or you may call 1-888-227-2423. As a requirement for the negotiations, the selected contractors(s) will submit for government approval a quality control plan to be enforced through the life of the contracts. The Contracting Officer reserves the right to terminate negotiations, with firms that do not respond to Government requests for proposals, information, documentation, etc. in accordance with established schedules. This is not a request for proposals. The NAICS Code is 541330 with a Size Standard of $14M. No other notification to firms for this project will be made.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS, PHILADELPHIA DISTRICT, WANAMAKER BUILDING, 100 PENN SQUARE EAST, PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, 19107-3390, United States
- Zip Code: 19107-3390
- Zip Code: 19107-3390
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