SOURCES SOUGHT
R -- Professional Services Contract, USEPA Superfund Housatonic River Clean-up Project, Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
- Notice Date
- 1/30/2013
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541620
— Environmental Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- USACE District, New England, 696 Virginia Road, Concord, MA 01742-2751
- ZIP Code
- 01742-2751
- Solicitation Number
- W912WJ-13-X-0009
- Response Due
- 2/22/2013
- Archive Date
- 3/31/2013
- Point of Contact
- Raushanah Muhammad, 9783188478
- E-Mail Address
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USACE District, New England
(raushanah.m.muhammad@usace.army.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District is issuing this Sources Sought Announcement to determine interest, availability and capability of 8(a), HUBZone, Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned, Economically Disadvantaged Women-Owned Small Business and Small Business concerns. The NAICS code for the work described below is 541620 (SBA size standard $14 Million avg. annual revenue). The estimated total cost of the project is $25 Million. Work will begin in May 2014 and will extend over a 5 year period and is for technical oversight of response actions performed by General Electric (GE) and their contractors at the GE-Pittsfield/Housatonic River Site, Massachusetts (Site). Contract scope will include oversight of GE-lead remedial and removal actions at the Site including the Rest-of-River Reach (river sediment, banks and floodplain soil downstream of the confluence of the East and West Branches of the Housatonic River), the Upper 1/2 Mile Reach, the 1-1/2 Mile Reach, floodplains associated with the upper 2 mile reaches, the GE Plant site, Silver Lake, Former Oxbow Areas, Allendale School, groundwater, and other areas impacted by GE's operations. Technical services include, but are not limited to, site characterization, removal investigations, feasibility studies, review of designs, oversight of removal/remediation actions, (including sediment remediation activities such as dredging, excavation, and stream restoration) litigation support, oversight of other GE activities, including post removal site control actions, groundwater investigation, monitoring, assessment and response actions, and any other actions necessary to provide oversight of removal/remediation activities at this site. Separate task orders will be required to facilitate the cost tracking provisions of the Consent Decree. Interested firms should submit a capabilities package that demonstrates experience in a full range of Hazardous, Toxic and Radioactive Waste (HTRW) activities (with project examples) including investigations, studies, design oversight, construction oversight, technical assistance, data management, operations and maintenance as outlined below. Packages should specifically include qualifications and experience performing activities on contaminated sites involving both upland and riverine environments paralleling the following Housatonic River Cleanup activities: 1) Review and preparation of deliverables for compliance with the terms of the Consent Decree and best industry practices, including field oversight and split sampling; 2) Modeling expertise: Understand and utilize the watershed, hydrodynamic, sediment transport, and PCB fate and bioaccumulation models; Hydrologic Simulation Program Fortran (HSPF), Environmental Fluid Dynamics Code (EFDC) and Bioaccumulation Model FCM, have the ability to modify model code and ensure its proper use for predicting future conditions under multiple scenarios. 3) Human Health/ Ecological Risk Assessment and Risk Communication: including use of robust statistical analyses. 4) Ecological characterization and riverine and floodplain/vernal pool restoration: including, but not limited to, natural channel design and Massachusetts Natural Heritage Program requirements. 5) Conduct multi-media sampling & analysis for PCBs and other hazardous constituents, analysis, data validation and interpretation; 6) Data Management & Mapping: Maintain and update as necessary an existing large data management system (approximately 1 Gigabytes), GIS system and Auto Cad files. 7) Financial Management & Cost Tracking Capabilities: Manage a complex financial management system with the ability to track costs according to requirements of the Consent Decree; 8) Management and Storage of Project Files, including an Administrative Record. Manage and store, for future retrieval, the project archives to include electronic and hard copies; Current project files consist of over 8,000 documents and other records. 9) Field Office & Staff: Operate, staff, and maintain a field office in Pittsfield for contractor and government personnel; 10) Litigation Support: Provide support for any potential litigation to include expert technical witnesses, presentation materials and logistical support. Please Note: Resumes of the following key personnel as part of your team will be required to be included with the proposal as part of the solicitation but do not need to be included with your capability package at this time: Program/Contracts Manager, Project Managers, Civil Engineers, Geotechnical Engineers, Geologists, Hydrogeologists, Hydraulics and Hydrologist, Structural Engineers, Sediment Management Experts, Construction Oversight Managers, Innovative Technologies Specialists, PCB Chemists, Modelers/Programmers, Risk Assessors, Risk Communicators, Scientists, Ecologists, Fluvial Geomorphologist, Restoration Specialists, Statisticians, Database Managers, GIS Managers, Financial Managers, Contractor Quality Control (CQC) System Manager, Information Management Specialist, and Regulatory Specialists. The capabilities package shall also include the following: business classification (i.e. HUBZone, etc.), bonding capacity, and qualifications and experience in performing the work components stated above. The project examples provided must have been performed within the last seven years. The offer must demonstrate project experience of all of the experience/expertise listed above. However, the experience does not have to be demonstrated on one single project. Please include a Point of Contact and phone number for each project example who may be contacted for further information on contractor's effort and performance. To avoid any conflict of interest, interested parties must not be currently providing or have provided Professional Services to GE at any site including the GE/Housatonic River Site within the past 5 years. Subcontractors may be used to demonstrate this past experience. Responses are due February 22, 2013. Responses should be addressed to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District, 696 Virginia Road, Concord, MA 01742-2751, ATTN: Contracts Branch, R. Muhammad. Responses are limited to twenty pages. Firms interested shall provide the above documentation in one original form and one copy. The Government will not pay for any material provided in response to this market survey nor return the data provided. This notice is for information purposes only and is not a request to be placed on a solicitation mailing list nor is it a Request for Proposal (RFP) or an announcement of a solicitation. The results of this survey will be considered to be in effect for a period of one year from the date of this notice.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: USACE District, New England 696 Virginia Road, Concord MA
- Zip Code: 01742-2751
- Zip Code: 01742-2751
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