SOLICITATION NOTICE
C -- Environmental Study and Environmental Engineering Design Services
- Notice Date
- 5/12/2014
- Notice Type
- Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
- NAICS
- 541330
— Engineering Services
- Contracting Office
- General Services Administration, Public Buildings Service (PBS), Acquisition Management Division (3PQC), The Strawbridge Building, 20 North 8th Street, 9th Floor, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19107-3191, United States
- ZIP Code
- 19107-3191
- Solicitation Number
- GS-03P-14-AZ-ENV
- Point of Contact
- Michael J. Toth, Phone: 2154464932, Theresa J. Weikel, Phone: (215) 446-4524
- E-Mail Address
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michael.toth@gsa.gov, theresa.weikel@gsa.gov
(michael.toth@gsa.gov, theresa.weikel@gsa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Environmental Study and Environmental Engineering Design Services are required for projects throughout the General Services Administration (GSA) New England Region, Northeast and Caribbean Region, and Mid Atlantic Region. Geographic areas included in the scope are defined as follows: New England Region- Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. Northeast and Caribbean Region- New York, New Jersey, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Mid Atlantic Region- The Commonwealths of Pennsylvania and Virginia (excluding the counties of Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun, Prince William and the cities of Fairfax, Falls Church and Alexandria) and the states of Maryland (excluding Prince Georges and Montgomery counties), Delaware, West Virginia and the following counties in New Jersey: Sussex, Warren, Somerset, Hunterdon, Mercer, Ocean, Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Atlantic, Salem, Cumberland and Cape May. Task orders under this contract will typically be for environmental study and/or engineering design of environmental projects in federally owned or leased facilities throughout GSA Regions 1,2, and 3. Projects will generally be valued from $10,000 up to $2,500,000 in construction costs, will almost always involve occupied buildings and may involve historically significant structures. This solicitation is for study and design work pertaining to all aspects of environmental compliance and remediation. Projects may require knowledge and expertise related to a variety of environmental regulations, including (but not limited to) the following examples: the Clean Air Act (CAA); Clean Water Act (CWA); Executive Order 12856; Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act (EPCRA) and Pollution Prevention Acts (PPA). Projects related to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) and the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) may also be included as may all State and local laws and regulations related to the same issues. The scope of Engineering services under this proposed contract may include, but is not limited to the following: environmental compliance audits, sampling and laboratory analysis; interpretation of sampling results; surveying; field investigation; reports of findings, storm water management plans; spill prevention, control and countermeasure plans; spill contingency plans, facility response plans, hazardous materials management and disposal plans, pollution prevention plans, site closure plans; preliminary assessments; site investigations; feasibility studies; preparing permit documents including calculations for submittal to regulatory agencies; UST/AST issues; and environmental engineering designs including preparation of plans, specifications, cost estimates, review of construction shop drawings and submittals and construction oversight. In addition, projects under this contract may require industrial hygiene and environmental testing and evaluation efforts. Projects will require knowledge and expertise of regulations, laws and industry standards pertaining to the assessment and remediation of indoor air quality (IAQ) related issues, asbestos, lead materials, radon, drinking water standards, microbials, etc. Additional services may include sampling and laboratory analysis; interpretation of sampling results; surveying; field investigation; reports of findings and recommendations, design as described above of remediation projects, monitoring of hazardous material abatement projects, development of hazardous material survey reports and providing specialized expertise as needed. Projects may also require emergency services or emergency support within the geographic areas stated above within 24 hours. This procurement will result in a supplemental indefinite quantity term contract. The work stated above may involve multiple work orders to be done concurrently within the geographical area, as stated above. A good working relationship with the EPA and the various State environmental agencies may be critical on some projects. Projects may include taking part in negotiations with regulatory officials on behalf of the GSA, and applicants must be prepared to accept such negotiation as a part of their contract responsibility. Additionally, projects may include requirements to interact with and reassure concerned building occupants and applicants must be experienced with these types of interactions. All design must be in accordance with the Facilities Standards for the Public Buildings Service (GSA P-100). The Facilities Standards for the Public Buildings Service (P-100) establishes design standards and criteria for new buildings, major and minor alterations, and work in historic structures for the Public Buildings Service (PBS) of the General Services Administration (GSA). This document contains policy and technical criteria to be used in the programming, design, and documentation of GSA buildings. A ll drawings must be developed entirely in AutoCAD and comply with current GSA Regional CAD Deliverables Policy. GSA's CAD Deliverables Policy will be incorporated as requirements of the awarded contract. Contractor agrees that all CAD, AutoCad drawings and related files, photographs, drawings, renderings, blueprints, specifications and/or other materials generated for use by the contractor on the project, whether in machine readable form or not, shall belong at all times to the General Services Administration (GSA) and shall be delivered to GSA at the times specified and with the schedules contained in the Agreement or at the termination of the Agreement, whichever occurs first. EVALUATION CRITERIA TO BE APPLIED IN THE SELECTION PROCESS IN DESCENDING ORDER OF IMPORTANCE ARE AS FOLLOWS: 1. PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS: Professional qualifications necessary for satisfactory performance of required services. Submission requirements: Provide brief resumes of proposed team members who will specifically serve as the Program Manager, Project Managers, Lead Engineers, Certified Industrial Hygienist, Cost Estimator and Quality Control Manager. In addition, provide brief resumes of team members who will perform specialized technical tasks under this contract. The Lead Engineers shall perform and direct the design within their respective discipline and shall sign and seal studies where required by regulations (i.e. SPCC plans), specifications and drawings. All Lead Engineers must be professionally registered in their discipline and the team must demonstrate at least one registration in each state stated above Resumes should also demonstrate that the team holds all appropriate licenses and certifications (including but not limited to EPA Certified Asbestos Inspector, EPA Certified Asbestos Designer, EPA Certified Lead Inspector, EPA Certified Lead Designer, UST Inspector, etc.) as required to perform any of the scope items in each state covered by Region 3. Each resume shall include a maximum of five (5) specific completed projects that best illustrate the individual team member's experience relevant to this contract scope. 2. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE AND TECHNICAL COMPETENCE: Specialized experience and technical competence in the type of work required. Submission Requirements: A) Provide a detailed narrative of up to ten (10) maximum relevant studies/projects (not ten projects for each firm or consultant), completed within the last five (5) years, that best illustrate overall team experience relevant to this contract scope. Within the ten studies/projects, list at least one (1) study/project that demonstrates the teams' experience with efforts of similar size and scope to those to be performed under this contract in each of the following areas: 1) Environmental Compliance Audits; 2) hazardous materials management, preliminary assessment, site investigation, remediation design, remediation oversight, permitting and reporting; 3) storm water program studies, designs, plans and permitting; 4) industrial water discharge program studies, design, plans and permitting; 5) UST/AST investigations, installation design, and closure efforts; 6) ACBM inventory development, management plan, abatement design, and monitoring; 7) air program studies/permitting ; 8) IAQ study and remedial design; 9) drinking water standards study and associated action. B) Discuss how the firm will meet the requirement to comply with the GSA CAD policy (referenced above). 3. PAST PERFORMANCE Past performance on contracts with Government agencies and private industry in terms of cost control, quality of work and compliance with performance schedules. Points of contact provided in other criteria may be contacted. A firm with no record of past performance information shall be evaluated neither favorably nor unfavorably. Submission Requirement: Provide documentation to support past performance such as a copy of performance evaluations (architect-engineer) issued for Federal projects listed under Criteria 2, commercial project owner documentation of the firm's performance, letters of recommendation, copies of awards, etc. 4. ORGANIZATION, MANAGEMENT AND QUALITY CONTROL: Discussion of the firm's organization and management process. Demonstrated success of the Quality Control (QC) program used by the firm to ensure quality products. Submission Requirement: A) provide an organization chart that identifies the overall relationship and lines of authority of the proposed team. Include firm names if subcontractors are included, key personnel and their discipline/specialty. B) discuss the firm's approach to design and project management. C) describe the firm's QC program, describe the process for checking and verifying studies for clarity and completeness, plans and specifications for errors, omissions and quality, documenting design decisions, and incorporating and tracking review comments. Of special interest are the QC processes in place that minimize the government's effort to QA the firm's work products for errors, omissions, and quality. 5. CAPACITY: Capacity to accomplish the work in the required time. Submission Requirements: A) describe experience in successfully delivering multiple studies/ projects of various sizes with similar delivery dates; B) discuss how surge workload will be managed; C) discuss how firm will handle the loss of key personnel. 6. LOCATION: Location in the general geographical area of the projects and knowledge of the locality of the projects. Submission Requirements: Illustrate the firm's knowledge of state and local environmental regulations and the regulatory environment unique to the geographic area of the contract. Explain how the firm will be able to respond to one or more emergency conditions in geographically distant and potentially remote locations simultaneously. SF 330s will be evaluated to determine the most highly qualified firm based on criteria responses. Evaluating past performance and experience may include review of information provided by the firm, customer inquires, Government databases, and publicly available sources. Failure to provide requested data, inaccessible points of contact, or invalid phone numbers could result in a firm being considered less qualified. The following elements may result in a higher rating and should be addressed accordingly when preparing criteria responses: a) Projects emphasizing administrative, commercial, and institutional building types; b) Projects provided in the SF 330 (Architect- Engineer Qualifications) completed by the office/branch/individual team member actually performing the work under this contract and c.) geographic location and knowledge of locality of the projects. The estimated contract start date is on or around October 1, 2014. The period of performance will be for one base year with four (4) one (1) year options. The contract work shall be performed with the issuance of work orders. The value of individual work orders executed under this contract will typically range from $2,000.00 to $250,000.00. However, the potential exists for a large scale remediation design order which will exceed this range. The Government makes no representation as to the number of task orders or the actual amount of work to be ordered. The minimum guarantee for the entire contract (including option years) shall be $2,000.00. The contract will include hourly rates for anticipated disciplines at various levels for use in negotiating fixed price work orders. However, the Government reserves the right to award a contract based on the negotiated hourly rates only. The estimated maximum amount to be expended under the contract shall not exceed $7,500,000.00 in fees aggregate over the term of the contract. The total value of work orders placed against the contract may be exceeded by the Contracting Officer by up to 50% of $7,500,000.00 aggregate for the cumulative fee of $11,250,000.00. The options may be exercised within the time frame specified in the resultant contract at the sole discretion of the Government subject to workload and/or satisfaction of A/E performance under the subject contract. SUBMISSION PACKAGE REQUIREMENTS: The SF 330 is limited to 75 numbered pages. Minimum font size is 10. Email copies of SF 330 for the prime offeror (SF 330 should also include offeror's key sub consultants) addressing the following selection criteria information: Firms having the capabilities to perform the services described herein are invited to respond by submitting a completed Standard Form 330, Part I and Part II (1/2004 edition) dated not later than six months prior to the date of this synopsis, for the firm and joint ventures. Firms with branch offices and consultants must submit Part II of Standard Form 330 that should include project samples. Firms must separately address the evaluation factors and relate where information can be found in the submittal package relevant to each factor. The submittal should be forwarded with a cover letter that states the firm is requesting consideration for Contract Number GS-03P-14-AZ-ENV. A pre-proposal conference will not be conducted; however, questions may be submitted to Mike Toth at 215-446-4932 or by email to michael.toth@gsa.gov. All questions must be received by May 27, 2014. Submittals should be provided to the following office by June 12, 2014 via email to michael.toth@gsa.gov. This procurement is Full and Open, and will be awarded in accordance with Brooks Act procedures. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code assigned to this procurement is 541330 - Environmental Engineering Services. This contract will be procured under the Brooks Act and FAR Part 36. SPECIAL ATTENTION SHOULD BE GIVEN TO THE FOLLOWING AREAS OF THE STANDARD FORM 330: Part I Section A: Contract Information: In Block 5, list firm's Dun and Bradstreet and Taxpayer Identification Number in addition to the name of the firm. Section C: Proposed Team: List only the team members who will actually perform the major tasks under this contract (including staff professionals). Section F Block 23: Provide a client point of contact and telephone number for each project. Section F Block 25: Clearly identify what role the offeror and/or other team members had in the project (were they the prime or a subcontractor and what tasks did they perform). Section G Key Personnel Participation in Example Projects: Submit in accordance with the SF 330 Instructions. Section H Additional Information requested by Agency: Address the remaining Criteria 2, continued through Criteria 6; additional sheets may be used, if required. Clearly identify the criteria number and title. Task orders issued under this contract will include Sensitive but Unclassified (SBU) building information. SBU documents provided under these work orders are intended for use by authorized users only. In support of this requirement, GSA requires the firm and all consultants to exercise reasonable care when handling documents relating to SBU building information per the contract. The efforts required above shall continue throughout the entire term of the contract and for whatever specific time thereafter as may be necessary. Necessary record copies for legal purposes (such as those retained by the engineer, architect, or contractor) must be safeguarded against unauthorized use for the term of retention. Documents no longer needed shall be destroyed (such as after contract award, after completion of any appeals process or completion of the work). Destruction shall be done by burning or shredding hardcopy, and/or physically destroying CDs, deleting and removing files from the electronic recycling binds, and removing material from computer hard drives using permanent erase utility or similar software. REASONABLE CARE: 1. Limiting dissemination to authorized users. Dissemination of information shall only be made upon determination that the recipient is authorized to receive it. The criterion to determine authorization is need-to-know. Those with a need-to-know are those who are specifically granted access for the conduct of business on behalf of or with GSA. This includes all persons or firms necessary to do work at the request of the Government, such as architects and engineers, consultants, contractors, subcontractors, suppliers, and others that the contractor deems necessary in order to submit an offer/bid or to complete the work or contract, as well as maintenance and repair contractors and equipment service contractors. 2. Term of Effectiveness. The efforts required above shall continue throughout the entire term of contract and for what specific time thereafter as may be necessary, as determined by the Government. Necessary record copies for legal purposes (such as those retained by the architect, engineer, or contractor) must be safeguarded against unauthorized use for the term of retention. 3. Written agreement of disposal. For all contracts using SBU building information, the contractor shall provide a written statement that he and his subcontractors have properly disposed of the SBU building documents, with the exception of the contractor's record copy, at the time of Release of Claims to obtain final payment. Documents no longer needed shall be destroyed (such as after contract award, after completion of any appeals process or completion of the work). Destruction shall be done by burning or shredding hardcopy, and/or physically destroying CDs deleting and removing files from the electronic recycling bins, and removing material from computer hard drives using a permanent erase utility or similar software. The recipient acknowledges the requirement to use reasonable care, as outlined above, to safeguard the documents and, if not awarded, the contract (and at the completion of any protest/appeal process) will make every reasonable and prudent effort to destroy or render useless all SBU information received during the solicitation. SECURITY REQUIREMENTS The Contractor shall comply with the GSA Standard Operating Procedures under HSPD-12. The purpose of HSPD-12 is to establish a common identification standard for Federal Employees and Contractors, when task order performance requires routine access to a Federally controlled facility and/or routine access to a Federally controlled information system. The Contractor shall be responsible for the cost of complying with HSPD-12. SELECTION INTERVIEW REQUIREMENTS: Personal interviews may be scheduled for firms slated as most highly qualified. Firms slated for interviews may be asked to expand upon any of the information presented related to any of the evaluation criteria, to respond to questions to establish their understanding of government needs, policies and approaches, to provide technical approached and conceptual design solutions to actual/hypothetical projects, etc. Elaborate presentations are not desired. Site visits will not be arranged during this period. Debriefing requests will not be entertained prior to 45 days after the submittal due date. It is the Government's intent to incorporate Look-Up Tables into the contract which may be used as payment provisions at the Government's discretion. Point of Contact Michael Toth, Contract Specialist, Phone 215-446-4932, Email michael.toth@gsa.gov - Theresa Weikel, Contracting Officer, Phone 215-446-4524, Email theresa.weikel@gsa.gov Place of Performance Address: Contract performance area stated in above description.
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- Address: Multiple locations throughout GSA Regions 1, 2, & 3. REGIONS MAY NOT BE INDIVIDUALLY BID., United States
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