SOLICITATION NOTICE
99 -- NOV Swamp Mitigation Credits - Solicitation
- Notice Date
- 8/16/2018
- Notice Type
- Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
- NAICS
- 523910
— Miscellaneous Intermediation
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Army, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, USACE District, New Orleans, Attn: CEMVN-CT, PO Box 60267, New Orleans, Louisiana, 70160-0267, United States
- ZIP Code
- 70160-0267
- Solicitation Number
- W912P818R0059
- Point of Contact
- Lauren A. Gandolfi, Phone: 5048622340
- E-Mail Address
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lauren.a.gandolfi@usace.army.mil
(lauren.a.gandolfi@usace.army.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Solicitation NOV Swamp Credits W912P818R0059 99-Miscellaneous MITIGATION BANK CREDITS, New Orleans to Venice Cypress/Tupelo Gum Swamp, Coastal Zone, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District This will be an UNRESTRICTED procurement. All qualified business concerns may submit proposals. The New Orleans District, US Army Corps of Engineers (CEMVN) seeks to purchase Cypress/Tupelo Gum Swamp (hereinafter "Swamp") mitigation bank credits located in the Barataria Basin watershed, as specified below, to compensate for unavoidable habitat losses caused by the construction of the New Orleans to Venice (NOV), Louisiana Project within the Louisiana Coastal Zone (CZ). As part of CEMVN's plan to mitigate for unavoidable impacts to Swamp habitat caused by the construction of the NOV Project, CEMVN will purchase Swamp mitigation bank credits able to mitigate CZ impacts (Louisiana Department of Natural Resources (LDNR) approved) in the Barataria Basin. The bank(s) from which credits will be purchased will be selected through a competitive solicitation/award process. Any mitigation bank meeting the eligibility requirements and having the appropriate resource type of credits may submit a proposal to sell credits. CEMVN may enter into one or more contracts to purchase the amount of credits necessary to meet 100% of CEMVN's need at the time of purchase; however, CEMVN is not obligated to purchase a lesser quantity of credits than it requires. A separate contract shall be executed for each bank credit purchase. Award will be made based on low-price. A mitigation bank must meet all of the following qualifications to be eligible to sell credits to satisfy the NOV Project mitigation requirements. For the proposal to be considered responsive and for the mitigation bank to be considered responsible, the mitigation bank shall: • be approved by CEMVN and in full compliance with its Mitigation Banking Instrument (MBI), its other legal instruments (such as its conservation servitude and its financial assurances) and the standards set forth in 33 CFR Part 332; and • be physically located within the Barataria Basin, which is coextensive with Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC) 08090301; and • provide the habitat type that matches the habitat type being mitigated; and • have mitigation credits assessed using version 1.0 of the Wetland Value Assessment (WVA) Community Model available to compensate for the impacts to the particular habitat to be mitigated; and • have a duly-recorded perpetual conservation servitude/easement. Models used for Civil Works projects are required to be certified by Headquarters USACE Model Certification Panel and comply with the certification criteria presented in EC 1105-2-412. Version 1.0 of the WVA Swamp Community Model has been certified and was used to assess construction impacts. Accordingly, this model will be used to assess compensatory mitigation credit values. To facilitate the solicitation process, CEMVN, in conjunction with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, has run version 1.0 of the WVA on the approved banks in the Barataria Basin with available Swamp (LDNR) credits based on information provided by the bank sponsors during the bank approval process. The Value Model results will be included in the solicitation package. NAICS: 523910. You will need the Adobe Acrobat Reader for.pdf files (www.adobe.com) in order to open most files posted by the CEMVN. You are encouraged, for marketing purposes, to register as an Interested Vendor in FedBizOpps (www.fbo.gov). This can be done by clicking on the solicitation title and clicking on the button that says Register as an Interested Vendor and entering your business information. Offerors shall be registered with the System for Award Management (SAM), in order to receive a Government contract award. To register, the SAM Internet address is: https://www.sam.gov. The Contracting Officer for this solicitation is Lauren Gandolfi, 504-862-2340; or by e-mail at lauren.a.gandolfi@usace.army.mil.
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