U. S. Army Engineer District, Savannah, ATTN: CESAS-EN-EA, P.O. Box 889 (31402-0889) or 100 W. Oglethorpe (31401-3640), Savannah, Georgia

T -- TOPOGRAPHIC & HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYING AND MAPPING FOR SAVANNAH DISTRICT POC WADE SEYLE At 912/652-5508. 1. CONTRACT INFORMATION: Primary services under this contract will be topographic surveying with hydrographic surveying being a secondary service. These services are procured in accordance with PL 92-582 (Brooks A-E Act) and FAR Part 36, are required for various civil and military works projects within the Savannah District boundaries. One indefinite delivery contract will be negotiated and awarded, with a base period of one year and an option period of one year. Individual, fixed-price delivery orders will not exceed $150,000.00 and the annual ceiling for the base year and the option year of each contract is $750,000.00. The contract is anticipated to be awarded in October 1995. This announcement is open to all firms regardless of size. Large business offerors that require subcontractors must identify subcontracting opportunities with small business, women owned small business and small disadvantaged businesses on SF 255. If selected the large business offeror will be required to submit a small/small disadvantaged & women owned subcontracting plan in accordance with FAR 52-219.9 and DFARS 219.704/705 as a part of the Request for Proposal Package. The following subcontracting goals are the minimum acceptable goals to be included in the subcontracting plan. OF THE SUBCONTRACTED WORK, 60% To SMALL BUSINESS: 10% TO SMALL DISADVANTAGED BUSINESS (A COMPOSITE Of SMALL BUSINESS); 4% TO WOMEN OWNED BUSINESS (A COMPOSITE Of SMALL BUSINESS). Large business firms that intend to do any subcontracting must convey their intent to meet the minimum subcontracting goals on the SF 255, Block 6. Written justification must be provided if the minimum goals cannot be provided. For additional information concerning SUBCONTRACTING PLAN requirements please contact Ms. Julie Oliver at 912/652-5899. The wages and benefits of service employees (see FAR 22.10) performing under these contracts must be at least equal to those determined by the Department of Labor under the Service Contract Act. **** 2. PROJCECT INFORMATION: Work includes topographic surveying to support engineering studies and designs, boundary surveys for real estate acquisition and hydrographic surveying for river and harbor navigation, beach and shoreline erosion studies, underwater hazard detection, dredging measurement, and tidal hydraulic studies for establishment of construction reference planes. Work will require performing surveys and setting control using the Global Positioning System (GPS) and conventional survey techniques. Maps must be prepared in metric and English units. Maps must be submitted in Intergraph Design File (DGN), version 4.0 or later format. **** 3. SELECTION CRITERIA: See Note 24 for general A-E selection process. The selection criteria are listed below in descending order of importance (first by major criterion and then by each sub-criterion). Criteria a-e are primary. Criteria f-g are secondary and will only be used as ''tie-breakers'' among technically equal firms. **** a. Specialized experience in the type of work described in Project Information. **** b. Past performance on DoD and other contracts with respect to cost control, quality of work, and compliance with performance schedules. **** c. Capacity to accomplish numerous simulataneous delivery orders and provide at least one each project manager, registered land surveyor (RLS) and hydrographic survey crew and two topographic survey crews and CADD operators. **** d. Professional qualifications of key management personnel who are registered land surveyors in GA, SC & NC, other personnel who are registered land surveyors in GA, SC & NC and of particular importance the survey crew members. The evaluation will consider education, training, registration, overall and relevant experience, and longevity with the firm. **** e. Knowledge of USGS coordinate systems in GA, SC and NC. **** f. Extent of participation of SB, SDB, WOB, historically black colleges and university and minority institutions in the proposed contract team, measured as percentage of the estimated effort. **** g. Location of the firm in the general geographic area of the project. **** h. Volume of DoD contract awards in the last 12 months as described in Note 24. **** 4. SUBMITTAL REQUIREMENTS: See Note 24 for general submission requirements. Interested firms having the capabilities to perform this work must submit ONE copy of SF 255 (11/92 edition), and ONE copy of SF 254 (11/92 edition) for the prime firm and all consultants, to the above address by 02 June 1995 to be considered for this selection. ** Include the firm's ACASS number in SF 255, Block 3b. For ACASS information, call 503/326-3459. ** DEPTH OF PRIME and SUBCONTTACTOR personnel in EACH DISCIPLINE must be shown in Block 4 of SF 255 and SF 254 to CLEARLY identify the NUMBER of PERSONNEL in each firm and DISCIPLINE. ** In SF 255, Block 10, describe owned or leased equipment that will be used to perform this contract, as well as CADD capabilities and experience in use of metric. In addition, Block 10 must include a technical narrative of the standard surveying practices and procedures used for performing topographic surveys to include the methods used to plan and layout a typical survey, record the field data, procedure for ensuring full coverage of the area being surveyed and methods of editing and plotting the data. ** COVER LETTERS and EXTRANEOUS material are NOT DESIRED and WILL NOT be CONSIDERED. ** PHONE calls are DISCOURAGED unless ABSOLUTELY necessary. ** PERSONAL visits for the PURPOSE of DISCUSSING this ANNOUNCEMENT WILL NOT be SCHEDULED. ** THIS IS NOT A REQUEST For A PROPOSAL. (0116)

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