U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 600 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Place, Room 821, Louisville, Kentucky 40201-2230

C -- A-E SERVICES FOR MISCELLANEOUS REAL ESTATE BOUNDARY SURVEY AND RELATED SERVICES, VARIOUS CIVIL WORKS PROJECTS IN THE LOUISVILLE DISTRICT POC Contact Mrs. Mary A. Raymundo (502)582-6352 1. CONTRACT INFORMATION: An indefinite delivery contract will be awarded for Louisville District real estate activities for various civil works projects in the states of Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio. The proposed services will be obtained by a negotiated Firm Fixed Price Contract. The total contract amount shall not exceed $200,000.00 and no individual delivery order shall exceed $75,000.00. The contract time period is one year from date of award, with an option for one additional, and an additional ceiling amount of $200,000.00, if required. Before award of this contract, the firm (if a large business concern) shall be required to present an acceptable Small Business and Small Disadvantaged Business Subcontracting Plan in accordance with Public Law 95-507. To meet the current subcontracting goals, 69% of the total subcontracted dollars must go to small business firms, 6.3% must go to small disadvantaged business firms, and 2.9% must go to woman-owned firms. The plan is not required with this submittal. 2. PROJECT INFORMATION: Services to be performed include: conducting boundary surveys and preparing certified mapping for land acquisitions, disposals and outgrants; establishing, recovering and monumenting pertinent boundaries; describing various real estate interest for sub-surface, surface and aerial rights; and recording final plats as evidence. Services will include the investigation of public and private records for determining land owners, recorded instrument data, land descriptions, plats, surveys, etc. 3. SELECTION CRITERIA: See Note 24 for general selection process information. The selection criteria in descending order of importance (first by major criterion and then by each sub-criterion are listed below. Criteria a-d are primary and e-h are secondary: (a) Professional qualifications necessary for satisfactory performance of required services (indicated by resume in block 7) include: Supervisory Registered Land Surveyor, 2 Registered Land Surveyors (Crew Chiefs), 2 Engineering/Mathematical Technicians, 2 Computer Operators, 2 Drafters, and 2 Four-Person Survey Crews are required. Services will require firm to employ Land Surveyor(s) duly licensed in each state covered by this contract; (b) Specialized experience of the firm in analyzing multiple and conflicting patterns of land ownerships and boundaries; (c) Technical competence in the type of work required and in using equipment capable of: (i) measuring angles to one arc-second, and measuring distances to second order accuracies (U.S. Survey Foot and Metric Units), (ii) producing computer generated x,y,z data based mapping compatible to Intergraph MicroStation software format, and diskette files of all generated grid coordinate values for all points and CADD mapping, in an approved format, (iii) document and mapping reproduction; (d) Capacity to accomplish the work in the required time, and branch office capacity to perform independently of the main office; (e) Past performance on contracts with government agencies and private industry in terms of cost control, quality of work, and compliance with performance schedules; (f) Geographical location and knowledge of the locality of the project. (g) Volume of DOD contract awards in the last 12 months as described in Note 24; and (h) Extent of participation of SB, SDB, historically black colleges and universities, and minority institutions in the proposed contract team, measured as a percentage of the estimated effort. 4. SUBMITTAL REQUIREMENTS: a.) See Note 24 for general submission requirements. Firms which are interested and meet the requirements described in this announcement are invited to submit one completed SF 255 (Revision 11-92), U.S. Government A/E and Related Services for Specific Projects to the office shown above. SF 255 (Revision 10-83) is obsolete and only the 11-92 edition of SF 255 will be accepted. All responses on SF 255 to this announcement must be received no later than 4:30 pm Local Time on the 30th calendar day after the date of this publication to be considered for selection. The day following this CBD announcement counts as day number 1. If the 30th day falls on Saturday, Sunday or a U.S. Gov't holiday, the deadline is the close of business on the next Gov't business day. b.) It is requested that interested firms list the fee amount and date of all DOD contracts awarded during the last 12 months to the firm and all subsidiaries in Block 9 of the SF 255. c.) Responding firms must submit a current and accurate SF 254 for each proposed consultant. Additionally all responding firms which do not have a current (within past 12 months) SF 254 on file with the North Pacific Division, Corps of Engineers must also furnish a completed SF 254. If a SF 254 is included, only the 11-92 edition of the form will be accepted. The business size status (large, small and/or minority) should be indicated in Block 3 of SF 255. Definition: A concern is small if its annual receipts averaged over the past 3 fiscal years do not exceed $2.5 million. d.) No other information including pamphlets or booklets is requested or required. e.) No other general notification to firms under consideration for this project will be made and no further action is required. This is not a request for proposals. (0157)

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