US ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS, NEW YORK DISTRICT, Attn: CENAN-EN-MR 26 Federal Plaza, Rm 1843, New York, N.Y. 10278-0900

C -- ARCHITECT-ENGINEER SERVICES FOR UNION BEACH, NEW JERSEY SOL CBAEPL-5305-0042 POC Willien Cunningham-(212)264-9123. Location: The borough of Union Beach is located in the northern portion of Monmouth County, New Jersey, along the coast of Raritan Bay. Scope of Services Required: Provide professional services in performing feasibility and design level studies to provide storm damage reduction to Union Beach. These services will entail performing various engineering services related to existing beach conditions, design of coastal and costal inlet improvements, in addition to providing protection from flooding to interior areas, such as levees, floodwalls, pumping stations, tide/flap/sluice gates, etc.). This may include aerial (photogrammetric), cross shore profiles, hudrographic, and/or topographic surveys; development and servicing of wave gages and other instrumentation; subsurface investigations and analyses; interior drainage analyses; coastal processes analyses; and/or storm damage surveys; residual flooding analysis; foundation analysis; construction plans and specifications; average annual damages and benefits; commercial and recreational boating analyses; recreational use survey analyses; development of coastal and evironmental monitoring programs; environmental assessments/analyses and cultural resources analyses for the study location. Techincal Capability Required: Civil engineering, coastal engineering with experience in coastal processes analyses and coastal structures (such as bulkheads, jetties, groins and shore protection) and beach design, structural engineering, flood control, soils and geophysical engineering, hydraulic engineers, sturctural engineers, geologist, systems analyst, surveyors, economists (experienced in performing cost/benefit analyses on civil works projects, especially storm damage reduction projects), estimating (with experience on civil works projects, especially storm damage reduction projects), cost estimating (including ability to produce MCACES Gold estimates) environmentalists/biologists and cultural resources specialists/archaeologists. Familiarity with Corps procedures and all related regulations. Special Qualifications: Subsurface exploration capabilities (including side scan sonar capabilities, abilit to input data into the GIS databese, mapping, aerial photography, ability to obtain borings (land based) and perform a laboratory analysis, ability to perform and document a remote sensing investigation of an offshore borrow area), ability to use HECIFH - Hydraulic Engineering Center Interior Flood Control Package, environmental testing and analysis, P.E. or P.L.S. certification of supervisor/key personnel, actual experience in the following: (1) littoral budget, (2) beach, coastal and coastal inlet structure design, (3) flood control structure design, (4) interior drainage analysis, (5) beach surveys, (6) storm damage survey and coastal processes analysis, (7) foundation analysis, (8) recreational use analysis, (9) hydrographic surveys, (10) mapping, (11) aerial photography, (12) environmental assessments (13) cultural resources assessments. Closing Date for Submission of Form 255: 30 days after CBD advertisiement. Estimated value of contract: $700,000-$950,000. Evaluation Factors (in Descending Order of Importance): 1) Professional qualifications necessary for satisfactory performance of the required services. 2) Specialized experience and technical competence of the firm in the type of work required. 3) Capacity of the firm to accomplish the work in the required time including qualifications of key personnel. 4) Past Esperience, if any, of the firm with respect to performance on Department of Defense A/E contracts, in terms of cost control, quality of work, and compliance with performance scheduled. 5) Location in the general geographic area of the New York District and knowledge of the locality of the project site, provided that there are a sufficient number of qualified firms within the area. 6) The extent or participation of SB, SBD historically black colleges and universities, and minority institutions is secondary selection criterion and will be used as a ''tie-breaker'', if necessary. 7) Volume of work previously awarded to the firm by the Department of Defense, with the object of effecting an equitable distribution among qualified A/E firms, including small and disadvantaged business firms and firms that have not had prior DOD contracts. This is a secondary selection criterion which will be used as a ''tie-breaker'' if necessary. Estimated start: 1 February 1996. Estimated completion: 1 February 1999. Small and disadvantaged firms are encouraged to participate as prime contractor or as memebers of joint ventures with other small businesses, and all interested contractors are reminded that the successful contractor will be expected to place subcontracts to the maximum practicable extent with small and disadvantaged firms in accordance with Public Law 95-507. Two separate contracts would be written against this solicitation. One for the feasibility study and one for preconstruction engineering and design. The submittals should be sent in triplicate to Ms. Willien Cunningham, CENAN-EN-MR, Room 2133, Department of the Army, U.S) Army Engineer District, New York, Jacob K. Javits Federal Building, New York, NY 10278-0090. Only those submittals incorporating the 11-92 revisions of the SF 254 and SF255 will be considered. Furthermore, special attention should be given to the manner in which these forms are completed. The SF 254 should reflect the overall capacity of the firm. Whereas, the SF 255 should reflect only the personnel dedicated tot he specific project referenced in the submittal. These quideline should be closely followed, since they constitute procedural protocol in the manner in which the selection process in conducted. Closing date for this announcement will be 30 days from publication. if this day falls on a Saturday, Sunday or Holiday, the New closing date will be the next business day. Firms who have not previously applied for NYD projects and firms who do not have a current SF 254 on file with NYD should submit two copies of SF 254 on initial response to our CBD. (0307)

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