U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, Philadelphia, Wanamaker Building, 100 Penn Square East, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107-3390

C -- INDEFINITE DELIVERY CONTRACT FOR ARCHITECT/ENGINEER DESIGN SERVICES Contact, Robert M. Bencal, 215-656-6606. 1. CONTRACT INFORMATION: The Philadelphia District, U. S. Army Corps of Engineers intends to award a one year Indefinite Delivery Contract(s) to support civil works mission assigned to the District. Each contract shall be for a period of one year with an option for one additional year. The maximum delivery order limit is $150,000.00. The cumulative total for all delivery orders in either the base or option year shall not exceed $400,000.00. The cumulative total of all delivery orders for both the base and option year shall not exceed $500,000.00. In addition, the total Federal Information Processing (FIP) work allowed under each contract including both the base and option years is $150,000.00, pursuant to Delegation of Procurement (DPA) CENAP-96-129. 2. PROJECT INFORMATION: The firm(s) will be used primarily, but not exclusively, to provide assistance to Engineering Division within the District. Work under this contract will primarily be related to long span bridges including but not limited to: inspections, report preparation, structural analysis, material testing and analysis, land and hydrographic surveying, underwater inspection and concept and detailed design including preparation of plans, specifications and cost estimates for evaluation, repair, rehabilitation and new construction of bridge structures and all related appurtenances. Primary disciplines required include: civil engineers, structural engineers, highway engineers, geotechnical engineers, specifications writers, cost estimators, draftsman/CADD operators and bridge inspection personnel. Other work under this contract will include support for others and military programs assigned to the District in the area of special structures, highway and relating engineering. The contractor must be capable of performing both hard and soft metric design. Engineering work under this contract including but not limited to civil and structural engineering shall be reviewed and approved by engineers in that particular field. Firms that plan on using subcontractors shall provide a list of subcontractors that are to be used and the work they will perform. Firms must be familiar with Corps of Engineers, Federal Highway Administration, and AASHTO requirements and regulations for preparation of various inspections, designs and technical reports. The firm will have primary services capability in-house. 3. SELECTION CRITERIA: Significant selection evaluation criteria in relative descending order of importance will include: (1) Specialized experience of the firm in the primary areas and other experience in related areas of work; (2) Professional experience of the proposed staff; (3) Capacity of the firm to accomplish multiple projects simultaneously within required time and within construction cost limitations; (4) Past performance, if any, with respect to the firm's performance on Department of Defense contracts; (5) Location related to the work will be a consideration in the final selection as a secondary selection criteria element provided a sufficient number of qualified A/E firms respond to this announcement; (6) 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; (8) Demonstrated success in prescribing the use of recovered materials and achieving waste reduction and energy efficiency in facility design. 4. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS: As a part of this submittal, it is required that all responding firms clearly present billings amounts for all Corps of Engineers work as well as all other Department of Defense work for the 12 months preceding this announcement. As a requirement for negotiations, the selected contractor will submit for government approval a quality control plan which will be enforced through the life of the contract. The District reserves the right to terminate negotiations in which the contractor's response to request for proposals or information has not been provided in accordance with the established schedules. Interested firms having the capabilities to perform the work must submit one copy of the SF 254 and SF 255 for the prime firm and SF 254 for each consultants, to the above address not later than the close of business on the 30th day after the date of this announcement. If the 30th day is a Saturday, Sunday or Federal holiday, the deadline is the close of business of the next business day. Include ACASS number in Block 3b. of the SF 255. Call the ACASS Center at 503-326-3459 for information on obtaining an ACASS number. This is not a request for proposals. No other notification to firms for this project will be made. (173)

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