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C -- INDEFINITE DELIVERY CONTRACT FOR HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYING SERVICES Contact Robert M. Bencal, 215-656-6606. CONTRACT INFORMATION: The Philadelphia District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers intends to award an Indefinite Delivery Contract for Hydrographic Surveying. The services shall be performed primarily in support of the civil works and work for others and other waterway work missions assigned to the District and shall be primarily but not limited to the boundaries of the District. The contract will be for one year with an option for an additional year. The fee for any one delivery order cannot exceed $150,000.00 with the cumulative amount of all delivery orders not to exceed $400,000.00 in either the base or option years and a cumulative total not to exceed $500,000.00 for both years. In addition, the total Federal Information Processing (FIP) work allowed under this entire contract including both the base and option year shall not exceed $100,000.00. 2. PROJECT INFORMATION: Work will normally be within the civil works geographic boundaries of the Philadelphia District, including but not limited to Delaware River and Bay, tributary streams in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware, the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal and the Coastal regions of New Jersey and Delaware. The primary work under this contract is hydrographic survey work in accordance with Engineer Manual (EM) 1110-2-1003 dated 28 February 1991. The contractor must provide information that a safe and suitable vessel meeting U.S. Coast Guard requirements is available and will be used for operation in the waters where the surveys are to be performed, and that qualified, experienced staff are available and will be used for the operation of the vessel as well as the electronic positioning and depth finding equipment. Selected contractor must have the ability to furnish and use state-of-the-art electronic data collection equipment including position determination by DGPS and ability to post process field-collected data in digital format. The selected contractor shall have experience in multibeam surveying. Other related and general survey work will be part of this contract. 3. SELECTION CRITERIA: Significant evaluation criteria in relative descending order of importance are: (1) Specialized experience (minimum of three years) in hydrographic surveying of navigable channels; (2) General exercise in other survey work and in site investigation, sample collection, testing, analysis and report-type work of a hydrographic nature; (3) Professional qualifications of the available staff necessary for performance of the services (have either a current land surveyor's license or professional engineer's license or an American Congress on Surveying and Mapping (ACSM) certification as an ``Inshore Certified Hydrographic Surveyor''; (4) Capacity of the firm to accomplish multiple delivery orders within time and cost limitations; (5) Past performance on relevant Department of Defense contracts will be a factor, however, lack of such performance will not necessarily preclude a firm from consideration; (6) Location of the firm in the general geographic area of the district and knowledge of the locality of the project will be a secondary selection criteria element provided a sufficient number of qualified firms respond to this announcement; (7) 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. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS: As a part of this submittal, it is required that all responding firms clearly present billing 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 consultant, 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. (218)

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