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C -- INDEFINITE QUANTITY TASK ORDER CONTRACTS FOR MISCELLANEOUS URBAN DRAINAGE DESIGN PROJECT WITHIN THE LIMITS OF THE NEW ORLEANS DISTRICT SOL DACW29-97-R-0011 POC Contract Specialist, Betty Knight at (504) 862-1099 Contracing Officer, Martha P. Sloan at (504) 862-1161 1. CONTRACT INFORMATION: A-E services are required for Five Separate Indefinite Quantity Task Order Contracts NTE $500, 000 each for the base period with two option periods NTE $500, 000 (per period). The base period and each option period shall not exceed one year each. The first IDC is scheduled for award on or about July, 1997 with subsequent contracts being awarded approximately every two months. Work assignments will be via fixed price task orders issued on an intermittent basis during the contract period. Criteria used in allocating orders among the contracts include performance and quality of deliverables under the current contract, current capacity to accomplish the task order in the required time, and equitable distribution of work among the contractors. This announcement is open to all businesses regardless of size. 2. PROJECT INFORMATION: Each Architect -- Engineer shall furnish all services, materials, supplies, plant, labor, equipment, studies, investigations (including soil borings, geotechnical designs and surveys), supervision, and travel required to prepare alternative design reports, to include soil sample retrieval of up to 5 inch diameter undisturbed soil samples as well as classification and triaxial testing of samples, stability analysis and cost comparisons; prepare rights-of-way drawings; prepare the plans and specifications for such features as roads, drainage structures and canals, bulkheads, etc.; perform stability analysis and topographic surveys for channels and excavations; and develop pile capacity curves, sheetpile, and bulkhead analyses. CADD programs must be fully compatible with the Intergraph/Bentley Microstation CADD software (version 4.0 or later). 3. SELECTION CRITERIA: See Note 24 for general selection process. The selection criteria are listed below in order of precedence (first by major criterion and then by each sub-criterion). Criteria (a)-(g) are primary. Criteria (h)-(j) are secondary and will be used only as "tie-breakers"among technically equal firms. (a) Specialized work experience and technical competence of the firm and its key personnel to perform the services listed above. (b) Capacity (personnel and equipment) to accomplish work in the required time. Provide the following minimum design personnel to perform work: 2 civil engineers, 1 geotechnical engineer, 1 structural engineer, 1 hydraulic engineer, 1 registered land surveyor, one 4-person survey crew, one 3-person boring crew, one soils laboratory technician, one cost engineer, and 3 CADD technicians. Demonstrate capacity to produce CADD drawings utilizing CADD programs fully compatible with the Intergraph/Bentley Microstation CADD software, Version 4.0 or later. Provide a list of survey and soil boring equipment that may be utilized for the project. (c) Professional qualifications of the key design personnel available to work on these contracts in the following disciplines: civil engineering, structural engineering, hydraulic engineering, geotechnical engineering, cost engineering, surveying (one registered land surveyor), and CADD technicians. (d) Past performance on contracts with Government agencies and private industry. (e) Knowledge of geographic area within the limit of the New Orleans District, specifically Orleans, Jefferson, and St. Tammany Parishes. (f) Safety plan and past performance (manhours lost to accidents in the last 100, 000 manhours of work by firm). (g) Quality control plan. (h) Location of the design firm in the general geographic area of the project and to the New Orleans District Headquarters. (i) Extent of participation (measured as a percentage of total contract) by Small Business, Small Disadvantaged Business, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and Minority Institutions. (j) Volume of DOD work. 4. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS: See Note 24 for general submission requirements. Firms which meet the requirements described in this announcement are invited to submit 5 copies of SF 254s and SF 255s(11/92 edition) for the prime contractor as well as all subcontractors and consultants to the address below not later than 30 days after the date of this publication. Address the minimum personnel and equipment reguirements and each of the Selection Criteria in Block 10 of the SF 255. For criteria (f) and (g), comprehensive outlines of safety and quality control plans will be satisfactory. Complete plans will be required after contract award. Safety performance data (manhours lost) must be submitted including data for any subcontractors. If the 30th day is a Saturday, Sunday or a Federal holiday, the deadline is the close of buisness of the next business day. Include the firm's ACASS number in SF 255, Block 3b. For ACASS information, call (503) 326-3459. Overnight or courier type mail should be sent to the following address: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District, CELMN-CT-T, Attn: Betty Knight, Foot of Prytania Street, New Orleans, LA 70118-1030. Solicitation packages are not provided. This is not a request for proposal. Refer to Solicitation No. DACW29-97-R-0011. (0353)

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