USARMY ENGR DIST ST LOUIS, CORPS OF ENGINEERS, 1222 SPRUCE STREET, ST LOUIS MO 63103-2833

C -- INDEFINITE DELIVERY A-E CONTRACTS FOR AUTOMATED SINGLE TRACK HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS AND AUTOMATED MULTI-BEAM SINGLE TRANSDUCER CHANNEL SWEEP HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS SOL EDC000-7038-0003 POC Chief, Contracts Management Section, JOHN A. GAAL, (314) 331-8301, Contracting Officer, T. M. LAWS, (314) 331-8500 (Site Code DACW43) I. CONTRACT INFORMATION. Services of qualified A-E firms are sought to provide professional engineering services for performing field surveys for the St. Louis District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers civil works, military construction, and environmental restoration projects. The St. Louis District will be the primary area for the contract, but the Government may, at its discretion and upon concurrence of the Contractor, accomplish work in other geographical regions. At least three contracts for automated single track hydrographic survey systems and at least one contract for automated multi-beam single transducer channel sweep hydrographic survey systems will be negotiated and awarded. Each contract will have a base period not to exceed one year and two option periods not to exceed one year each. The amount of work in each contract period will not exceed $1,000,000. An option period may be exercised when the contract amount for the base period or preceding option period has been exhausted or nearly exhausted. Work will be issued by negotiated task orders not to exceed the contract amount. The Contracting Officer will consider the following factors in deciding which contractor will be selected to negotiate an order: performance and quality of deliverables under the current contract, current capacity to accomplish the order in the required time, uniquely specialized experience, and equitable distribution of work among contractors. The first contract is anticipated to be awarded in August 1997 with the remaining contracts to be awarded at approximately two (2) month intervals thereafter. This announcement is open to all businesses regardless of size. If a large business is selected for these contracts, it must comply with FAR 52.219-9 regarding the requirement for a subcontracting plan on that part of the work it intends to subcontract. The subcontracting goals for these contracts are that a minimum of 40% of the contractor's intended subcontract amount be placed with small businesses (SB), including small disadvantaged businesses (SDB), 8% be placed with SDB, and 2% with woman-owned small businesses. The plan is not required with this submittal. II. PROJECT INFORMATION. Surveys which may be required include the following: hydrographic surveys for river and harbor project clearance, underwater hazard detection and assessment of dredge measurement and payment, topographic, planimetric, cadastral, location, construction layout, and geodetic control (horizontal & vertical) surveys. Hydrographic surveys shall use totally automated systems with the capability of position by use of Differential Global Positioning Systems (DGPS) using Coast Guard Radio Beacon Signals. Contractor must also have a back up positioning system in the event that satellite transmissions for DGPS positioning is interrupted or not available. For the three (3) single beam contracts the delivery orders will generally be issued with a contractor responsible for each the North, Central, and South one-third of the St. Louis District. The one (1) multi-beam single transducer contract will have all the capabilities as the single beam contractor's, plus evaluation factor's as listed in III.e. below. The work area for this last contractor is throughout the St. Louis District (SLD), as well as area's outside SLD geographical limits. III. EVALUATION FACTORS. See Note 24 for general selection process. The evaluation factors are listed below in descending order of importance (first by major criterion and then by each sub-criterion). Criteria a-g are primary. Criteria h-j are secondary. a. Professional Qualifications; (1) All survey work must be performed under the supervision of a Registered Land Surveyor or a Registered Professional Engineer with expertise in surveying, including hydrographic surveying, and with demonstrated experience in using the computer-aided drafting (CADD) system. b. Specialized Experience and Technical Competence in the type of work required; (1) Firms must have at least two survey crews. (2) Firms must have the capability to submit all survey data (including hydrographic) in digital format, readable and fully operational in the 3D format on District's CADD system. Drawings are to be delivered as Intergraph design files. Firms must also have the capability to provide survey data in ASCII format and Intergraph dgn format (Microstation V5.0 or higher) on 8mm tape in TAR, or 3 1/2 inch high density floppy diskettes, or CD's formatted in MS-DOS. (3) Integrate field survey information into photogrammetric mapping data bases and that portion of the data furnished by the surveyor must be compatible with the photomapping data. This could include, but is not limited to: drill hole locations, utility information, boundary surveys, horizontal traverse circuits, underwater soundings, DTM contour grids, and aerial photo control point location coordinates. c. Capacity of firm to furnish equipment and personnel to accomplish the work as required to maintain delivery of a quality product on a timely schedule. d. Firms which demonstrate that they presentlyhave, or the capability to readily obtain through purchase or lease, an automated hydrographic survey vessel of 19-30 foot length capable of being trailered to and operating in U.S. inland and coastal navigation projects for the automated single beam acoustic surveys. Additional consideration will also be given to firms who indicate the availability of a backup vessel/equipment, or source for same. e. For multi-beam surveys ONLY, the vessel must have a demonstrated capability for being optionally equipped with full motion compensation, side scan sonar imaging for underwater hazardous object strike detection, multi-beam, shallow water acoustic imagery from a single transducer source, and computer hardware/software components necessary to acquire/record multiple sounding data. Additional consideration will also be given to firms who indicate the availability of a backup vessel/equipment, or source for same. f. Knowledge of the locality. g. Past performance on similar Department of Defense contracts and other contracts with respect to cost control, quality of work, and compliance with performance schedules. 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. i. Geographical location of the firm with respect to where services are required. j. Volume of DOD contracts awarded in the last 12 months as described in Note 24. IV. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS. Firms having capabilities to perform this work and who wish to be considered must submit a completed SF 255 (11-92 edition) and appropriate data as described herein and in Note 24. Only SF 255's received in this office within 30 calendar days of the date of publication of this notice will be considered. If the 30th day is a Saturday, Sunday or Federal holiday, the deadline is the close of business of the next business day. If an SF 254 is not on file with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, a current SF 254 should also be included. Firms who wish to be considered for the automated single track hydrographic surveys should respond to SOL DACW43-97-R-0707, DACW43-97-R-0708, and DACW43-97-R-0709. Firms who wish to be considered for the automated multi-beam single transducer channel sweep hydrographic surveys should respond to SOL DACW43-97-R-0710. If a firm wishes to be considered for all the solicitations, one copy of the SF 254/SF 255's (11-92 edition) for the prime firm and all consultants will be required for SOL DACW43-97-R-0707, DACW43-97-R-0708, and DACW43-97-R-0709 and one copy of the SF 254/SF 255's (11-92 edition) for the prime firm and all consultants will be required for SOL DACW43-97-R-0710. Include the firm's ACASS number in SF 255, Block 3b. For ACASS information, call 503-326-3459. No other notification to firms under consideration for this work will be made. Solicitation packages are not provided for A-E contracts. This is not a request for proposal. (0062)

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