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C -- INDEFINITE DELIVERY CONTRACT FOR NAVAL ARCHITECTURE AND MARINE ENGINEERING SERVICES POC Robert M. Bencal, 215-656-6606 1. CONTRACT INFORMATION: The Philadelphia District intends to award a one-year Indefinite Delivery Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering Services Contract with the option of extending the contract for an additional one-year period. The maximum task order limit is $400,000. The cumulative total for all task orders in either the base or option year shall not exceed $400,000. The cumulative total for all task orders in both the base year and option year shall not exceed $500,000. In addition, the total amount of Information Technology (IT) work allowed under this contract including both the base and option years is $100,000, pursuant to Delegation of Procurement Authority (DPA) CENAP-97-014. 2. PROJECT INFORMATION: The primary work under this contract will be the preparation of contract plans and specifications for the repair and/or modification of existing propelled and non-propelled vessels including but not limited to seagoing hopper dredges, complete ship check, site visits and reports, develop procurement plans and specifications for auxiliary vessels, prepare concept and final designs, perform studies, develop maintenance and other programs, perform structural calculations, prepare technical proposals, cost estimates and perform equipment noise studies. 3. SELECTION CRITERIA: Firms will be evaluated on the basis of the following primary evaluations factors listed in descending order of importance: (1) Primary personnel with professional qualifications in naval architecture, marine engineering and related marine structural, mechanical, electrical and fire protection engineering, certified industrial hygienist, cost estimator, specification writer and marine safety. Registrations and certifications shall be necessary for full performance of the disciplines; (2) Specialized experience and technical competence in the development of designs, repairs and alterations. Designs shall include drawings, specifications, estimates, schedules and related work for the concept, preliminary, detailed and construction phases for work on Corps of Engineers' dredges, includiing trailing suction hopper dredges, workboats, towboats, launches, survey vessels and other floating plant. Other detailed items of work shall include but not limited to advanced instrumentation and control dragarm angle and depth indicating systems with associates controls, intergrated piloting and logging systems with state of the art steering and propulsion systems, controls and related work; (3) General experience in naval architrcture and marine engineering related to vessel construction including but not limited to scheduling, estimating, submittal review, as-built drawings and related work; (4) Facilities, plant, staff and related items to accomplish more than one task order concurrently; (5) Past performance on contracts with government agencies and private industru in terms of cost control, quality of work and compliance with performance schedules; (6) Demonstrated success in prescribing the use of recovered materials an achieving waste reduction and energy efficiency in facility design; (7) Vloume of DOD contracts awards and the dollar amounts for the previous 12 months from the date of this announcement; (8) 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. Response area is the continental United States. 4. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS: 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 accordnace with the established schedules. Interested firms having the capabilities to perform the work must submit one copy of the SF 254 and SF 255 (revised 11/92) 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 of 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 aor this project will be made. (0064)

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