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C -- ARCHITECT-ENGINEER INDEFINITE DELIVERY CONTRACT FOR HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING DESIGN SERVICES SOL DACW57-98-R-0004 DUE 100597 POC Contract Specialist SANDRA L. HILLEBRANDT (503) 808-4615 (Site Code DACW57) 1. CONTRACT INFORMATION: Hydraulic engineering design services are required for various projects within the boundaries or assignments of the Portland District. An indefinite delivery contract will be negotiated and awarded, with a base of one period and two option periods. Each period and any other option period shall not exceed one (1) year. Each period and any other option period shall not exceed $1,000,000. Individual Task orders will not exceed $1,000,000.00. Options may be exercised before the expiration of the base contract period (or preceding option period), if the contract amount for the base period (or preceding option period) has been exhausted or nearly exhausted. The anticipated date of contract award is April 1998. Firms being considered for selection will be notified of revised dates when selection or award is delayed. This announcement is open to all businesses regardless of size. If a large business is selected for this contract, it must comply with FAR 52.219-9 regarding the requirement for a subcontracting plan on the part of the work it intends to subcontract. The minimum target subcontracting goals for this contract are as follows: 60.3% of the planned subcontracting dollars should be placed with small business(SB) concerns; 9.8% of those planned dollars should be placed with those small business concerns owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged businesses (SDB) and 2.0% be placed with those small business concerns owned or controlled by women. The plan is not required with this submittal. 2. PROJECT INFORMATION: Typical services to be provided will include hydraulic design and analysis of fishery bypass structures related to juvenile and adult passage on the Columbia and Willamette Rivers; preparation of design documents; preparation of cost estimates and construction schedules; and on-site investigation and analysis related to civil works projects. Selected firms must be able to produce engineers plates on a CADD system in Intergraph MicroStation Version 5.0 orDXF format and provide design and drawings fully compatible with Portland District Intergraph CADD system. A list of equipment or proposed conversation software must be contained in the firms package so that compatibility can be verified. Cost estimates will be required in Corps of Engineers Micro-Computer Aided Cost Estimating System (MCACES). 3. SELECTION CRITERIA: Selection criteria for this project will be based upon the following, listed in descending order of importance (first by major criterion and then be each sub-criterion). Criteria a-f are primary, criteria g-i are secondary, used only as "tie breakers" among technically equal firms: a. Specialized experience and technical competence in hydraulic engineering design. Experience must have been performed within the last five years. (1) Specialized experience and technical competence relative to the following areas: (a) Hydraulic design of migrant fish facilities, high head dam facilities, navigation facilities; (b) Performance of hydraulic model and prototype testing studies; (c) Procurement and interpretation of hydrosurvey data obtained from stilling basins and waterway channels; (d) Performance of Acoustic Doppler current profiler data collection, processing and interpretation of river velocities and flows around structures. (2)Specialized experience and technical competence relative to the typical services anticipated as described above in paragraph 2. b. Professional qualifications of personnel to be assigned to the project. Evaluation will consider education, training, registration, and longevity of relevant experience. Personnel provided for these services must be professional engineers with experience in hydraulic design. Cost Engineers will have completed MCACES basic and advanced training courses or have demonstrated advanced level ability on previous MCACES projects. The following disciplines will be evaluated (minimum number to be evaluated shown in brackets to right of each discipline: (1) Project Manager [1]; (2) Hydraulic Engineer [3]; (3)Structural Engineer [1]; (4) Fishery Engineer/Biologist [1]; (5) Cost Estimator [1]; and (6) CADD Technician [2]. c. Ability to meet CADD requirements as specified above. d. Design Quality Assurance: (1) Description of quality control processes used by the firm. (2) Description of management approach firm would use on this contract if successful offeror. Should address coordination of disciplines and subcontractors, and include organizational chart showing inter-relationship of management and design team components. e. Past Performance. Past performance of contracts with government agencies and private industry with respect to cost control, quality of work, and compliance with performance schedules. f. Capacity. Current workload and capacity of firm to accomplish required services on schedule. Firm should estimate volume of work anticipated during the life of this contract, and percentage of resources available to perform the services required under this contract, including the ability to accomplish multipletask orders simultaneously. g. Knowledge of the Locality. The Contractor must demonstrate knowledge of having performed hydraulic modeling and prototype testing studies for design of migrant fishing facilities, high head dam facilities, and navigation facilities within the Oregon and Southwestern Washington areas. h. In the event of a tie, the extent of participation of Small Business, Small Disadvantaged Business, historically black colleges and universities, and minority institutions in the proposed contract team, measured as a percentage of total estimated effort. i. In the event of a tie, the general geographical location of firm with regard to other firms in Portland District. j. In the event of a tie, the volume of DOD contract awards within the last 12 months. 4. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS. Interested A/E firms having the capability to perform this work must submit three copies of SF 254 (11/92 edition) and SF 255 (11/92 edition) for the prime firm and all consultants, to the above address not later thanthe close of business (4:00 p.m. p.s.t.) on the 30th day after the date of this announcement. If the 30th date is a Saturday, Sunday, or Federal Holiday, the deadline is the close of business (4:00 p.m. p.s.t.) of the next business day. Include the firm's ACASS number in SF 255, Block 3b. Direct technical questions to Jim Stow, (503) 808-4877. Direct administrative question to Sandra Hillebrandt, (503) 808-4615. This is not a request for proposal. Solicitation packages are not provided. Reference DACW57-98-R-0004. SIC 8711. (0276)

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