U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Philadelphia Wanamaker Building, Room 643, 100 Penn Square East, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107

C -- INDEFINITE DELIVERY CONTRACT FOR GEOTECHNICAL, ENVIRONMENTAL AND HAZARDOUS/TOXIC SERVICES POC Contact Robert M. Bencal, (215) 656-6606 DESCRIPTION: 1. CONTRACT INFORMATION: The Philadelphia District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers intends to award a one year Indefinite Delivery Contract for Geotechnical and Geo-Environmental Services with options for two additional periods. Although the maximum task order limit is $1,000,000 it is envisioned that most task orders will be $300,000.00 or less. The cumulative total for all task orders in either the base period or two option periods shall not exceed $1,000,000 for each period. The cumulative total of all task orders for the base and option periods shall not exceed $3,000,000. Options may be awarded based on value used or time at the discretion of the Contracting Officer. 2. PROJECT INFORMATION: The selected firm will be used to supplement the District's capability for providing geotechnical, geo-environmental and professional services for planning, design, construction quality assurance in support of the military, work for others and civil work missions assigned to the District. Work outside the District's civil works boundaries may be required. The work will include, but is not limited to, the following items: A. Geotechnical Investigations, Testing and Analysis primary efforts shall include: (1) Subsurface Explorations shall include but not be limited to soil sampling, rock coring borings and vibrocoring for geotechnical purposes. All sampling shall be continuous. Soil sampling and rock coring may be conducted either on land or on water, vibrocoring shall be conducted solely on water. Water work may be riverine, bay or in the ocean. Drillers or those involved in certain site investigations will be required to have the OSHA 1910.120 40 hour basic health and safety requirements of the job's health and safety plan. The surveying of locations of all land and water explorations will be required; (2) Instrumentation installation shall include but not be limited to the installation, monitoring and analysis of piezometers, groundwater monitoring wells and inclinometers. This item shall include all appurtenant items such as monitoring well and piezometer development. Other related work shall include: (1) Technical support of field work, the contractor shall provide experienced, qualified degreed engineers, geologists or staff approved by the government for all field work. The contractor shall be responsible for: logging of soil samples and/or rock cores; handling, labeling, chain of custody and storing soil samples, rock core and environmental samples; related coordination with other government, private and related groups in obtaining access, information, etc., performing any necessary air monitoring, and laying out the borings; (2) Soil testing shall include but not be limited to visual, laboratory classification, moisture-density relations, permeability testing, direct shear testing, triaxial strength testing, consolidation testing and laboratory field compaction testing. The collection and testing of HTRW contaminated samples may be required. It is not necessary for the soils laboratory to be resident in-house. The designated laboratory must be capable of being certified and approved by the Corps of Engineers prior to work on the contract. B. Geo-environmental studies, investigations, design and related work. These shall include as primary effort: (1) Phase I Environmental/Preliminary Site Assessments; (2) Preparation of Remedial Investigations/RCRA Facility Investigations. As a part of the above work the contractor will be required to complete surface and subsurface investigations, sampling and chemical analysis, preparation of baseline risk assessments, preparation of conceptual site models and other related work. C. Another primary effort shall be geotechnical and geo-environmental design including, but not limited to, the design of embankments and cut slopes, landfill caps, retaining structures, pavements, shallow and deep foundations, slope protection, geosynthetics, slurry walls, soil stabilization, groundwater recovery systems, site drainage and the preparation of reports on same. Design work shall include the preparation of drawings on AUTOCAD Version 13, estimates and technical specifications according to COE formats, (MCACES Gold and SPECSINTACT). Reports shall be in Microsoft Word. Scheduling shall use Primavera. D. Occasional related secondary work shall include but not be limited to environmental impact statements, environmental inventories, historical and archaeological investigations and reports and peer review of COE reports. If in-house capabilities in these areas are not available, a subcontractor may be utilized. All work shall comply with the jurisdictional regulations and laws to include the requirements for registrations, licenses and certifications. The A/E should have the capability of executing a minimum of two (2) task orders simultaneously. 3. SELECTION CRITERIA: The selection criteria which will be the basis for selection are (1) Specialized experience and technical competence in the type of work required, including, where appropriate, experience in energy conservation, pollution prevention, waste reduction, and the use of recovered materials and general experience in related types of work; (2) Professional qualifications of the available staff necessary to perform the services required; (3) Capacity of the firm to accomplish the work in the required time; (4) Past performance, especially, on Department of Defense contracts; (5) Location will be a consideration in the final selection as a secondary selection criteria element provided a sufficient number of qualified A/E firms respond to this announcement; (6) 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. 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. 4. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS: Firms which desire consideration and meet the requirements described in the announcement are invited to submit a completed SF 254 (revised 11/92) and SF 255 (revised 11/92) for the prime firm and SF 254 for each consultants, 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. 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 contracting officer reserves the right to terminate negotiations, with firms that do not respond to government requests for proposals, information, documentation, etc. in accordance with established schedules. Include ACASS number in block 3b, of the SF 255. Call the ACASS Center at (503) 808-4591 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.***** (0325)

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