U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS, ST. PAUL DISTRICT, 190 FIFTH STREET EAST, ST. PAUL, MN 55101-1638

T -- T -- INDEFINITE DELIVERY CONTRACT FOR GIS, SURVEYING, AND MAPPING SERVICES FOR THE ST. PAUL DISTRICT SOL 125&&&-9802-0001 POC Patrick Peine 612/290-5416. Contracting Officer Joanne Dufeck 612/290-5413 (Site Code DACW37) 1. CONTRACT INFORMATION: Geographic Information System (GIS), surveying, mapping, aerial photography, and hydrographic surveying under PL 92-582 (Brooks Act) and FAR Part 36 are required for various projects within the Midwest primarily within the St. Paul District boundaries of all or portions of MN, WI, ND, SD, and IA. An indefinite delivery contract is anticipated to be awarded by June 1998 with 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 and individual task orders will not exceed approximately $300,000. An option period may be exercised when the contract amount for the base period or preceding option period has been exhausted. Work will be issued by negotiated firm fixed-price task orders. The District currently has and may award in the future ID contracts to perform work that may also be encompassed by this announcement; the following factors will be considered in deciding which contractor will be selected to negotiate an order: Performance, capacity to accomplish the order in the required time, specialized experience, and the equitable distribution of work. This announcement is open to all businesses. Large businesses selected it must comply with FAR 52.219-9 regarding the requirement for a subcontracting plan on that part of the work that it intends to subcontract. The subcontracting goals for this contract are that a minimum of 61.2% of intended subcontract amount be placed with small businesses (SB), 9.1% be placed with small disadvantaged businesses (SDB), and 4.5% placed with woman-owned small businesses (WOSB). The plan is not required with this submittal. The wages and benefits of service employees (see FAR 22.10) performing under this contract must be at least equal to those determined by the Department of Labor under the Service Contract Act. 2. PROJECT INFORMATION: The services to be accomplished include the full range of GIS, surveying and mapping activities. Work shall include (1) GIS graphical and nongraphical or relational spatial database generation (2) Global Positioning System (GPS) and conventional surveys (3) Drawing/map conversion, raster scanning/vector conversion (4) Finish map or production from GIS datasets and softwares (5) Remote sensing, and satellite imagery (6) Large-format map and/or aerial imagery document production (7) preparation of drawings for survey and aerial mapping work using computer-aided design and drafting (CADD) and delivering the three-dimensional drawings in Intergraph MicroStation NT CADD software. Deliverable GIS data shall also be submitted in compliance with the Tri-Service Spatial Data Standards for the target systems. The contractor shall be required to provide professional services specific to the use and application of: a) ESRI ARC/INFO and Arc/View. b) Intergraph Modular GIS Environment (MGE), IRAS-C and IRAS-B. The target database shall be Oracle. The contractor shall have the capability to submit digital products or deliverables in one or all of the following: 8-mm exebite tape cartridge, R/W optical disk, compact disk, read-only memory (CD-ROM). The Government will only accept the final product for full operation, without conversion or reformatting, in the target software formats, and on the target platforms specified herein: a) Intergraph Modular GIS Environment (MGE) products: Intergraph TD Workstation running Windows NT, version 4.0 operating system, b) for ESRI ARC/INFO products: SUN Ultra II Workstation running Solaris 2.5 operating system, c) for all other surveying and mapping work the target platform is a personal computer, with a Windows NT operating system. Use of the metric-system of measurement may be required for some deliverables under the proposed contract. 3. SELECTION CRITERIA: See Note 24 for general A-E selection process. The selection criteria are listed below in descending order of importance (first by major criterion and then by each sub-criterion). Criteria a-e are primary. Criteria f-h are secondary and will only be used as "tie-breakers" among technically equal firms. a) Specialized experience and technical qualifications: (1) Firms with specialized experience and technical competence in geographic information systems (GIS), softwares, and application of GIS technologies as applied to analysis of land information features and data. (2) Firms composed of GIS specialists, with expertise in biological or earth sciences including cartography and geography. (3) Firms composed of GIS specialists, with expertise in ARC/INFO and components thereof including but not limited to ArcEdit, Arc-Plot, ArcCAD, ArcView and SQL. (4) Firms composed of GIS specialists, with expertise in Intergraph Corporation software including but not limited to MGE, MGE Analyst, Image Analyst, Map Finisher, Base Mapper, Projection Manager, GeoMedia, Ascii Loader, IRAS-C, and IRAS-R. (5) Firms with specialized experience in Oracle database design utilizing Oracle Corporation's Spatial Data Option (SDO), Intergraph Corporation GIS software applications such as Modular GIS Environment (MGE) or Geomedia, and ESRI software applications such as ARC/INFO, ARC/VIEW, or Spatial Data Engine (SDE). (6) Firms with specialized experience in image processing including LANDSAT, SPOT, RADARSAT imagery. (7) Firms with specialized experience and technical competence in the application of Intergraph MGE ASCII Loader specific to importing of datasets from ARC/INFO coverage files. (8) Firms with specialized expertise and technical competence in producing viewable database information through GIS software viewers. (9) Firms with specialized experience and technical expertise in the creation of two-dimensional digital databases derived from CADD vectorization. (10) Firms with specialized experience and technical expertise in providing quality control for the digitizing and preparing of thematic vector data compatible with Microstation 95 and ESRI ARC/INFO. (11) Firms with specialized experience and technical expertise in document conversion utilizing large-format scanning technologies and related applications. (12) Firms with specialized experience and technical competence in topographic surveying, geodetic control surveying, differential and dual frequency real time GPS surveying, cadastral surveying, and boundary surveying with CADD expertise. Experience shall demonstrate expertise in performing field surveys and survey notes, topography, cross sections, structure sketches, soundings, alignment and settlement surveys, construction surveys, land surveys, horizontal and vertical control networks and surveying computations; (13) Firms with specialized experience and technical competence in hydrographic surveying of rivers, ports, harbors, revetments, dikes, and inland navigation projects. Experience shall fully exemplify the use and expertise of fully automated, digital methods of data collection, processing and production of resulting bathymetric mapping. (14) Firms that presently have, or he capability to readily obtain through purchase or lease, an automated hydrographic survey vessel, capable of performing depth measurements with precision horizontal positioning, in shallow draft areas of rivers and backwater areas. Must be capable of being trailered to and operating in inland streams and backwater areas. (15) Firms with specialized expertise and technical competence in GPS techniques. (16) Firms composed of specialists having expertise in hydrographic, topographic, geodetic control, boundary surveying; expertise in kinematic and high accuracy GPS surveying and experience in field data processing and survey adjustments. (17) Firms which have demonstrated capability to submit all work in hard-copy report format, hard-copy "F" size engineer drawings, and in generating survey data in a computer format that can be directly imported into the St. Paul District CADD system; data forms may include ASCII point datasets, total station data output, drawn graphics in standard Intergraph IGDS version 5.x or higher format, and digital terrain models produced from topographic surveys; (18) quality management, the evaluationwill consider the management structure; coordination of disciplines, offices and subcontractors; and quality control plans. b) Professional capabilities: (1) Qualified registered professional personnel in surveying and mapping. (2) Specialized expertise and technical competence in Spatial Data Development, Analysis, and Database Management, and Image Processing. Evaluation will consider education, training, registration, overall and relevant experience and longevity with the firm. c) Past performance on DOD and other contracts with respect to quality of work, cost control and compliance with performance schedules. d. Capacity of the firm to perform the above-mentioned work in the required time. e. Knowledge of surveying in snow and ice conditions and in lakes and rivers. Knowledge of NGS coordinate system. f. Extent of participation of SB, SDB, WOSB, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and Minority Institutions in the proposed contract team measured as a percentage of the estimated subcontracting effort. g. Location of the firm in the general geographical area of the St. Paul District including the office location of each person named to work on this contract. h. Volume of DoD contract awards in the last 12 months as described in Numbered Note 24. Volume of work for the St. Paul District will also be considered under this factor. 4. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS: See Note 24 for general submission equirements. Interested firms having the capabilities to perform this work must submit 3 copies of SF255 (11/92 edition), and 3 copies of SF 254 (11/92 edition) for the prime firm and all 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. Include the firm's ACASS number and business size in SF 255, Block 3b. For ACASS information call 503-326-3459. Small business size standard is less than $2.5M in annual receipts. In SF 255, Block 10 include: 1) The total dollar amount of the DoD contracts and total dollar amount of the contracting awarded the firm in the 12 months prior to this notice; 2) A description of the firms overall design quality management plan, including management approach, coordination of disciplines and subcontractors, and quality control procedures; 3) An organization chart showing all named team members and their responsibilities for this contract; and 4) A description of owned or leased equipment that will be used to perform this contract, as well as CADD and GIS capabilities. The Standard Form 255 will clearly denote the office location for each person identified in Section 7 of the form. Solicitation packages are not provided for A-E contracts. This is not a request for proposal (RFP). (0044)

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