EFA Chesapeake, (Attn: Code 02AE), Washington Navy Yard, Bldg. 212, 901 M Street SE, Washington, DC 20374-5018

C -- INDEFINITE QUANTITY CONTRACT FOR EMISSIONS SOURCE SURVEY AND OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE STUDIES, VARIOUS LOCATIONS, ENGINEERING FIELD ACTIVITY CHESAPEAKE, NAVFAC SOL N62477-98-D-0050 DUE 050898 POC Contact Randolph Jones, POC, 202-685-3152 WEB: EFA Chesapeake Homepage, http://www.efdlant.navfac.navy.mil/efaches.htm. E-MAIL: Randolph Jones, Point Of Contact, rjones@efaches.navfac.navy.mil. The work includes providing miscellaneous engineering services for the following: environmental compliance surveys, training, studies, and design. Work is expected to include the full range of environmental engineering for surveys, studies, and designs covering compliance requirements under the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 (CAAA-90). The work shall be for Navy and Marine Corps shore-based activities. The Contractor shall provide engineering services, such as but not limited to: compile emissions discharged into to the outdoor atmosphere through mobile and fixed sources, and provide recommendations as to the type of control technologies to comply with regulatory emission reduction limits, and develop and update installation compliance plans and designs in the area of ozone depleting substance (ODS) phase out and ODS equipment replacement and retrofit, and design and evaluate continuous emission monitoring systems (CEMS). The CAAA-90 compliance work shall also include a study of Navy source categories at all shore-based installation for regulatory development of various control technologies and Risk Management Plan (RMPs) standards. The work shall include: develop initial questionnaire and compile information submitted by Navy installations nationwide, apply the most stringent air regulations from the different states, such as but not limited to, Maryland, District of Columbia, and Virginia, assess source categories from questionnaires and emission surveys from Navy shore-based installations and identify Navy requirements for various control technologies and RMP standards, develop scope of work and guide specification for the design of various control technologies and RMP to be used nationwide by Navy installations. Work is also expected to cover a full range of environmental engineering services covering compliance requirements, such as, but not limited to, the Clean Water Act (CWA), Hazardous Material and Waste, Polychlorinated Biphenyl (PCBs), Underground Storage Tanks (USTs), Lead and Asbestos Abatement, Energy Analyses, Spill Contingency Planning (SCP), Integrated Contingency Plan (ICPs), Solid Waste Disposal Act (SWDA), Toxic Substance Control Act (TSCA), Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA), Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 (SARA), Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), and Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act (EPCRA). The selected A/E firm for this contract will be required to provide overhead, profit, and discipline hourly rates initially to the Contracting Officer within 7 days after receiving the Request for Proposal (RFP). The selected firm will also be required to participate in an orientation and site visit meeting within seven days of the notification and provide a fee proposal with 10 days after that meeting. This will be a firm fixed price A/E contract. The total contract amount will not exceed $3,000,000.00, $1,000,000.00 for the base year and $1,000,000.00 for each of the two potential one-year options. The estimated start date is June 1998. Selection evaluation criteria, in relative order of importance are included below: 1.Specialized experience and professional qualifications of engineering firm (with its subcontractors), and the proposed project team in providing complete engineering and design service for the contract requirements as described above. The firm shall also address recent experience in the area of pollution prevention plans, operation and maintenance manuals, permit application (include construction projects), and such field work as inspections, testing, sampling, and briefing/presentations for the work described herein. The firm shall address its computer capabilities and their application in the above described work, such capabilities and applications relating to programming, developing relational databases, word processing, and off-the-shelf environmental software; 2. Demonstrated capabilities in sustained accomplishments of work within established time limits for multiple and simultaneous delivery orders; 3. Past performance and process of the prime A/E firm (and subcontractors) in the firm's quality control/quality assurance program to assure coordinated technically accurate study results, recommendations, plans, specifications, and construction cost estimates; 4. The firm's and project team's present workload; 5. Preference will be given to firm with prior experience, first in Navy/Marine Corps environmental program, and second in other US governmental agency environmental programs; 6. Preference will be given to within a 100 mile radius of the Engineering Field Activity Chesapeake, Washington Navy Yard and have knowledge of the general locality of the project areas, provided that application of the criterion leaves an appropriate number of highly qualified firms, given the nature and size of the projects. Each firm's past performance and performance rating will be reviewed during the evaluation process and can affect the selection outcome. Firms which meet the requirements listed inthis announcement are invited to submit one copy each of the completed Standard Forms (SF) 254 and 255, U.S. Government Architect-Engineer Qualifications, to the office indicated below. Site visits will not be arranged during the advertisement period. This proposed contract is being solicited on an unrestricted basis. Firms having a current SF 254 on file with this office may also be considered. Interested firms are requested to include telefax numbers, the Contractor Establishment Code (CEC) -- formerly the DUNS number -- and Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN) on the SF 255 and SF 254 in Blocks 3a and 1, respectively. In Block 10, state why your firm is specially qualified based on the selection evaluation criteria. Also, use Block 10 to provide additional information desired by your firm. Only the SF 254 and 255 will be reviewed. Experiences identified in Block 8 should not be more than 5 years old. The A-E firm's primary person proposed to be the direct contact with EFACHES throughout the contractwork must be identified as the "Project Manager". Information in the cover letter and any other attachments will not be included in the official selection process. Submit the SF 254 and 255 to the mail room in the EFACHES building, Building 212, Washington Navy Yard, by 3:30 p.m. on the established due date. Fax copies of the SF 254 and 255 will not be accepted. This is not a request for proposal. The selected firm may be subject to an advisory audit performed by the Defense Contract Audit Agency. Because this contract acquisition could result in an award over $500,000.00, a subcontracting plan will be required by the selected firm if the firm is a large business concern. Firms are requested to include a statement of their small business and small disadvantaged business percentage goals in block 6 of their SFD 255. The small disadvantaged business set-aside goals in that subcontracting plan shall not be less than 5 percent of the subcontracted work. This set-aside goal of not less than 5 percent also appliesto women-owned small business concerns. This does not apply if the prime firm is a small business concern. Effective 1 October 1997, A/E contractors are now required to register their firms in the Central Contractor Registration database prior to receiving a contract award. This database provides basic business information, capabilities, and financial information to the Government and complies with the Debt Collection Improvement Act of 1996, which requires Federal Agencies to have the Taxpayer Identification Number of every contractor and pay every contractor through electronic funds transfer. A/E Contractors will only have to provide this information once with annual updates or as key company information changes occur. Registration can be accomplished through the World Wide Web at http://www.acq.osd.mil/ec; through any DOD Certified Value Added Network; or a paper form may be obtained by calling the DOD Electronic Commerce Information Center at 1-800-334-3414. Contracting Officer, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Engineering Field Activity Chesapeake (Attn: Code 02AE), Washington Navy Yard Building 212, 901 M St. S.E., Washington, DC 20374-5018. (0096)

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