U.S. Army Engineer District, Alaska, Attn: CEPOA-CT-CO, P.O. Box 898, Anchorage, AK 99506-0898 (Physical Address: Bluff and Plum Streets, Building 21-700 (Room 200), Elmendorf AFB, AK 99506-0898)

C -- INDEFINITE DELIVERY ARCHITECT-ENGINEER SERVICES CONTRACT FOR GEOTECHNICAL DESIGN & RELATED SERVICES, PRIMARILY VARIOUS LOCATIONS, ALASKA SOL DACA85-99-R-0017 POC Administrative Inquires: Ms June Wohlbach, 907/753-5624 or Technical Inqueries: Mr. Jerry Raychel 907/753-2685, Contracting Officer: Ms Gail M. West . 1. CONTRACT INFORMATION: 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 for that part of the work it intends to subcontract. The FY99 subcontracting goals for this contract are a minimum of 61.2% of the contractor's intended subcontract amount be placed with small businesses, 9.1% small, disadvantaged businesses, and 4.5% to woman-owned businesses. The subcontracting plan is not required with this submittal. All responders are advised that this project may be cancelled or revised at any time during the solicitation, selection, evaluation, negotiation and final award. The contract shall be an indefinite delivery firm fixed price. The contract limit is $500,000.00. The contract may include options for two additional option years and an additional $500,000.00 per year. There will be no specific delivery order limit except that of the yearly contract limit. Contract award is anticipated for Oct 99. 2. PROJECT INFORMATION: The AE selected would be required to have sufficient staff, flexibility, and capability to be available on an as-needed basis. Typical types of services to be provided may include planning of geotechnical investigations at contaminated or uncontaminated sites, conducting office studies and field geotechnical investigations using contractor or Government furnished drilling personnel and drilling equipment, furnishing of sampling supplies and instrumentation, shipping of samples to testing laboratories, design of foundations and embankments, groundwater studies, geophysical studies, aerial photo interpretation, material source evaluations and preparation of plans and specifications for geotechnical projects. LOCATION: Primarily Various Locations in Alaska and the Pacific Rim. 3. SELECTION CRITERIA: The following selection criteria headings are listed in descending order of importance (first by major criterion and then by each subcriterion). Criteria A-F are primary selection criteria. (A) professional personnel in the following disciplines: (weighted equally) (1) minimum in-house requirements are 2 civil engineers with at least 5 years geotechnical experience and at least 1 engineer being a registered professional, 1 engineering geologist with at least 5 years experience, 2 field geologists or engineer technicians trained in hazardous site work in accordance with 29CFR1910; (2) disciplines which may be subcontracted: minimum of 2 field chemists with at least 1 year field sampling experience and trained per 20CFR1910, 1 hydrogeologist, and 1 geophysicist. Firms that choose to provide any subcontracted disciplines MUST address each discipline, clearly indicate which shall be subcontracted, and provide a separate SF254 and SF255 for each subcontractor necessary. The contractor shall employ, for the purpose of performing that portion of the contract work in the State of Alaska, individuals who are residents of the State, and who, in the case of any craft or trade, possess or would be able to acquire promptly the necessary skills to perform the contract. (B) specialized experience and technical competence in: (weighted equally) (1) planning and carrying out geotechnical site investigations, (2) preparing geotechnical designs, (3) evaluation of material sources, in particular, rock quarries and (4) planning and carrying out geophysical investigations on land and water; (C) knowledge of locality: staff with knowledge of Alaskan weather and water conditions, availability to meet frequently with Corps personnel at the Alaska District Headquarters in Anchorage, and the ability to mobilize to Alaskan sites on short notice: (D) capacity to maintain schedules and accomplish required work on 2 simultaneous delivery orders; (E) past performance on DOD and other contracts with respect to cost control, quality of work, and compliance with schedules. Criteria F-H are secondary and will only be used as "tie-breakers" among technically equal firms. (F) location of the firm in general geographical area of the projects and knowledge of locality; (G) 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(F) volume of DOD contract awards in the last 12 months; and (H) volume of DOD contract awards in the last 12 months; 4. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS: Firms submitting their qualifications should provide ONLY 1 copy and should include: (1) organization of proposed project team, (2) responsibilities and authority of key project personnel, (3) relationship of project team to overall organization of the firm, (4) a quality control plan, and (5) in block 8c of the SF 255 include a POC and phone number. The 11/92 edition of the forms MUST be used, and may be obtained from the Government Printing Office, by calling the administrative contact named above, from commercial software suppliers for use with personal computers and laser printers, or on-line in bothAdobe Acrobat PDF and FormFlow formats (http://www.gsa.gov/pbs/pc/hw_files/254-255.htm). Submittals must be received at the address indicated above not later than COB (4:00 pm Alaska time) on the 30th day from 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. Any submittals received after this date cannot be considered. No additional information shall be provided, and no faxed submittals shall be accepted. Solicitation packages are not provided.***** Posted 04/29/99 (W-SN325976). (0119)

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