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COMMERCE BUSINESS DAILY ISSUE OF AUGUST 24,1999 PSA#2417

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District, P.O. Box 4970, Jacksonville, Florida 32232-0019

C -- A-E SERVICE FOR INDEFINITE QUANTITY CONTRACT FOR HYDROGRAPHIC, TOPOGRAPHIC, GEODETIC, PROPERTY, BOUNDARY AND CONSTRUCTION SURVEYS MAINLY WITHIN THE STATE OF FLORIDA, IN PUERTO RICO AND IN THE U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS SOL DACW17-99-R-0037 DUE 092499 POC Contract Specialist, Vicki V. Tipton, 904 232-1146 -- Technical POC, Al Morris 904-232-2430 WEB: Click here to view further information and bidders, http://www.saj.usace.army.mil. E-MAIL: Click here to contact the Contract Specialist, Vicki.V.Tipton@saj.usace.army.mil. This solicitation is set aside for small business concerns only. Up to FIVE contracts may be awarded from responses to this announcement. The contract will be an Indefinite Quantity Contract for a period of one year from date of award, with an option to extend two additional years; not to exceed a total of three years. The Government reserves the right to exercise the contract option period 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 is nearly exhausted. Work will be assigned by negotiated task orders. Maximum order limits are up to $1,000,000 for the base period and each of two option years, and up to $1,000,000 per task order. The primary purpose of this proposed contract is to provide services for projects located within the geographic boundaries of the Jacksonville District. Secondarily, the contract may be used to provide services within the geographic boundaries of any other U.S. Army Corps of Engineers district. The contractor will have the right to refuse orders for services to be performed outside the geographic boundaries of the Jacksonville District. Criteria used in allocating task orders among the contracts include performance and quality of deliverables under current contracts, current capacity to accomplish the order in the required time, uniquely specialized experience, equitable distribution of the work among the contractors, and other relevant factors. PROJECT INFORMATION: The work will consist of detailed hydrographic surveys, beach erosion surveys, real estate boundary surveys, and other related surveys. The contractor shall be capable of performing automated hydrographic surveys using microprocessor guidance control devices; topographic surveys for engineering design site plans, property/boundary surveys, record of as-built construction surveys, and geodetic control, as performed for planning, design, construction operation, and/or maintenance of various engineering projects. The contractor shall furnish all equipment, land/ floating plant, instrumentation, supplies, and personnel to accomplish required services and provide the Government with completed maps, tracings, plats, computations, reports, tapes, disks, etc. to document work performed. Two survey crews will be required to support the contract. FACTORS FOR EVALUATION IN ORDER OF PRIORITY ARE: 1. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE AND TECHNICAL COMPETENCE: Firms must clearly demonstrate specialized experience and expertise in large scale mapping and related drafting for detailed design and construction of major engineering projects, construction layout and alignment surveys, and boundary, property, mean high water (tidal) demarcation and ordinary high water demarcation surveys; surveys of surface/subsurface detail on beaches, levees, canals, breakwaters, groins, embankments, and other similar structures, and horizontal and vertical geodetic control surveys; performing hydrographic surveys for large scale river and harborconstruction and maintenance. The firm shall have the capacity to provide digital surveying and mapping data that are readable and fully operational on an Intergraph computer-aided design and drafting (CADD) system in Intergraph Microstation (PC or 32) Version 5.09 or higher, Inroads, ARC-INFO, Hypack, and Imaging software on CD-ROM. The firm shall provide metadata file(s) using Corpsmet95 for all geospatial data produced under this contract. The metadata file(s) must comply with the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata Version 1.0 or higher. 2. SIZE AND EXPERTISE OF STAFF: Firm must have a direct full time availability of necessary equipment to accomplish required work, including, but not limited to, Theodolite, transits, levels, electronic distance measurement instruments, electronic total station devices, computational and plotting equipment, hydrographic survey boat, Fathometers, offshore EDM positioning device, GPS Units, 4-Wheel ATV's, Airboat's, MarshBuggy's (Track and Rubber Tired), Magnetometer, Sweep System (Multi-Beam), Side Scan (Digital) etc. The firm must have an adequate number of qualified surveying and computing personnel including a Registered Land Surveyor in Florida or in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, field party chiefs, instrumentmen, rodmen, draftsmen and computer persons. 3. KNOWLEDGE OF THE LOCALITY: The firm must have local knowledge of property surveying and county courthouse platting procedures within the State of Florida. Firm must list the Florida counties where it has performed real estate surveying/platting. 4. PAST PERFORMANCE: Past performance on contracts with Government agencies and private industry regarding cost control, quality of work and compliance with performance schedules will be reviewed. Experience data available to the Government through the A-E Contract Administration Support System (ACASS) will be utilized to obtain performance evaluations on prior contracts. 5. CAPACITY TO ACCOMPLISH THE WORK IN THE REQUIREDTIME: The firms must have the capacity to proceed with work and accomplish it in a timely manner once a notice to proceed is issued. THE FOLLOWING SECONDARY CRITERIA WILL BE USED AS TIEBREAKERS: 6. GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION OF FIRM TO THE WORKSITE: Location of the firm relative to the worksite (considered the State of Florida) will be a strong consideration. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS: Those firms which meet the requirements described in this announcement and wish to be considered must submit one copy each of SF 254 and SF 255 for the firm or joint-venture and SF 254 for each subcontractor. In Block 4 of SF 255 list only the office personnel for the office to perform the work which is indicated in Block 3B. Additional personnel strengths, including consultants, should be indicated parenthetically, and their source clearly identified. In Block 7G of the SF 255, indicate specific project experience for key team members and indicate the team member's role on each listed project (architect, project manager, etc.). Submittal of supplemental attachments to SF 255 per evaluation factors 1-4 is strongly recommended. Submittal package is to be received in this office at the address indicated below, no later than 4:00 P.M. Eastern Time on September 24, 1999. Submittals received after this date and time will not be considered. Unnecessarily elaborate brochures or other presentations beyond those sufficient to present a complete and effective response to this announcement are not desired. The SICC for this solicitation is 8713 and the small business size standard is $2.5 million. Response to this ad should be in writing only; telephone calls and personal visits are discouraged. The required forms shall be submitted to the following address: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, ATTN: CESAJ-EN-DC, 400 West Bay Street, Room 1044, Jacksonville, FL 32202-4412 or U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, ATTN: CESAJ-EN-DC, P.O. Box 4970, Jacksonville, FL 32232-0019. This is not a request for proposal. Contracting information for the Jacksonville District isnow available at our web site: http://www.saj.usace.army.mil/. You must be registered in the Central Contractor Registration in order to be eligible to receive an award from this solicitation. Call 1-888-227-2423 for more information. Posted 08/20/99 (W-SN370667). (0232)

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