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