USACE Vicksburg District, 4155 Clay Street, Vicksburg, MS 39180-3435

T -- INDEFINITE DELIVERY TYPE CONTRACT FOR MAPPING SUPPORT SERVICES WITHIN VICKSBURG DISTRICT (CONTRACT NO. 99-M1) SOL CBD&&&-9252-0001 DUE 101499 POC POC Laura Cespedes (601)631-5575 WEB: Vicksburg Consolidated Contracting Office, http://www.mvk.usace.army.mil/contract. E-MAIL: Laura Y. Cespedes, Laura.Y.Cespedes@mvk02.usace.army.mil. 1. CONTRACT INFORMATION: One indefinite delivery contract will be negotiated and awarded with a base period of one year plus an option period. Work will be accomplished under an Indefinite Delivery Contract NTE $300,000.00 for each period, by issuance of individual task orders. The option may be exercised at any time upon the exhaustion of funds during the first year. The work consists of professional services for mapping primarily within the limits of the Vicksburg District, which includes parts of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. The contract is anticipated to be awarded in March 2000. 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. The FY 2000 subcontracting goals for the Vicksburg District are: (1) at least 61.2 percent of a contractor's intended subcontract amount be placed with small businesses (SB) including small disadvantaged businesses (SBD), women-owned small business (WOSB) and HUBZone small business; (2) at least 9.1 percent of a contractor's intended subcontract amount be placed with SDB; (3) at least 5.0 percent of a contractor's intended subcontract amount be placed with WOSB and (4) at least 1.5 percent of a contractor's intended subcontract amount be placed with HUBZone small business. Effective 14 June 1999, the small business size standard for A-E services is 4.0 million. Subcontracting intentions are outlined in Block 6 of SF 255. 2. PROJECT INFORMATION: Work includes professional services consisting of mapping of hydrographic, topographic, cadastral and control surveys, orthophotography, mosaics, data base population and photo-grammetrics. The work will be within and contiguous to the Vicksburg District which includes parts of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. 3. SELECTION CRITERIA: Preselection criteria will be based on the following considerations which are of equal importance. The firm (either in-house or through association with a qualified consultant) must: a. Have a licensed civil engineer and adequate capacity of personnel experienced in the following classifications: Drafting (standard and CADD), photogrammetry, and computing (technician). b. Have experience in the types of work required. c. Indicate the capability to respond to the Vicksburg District Office in a timely manner. d. Indicate the necessary equipment to perform the above mapping. e. Indicate capabilities to do 80 percent of work in-house. f. Demonstrate experience in use of CADD systems, including Inroads, MGE,IRAS C, etc. All drawings shall be furnished in Intergraph Microstation design file compatible format. Deliverables shall be provided on one of the following types of media: 3.5-inch diskette in DOS format, 8mm exabyte tape scpio saveset (UNIX), compact disc, file transport protocol through the Internet and/or plotted hardcopy. The aforementioned files and backups must be of current version in operation by the Vicksburg District at the time of contractaward. Design file specification, level assignments, line styles, and line weights shall be in accordance with Engineer Manual EM-1110-1-1807 (all parts) and/or as indicated by contracting official. Responding firms must, as a part of their response, state the type of CADD system to be used in this effort and explain in detail how the system will be made compatible with the Vicksburg District Graphics System. Firms failing to submit as part of their response information on how they will achieve complete CADD compatibility with the Vicksburg District System will not be considered. Selection shall be based on the following: See Note 24 of the CBD for the general selection process. The selection criteria are listed in descending order of importance (first by major criterion and then by each subcriterion). Criteria A through E are primary. Criteria F through H are secondary and will only be used in the final ranking of the most highly qualified firms. (A) Professional qualifications: The firm must indicate professional registration and work experience of key personnel. The firm should emphasize professional registration, advanced degrees, and specific work experience of key personnel. The selected firm should also indicate adequate management personnel with required qualifications and experience in mapping to assure prompt response to mapping assignments. (B) Specialized experience: The selected firm must have demonstrated experience and personnel experienced in general mapping techniques with specific emphasis on topographic, hydrographic, cadastral and control surveys including (standard and CADD aerotriangulation and photogrammetric map compilation). (C) Capacity: The selected firm must have at least two computing technicians, three photogrammetric plotter operators, six draftsmen, and four computer operators. The selected firm must have a minimum of one first order plotter, one second order plotter, and photographic lab equipment required to rectify and ratio photographs. Firms indicating in-house Intergraph capabilities will be given additional consideration. (D) Past performance: Consideration will be given to ratings on previous DoD contracts. Consideration will also be given to firms which have above-average performance on the type of work described in selection criteria (B). (E) Knowledge of the Work Area: The selected firm must demonstrate familiarity with terrain within the contract limits and with the CADD techniques used to map surveys representing drastic relief and drainage pattern changes such as occur within the Vicksburg District. (F) Extent of participation of SB, SDB, historically black colleges and universities (HBCU) and minority institutions (MI) in the contract team. Participation will be measured as a percentage of the total anticipated contract effort, regardless of whether the SB, SDB, HBCU or MI is a prime contractor, subcontractor, or joint venture partner, the greater the participation, the greater the consideration. (G) Geographic proximity to Vicksburg, Mississippi. (H) DoD contract awards in the past 12 months. The greater the awards the lesser the consideration. In the final selection process, the most highly qualified firms will be interviewed. The contract will be awarded on or about March 2000. 4. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS: Interested firms must send one copy of SF 255 (11/92 edition) and one copy of SF 254 (11/92 edition) for the prime and all consultants to: U.S. Army Engineer District, Vicksburg, ATTN: A-E Services(CEMVK-ED-AC), 4155 Clay Street, Vicksburg, Mississippi 39183-3435. All telephone calls should be directed to Mrs. Laura Cespedes,(601)631-5575. This is not a RFP. A fee proposal will be requested at a later date. Along with the fee proposal, the selected firm (if a large business) will be required to submit a Subcontracting Plan in accordance with FAR 19.702. The objective of the plan is to offer subcontracting opportunities to small business concerns and small disadvantaged business concerns to the maximum practicable extent consistent with the efficient performance of the contract. The subcontracting plan shall separate percentage goals composed of direct cost, indirect cost, or a combination of the two for using small business and small disadvantaged business subcontractors. Questions relative to the subcontracting plan may be directed to Mrs. Shirley Reed, Deputy for Small Business, (601) 631-5347. See Notes 24 and 25.**** 3 Posted 09/14/99 (W-SN379961). (0257)

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