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C -- INDEFINITE DELIVERY OF GEO-ENVIRONMENTAL AND GEO-TECHNICAL SERVICES POC Robert M. Bencal at 215-656-6606 The Philadelphia District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers intends to award a one year Indefinite Delivery Contract for geo-environmental and geotechnical services with options for two additional twelve (12) month periods. Although the maximum delivery order limit is $1,000,000 it is envisioned that most task orders will be less than $300,000.00. The cumulative total for all task orders in either the base period or in each of the two option periods shall not exceed $1,000,000. The cumulative total of all delivery orders for the base and option periods shall not exceed $3,000,000. Options may be awarded based on value used or time at the discretion of the Contracting Officer. 2. PROJECT INFORMATION: The selected firm will be used to supplement the District's capability for providing geo-environmental, geotechnical and professional services for planning, design and construction quality assurance in support of the military, work for others and civil work missions assigned to the District. Work outside the District's civil works boundaries, which generally include the Delaware River basin and the coastlines of New Jersey and Delaware, may be required. The work will include, but is not limited to, the following items: A. Geo-Environmental Studies, Investigations and Related Work. These shall include as primary effort: (1) Phase I Environmental/Preliminary Site Assessments; (2) Preparation of Remedial Investigations/RCRA Facility Investigations. As a part of the above work, the contractor will be required to complete geophysical investigations, groundwater investigations, soil, groundwater and surface water chemical sampling, testing and analysis, preparation of baseline risk assessments, preparation of conceptual site models and other related work. Other related efforts shall include: (1) Preparation of Feasibility/Corrective Hazardous, Toxic, and Radiological Waste (HTRW) Measures and Studies; (2) Ordnance and Explosive Waste (OEW) Site Assessments. The firm must have access to an unexploded ordnance specialist.The ordnance specialist must be a graduate of the U.S. Naval Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) School in Indianhead, Maryland and have been awarded the master EOD Skill Badge; (3) Preparation of Health and Safety Plans, including a safety, health and emergency response plan (SHERP) prepared by a certified industrial hygienist, not necessarily on staff. B. Geotechnical Investigations, Testing and Analysis. Primary efforts shall include: (1) Subsurface Explorations, including, but not be limited to soil sampling, rock coring borings and vibrocoring for geotechnical purposes. All sampling shall be continuous. Soil sampling and rock coring may be conducted either on land or on water, vibrocoring shall be conducted solely on water. Water work may be riverine, bay or in the ocean. Drillers or those involved in certain site investigations will be required to have the 29 CFR 1910.120 OSHA 40 hour basic health and safety requirements of the job's health and safety plan, including medical monitoring. Surveyed locations of all land and water explorations will be required; (2) Instrumentation installation shall include but not be limited to the installation, monitoring and analysis of piezometers, groundwater monitoring wells and inclinometers. This item shall include all appurtenant items such as monitoring well and piezometer development. Other related work shall include: (1) Technical support of field work, the contractor shall provide experienced, qualified degreed engineers, geologists or staff approved by the Government for all field work, including subsurface exploration. The contractor shall be responsible for: logging of soil samples and/or rock cores; handling, labeling, chain of custody and storing soil samples, rock core and environmental samples; coordinating with other government, private and related groups in obtaining access, information, etc., performing any necessary air monitoring, and laying out the borings; (2) Soil testing shall include but not be limited to visual and laboratory classification, moisture-density relations, permeability testing, direct shear testing, triaxial shear testing, unconfined compression testing, consolidation testing, laboratory field compaction testing and other deformation testing. The collection and testing of HTRW contaminated samples may be required . It is not necessary for the soils or HTRW laboratories to be resident in-house. The designated laboratory must be capable of being certified and approved by the Corps of Engineers prior to work on the contract. C. Geo-Environmental and Geotechnical Design. This includes, but is not limited to, the design of remediation techniques of HTRW sites, embankments and cut slopes, retaining structures, pavements, shallow and deep foundations, slope protection, geosynthetics, soil stabilization, site drainage, and the preparation of reports on same. Design work shall include the preparation of drawings on AUTOCAD Version 14, estimates and technical specifications according to COE formats (MCACES GOLD and SPECSINTACT). Reports shall be in Microsoft Word and scheduling shall use Primavera. The firm must be able to provide compatible digital products in CD ROM or 3.5" disk. D. Miscellaneous Professional Services. This secondary work shall include but not be limited to environmental impact statements, environmental inventories, baseline ecological evaluation (BEE) reports, historical and archaeological investigations and reports and peer review of COE reports. If in-house capabilities in these areas are not available, a subcontractor may be utilized. All work shall comply with the jurisdictional regulations and laws to include the requirements for registrations, licenses and certifications. The A/E should have the capability of executing a minimum of two (2) task orders simultaneously. All work shall comply with Corps of Engineers safety regulations. 3. SELECTION CRITERIA: The selection criteria which will be the basis for selection are: (1) Specialized experience and technical competence in the type of work required, including, where appropriate, experience in energy conservation, pollution prevention, waste reduction and the use of recovered material and general experience in related types of work; (2) Professional qualifications of the available staff necessary to perform the services required; (3) Capacity of the firm to accomplish the work in the required time; (4) Past performance, especially, on Department of Defense contracts; (5) Location will be a consideration in the final selection as a secondary selection criteria element provided a sufficient number of qualified A/E firms respond to this announcement; (6) 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. 4. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS: Firms which desire consideration and meet the requirements described in the announcement are invited to submit a completed SF 254 and SF 255 dated 11/92 for the prime firm and SF 254 for all consultants, to U.S. Army Corpsof Engineers, Philadelphia District, Wanamaker Building, Room 702, 100 Penn Square East, Philadelphia, PA 19107-3390, Attn: Robert M. Bencal not later than the close of business of the 30th day after the date of this announcement. If the 30th date is Saturday, Sunday or Federal holiday, the deadline is the close of business of the next business day. Include ACASS number in Block 3b. of SF 255. Call the ACASS Center at (503)-808-4591 for information on obtaining an ACASS number. In order to receive the contract award the selected contractor is required to be registered in the Department of Defense's Central Contractor Register. It is required that all responding firms clearly present billing amounts for all Corps of Engineers work as well as all other Department of Defense work for the 12 months preceding this announcement. This is not a request for proposals. No other notification to firms for this project will be made***** Posted 02/03/00 (W-SN421309). (0034)

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