USAED, Kansas City, 757 Federal Building, 601 E 12th Street, Kansas City, MO 64106-2896

C -- INDEFINITE DELIVERY TYPE CONTRACT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENGINEERING SERVICES FOR THE KANSAS CITY DISTRICT SOL DACA41-00-R-0009 DUE 032800 POC Gregg Gulledge 816 983-3808 CONTRACT INFORMATION: Architect and engineering services, procured in accordance with PL 92-582 (Brooks AE Act) and FAR Part 36, are required to support Civil Works and other programs within or assigned to the Kansas City District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Selection will be made for one Indefinite Delivery Type Contract with a base period not to exceed one year and two option periods not to exceed one year each. The amount of work in the base and each option period will not exceed $1,000,000.00 and the total contract will not exceed $3,000,000.00. An option period may be exercised when the contracts amount for the base period or preceding option period has been exhausted or nearly exhausted. Work will be issued by negotiated firm-fixed price Task Orders not to exceed the base contract amount. Anticipated award for this contract is April 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 regardingthe requirement for a subcontracting plan on the work subcontracted. The subcontracting goals for the Kansas City District are as follows: a minimum of 61.2% of the contractor's intended subcontract amount placed with small businesses (SB), 9.1% placed with small disadvantaged businesses (SDB), 4.5% placed with women owned small business (WOSB) and 1% placed with HubZone small business. The subcontracting plan is not required with submittal. The small business standard for this effort is based on the average annual receipts of the concern and it affiliates for the preceding three (3) fiscal years. A business is small for this effort if its average annual receipts do not exceed $4 million. The wages and benefits of service employees (see FAR 22.10) performing under these contracts must be at least equal to those determined by the Department of Labor under the Service Contract Act, as determined relative to the employee's office location (not the location of the work). To be eligible for contract award, a firmmust be registered in the DOD Central Contractor Registration (CCR). Register via the CCR Internet site at Http://ccr.edi.disa.mil or by contacting the DOD Electronic Commerce Information Center at 1-800-334-3414. Work orders may be assigned for any work within the jurisdiction of Northwestern Division but the selection will be based on criteria within the Kansas City District. 2. PROJECT INFORMATION. The work under this contract may involve areas of air modeling (including the use of the ISC3 Complex Terrain Model, ambient or monitoring (including systems design, construction and integration); compliance with various air permit conditions; development of programs and processes to ensure compliance with permit conditions; and providing consultation to the Kansas City District and its customers in developing strategies for addressing various air permitting issues. Use of global positioning system (GPS) may be required. 3. SELECTION CRITERIA. The selection criteria are listed below in descending order of importance (first by major criterion and then by each sub-criterion). Criteria a-e is primary. Criteria f-h is secondary and will only be used as tiebreakers among technically equal firms. a. Specialized experience and technical competence. The majority of the anticipated work will occur at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, in support of the U.S. Army Maneuver Support Center and its various training activities having fugitive air emissions. (1) Responding firms should demonstrate experience in all areas of the "PROJECT INFORMATION" portion of the announcement. (2) Experience in completing projects listed in Section 2, Project information," at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. The Contractor must possess a detailed knowledge of the Clean Air Act, Missouri statutes implementing the Clean Air Act, and Missouri Department of Natural Resources (MDNR) air regulations. The Contractor must have demonstrated experience in working with air modeling, air permitting, and air permit compliance at Fort Leonard Wood. (3) Experience in working cooperatively and productively with the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, and Region VII of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on issues pertaining to the Clean Air Act. (4) Quality management procedures: Include a proposed organizational chart and a narrative description of how the quality management procedures will function in Block 10 of SF 255. (A detailed quality control plan will be submitted by the AE as part of the negotiation process.) b. Professional capabilities. (1) Responding firms shall demonstrate capability in these primary disciplines (in order of priority): Air permitting specialists, ambient air monitoring specialists, plant ecologists, wildlife biologist, soil scientists, meteorologists, health risk specialists, water quality scientists, data management specialists, civil engineers, chemical engineers, monitoring equipment auditors, and GIS/CADD. c. Past Performance on DOD and other contracts with respect to cost control, quality of work, and compliance with performance schedules. d. Capacity for potential concurrent workload of $500,000 to $1,000,000 of environmental services. e. Knowledge of a capability to perform work within Corps of Engineers and Department of Defense environmental programs and environmental compliance as it pertains to the Clean Air Act and implementing laws and regulations of the State of Missouri. Specific knowledge of local conditions an project site features within the KCD area of responsibility, but a significant portion of the initial work under this contract is anticipated to occur at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, and therefor greater weight will be given to experience at Fort Leonard Wood. f. Extent of participation of SB (including WOSB), SDB, historically black colleges and universities, and minority institutions in the proposed contract team, measured as a percentage of the total estimated effort. g. Geographic proximity. h. Volume of DoD contracts awarded in the last 12 months to the prime A-E firm. In Block 10 of the SF 255, responding firms should cite all contract numbers, award dates and total negotiated fees for any DOD contract awarded within the last 12 months to the office expected to perform this work. Please indicate all task orders awarded your firm by DOD agencies within the last 12 months under an indefinite delivery type contract, regardless of the award date of the contract itself. Indicate date of delivery orders and fee for each. Modifications to task orders which were awarded prior to the last 12 months need not be listed. SUBMITTAL REQUIREMENTS. Interested firms having the capabilities to perform this work must submit one SF 255 (11/92) to the address listed below no later than close of business (4:00 PM Kansas City time) on March 28, 2000. Copies of the SF 254 (11/92) for the prime firm and all consultants shall be included with the SF 255. Include the firm's ACASS number in SF 255, block 3b. Each firm/consultant listed within the SF 255 must have a current SF 254 (submitted within the last 12 months) on file with the Corps of Engineers, or one must be submitted with this package. In SF 255, block 8, cite whether the experience is that of the prime (or joint venture), consultant or an individual. Work cited that is experience of the prime (or joint venture) from an office other than that identified in Block 4 shall be so labeled. In SF 255, Block 10, describe the firm's overall QCP. A project specific QCP must be prepared and approved by the government as a condition of contract award, but is not required with this submission. In Block 10, indicate the estimated percentage involvement of each firm on the proposed team. Solicitation packages are not provided. This is not a request for proposal. Submit responses to: U.S. Army Engineer District, Kansas City ATTN: CENWK-CT-C/ Murray 760 Federal Building 601 East 12th Street Kansas City, Missouri 64106-2896 2. QUESTIONS. Questions of a contractual nature may be addressed to Greg Gulledge, 816-983-3808 and of a technical nature should be addressed to Al Gehrt at 816-983-3142 and those of an administrative nature to Vera Murray, 816-983-3840. EMAILADD: Gregory.C.Gulledge@nwk02.usace.army.mil EMAILDESC: Gregory Gulledge, Contract Specialist, Contracting Division, Kansas City District, Corps Of Engineers, Kansas City, Missouri 64106-2896 Posted 02/25/00 (W-SN428609). (0056)

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