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

C -- FIRM FIXED PRICE CONTRACT FOR THE PREPARATION OF DESIGN REPORT AND PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS FOR CONSTRUCTION OF HOUMA NAVIGATION LOCK, MORGANZA TO THE GULF OF MEXICO HURRICANE PROTECTION PROJECT, TERREBONNE PARISH, LOUISIANA, NEW ORLEANS AND VICKSBURG DISTRICTS DUE 033100 POC Laura Cespedes, 601-631-5575 WEB: Contracting Division Homepage, http://www.MVK02.usace.army.mil/contract/. E-MAIL: Laura Cespedes 601 631-5575, Laura.Y.Cespedes@MVK02.usace.army.mil. CONTRACT INFORMATION: Due March 31, 2000. POC Laura Cespedes, 601/631-5575, A-E services are required for the preparation of a Design Report and Plans and Specifications for the Houma Navigation Lock. One A-E contract as described below will be awarded and administered in three phases. The first phase of work is the design report, the second phase is an option for the completion of the Plans & Specifications and the third phase is an option for engineering services during construction. 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 (SDB), 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: The Lock will be located in the Houma Navigation Canal (HNC) which is a man-made channel constructed in 1961 that provides direct access to the Gulf of Mexico from the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway at Houma, Louisiana. The lock will be installed in the HNC approximately 3,000 feet south of its southern intersection with Bayou Grand Caillou, in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana. This site is approximately 3.3 miles downstream of the LA Hwy 57 floating- bridge crossing at Dulac, Louisiana. The project consists of a lock with two sets of sector gates, each with up to a maximum 200-foot-wide gate opening, mounted in a pile founded concrete gate monolith. The center?to?center distance between the two gate monolith structures could be up to 1,200 feet. The chamber will be earthen with walls and gate monoliths. The project may require the design of bypass channels, cofferdams, and site work. Innovative concepts such as float-in concrete sector gate monoliths will be investigated during the design report phase. The float-in monoliths could utilize lightweight concrete that is pre-stressed or post-tensioned. Other ancillary project features include sector gate operating machinery, electrical service, roadways, utilities, buildings, floodwall tie ins, sheet pile walls, guide walls, channels, levees, and other incidental work required for constructing the lock. The A-E shall furnish all services, materials, supplies, plant, labor, equipment, studies, investigations (including geotechnical designs, surveys and mapping) supervision, and travel as required to prepare the design report and plans and specifications (including construction cost estimates) for the work described above. The government will furnish geotechnical data. Drawings and plates shall be prepared as required to present project details and/or study results. All drawings shall be furnished in a Microstation design file format. The Design Report and all text shall be prepared in Microsoft Office 97 or later version. Phase 1 -- Houma Navigation Lock Design Report. Work consists of data collection, including surveys and other possible investigations, civil site work, geotechnical, structural, mechanical and electrical design, cost engineering and preparation of a design report for the lock. The Design Report will present alternatives including construction of the gate monoliths in place vs. off site construction of float-in gate monoliths. The Design Report will include engineering and cost comparison of alternatives, a presentation of design methodology, construction cost estimates, narratives, plates, etc., Phase 2 -- Houma Navigation Lock Plans and Specifications. The work consists of finalizing the Design Report design and preparing plans and specifications for construction of the Houma Navigation Lock with all related features. Phase 3 -- Engineering Services During Construction. The work consists of engineering services during construction such as review of submittals, changes or resolution of problems, site visits, etc. 3. SELECTION CRITERIA: The selection criteria are listed below in descending order of importance; criteria (a) thru (e) are primary and criteria (f) thru (h) are secondary and will be used only as "tie-breakers" if necessary, in ranking the most highly qualified firms. (a) Specialized experience and technical competence of the firm and its key personnel to perform planning and design of steel reinforced concrete structure projects similar in size and complexity to a navigation lock, design of machinery, design of mechanical and electrical systems for similar marine projects, geotechnical foundation investigations and designs for large structures on soft foundations, including subsurface exploration, pile analysis, foundation design in areas of marsh alluvial geology including cofferdam and levee design, experience in design of float-in and submerged concrete marine structures, and hydraulic steel floodgates. (b) Professional qualifications of the key design personnel available for work on this project in the following disciplines: civil engineering, structural engineering, marine engineering, naval architecture, architecture, geology, geotechnical engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, cost engineering, surveying experience using total station data collection systems, and CADD. Expertise in developing GIS and digital mapping products associated with this project in Intergraph format. Expertise with MGE and GeoMedia environment using the SDSFIE (a.k.a. TSSDS) spatial data standards. Expertise in development of WWW Internet content to distribute and provide project design data, images, multimedia, and Internet-based mapping/GIS data systems. (c) Capacity in personnel and equipment to submit the designs and plans and specifications for advertisement within the following time frame after contract award: Design Report -- 300 calendar days, Plans and Specifications -- 400 calendar days after completion of the Design Report. The work in Phase 2, Plans and Specifications may be initiated before the completion of Phase 1, Design Report. The prime contractor and all sub-consultants must be capable of providing the following minimum design personnel available to perform work on the above contracts: 4 civil engineers, 8 structural engineers, 2 geotechnical engineers, 1 hydraulic engineer, 1 marine engineer, 1 naval architect, 1 architect, 1 geologist, 1 electrical engineer, 1 mechanical engineer, 1 cost engineer, 1 land surveyor registered in Louisiana, 6 CADD technicians, 1 GIS technician and 1-three person topographic survey crew, (d) Knowledge of the local environmental conditions and building codes for construction in a brackish marine environment. Knowledge of the local alluvial geology and geography, (e). Past performance on DOD and other contracts with respect to cost control, quality of work and compliance with performance schedules, (f) Extent of participation of small business, including small disadvantaged business, historically black colleges and universities, and minority institutions on the proposed contract team as 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) Volume of DoD contract awards in the last twelve months and (h) Location of the design firm in the general geographic area of the project. 4. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS: See Note 24 in Monday's CBD for general submission requirements. Firms which meet the requirements described in this announcement are invited to submit 5 completed copies of a SF 255 (11/92 edition) for the prime/sub and 5 completed copies of a SF 254 for the prime and each subcontractor and consultant to the address below. In Block 10 of the SF 255, include an organizational chart, the use of subcontractors or consultants and provide an outline and description of the prime design firm's quality control plan, including coordination of subcontractors and consultants. Note the following restrictions on submittal of SF255. Block 7 -- Resumes of key persons, specialists, and individual consultants anticipated for this project -- will be limited to a maximum of 20 pages. Block 10 -- Additional information -- will be limited to a maximum of 20 pages. Pages in excess of the maximum of 20 will be discarded and not used in evaluation of the selection criteria. Information included in any cover letter will not be considered in the evaluation. Include the firm's ACASS number in SF 255, Block 3. For ACASS information, call (503) 808-4591. Overnight or courier type mail should be sent to the following address: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg District, CEMVK-ED-CE, Attn: Laura Cespedes, 4155 East Clay St., Vicksburg, MS 39183-3425. Solicitation packages are not provided. This is not a request for proposal. VISITS FOR THE PURPOSE OF DISCUSSING THIS ANNOUNCEMENT WILL NOT BE SCHEDULED. NOTE: Before an award of a contract, as a result of this announcement, Contractors must be registered in the Central Contractor Registration (CCR) database, for information see http: www.crc.ctc.com Posted 02/25/00 (W-SN428739). (0056)

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