U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District, P.O. Box 4970, Jacksonville, Florida 32232-0019

C -- A-E SERVICE FOR FOR HYDROGRAPHIC, TOPOGRAPHIC, GEODETIC, PROPERTY, BOUNDARY AND CONSTRUCTION SURVEYS WITHIN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO RICO AND IN THE U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS, AND IN THE COASTAL WATERS ADJACENT TO PUERTO RICO AND THE U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS SOL DACW17-00-R-0018 POC Deidra W. Cox, 904-232-1215 -- 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, Deidra.W.Cox@saj.usace.army.mil. This solicitation is restricted and is open to small business firms only. One contract will be awarded from this solicitation. The contract will be an Indefinite-Delivery, Indefinite-Quantity contract for a period of one year from date of award, with options to extend for two additional years; not to exceed a total of three years. The Government reserves the right to exercise the contract options 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 $1,000,000 for each contract year and $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 Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Caribbean area. Secondarily, the contract may be used to provide services within the geographicboundaries 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 Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Caribbean area. Criteria used in allocating task orders among the contracts include performance and quality of deliverables under current task orders, current capacity to accomplish the order in the required time, specialized experience, equitable distribution of the work among the contractors, and other relevant factors. PROJECT INFORMATION: Services will include detailed hydrographic surveys, beach erosion surveys, tidal 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. Additional crews may be required by the Chief of the Survey Section. 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 harbor construction 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 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, and GPS Units. The firm must have an adequate number of qualified surveying and computing personnel including a Land Surveyor registered in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, field party chiefs, instrumentmen, rodmen, draftsmen and computer persons. Your attention is directed to FAR 52.219-14, "Limitations on Subcontracting" which states in part: "At least 50 percent of the cost of contract performance incurred for personnel shall be expended for employees of the concern." The standard industrial classification (SIC) code for this acquisition is 8711. The small business size standard is $4,000,000.00. 3. KNOWLEDGE OF THE LOCALITY: The firm must have local knowledge of property surveying and plotting procedures within the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. 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 REQUIRED TIME: 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 TIEBRAKERS: 6. GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION OF FIRM TO THE WORKSITE: Location of the firm relative to the worksite (considered the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands) will be a strong consideration. Mobilization/demobilization costs from the United States to Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands will not be paid. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS Firms, meeting the requirements described in this announcement and wishing 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 and subcontractors, 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 addressing evaluation factors 1-4 is strongly recommended. Submittal package must be received in this office at the address indicated below, no later than 4:00 P.M. Eastern Time on April 3, 2000. Unnecessarily elaborate brochures or other presentations beyond those sufficient to present a complete and effective response to this announcement are not desired. The Director of Defense Procurement has issued a final rule requiring that contractors must be registered in the CCR before receiving a contract from any activity of the Department of Defense. The rule authorizes contracting officers to reject offers from contractors that have not registered. (The CCR's web site may be accessed at http://www.acq.osd.mil/ec.) All Small Business concerns are encouraged to participate as prime contractors or as members of joint ventures with other small businesses. All interested firms are reminded that the successful firm will be expected to place subcontracts to the maximum practicable extent with small and small disadvantaged firms in accordance with the provisions of Public Law 95-507. 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. See our Web Page at www.saj.usace.army.mil. Posted 03/01/00 (W-SN430105). (0061)

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