US Army Corps of Engineers, Engineering and Support Center Huntsville, 4820 University Square, Huntsville, AL 35816-1822

D -- PARAMETRIC MODEL DEVELOPMENT FOR COST ESTIMATING APPLICATIONS SOL DACA87-00-Q-0034 DUE 032200 POC Katherine H. Atkins (256)895-1163, Contract Specialist or Connie B. Oberle (256)895-1161, Contracting Officer E-MAIL: click here to contact the Contract Specialist, Kathrine.H.Atkins@HND01.usace.army.mil. The US Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville intends to award a sole source Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract for Parametric Model Development Support services to Talisman Partners Limited Corporation, Englewood, Colorado. The contract will be for a base year with 4 option years. There is no other known source for this service. Offeror shall provide services to develop parametric models for building construction, remedial action cleanup, and site work construction. The models must be in the correct required format and consistent in structure with other models developed to be used with/by the Parametric Automated Cost Engineering System (PACES) and Remedial Action Cost Engineering Requirements (RACER) software applications. The successful offeror shall have the functional/technical knowledge of developing parametric construction models, programming software logic for, and usage of, the PACES software, cost engineering for Military; Hazardous, Toxic and Radioactive Waste;and Civil Works projects and instruction expertise on the PACES software. The offeror must have at least 10 years experience in construction model development and have rights to use the PACES modeling methodology. The parametric approach differs from traditional cost estimating methods by allowing the user to input a minimum amount of information to create a cost estimate. The PACES software is an integrated Windows-based budgeting and cost estimating system that prepares parametric cost estimates for construction projects. The offeror must also have the knowledge to create the models in correct structure format that can be usable by the PACES software. Additionally, the offeror must have at least three years of experience on providing instruction on the PACES software for the primary purpose of cost estimating on construction projects. This is not a formal solicitation. The synopsis of intent to award a sole source is not a request for proposals/offers. Offerors who can provide the US Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, with the above services are invited to submit, in writing, an affirmative response which includes applicable pricing and any information indicating a bona fide ability to meet this specific requirement. All responsible sources may respond to this synopsis, and all such responses will be considered by the agency. Response should include business size; standard industrial code for this action is 7379. For purposes of this acquisition, any firm whose annual average gross revenue for the last 3 fiscal years does not exceed $18 million is considered a small business. If no written responses are received within 15 calendar days, a sole source solicitation will be issued. See Note 22. Posted 03/07/00 (W-SN432056). (0067)

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