U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 600 M.L. King, Jr. Pl., Rm 821, Louisville, KY 40202-2230

C -- INDEFINITE DELIVERY CONTRACT(S) FOR SURVEY AND MAPPING SERVICES PRIMARILY WITHIN THE LOUISVILLE AND PITTSBURGH DISTRICTS MISSION BOUNDARIES, BUT COULD INCLUDE SERVICES ANYWHERE WITHIN THE GREAT LAKES AND RIVERS DIVISION MISSION BOUNDARIES. SOL W22W9K-0068-8979 DUE 041900 POC Contract Specialist, Barbara Simpson (502)625-7634, Technical POC, Boyd McClellan (502)582-5661 DESC: CONTRACT INFORMATION: The proposed services will be obtained by a negotiated Firm Fixed Price Contract(s). It is anticipated that two contracts will be selected for the Louisville District and one contract for the Pittsburgh District. Individual contracts may also be used to provide service within the Great Lakes and Rivers Division mission boundaries. Each indefinite delivery contract will be negotiated and awarded with a contract base period not to exceed one year, and two option periods not to exceed one year each. The amount of work in each contract period will not exceed $1,000,000. An option period may be exercised when the contract amount for the base period has been exhausted or nearly exhausted. Work will be issued by negotiated firm-fixed-price or labor-hour tasks not to exceed the base contract amount. For the Louisville Contracts, the Contracting Officer will consider the following factors in deciding which contractor will be selected to negotiate an order: performance and quality of deliverables under the current contract, current capacity to accomplish the order in the required time, uniquely specialized experience, and equitable distribution of work among contractors. The top ranked firm will be awarded the first contract. If necessary, secondary selection criteria (e-h listed below) will be used as a tiebreaker among technically equal firms. To be eligible for award, a firm must be registered in the DoD Central Contractor Registration (CCR) Registrar via the CCR Internet site at: http://ccr2000.com or by contacting the DoD Electronic Commerce Information Center at 1-800-334-3414. This announcement is open to all businesses, regardless of size. If a large business is selected to negotiate a contract, the firm will be required to present an acceptable Small Business Subcontracting Plan in accordance with Public Law 95-507 prior to award of the contract. The current subcontracting goals are 61.2% to Small Business, 9.1% to Small Disadvantaged Business, 4.5% to Women-Owned Small Business,and 1.5% to HUBZone Small Businesses. These percentages are applied to the total amount of subcontracted dollars. Some projects may require partnering with the selected firm which could require the selected A/E to attend an approximate one-day partnering meeting to define the User's expectations of the A/E, create a positive working atmosphere, encourage open communication, and identify common goals. Significant emphasis will be placed on the A/E's quality control procedures, as the Districts will not review quality into the project. 2. PROJECT INFORMATION: The project consists of photogrammetric mapping services including aerial photography, analytical aerotriangulation, stereo mapping compilation/topographic mapping, digital orthophotography, horizontal and vertical control surveys, structural deformation studies; land use/land cover interpretation may be required. The project will also include route location surveys, quantity surveys, land surveys, construction layout surveys, hydrographic surveys and geodetic surveys. Real property surveys of Government-owned land tracts, such as levees, reservoirs, or dredge disposal areas may be required to establish or re-establish corners, monuments and boundary lines, or for the purpose of describing fixed improvements, or platting or dividing parcels. These services will be used as necessary to support engineering studies to include design and construction, planning, operation and maintenance of navigation and flood control projects, real estate, and emergency management activities for projects within the jurisdiction of the selecting Districts and may be utilized for Division wide projects. The District and division boundaries are shown at http://www.usace.army.mil/inet/locations/bdry-pages/. All mileage computed in regard to a particular work order will be measured from the District office. Areas outside of the Division boundary may be surveyed at the Government's discretion and upon agreement by the Contractor(s). Surveys require personnel and equipment necessary toobtain surveys of second and third order accuracy (NGS standards). Photogrammetric facilities must be capable of producing topographic mapping that conforms to the National Map Accuracy Standards. Hydrographic survey capabilities must meet requirements of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers EM 1110-2- 1003 Hydrographic Surveying, dated 28 February 1991. Hydrographic surveys shall use totally automated systems with the capability of positioning by use of a Differential Global Positioning System (DGPS). Firm(s) must also verify possession or ability to obtain backup (conventional/terrestrial) positioning systems in the event that satellite transmission for DGPS positioning is interrupted, blocked or not available. All work is to be performed under the supervision of a Registered Land Surveyor or a Registered Civil Engineer. Firms must be able to submit survey and mapping data in the formats requested by the government. These formats include but are not limited to 3D-Microstation, Arc Info, MGE, Geomedia and ASCII. The files may be requested on 3.5" floppy disk, zip disk CD ROM or electronic transfer. In addition to the above formats, firms must have e-mail capability for project updates, status reports, file transfer abilities ('FTP), etc. The government will only accept the final product, without conversion or reformatting, in the stated formats. Firms must have the capability of complying with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers manuals EM-1110-1-1807, EM-1110-1-1000, EM-1110-1-1005, EM-1110-1-1004 & FM-1110-1-1002. Firms must also have the capability of complying with the Tri-Service Spatial Data standards. Firms must have the capability of using the Global Positioning system (GPS) for geodetic control surveys, in addition to conventional surveying mapping instruments suitable for the stated accuracies. A detailed list of survey instruments indicating age, technical specifications (indicating compliance with the NGS standards for second and third order survey accuracies) brand name, and mechanical condition of all instruments must be furnished. Firms must provide resume(s) of all key personnel as requested below, and a summary of the capability for performing all surveying must be submitted. Item 4 of SF 255 shall identify personnel strength of the principle firm at the office where the work is to be accomplished. Additional personnel strength, including consultants, may be indicated in parentheses. No work will be performed under this contract by a sub-contractor unless that sub-contractor's qualifications have been submitted on a SF 255 in conjunction with this announcement. Firms shall select their sub-contractors based on qualifications only, governed by the Brooks A-E Act. The Corps of Engineers is firmly committed to the qualification-based selection process. Therefore, NO bidding to subcontract for surveying and mapping services will be done by the firms. Documentation of the selection process of the (subcontractors) is required. 3. SELECTION CRITERIA: Submittals will be evaluated against the general evaluation factors listed in Note 24 in descending order of importance. Specific selection criteria (a) -(d) being primary and (e)-(h) being secondary is as follows and must be documented with resumes in the SF 255. Resumes shall indicate registration, certification, training and education of individuals proposed for this project. All work is to be performed under the supervision of a Registered Land Surveyor or a Registered Civil Engineer. Firms must provide two resumes that indicate the professional qualifications necessary for satisfactory performance of the required services in each field for the following individuals; (a) Professional Qualifications: Professional Civil Engineer; Supervisory Professional Land Surveyor; Supervisory Cartographic Technician. Land Surveyors must possess registration in the following states: KY, OH, IL, IN, MI, TN for the Louisville contract and PA, OH, NY, MD, WV for the Pittsburgh contract. Resumes identifying education, training and/or certification are also required for the following individuals: Three Stereoplotter Operators; five Cartographic and/or CADD Technicians; and three groups of 3-person field parties are required. (b) Specialized Experience: Firms must indicate specialized experience and technical competence in: 1) Field surveys (topographic and geodetic) 2) Aerial Photography by precise aerial mapping camera with current calibration and by digital mapping camera and including airborne GPS 3) Capabilities in geodetic surveying using GPS 4) Photogrammetric production to include Stereoplotter compilation, analytical aero-triangulation 5)Photographic reproduction capabilities 6)GIS-data development and system design compatible with the National Spatial Data Transfer Standards (SDTS) experience and capability to provide products in ESRI and Intergraph GIS formats are required 7) Creation of 2D and 3D digital files, derived from combination of photogrammetric, field survey total stations, GPS and/or hydrographic survey methods must be created in the format requested by the government(conversion and/or reformatting is not acceptable) These formats include but are not limited to Microstation, ArcInfo, MGE, Geomedia and ASCII. 8) Hydrographic surveying capabilities using differential GPS, acoustic, and conventional survey techniques 9)Digital orthophotography softcopy graphics aerial mapping 10) A detailed list of survey instruments indicating age, technical specifications (indicating compliance with the NGS standards for second and third order survey accuracies) brand name, and mechanical condition of all instruments must be furnished. List owned or leased automated hydrographic vessel(s) and relevant hydrographic equipment. List owned or leased air-worthy aircraft, currently certified precision aerial mapping camera; photographic lab for reproducing aerial photographic and mapping products; hardware and software to perform fully analytical aero-triangulation; analytical stereoplotter instrumentation interfaced for digital data collection of planimetric and topographic features, DTM, DEM, data collection and manipulation of terrain data, digital data editing facilities; ability to provide orthophoto products (hard copy and digital); and airborne GPS capabilities for aircraft navigation and photo control. (11) Indicate capability to perform LIDAR mapping and describe that capability. (c) Capacity to accomplish the work in the required time; if a branch office, its capacity to perform independently of the main office. (d). Past performance on contracts with Government agencies and private industry in terms of cost control, quality of work and compliance with performance schedules. (e)Superior performance evaluations on recently completed DoD contracts. (f) Geographical location and knowledge of the locality of the project. (g) Volume of work of DOD contract awards within the last 12 months as described in Note 24.(h)Extent of participation of Small Business, Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB), Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU), and Minority Institutions (MI) in the proposed contract team, measured as a percentage of the estimated effort. In addition, a brief Design Management Plan including an explanation of the firms' management approach, management of subcontractors (if applicable), quality control procedures and an organizational chart showing the interrelationship of management and various team components (including sub-contractors) must be shown in paragraph 10 of the SF 255. 4. SUBMITTAL REQUIREMENTS: See Note 24 for general submission requirements. Any firm with an electronic mailbox responding to this solicitation should identify such address in the SF 255. ACASS Number of the office performing the work shall be identified in Block 3 of the SF 255. All firms responding to this announcement will be notified of their respective status within 10 days after approval of any selection. Firms which are interested and meet the requirements described in the announcement are invited to submit one completed SF 255 U.S. Government A/E and Related Services for Specific Project to the office shown above. All responses on SF 255 to this announcement must be received no later than 4:30 PM Local Time on the 30th calendar day after this publication date to be considered for selection. All responses on SF 255 to this announcement must be received no later than 4:30 PM local time on April 19, 2000 to be considered for selection. All responding firms which do not have a current SF 254 (within the past 12 months) on file with the North Pacific Division, Corps of Engineers, must also furnish a completed SF 254. NO OTHER INFORMATION INCLUDING PAMPHLETS OR BOOKLETS IS REQUESTED OR REQUIRED. No other general notification to firms under consideration for this project will be made and no further action is required. This is not a request for proposals. Solicitation packages are not provided for A-E contracts. Personal visits for the purpose of discussing the work are discouraged. Submit SF 254/255's to the following address: U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS, Louisville District, 600 Martin Luther King Jr Place, Room 821, ATTN: Barbara Simpson, Louisville, Kentucky 40202-2230. Posted 03/20/00 (W-SN436018). (0080)

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