C -- INDEFINITE DELIVERY TYPE CONTRACT FOR MAPPING SERVICES FOR VICKSBURG DISTRICT-ENGINEERING DIVISION

Notice Date

July 26, 2001

Contracting Office

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

ZIP Code

39180-3435

Solicitation Number

N/A

Response Due

August 31, 2001

Point of Contact

Laura Cespedes, (601) 631-5575

E-Mail Address

POINT OF CONTACT (Laura.Y.Cespedes@MVK02.usace.army.mil )

Description

CONTRACT INFORMATION: Due: August 31 2001. POC: Laura Cespedes, 601-631-5575. Work will be accomplished under an Indefinite Delivery Contract NTE $1.0M(with an option for an additional $1.0M) by the issuance of individual task orders, NTE $1.0M. The option may be exercised at any time upon the exhaustion of funds during the first year. The work consists of professional services for mapping primarily within the limits of the Vicksburg District, which includes parts of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi, but work may be required outside the Vicksburg District and may be required outside the continental United States. The anticipated contract award date is February 2002. 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 2002 preliminary subcontracting goals for the Vicksburg District are: (1) at least 61.4 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 service-disabled Veteran-owned 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;(4) at least 3.0 percent of a contractor's intended subcontract amount be placed with service-disabled Veteran-owned small business; and (5) at least 2.5 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 (SIC code 8711) is $4.0 million. Subcontracting intentions are to be outlined in Block 6 of the SF 255. 2. PROJECT INFORMATION: Work includes professional services consisting of mapping of hydrographic, topographic, cadastral and control surveys, mosaics, data base population, photogrammetrics; lidar mapping: collection, interpretation and mapping of data; aerial photography: flying and processing of orthophotography. 3. SELECTION CRITERIA: Preselection criteria will be based on the following considerations, which are of equal importance. The firm (either in-house or through association with a qualified consultant) must: a. Have a licensed civil engineer and sufficient capacity of personnel experienced in the following classifications: Drafting (standard and CADD), photogrammetry, including flying photography, lidar and computing technician. b. Have experience in the types of work described at selection criteria (A). c. Indicate the capability to respond to the Vicksburg District Office in a timely manner. d. Indicate the necessary equipment to perform the above mapping. e. Indicate capabilities to do 60 percent of work in-house. f. Demonstrate experience in use of CADD systems, including Inroads, MGE, ArcGIS, IRAS C, etc. All drawings shall be furnished in Intergraph Microstation design file compatible format. Deliverables shall be provided on one of the following types of media: 3.5-inch high-density Windows NT copy, or ISO 9660 (International Standard Organization) format CD-ROM (Preferred); 8mm exabyte tape Windows NT Backup, file transport protocol through the Internet and/or plotted hardcopy. The aforementioned files and backups must be of current version in operation by the Vicksburg District at the time of contract award. Design file specification, level assignments, line styles, and line weights shall be in accordance with Engineer Manual EM-1110-1-1807 (all parts) and/or as indicated by the contracting official. Responding firms must, as a part of their response, state the type of CADD system to be used in this effort and explain in detail how the system will be made compatible with the Vicksburg District Graphics System. Firms failing to submit as part of their response information on how they will achieve complete CADD compatibility with the Vicksburg District System will not be considered. Selection shall be based on the following: See Note 24 of the CBD for the general selection process. The selection criteria are listed in descending order of importance (first by major criterion and then by each sub criterion). Criteria A through E are primary. Criteria F through H are secondary and will only be used as a "tie breaker", if necessary in ranking the most highly qualified firms. (A) Specialized experience: The selected firm must have demonstrated specialized experience in general mapping techniques with specific emphasis on topographic, hydrographic, cadastral and control surveys including (standard and CADD aerotriangulation and photogrammetric map compilation), flying, interpolating and editing lidar data; flying and processing aerial photography. (B) Capacity: Have necessary personnel including management personnel, with demonstrated experience and qualifications in all areas of mapping required above, and necessary equipment to assure prompt response to and completion of mapping assignments. (C) Professional qualifications: The firm should emphasize professional registration, advanced degrees, and specific work experience of key personnel. The selected firm should also indicate adequate management personnel with required qualifications and experience in mapping to assure prompt response to mapping assignments. (D) Past performance: Consideration will be given to ratings on previous DoD contracts for mapping services. (E) Knowledge of the Work Area: The selected firm must demonstrate familiarity with terrain in the Vicksburg District and with the CADD techniques used to map surveys representing drastic relief and drainage pattern changes such as occur within the Vicksburg District. (F) Extent of participation of SB, SDB, historically black colleges and universities (HBCU) and minority institutions (MI) in the contract team. Participation will be 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) Geographic proximity to Vicksburg, Mississippi. (H) DoD contract awards in the past 12 months. The greater the awards the lesser the consideration. In the final selection process, the most highly qualified firms will be interviewed. 4. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS: Interested firms must send one copy of a combined SF 255 (11/92 edition) and one copy of the prime's and each consultant's SF 254 (11/92 edition) to: U.S. Army Engineer District, Vicksburg, ATTN: A-E Services (CEMVK-ED-CE), 4155 Clay Street, Vicksburg, Mississippi 39183-3435. 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. All telephone calls should be directed to Mrs. Laura Cespedes, (601)631-5575. APPOINTMENTS WILL NOT BE SCHEDULED TO DISCUSS THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. This is not a RFP. A fee proposal will be requested at a later date. Along with the fee proposal, the selected firm (if a large business) will be required to submit a Subcontracting Plan in accordance with FAR 19.702. The objective of the plan is to offer subcontracting opportunities to small business concerns and small disadvantaged business concerns to the maximum practicable extent consistent with the efficient performance of the contract. The subcontracting plan shall separate percentage goals composed of direct cost, indirect cost, or a combination of the two for using small business and small disadvantaged business subcontractors. Questions relative to the subcontracting plan may be directed to Mrs. Shirley Reed, Deputy for Small Business, (601) 631-5347. See Notes 24 and 25.

Web Link

VICKSBURG CONSOLIDATED CONTRACTING OFFICE HOME PAGE (http://www.mvk.usace.army.mil/contract/)

Record

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