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FBO DAILY ISSUE OF SEPTEMBER 11, 2002 FBO #0283
MODIFICATION

T -- Modification to Presolicitation Notice for an Indefinite Delivery Contract for Surveying and Mapping Services to Support the Mobile District and South Atlantic Division

Notice Date

9/9/2002
 

Notice Type

Modification
 

Contracting Office

US Army Engineer District, Mobile - Military, P. O. Box 2288, 109 Saint Joseph Street (zip 36602), Mobile, AL 36628-0001
 

ZIP Code

36628-0001
 

Solicitation Number

DACA01-02-R-0069
 

Response Due

10/9/2002
 

Point of Contact

Sonya White, (251) 441-5582
 

E-Mail Address

Email your questions to US Army Engineer District, Mobile - Military
(sonya.m.white@sam.usace.army.mil)
 

Small Business Set-Aside

N/A
 

Description

NA CONTACT MR. DEWAYNE BRACKINS AT (251) 694-3743 FOR ANY QUESTIONS RELATING TO PROJECT. CONTRACT INFORMATION: This modification replaces the Presolicitation notice posted on August 29, 2002 in its entirety and hereby serves as the official solicitation for this project. A-E services are required for an Indefinite Delivery Contract for Surveying and Mapping Services to Support the Mobile District and South Atlantic Division. This announcement is open to all businesses regardless of size. The contract will be awarded for a one-year base period with options to extend the contract for two additional one-year periods, not to exceed a total of three years. Work under this contract to be subject to satisfactory negotiation of individual task orders, with the total contract not to exceed up to $1,000,000 for each contract period. (If the $1,000,000 limit for a contract period is exhausted or nearly exhausted prior to 12 months after the start of the period, the option for the next contract period may be exercised). T he Government will award the base year and any option periods for an amount of $500,000.00 for each period, however the Government reserves the right to increase the contract amount to $1,000,000.00 for each period. There is a possibility that multiple co ntracts may be awarded on this solicitation. Selection of A-E firms is not based upon competitive bidding procedures, but rather upon the professional qualifications necessary for the performance of the required services. All interested Architect-Engineers are reminded that, in accordance with the provisions of PL 95-507, they will be expected to place subcontracts to the maximum practicable extent consistent with the efficient performance of the contract with small and small disadvantaged firms. If a large business is selected for this contract, it must comply with FAR 52.219-9 regarding the requirement for a subcontracting plan for that part of the work it intends to subcontract. The subcontracting goals for this contract are as follows: a minimum of 61.4% of the contractor's intended subcontract amount be placed with small businesses (SB), 9.1% be placed with small disadvantaged businesses (SDB), 5% be placed with women-owned small businesses (WOSB), 3% be placed with service-disabled veteran-owned small b usinesses (SDVOSB) and 2.5% be placed with historically underutilized business zone small business (HUBZoneSB). The subcontracting plan is not required with this submittal. The wages and benefits of service employees (see FAR 22.10) performing under these contracts must be at least equal to those determined by the Department of Labor under the Service Contract Act. A firm fixed price contract will be negotiated. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this action is 541370 (previo us SIC code was 8713). PROJECT INFORMATION: The selected firm will be required to perform surveying and mapping services. Some of the services are of the following types: detailed topography, airborne LIDAR, multispectral remotely sensed data, GPS, GIS a nd photogrammetry. Delivery of files must be made on CD-ROM, portable storage devices (firewire hard drives) or an FTP site. GIS services will include, but not be limited to, total project and enterprise level GIS development and implementation, custom ap plications development, data base development, data collection and editing. All GIS development shall be performed on the current version of ESRI ArcGIS platform. All custom applications shall be performed with ESRI ArcGIS compliant programming environmen ts. Database development shall include Spatial Data Standard (SDSFIE) compliant personal GeoDataBases and Oracle enterprise GeoDataBases with government supplied database schemas. The Contractor selected could be required to perform services in the States of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi and Tennessee; with possible work in South and Central America or other locations as may be assigned to the Mobile Dis trict and South Atlantic Division. SELECTION CRITERIA: See government-wide numbered note 24 for general selection process. The selection criteria are listed below in descending order of importance. Criteria A thru D are primary. Criteria E thru G are se condary and will only be used as tie-breakers among technically equal firms. All Land Survey work in the United States must be performed under the direction of a Registered Land Surveyor. A. Professional Qualifications: The selected firm must have, either in-house or through consultants, the following disciplines/Specialist: (1) Project Managers (as many as needed to cover the types of services requested); (2) Registered Land Surveyors with registration number for the States of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, M ississippi and Tennessee; (3) Party Chiefs (including GPS); (4) CADD Specialist; (5) Certified Photogrammatrist; (6) Steroplotter Operators; (7) GIS Analyst; (8) Geodatabase administrator; (9) Remote Sensing Analyst; (10) LIDAR specialist. The evaluation w ill consider education, registration, and relevant experience in the type work required. Resumes (Block 7 of the SF 255) must be provided for these disciplines/specialist, including consultants. In the resumes under Project Assignments, use the same discip line/specialist nomenclature as is used in this announcement; B. Specialized Experience and Technical Competence in: (1) Mapping production using the Tri-Service A/E/C CADD Standards; (2) Mapping production using the Tri-Service Spatial Data Standards (SDS ); (3) Converting non-standard CADD graphics to SDS; (4) Converting non-standard GIS data files to U.S.G.S. Spatial Data Transfer Standard (SDTS) as prescribed in the American National Standards Institute (ANSI NCITS 320-1998); (5) Development of project l evel GIS implementation featuring themes or coverages that are SDS and SDTS compliant; (6) Development of databases using Access or Oracle that are SDS compliant; (7) Development of project specific custom applications for GIS including a graphical user in terface that queries and executes upon project specific databases and produces a spatial or columnar attribute; (8) Completed multispectral projects including the type sensor used, software package utilized and products derived; (9) Development of electr onic navigation charts; (10) Photogrammetric services including airworthy aircraft, currently certified precision aerial camera, hardware and software to perform fully analytical aerotriangulation, analytical stereoplotter instrumentation interfaced for di gital data collection of planimetric and topographic features, DTM/DEM data collection and manipulation of terrain data, DTM airborne laser mapping, digital data editing facilities, ability to provide orthophoto products (hardcopy and digital), and airborn e GPS capabilities for aircraft navigation and photo control; (11) Providing digital data readable and operational with the latest versions of ESRI's ArcInfo and ArcView GIS, Intergraph's GeoMedia and MGE, Bentley's GeoGraphics and MicroStation, Autodesk, AutoMap and AutoCAD. See Matrix requirement, contained in SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS below, for actual projects associated with items (1) thru (8) above. C. Capacity to Accomplish the Work: (1) Capacity of firm to furnish equipment and personnel to maintain four detailed topographic crews; (2) Personnel and company owned equipment to accomplish airborne global positioning system (ABGPS) controlled photogrammetry on a timely schedule; (3) Personnel and company owned equipment to accomplish airborne laser mapp ing (LIDAR); (4) In Block 10 of the SF 255 describe the firms' quality management plan, including the team's organization with an organizational chart, quality assurance, and coordination of the in-house work with consultants; D. Past Performance: Past pe rformance on Department of Defense (DOD) and other contracts with respect to cost control, quality of work, and compliance with performance schedules; E. Geogr aphic Location: Geographic location with respect to Mobile District; F. Small Business, Small Disadvantaged Business and Women-Owned Small Business Participation: Extent of participation of small businesses, small disadvantaged businesses, women-owned sma ll businesses, historically black colleges and universities, and minority institutions in the proposed contract team, measured as a percentage of the total estimated effort; G. Equitable Distribution of DOD contracts: Volume of DOD contract awards in the last 12 months as described in government-wide numbered note 24. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS: See government-wide numbered note 24 for general submission requirements. Interested Architect-Engineer firms having the capabilities to perform this work are invit ed to submit one (1) completed copy of their SF 255 Architect-Engineer and Related Services Questionnaire for Specific Project for themselves and one (1) completed copy of their SF 254 for themselves and one for each of their subcontractors to: U.S. Army C orps of Engineers, Mobile District, CESAM-EN-DW, ATTN: Mr. Dewayne Brackins, 109 St. Joseph Street, Mobile, AL 36602-3630; or P.O. Box 2288, Mobile, AL 36628-0001. The SF 255 and SF 254's are to be submitted even if they are currently on file. The 11/92 ed ition of the forms must be used, and may be obtained from the Government Printing Office. Submittals must be received no later than 3:00 P.M. Central Time on 9 October 2002. Regulation requires that the Selection Board not consider any submittals received after this time and date. Late proposal rules in FAR 15.412 will be followed for submittals received after the closing date of this announcement. In Block 2b of the SF 255 include RFP Number and in Block 3a list two (2) principal contacts of firm. In Block 3b include the ACASS number of all the participating offices that are proposed to perform work. To obtain ACASS number, fax the first page of your SF 254 to the ACASS Center at 503-808-4596 or call the ACASS Center at 503-808-4591. A maximum of ten (10) p rojects, including the prime and consultants, will be reviewed in Block 8. In Block 9 of the SF 255, responding firms must indicate the number and amount of fees awarded on DOD (Army, Navy, and Air Force) A-E contracts during the 12 months prior to this no tice, including change orders and supplemental agreements for the submitting office only. Block 10 shall include a matrix, which includes the following as a minimum: three projects completed for each of items (1) thru (8) in SELECTION CRITERIA, B. Special ized Experience and Technical Competence above; and proposed team members that were associated with each selected project. Block 10 may also include additional information supporting your firm's qualifications. Response to Block 10 is limited to 25 single -sided pages. A project specific design quality control plan must be prepared and approved by the Government as a condition of contract award, but is not required with this submission. This is not a request for proposal. Solicitation packages are not provi ded. The A-E Evaluation Board (Selection Board) is tentatively scheduled to commence on 22 October 2002. As required by acquisition regulations, interviews for the purpose of discussing prospective contractors' qualifications for the contract will be condu cted only for those firms considered most highly qualified after submittal review by the selection board. Interviews will be conducted by telephone. The Selection Board chairperson will notify, in writing, all firms of their selection status within 10 days after approval of the selection. To be eligible for contract award, a firm must be registered with the Central Contractor Registration database. For instructions on registering with the CCR, please see the CCR Web site at http://www.acq.osd.mil/ec.
 

Place of Performance

Address: US Army Engineer District, Mobile - Military P. O. Box 2288, 109 Saint Joseph Street (zip 36602) Mobile AL

Zip Code: 36628-0001

Country: US
 

Record

SN00161413-W 20020911/020909213608 (fbodaily.com)
 

Source

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