SOLICITATION NOTICE
C -- Engineering Technical Services
- Notice Date
- 5/3/2006
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 541330
— Engineering Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), Central Federal Lands Highway Division, 12300 West Dakota Avenue, Lakewood, CO, 80228
- ZIP Code
- 80228
- Solicitation Number
- DTFH68-06-R-00012
- Response Due
- 6/2/2006
- Archive Date
- 6/17/2006
- Description
- The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), Central Federal Lands Highway Division (CFLHD), anticipates awarding one Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract for Architect-Engineer (A/E) Technical Services. Projects will primarily involve improvements to low-volume and low-speed roadways ranging from 3R (resurfacing, restoration and rehabilitation) to complete reconstruction and/or entirely new construction. The work will be associated with federally funded road projects accommodating the needs of various Federal and local agencies such as, but not limited to, the National Park Service, Department of Defense, U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, State Departments of Transportation (DOT), and counties. Projects may be located in environmentally sensitive areas that necessitate context-sensitive design techniques and processes. Geographic areas include, but are not limited to, Arizona, California, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming. The technical services requested in this solicitation support these projects and generally include geotechnical engineering, pavements engineering, inertial profiling to provide smoothness/roughness measurements of pavement and pavement base as determined by the International Roughness Index (IRI) and the Profile Index (PI), sampling, coring, and inspection to verify the quality of materials used in highway construction. Non-project-related engineering studies and geotechnical, pavements, and/or materials training for Federal Lands Highway (FLH) technical staff may be requested. This procurement is being solicited on an unrestricted basis to A/E firms and their subconsultants licensed and registered within one or more of the aforementioned states served by CFLHD. Professional documents produced under each task order may require a Professional Engineer and/or a Registered Land Surveyor licensed in the state in which the project work is located. The contract will consist of 1 base year and options to extend the contract for 4 additional 1-year periods. The guaranteed contract minimum shall not be less than $10,000, with a maximum not-to-exceed 5-year total of $3 million. The contract will operate with individually negotiated task orders issued in accordance with the terms of the contract. Task orders are predominately for discipline-specific technical services and engineering activities. Some project development activities may be accomplished by CFLHD, by other Government agencies, or by other consulting firms of various disciplines. Agency coordination, document and report preparation, and other public/agency involvement may be required. Highway segments will be designed and constructed in accordance with current American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) policy, Federal Lands Highway procedures and specifications, and/or specific project criteria as determined by CFLHD. CFLHD uses both International System of Units (Metric) and U.S. Customary Units (English). All submitted electronic files will conform to FHWA Specifications for Computer File Compatibility and Computer File Exchange. Work must be performed and delivered using the following programs and formats: Geopak 2004 (highway and earthwork design), MicroStation .DGN File format V8 (plans and drawings), Adobe Acrobat .PDF format (all final report submittals), and the current version of Microsoft Office (word processing, spreadsheet, database, etc.). Smoothness/roughness data must be submitted as (.ERD) files, compatible with FHWA Profile Viewer software (ProVal version 2.6 or most current version). The firm is required to have or employ experienced and certified employees using certified and specialized equipment and have established successful Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC) procedures for the performance of the requested technical services. The scope of task orders includes, but is not limited to: (A) Task Management Activities: Coordination with the A/E Technical Services team, subconsultants, CFLHD cross-functional personnel, and external agencies; management of scope, schedule, budget, and QA/QC processes; use of context-sensitive design principles in performance of site reconnaissance tasks, field work, conceptual studies, project engineering design and analyses, technical engineering studies; support of preliminary roadway design, final roadway design, and preparation of plans, specifications, and estimates (PS&E). (B) Geotechnical Engineering Services: Comprehensive identification of geologic hazards through surface and subsurface investigations; shallow and deep foundation design; retaining wall design; Support for accurate earthwork estimations; cut and fill design; soil and rock slope stability assessment; excavation/constructability recommendations; erosion surveys and mitigation planning; material source characterization; culvert and drainage system surveys; landslide analyses and mitigation recommendations; instrumentation deployment and management; laboratory investigations; preparation of high-quality, comprehensive reports, including detailed findings and recommendations. (C) Pavement Engineering Services: Thorough site investigations (falling weight deflectometer, ground penetrating radar, and similar investigations); Pavement-base-sub grade sampling, characterization, and testing; comprehensive pavement design and analyses, and development of rehabilitation recommendations (including recycling, full-depth reclamation, and overlays); weak sub grade analyses, mitigation, and improvement recommendations; pavements-related material testing and, other pavement services associated with roadway rehabilitation, repair, and reconstruction. (D) Inertial Profiling Services and Equipment: Smoothness/roughness measurements of pavement and pavement base as determined by IRI and PI. Firm and/or subconsultant are required to possess a certified Class I inertial profiling system and employ personnel certified in its operation. A description of equipment demonstrating compliance with AASHTO MP 11, as well as a statement of intent to operate and calibrate in accordance with AASHTO Pp 50, and copies of equipment and operator certifications verifying current certification in accordance with AASHTO PP 49 must be included with Standard Form (SF) 330. (E) Materials Sampling, Coring and Inspection Services: Verify the quality of materials used in highway construction by witnessing Contractor sampling and sample splitting; Perform sampling, coring, and acquiring of materials samples for Government possession on CFLHD projects; inspect Contractor facilities and operations for conformance to industry standards and CFLHD requirements. Includes, but is not limited to, mix design and acceptance testing laboratories, asphalt hot plants, Portland cement concrete ready mix plants, precast and prestress plants, and steel, and plastic and wood fabrication plants (rebar, structural steel, metal fasteners, decking etc.). Inspectors must have two or more years of job experience in construction materials and at least NICET level 2 certification in highway materials or another nationally accepted and/or State DOT certification program. Copies of certifications must be provided when submitting SF 330. (F) Post-Design Construction Support: Assistance to CFLHD in the support and review of firm-generated plans, specifications, contractor submittals, and value engineering proposals; Site visits to perform specialized inspections related to the firm?s design; Attendance at construction meetings; and, Performance of other mutually agreed upon work. (G) Special Technical Services and Training: Technical support for non-project-related engineering studies (including pavement performance, development of specifications, standards, and best-practice procedures, evaluation of emerging geotechnical technologies, etc.) and staff development training. It is anticipated that geotechnical and pavement engineering services will account for 75% of the annual work requested under task orders. The following evaluation criteria, in descending order of importance, shall be used in the evaluation of prospective firms: (1) Professional qualifications of the firm, staff and subconsultants identified to work on the contract. Qualification statements should clearly identify the specialized qualifications of those individuals anticipated to work on the contract that align with the type and scope of work to be performed and technical services to be provided; (2) General and specialized experience, certified equipment, and technical competence of the firm and its subconsultants to perform work similar to CFLHD projects, consisting primarily of two-lane highways in cost-controlled, environmentally sensitive areas requiring innovative engineering design solutions; (3) Capacity of the firm and subconsultants to accomplish a flexible and diverse program workload in a high quality, consistent manner with experienced and qualified resources applicable to the work requested under this contract; (4) QA/QC program that shows project-specific applications of a project management led organizational structure, approach, and philosophy that successfully executes QA/QC processes, procedures, and techniques within the firm and its subconsultants on technical services task orders with CFLHD technical oversight; (5) Past performance on contracts similar to those of CFLHD relating to the range of requested services, cost control, quality of work, and compliance with performance schedules; (6) The ability to deliver projects in a consistent manner within the CFLHD 14 state area. Identify office location(s) for A/E and subconsultants and include the distribution of capabilities, services, and resources within each facility location. Selected firm must comply with Equal Employment Opportunity requirements in accordance with FAR 22.8. A subcontracting plan will be required for large businesses in accordance with FAR 19.7. The subcontracting plan must show the firms intended use of small business, HUBZone small business, small disadvantaged business, veteran-owned small business, service-disabled veteran-owned small business, and women-owned small business concerns. A subcontracting plan is not required with submission of 330 forms. Firms desiring to be considered must submit 4 sets of documents containing copies of completed SF 330. Bind each set with front and back covers. The front cover will show the submitting firms name, address, phone number, and point of contact, the solicitation number, closure date of the solicitation, and any other pertinent information. Firms are encouraged to include a cover letter and an organizational table within each set. Avoid duplicating the information being submitted and print double sided when appropriate. Font size shall be no smaller than 10. Submit data that the firm considers adequately demonstrates experience and qualifications to perform the required work. The total submittal, including all information, shall not exceed 100 pages. A double-sided, printed page counts as 2 pages. Cover sheets and divider pages do not count toward the page limit. Only responses received in this office no later than 1:00 p.m., Lakewood, Colorado local time, June 2, 2006, will be considered. No other general notification to firms will be made and no further action is required. This is not a request for proposal. No solicitation package is available. Short-listed A/E firms and their proposed sub-consultants will be expected to travel to Lakewood, Colorado, for oral presentations. Selection of the firm for award shall be in accordance with FAR 36.602-3 and 36.602-4. You are encouraged to visit the CFLHD web page at http://www/cflhd.gov/. Under the heading of Active Projects, you are provided an opportunity to market your firm as a prime or subconsultant under this announcement. You are not required to register. The names of the registered firms are removed from the web page on the closing date.
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