SOLICITATION NOTICE
C -- Architect and Engineering Services for the Design of the Ohio River Greenway Public Access, Indiana
- Notice Date
- 6/20/2008
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541330
— Engineering Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Army, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army Engineer District, Louisville, US Army Corps of Engineers, Louisville, 600 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Place, Room 821, Louisville, KY 40202-2230
- ZIP Code
- 40202-2230
- Solicitation Number
- W912QR-IN-GREENWAY
- Response Due
- 7/21/2008
- Archive Date
- 9/19/2008
- Point of Contact
- Gloria Ritter, 502-315-6204
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- TITLE: A/E Services for the Ohio River Greenway Public Access, Indiana Project. 1. CONTRACT INFORMATION: The Louisville District plans to procure a contract for the Indiana Greenway design, engineering, architectural, and planning services that may include site investigation, planning studies, engineering studies, design development, final design, and the preparation of construction documents, in addition to construction phase services. The proposed services will be obtained by a negotiated firm fixed price contract. This is a civil works project. This is a competitive unrestricted procurement under NAICS 541330, open to participation by both large and small businesses to be eligible for contract award. A firm must be registered in the DoD Central Contractor Registration (CCR) database, via the CCR Internet site at http://ccr.gov. For further questions and/or concerns, please contact CCR Assistance at 888-277-2423, or Electronic Commerce Information Center (ECIC) at 800-334-3414. This announcement is open to all firms, regardless of size. If a large business is selected, the firm will be required to present an acceptable Small Business and Small Disadvantaged Business Subcontracting Plan in accordance with FAR 19.7 prior to award of the contract. The current subcontracting goals are 70.0% to Small Business, 6.2% to Small Disadvantaged Business, 7.0% to Women-Owned Small Business, 9.8% to HUBZone Small Business, 3.0% to Veteran-Owned Small Business, and 0.9% to Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business. These percentages are applied to the total amount of subcontracted dollars. 2. PROJECT INFORMATION: The project area is approximately 7 miles long, and extends from New Albany thru Clarksville and into Jeffersonville, Indiana along the shoreline of the Ohio River. The northern boundary is generally the levee/floodwall and the southern boundary is the Ohio River. The first phase of the project is expected to consist of the design of approximately $5,000,000 worth of construction and is anticipated to begin in September 2008 and be complete by May 2009. Additional work may eventually increase the value of the overall project to $26,000,000. Services will consist of, but not be limited to, greenway planning and engineering services support. Responding firms should have personnel capable of performing work in the following areas: 1) environmentally sustainable greenway planning and design; 2) road design; 3) design of pedestrian and bicycle trails; 4) site work including planning, grading, and drainage; 5) landscape planning and design; 6) hydrologic and hydraulic analyses; 7) rest areas and overlooks 8) design of small buildings (stand alone, unheated or heated; e.g. restrooms, etc.) 9) environmental restoration; 10) design of promenades and water edge treatments; 11) design of streambank protection; 12) lighting and electrical design; 13) site surveying; 14) geotechnical activities (soils engineering); 15) structural analysis and design (levee cuts, small bridges, etc.); 16) utility analysis and design for certain features; 17) construction cost estimating using the Micro-Computer Aided Cost Estimating System (MCACES); 18) operating in a CADD or GIS environment using ARC-Info, ARC-view, and GeoMedia and Microstation; 19) Public Involvement/Awareness Workshops and 20) other A/E studies related to the above. 3. SELECTION CRITERIA: Specific requirements for this project are as follows and must be identified in the SF 330. Submittals will be evaluated against the general evaluation factors listed in descending order of importance. Items (a) (e) are primary selection criteria, (f) (g) are secondary criteria. a) Professional Qualifications: Professional qualifications of the key management and technical personnel to include appropriate education, training, registration/certification, longevity with the firm, and overall and relevant experience for the following personnel must be documented in the resumes. Two resumes are required for the following fields (a designer and checker): civil, sanitary, structural (independent of civil), hydraulic/hydrologic, geotechnical (soils engineering), mechanical, electrical, and environmental engineering; architecture; and landscape architecture. Each discipline must have at least one registered professional in each field. In addition, a resume for community/urban planner must be submitted. b) Specialized Experience: Specialized experience and technical competence in the expected activities identified in Paragraph 2, Project Information above, as evidenced by the resumes of the key personnel to be assigned to this project, as well as that of the firm. 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 inter-relationship of management and various team components (including subcontractors) must be included in the SF 330. c) Environmentally sustainable Greenway experience: Knowledge and experience in urban waterfront and greenway related work along rivers in the central United States. d) Capacity: Capacity to complete the work in the required time (if a branch office, must have capacity to perform independently of the main office). e) Past Performance: Past performance on DoD and other contracts with respect to cost control, quality control, and compliance with performance schedules. f) Knowledge of the locality of the project, to include geologic features, environmental and climatic conditions and local building codes. g) Extent of Participation: Extent of participation in small businesses (including women-owned), and small minority institutions in the proposed contract team, measured as a percentage of the total estimated effort. 4. SUBMITTAL REQUIREMENTS: Interested firms having the capabilities to perform this work must submit one paper copy and one electronic copy on one CD of the SF 330, Part I, and one paper copy of SF 330, Part II, for the prime firm. Each branch office that will have a key role in the proposed contract must also submit a copy of the SF 330 Part II. Responding firms must submit a current and accurate SF 330, Part II, for each proposed consultant. The proposal shall be submitted as one file using Microsoft Word (.doc) or Adobe Acrobat (.pdf). Font size shall be 10 or larger. Any firm with an electronic mailbox responding to the solicitation should identify such address in the SF 330, Part I. Please identify the Dun & Bradstreet number of the office(s) performing the work in Block 5b of the SF 330, Part I. Dun & Bradstreet numbers may be obtained by contacting 1-866-705-5711, or via the internet at www.dnb.com. The SF 330 will be no longer than 100 pages in length (excluding the SF 330, Part IIs) and Block H will be 20 pages or less in length. Each printed side of a page will count as one page. Release of firm status will occur within 10 days after approval of any selection. All responses on SF 330 to this announcement must be received no later than 4:00 p.m. Louisville local time, on 21 July 2008. 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. Facsimile transmissions will not be accepted. Solicitation packages are not provided and no additional project information will be given to firms during the announcement period. Submit responses to: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Louisville District, ATTN: Gloria Ritter, CT-C, 600 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Place, Room 821, Louisville, KY 40202-2230.
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- Address: US Army Corps of Engineers, Louisville 600 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Place, Room 821, Louisville KY
- Zip Code: 40202-2230
- Zip Code: 40202-2230
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