SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Cadastral Services for NMSO
- Notice Date
- 12/8/2010
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541370
— Surveying and Mapping (except Geophysical) Services
- Contracting Office
- BLM OC-NOC CONST A&E SEC(OC664)DENVER FEDERAL CENTERBLDG. 50POB 25047DENVERCO80225US
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- L11PS00044
- Response Due
- 1/19/2011
- Archive Date
- 2/18/2011
- Point of Contact
- Edward J. Williams
- E-Mail Address
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edward_williams@blm.gov
(edward_williams@blm.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is seeking Architect-Engineer (A-E) cadastral surveying services under Indefinite Delivery-Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract(s) to execute boundary surveys and related services for the BLM, New Mexico State Office, which encompasses the States of New Mexico, Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas. Surveys under these contracts will be conducted under the BLM's federal survey authority for the identification of boundaries of federal, trust or federal interest lands and other administrative purposes. The scope of work performed may include: (1) retracements, surveys, dependent resurveys, subdivision of section surveys, including three-mile method of subdivision, within the Public Land Survey System(PLSS), and/or land grant surveys, metes and bounds surveys, homesite surveys, homestead entry surveys, small holding claim surveys, mineral surveys, the meandering of bodies of water, and posting and marking boundary lines, (2) the search for and evaluation of records, (3) the search for and evaluation of collateral and physical evidence, (4) field data collection and measurements, (5) documentation of corner point establishment or (re)establishment, and monumentation, (6) preparation and submission of field tablets, reports, draft field notes, and preliminary plats, (7) marking and posting of true line, (8) Preparation of documents for the Department of Interior Land Boundary Evidence Standards. Interested vendors must be architectural and engineering or Land Surveying firms. The required discipline is Professional Land Surveying Services with additional related support disciplines. The Project Surveyor must be a registered Professional Land Surveyor in the respective states of New Mexico or Oklahoma with a current license in good standing. The contractor must provide all supervision, labor, materials, equipment, transportation, subsistence, and other resources necessary (except as furnished by the U.S. Department of Interior, BLM), to perform all work set forth in the Statement of Work. Defined Geographical Areas by State and guaranteed minimum and maximum for each area. The guaranteed minimum, expressed in dollars, is the minimum value of work that the BLM will order during the life of the contract. The maximum, also expressed in dollars, is the total value of all work that could be ordered by the BLM during the life of the contract. STATE OF NEW MEXICO: Area 1: Bernalillo, Cibola, Colfax, Guadalupe, Harding, Los Alamos, McKinley, Mora, Quay, Rio Arriba, San Juan, San Miguel, Sandoval, Santa Fe, Taos, Torrance, Valencia and Union Counties. The guaranteed minimum over the life of the contract shall be $2,500. The maximum amount for the life of the contract awarded shall not exceed $3,000,000.00. Area 2) Catron, Chaves, Curry, De Baca, Dona Ana, Eddy, Grant, Hidalgo, Lea, Lincoln, Luna, Otero, Roosevelt, Sierra and Socorro Counties. The guaranteed minimum over the life of the contract shall be $2,500. The maximum amount for the life of the contract awarded shall not exceed $3,000,000.00. STATE OF OKLAHOMA: Area 3: Including the counties of Alfalfa, Beaver, Blaine, Cimarron, Dewey, Ellis, Garfield, Grant, Harper, Kay, Kingfisher, Lincoln, Logan, Major, Noble, Oklahoma, Payne, Texas, Woods and Woodward. The guaranteed minimum over the life of the contract shall be $2,500. The maximum amount for the life of the contract awarded shall not exceed $3,000,000.00. Area 4: Including the counties of Beckman, Caddo, Canadian, Cotton, Cleveland, Comanche, Cotton, Custer, Garvin, Grady, Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Kiowa, McClain, Pawnee, Pottawatome, Roger Mills, Stephens, Tillman and Washita. The guaranteed minimum over the life of the contract shall be $2,500. The maximum amount for the life of the contract awarded shall not exceed $3,000,000.00. Area 5) Including the counties of Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Coal, Hughes, Jefferson, Johnston, Latimer, Le Flore, Love, Marshall, McCurtain, Murray, Pittsburg, Pontotoc, Pushmataha and Seminole. The guaranteed minimum over the life of the contract shall be $2,500. The maximum amount for the life of the contract awarded shall not exceed $3,000,000.00. Area 6) Including the counties of Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware, Haskell, Mayes, McIntosh, Muskogee, Nowata, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Osage, Ottawa, Pawnee, Rogers, Sequoyah, Tulsa, Wagoner and Washington. The guaranteed minimum over the life of the contract shall be $2,500. The maximum amount for the life of the contract awarded shall not exceed $3,000,000.00. The following evaluation criteria, listed in descending order of importance, will be used in the evaluation of prospective firms. (1) PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS: The MINIMUM requirement is that each vendor must identify a Project Surveyor(s) that possess a current Professional Land Surveyor License within the respective geographic area of the contract in good standing. The Project Surveyor will be the surveyor assigned to be in responsible charge of the project and the survey crew. The Project Surveyor will be required to have a personal, physical presence at the location of the field survey to evaluate collateral and physical corner evidence. The Project Surveyor will be the surveyor issued Assignment Instructions from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to execute BLMs federal survey authority for the identification of boundaries of federal or trust lands and other administrative boundaries. The Project Surveyor may also be assigned to prepare Department of Interior Land Boundary Evidence Standards products such as: Land Description Review, Chain of Survey research, and Certificate of Inspection. The lack of a Project Surveyor makes the candidate/firm ineligible. Consideration will be given to those Project Surveyors that have been licensed within New Mexico and/or Oklahoma for a minimum of five years at the time this contract is awarded. Additional credit will be given to Project Surveyors that can demonstrate a minimum of five years of PLSS (rectangular and non-rectangular) survey experience in the geographic area(s) being considered. Additional consideration will be given to those candidates/firms who have identified a Project Surveyor that has successfully completed or is currently enrolled in the Department of the Interior, BLM/ACSM administered Certified Federal Surveyor (CFedS) Training program. Additionally, credit will be given to candidates or firms with respect to past or current involvement in professional and community activities; i.e., membership and roles taken in professional organizations/societies, graduate course studies in PLSS surveys, continuing education courses, and community involvement/projects. All resumes of the Project Surveyors, Managers, Supervisors etc. should include all PLSS surveying experience, including land boundary survey experience on Indian Reservations, any prior BLM and/or U.S. Forest Service (USFS) cadastral survey experience as an employee or contractor, and level of formal education. (2) SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE AND TECHNICAL COMPETENCE IN PROVIDING LAND SURVEY SERVICES WITHIN THE PUBLIC LAND SURVEY SYSTEM: Demonstrate Project Surveyor(s) specialized experience and technical competence in completing PLSS (rectangular and special surveys) projects including: resurvey of riparian boundaries, metes-and-bounds surveys, resurveys of U.S. Indian Service surveys and/or survey of Indian Allotments, land grants and private claim surveys. Experience recognizing boundary defects such as latent boundary ambiguities, conflicting surveys, adverse claims, encroachments, unauthorized uses, etc.; such defects normally do not appear in the public records and typically are not insured against by a title insurance policy or disclosed in a Title Status Report. Demonstrate knowledge of the geodetic aspects of the PLSS datum and technical competence necessary to conduct the following: real-time kinematic and static Global Positioning System (GPS) surveys, least squares network adjustments of both GPS and conventional survey data. List experience with geodetic, computational, word processing, and AutoCad software. Quantify the amount of experience using software capable of specialized PLSS computations for fieldwork and platting of cadastral surveys. Greater consideration will be given to those candidates/firms who have experience using Cadastral Measurement Management (CMM) software, Autodesk AutoCad, Cadastral Automated Plat Drafting (CAPD) Lisp programs, and Microsoft Word. Describe your quality control processes and the project management approach that will be used to perform survey services awarded under this contract. Attach three filed survey plats or Records of Survey, and three Corner Perpetuation and Filing (CP&F) records, that illustrate PLSS surveys and/or section subdivisions performed in the last five years by key personnel. Provide examples of both township and subdivisional boundaries dependently resurveyed, and PLSS boundary corners monumented or remonumented, including any secondary and/or special methods used in completing complex PLSS surveys. (3) KNOWLEDGE OF THE GENERAL GEOGRAPHICAL AREA: Demonstrate the firms and Project Surveyor(s) knowledge of the geographical area(s) of concern and how it affects the ability to successfully perform survey projects in the geographic area(s) being proposed. Demonstrate the firms ability to logistically handle multiple project(s) if awarded contracts in more than one area. Include a narrative that summarizes the candidates knowledge of the survey history (local and government), within the geographic area, and knowledge of local survey records access (recorded or non-recorded) in the geographic area. Describe what geographical area(s) where they wish to be considered in relation to the base of operation for the Project Surveyor(s). (4) CAPACITY: Firm is required to demonstrate the ability to provide a sufficient amount of capital, qualified personnel and survey equipment, including survey grade GPS equipment, to successfully complete various sized projects in the required time. Additional consideration will be given for demonstrating successful completion of government PLSS boundary survey contracts over $25,000. This would include demonstrating the ability to provide an adequate amount of qualified full time personnel to complete projects within scheduled parameters, ability to fully equip the personnel, and the flexibility to supply additional qualified personnel if needed. (5) PAST PERFORMANCE ON PREVIOUS CONTRACTS WITH RESPECT TO TIME, COST CONTROL, QUALITY OF WORK, AND COMPLIANCE WITH ESTABLISHED PERFORMANCE SCHEDULES: Provide details on the a total of five (5) most recent cadastral survey projects with Government agencies and private industry that have been completed, to include customer's contact information of the person most familiar with the contractor's performance. (6) SUPPLEMENTAL DATA: Includes resumes, professional licenses of land surveying firms personnel and New Mexico and/or Oklahoma Professional Land Surveyors (PLS) project surveyor license number and date received, certificates of continuing education, transcripts, affidavits, percentages of time that key personnel will be made available, copies of final plats and corner perpetuation and filing from surveys performed illustrating PLSS type survey projects (gaps, overlaps, original surveys, retracements, resurveys, and subdivision of sections etc.), contact information for key personnel from previous projects or contracts; a narrative detailing logistical concerns, solutions, and the ability to cope with the geographical area characteristics and/or challenges; and any other narratives that may provide the BLM an opportunity to gain insight on the character, performance, and expertise not gained from standard documents. Submission of office brochures is encouraged only to the extent that they graphically (via drawings and photographs) substantiate the work specifically described on the SF-330. Failure to provide supplemental data shall disqualify any firm from further consideration. The Government anticipates single awards per region in the States of New Mexico and Oklahoma. Work shall be performed under task orders that define the scope of services for each specific project. The term of each contract will be one base-year with four one-year options. All interested, qualified firms are invited to submit an original and one copy of a letter of interest, and a completed Standard Form 330 with supplemental data. Submit all documents to: Bureau of Land Management, Bldg. 50 - Denver Federal Center, Denver, Colorado 80225, Attn: Marcia Fox, Contract Specialist. Responses must be received not later than 2:00 P.M. Mountain Standard Time, in order to be considered for selection. Contractors must be registered or update their registration at the Central Contractor Registration website at http://www.ccr.gov in order to facilitate award of a contract. Contractors should also register or update their registration at the Online Representations and Certification Application website at http://orca.bpn.gov. Note 24:This acquisition is for architect-engineer (A-E) services, and is procured in accordance with the Brooks A-E Act as implemented in Subpart 36.6 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation. A-E firms meeting the requirements described in this announcement are invited to submit: (1) a Standard Form (SF) 330, Architect-Engineer Qualifications, Parts I and II, and (2) any requested supplemental data to the procurement office shown. Firms registering for consideration for future Federal A-E projects are encouraged to electronically submit SF 330 Part II, General Qualifications, to http://www.bpn.gov/orca/login.aspx, and to update at least annually. Firms with a SF 330 Part II on file in this central Federal database do not need to submit a Part II for this acquisition unless directed by the announcement. Firms responding to this announcement before the closing date will be considered for selection, subject to any limitations indicated with respect to size and geographic location of firm, specialized technical expertise or other requirements listed. Following an evaluation of the qualifications and performance data submitted, three or more firms that are considered to be the most highly qualified to provide the type of services required will be chosen for negotiation. Selection of firms for negotiation shall be made in order of preference based on the demonstrated competence and qualifications necessary for satisfactory performance in accordance with the specific selection criteria listed in the announcement.
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