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C -- INDEFINITE QUANTITY SURVEYING SERVICES WITHIN THE LIMITS OF THE NEW ORLEANS DISTRICT SOL DACW29-95-R-0032 POC Lisa Roberts, (504) 862-1716 INDEFINITE QUANTITY SURVEYING SERVICES WITHIN THE LIMITS OF THE NEW ORLEANS DISTRICT. 1. CONTRACT INFORMATION: A-E services are required for the subject project. A one-year indefinite quantity contract for A-E services NTE $750,000, with a subsequent nine month option also NTE $750,000, is scheduled for award on or about August 1995. If a large business is selected for this contract, it must comply with FAR 52.219-9 regarding the requirement for a subcontracting plan on the part of the work it intends to subcontract. The subcontracting goals for this contract shall be stated, but an actual plan is not required with this submittal. 2. PROJECT INFORMATION: The services required under this contract include the following: FIELD ASSIGNMENTS: include topographic; planimetric, cadastral and control surveys, setting staff automated gages, automated hydrographic surveys, overbank surveys and control surveys in rivers, bays, lakes, the Gulf of Mexico, navigation channels, along levees and other areas within the New Orleans District. A Differential Global Positioning System (DGPS) will be used in making hydrographic surveys. Firms must indicate a capability of using both multi-beam bathymetric and single transducer technology to obtain hydrographic surveys. All survey data shall be furnished on 5 1/4'' floppy diskettes. Deliverables shall include hard copy plots of completed surveys certified by a registered land surveyor or engineer. OFFICE ASSIGNMENTS: include computing and compiling the above types of surveys, digitizing hydrographic survey chart data, graphically depicting the survey data and certifying the resulting hard copy as a validity check and preparing bench mark descriptions using form LMN 3 format and survey field books. Firms must provide sufficient technical surveying vehicles and equipment and sufficient technical supervisory and administrative personnel to ensure expeditious completion of work assignments. To be considered for selection, a firm must: demonstrate experience in the types of surveys stated above including hydrographic surveys with DGPS equipment and multi-beam bathymetric systems; have available at least one registered land surveyor; have at lease five 4-person survey parties, five 2-person hydrographic survey parties, and two 4-person GPS parties; and to be capable of employing total stations with data collection systems. 3. SELECTION CRITERIA: See Note 24 for general selection process. The selection criteria in descending order of importance are: a. Specialized experience and technical competence in the type of work required (firm and key personnel); b. Professional qualifications necessary for satisfactory performance of required services; c. Capacity to accomplish the services in the required time and to furnish the minimum number of personnel stated above; d. Knowledge of the geographic area; e. Past performance on DOD and other contracts with respect to cost control, quality of work and compliance with performance schedules; f. Safety plan and performance (number of hours lost per 100,000 man hours); g. Location of firm in the general geographical area of the project. h. Extent of participation of SB, SDB, historically black colleges and universities, and minority institutions on the proposed contract team, measured as a percentage of the estimated effort; i. Volume of DOD work in the last 12 months. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS: See Note 24 for general submission requirement. Firms which meet the requirements in this announcement are invited to submit five copies of their SF 254 and 255, including those for subcontractors and consultants, within 30 days of this publication. The nine evaluation factors listed above must be addressed in Block 10 of the SF 255. Firms must state in the SF 255 that they have a quality control plan and a safety plan suitable for the work. These plans must be submitted with the SF 255 with a statement giving the number of manhours lost to accidents in the last 100,000 hours worked. This is not a Request for Proposal. Solicitation packages are not provided. Overnight or courier type of mail should be sent to the following address: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District, Attn: Lisa Roberts, Room 270, Foot of Prytania Street, New Orleans, LA 70118-1030. Refer to Announcement No. DACW29-95-R-0032. (0095)

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