U.S. Army Engineer District, Detroit, 477 Michigan Ave., Detroit, MI 48226

C -- INDEFINITE DELIVERY CONTRACT FOR GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEER SERVICES POC Deborah Butler, (313) 226-6474, Collect calls are not accepted. 1. CONTRACT INFORMATION: The work and services relate to geotechnical engineering investigations and will include the following: soil drilling and sampling by split spoon, undisturbed and other sampling methods; performing field strength tests including standard penetration, cone penetrometer, vane shear, and other methods; ground water monitoring and sampling, installation of water sampling wells, and rock and concrete coring. All of the above may be done on land, in areas of difficult access, or over water from the decks of barges or other floating plant. Also included is laboratory testing of soil and rock samples for their engineering properties; analysis and interpretation of geotechnical data; preparation and compilation of geologic and geotechnical engineering reports. Two delivery order contracts will be awarded. The selected firms will enter into negotiations for an indefinite delivery type contract with the government for a term of one year, with total cost, of each contract, not to exceed $250,000.00. The contracts will provide an option for the government to extend the contracts for two additional one year periods, cost not to exceed an additional $250,000.00 each year. The proposed services will be negotiated and obtained through the issuance of delivery orders during the term of the contract. It is anticipated that more than one indefinite delivery contract with similar scope of work will be in place during the period of the contract. The criteria to be used in allocating orders will include: performance and quality of deliverables under the current, current capacity to accomplish the order in the required time, uniquely specialized experience and equitable distribution of the work among contractors. This announcement is open to all businesses regardless of their size. 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 this work it intends to subcontract. The subcontracting goals for this contract are that a minimum of 55% of the contractor's intended subcontract amount be placed with small businesses (SB), to include 9% with Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB), and 3% with Women Owned Small Business (WSB). The detailed 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 equal to those determined by the Department of Labor under the Service Contract Act. 2. PROJECT INFORMATION: The majority of the professional services are required for work related to the geotechnical investigation for the design of rehabilitation of existing navigation structures, dredged material disposal facilities, and other structures. The soil materials encountered may be environmentally contaminated, and require special handling and shipping procedures. The work is to be performed at various locations throughout the Detroit District. Contracts will be awarded, for two areas, Area I (Lower Michigan and northern Indiana), and Area II (Upper Peninsula of Michigan and adjacent areas of Wisconsin and Minnesota that drain into the Great Lakes). 3. SELECTION CRITERIA: Potential contractors must demonstrate in their submissions the ability to meet the following requirements: The selection criteria are listed below in descending order of importance. Criteria a thru d are primary; Criteria e and f are secondary and will be used only as "tie-breakers" between technically equal firms. (a) Professional qualifications and technical competence necessary for the satisfactory completion of the required services stated in 1. above, and capability to provide certification of all work by a professional engineer registered in the state in which the work is performed. (Area 1 MI & IN; Area 2 MI, WI & MN). (b) Specialized experience and technical competence including: investigation and testing of concrete, earth or rock dam/dikes (024 or 025); soils and geologic studies (097); and environmental drilling (207); off-shore drilling and sampling, knowledge of and experience working in the subsurface geology of the Great Lakes Region. Experience, capability and training necessary to work on designated HTRW (superfund) sites. Experience in the use of CADD systems (Computer Aided Design and Drafting (019)), including the ability of furnish output files in Intergraph IGDS format. (c) Availability of specialized personnel and equipment including: drilling equipment necessary to work in rough or swampy terrain, drill holes to depths of 150 feet or more, and obtain adequate recovery of samples of all types of rocks and soil; equipment necessary to perform laboratory tests on soils and rock samples including Q (unconsolidated-undrained) and R-bar (consolidated-undrained with pore pressure measurements) tests; equipment necessary to install groundwater monitoring/sampling wells, piezometers, and other related instrumentation, and perform well pumping tests. The selected firm shall have available for work on delivery orders adequate professional and technical personnel in the following disciplines: Geotechnical Engineers, Geologists, Draftsperson/CADD Operators, Geotechnical drilling and sampling crews, Survey crews, Laboratory Director, and Laboratory Technicians. All field sampling activities will be under supervision of an experienced graduate geologist or soils engineer. Quality assurance program, experience of QA/QC personnel, and laboratory procedures and equipment must be certified or capable of passing inspection by the Government in accordance with ER-1110-1-261, "Quality Assurance of Laboratory Testing Procedures", dated 28 November 1986. (d) Location in the general geographic area of Detroit District and knowledgeable of the locality of the projects. (e) The volume of work previously awarded to the firm by the Department of Defense. (f) Extent of participation of SB, SDB, historically black colleges and universities, and minority institutions in the proposed contract team, measured as a percentage of the estimated effort. 4. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS: See Note 24 for general submission requirements. Interested firms having the capabilities to perform this work must submit two copies of Standard Form 255 and two copies of Standard Form 254 for the prime and all consultants to the above address not later than the close of business on the 30th day after the date of this announcement. If the 30th day is a Saturday, Sunday, or Federal Holiday the deadline is the next business day. Personal visits to discuss this project will not be scheduled. This is not a request for proposal. Information to include in the submittal: area or areas desired for consideration (cover letter); specialized experience and equipment available to perform the above tasks (block 10, SF255). This procurement is UNRESTRICTED. (0317)

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