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C -- MISC. ENVIRONMENTAL A/E SERVICES SOL DTCG83-99-R-3CL038 DUE 111098 POC P. Komer, 216-902-6216 Professional A/E Services for Misc. Environmental Services for shore facilities and offshore aids-to-navigation facilities. Shore and offshore facilities include buildings, waterfront facilities, lighthouse structures, and facility grounds. Provide professional A/E consultant services for various environmental engineering inspections, investigations, assessments, impact statements, designs, government cost estimates, compliance monitoring activities, environmental management plan development, environmental permit preparation/compliance, review of government designs, construction and construction inspection services. Services may be required in any of the 50 states. However, a majority of the work may be limited to the following areas: Northern AL, AR, CO, DE, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, MD, MI, MN, MO, Northern MS, NC, ND, NE, NJ, NY, OH, PA, SD, TN, VA, WI, WV, WY. Services required may include: (1) environmental investigation, assessment, and reporting (PA, SI, RI) under RCRA, CERCLA, TSCA, CWA, CCA, SDWA, and other applicable Federal and State laws; (2) design, install, operate and maintain remedial systems and remedial actions, prepare cost estimates and perform construction or construction inspection of remedial design for sites contaminated with solvents, heavy metal, PCB's petroleum hydrocarbons, hazardous and other regulated wastes, radon, lead paint, and asbestos; (3) for Item 2, analysis of remedial alternatives, recommendation of cost effective alternatives, and development of final designs and construction contract documents; (4) environmental permit compliance requirements; (5) development and certification of spill plans, storm water management plans, community relations plans and assistance with fulfillment of public participation requirements, and other environmental management plans; (6) environmental auditing; (7) development of environmental data bases and data entry; (8) NEPA documents such as environmental assessments and impact statements addressing such areas as, but not limited to: geology and soils, water and air resources, fishery resources, wildlife resources, endangered species, recreation, historical and archaelogical resources, socioeconomic resources and aesthetic resources; (9) Most work will consist of delineating contamination plumes, developing/screening remedial alternatives, negotiating compliance strategies and approaches, developing and implementing remedial designs and remedial actions, independent review of government projects, developing construction drawings and specifications, developing environmental management plans, and environmental auditing. The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) intends on issuing an indefinite delivery contract(s) with individual task orders averaging $70-100K. The USCG reserves the right to make multiple awards. The term of the contract will be one year starting from the date of contract award with two one year options. (Total three years.) The total contract amount will not exceed $2,500,000 per year and shall not exceed $300,000 per Task Order. The contract provides for a minimum guarantee of $5,000.00. In accordance with the Small Competitiveness Business Act this announcement is open to all businesses regardless of size. The Standard Industrial Code (SIC) is 8744. The following is the selection evaluation criteria, in relative order of importance: (1) TECHNICAL EXCELLENCE -- as demonstrated by the ability of the firm to implement a variety of chemical and biological approaches to solve groundwater and soil contamination problems in a cost effective manner, capabilities in developing and implementing environmental management plans, permit applications, remedial investigations and risk assessments, ability to design, install, operate and maintain remedial systems and remedial actions, and ability to understand and apply federal, state, and local regulations to develop and negotiate compliance strategies. Firms should demonstrate technical excellence by discussing experience with successful cost effective compliance strategies and by detailing their successful clean closures and/or reductions in contaminaant levels for groundwater and soil, including the time frame for completion. In-situ remedial alternatives should be emphasized. These projects should be referenced in Block 8 of the SF-255. (2) PRIOR EXPERIENCE AND PAST PERFORMANCE -- including experience with projects similar in size and scope of the types of projects the USCG anticipates at the site, ability to complete tasks in required time frame, accuracy of ocnstruction cost estimates, and ability to respond to accelerated time frames. (3) MANAGEMENT CAPABILITIES as demonstrated by internal quality control and quality assurance procedures used to ensure technical accuracy and the coordination of disciplines, the structure of lthe firm as it relates to the overall approach to project managment, capability to perform a majority of the work in house and ability to manage a fluctuating work load. Specify the types of work that will be subcontracted out. (4) PERSONNEL QUALIFICATIONS which includes the numbersand types of professionals employed, past performance of relevant work experience of those individuals who would be committed to USCG projects, and professional accreditation of employees. Firms should have professionals licensed in the service area states or demonstrate the ability ot obtain these licensed professionals. (5) COMPUTER CAPABILITIES as demonstrated by possession of AutoCad Release 14 for windows, and ability and past experience with developing computer data bases. Firms will be required to be compliant to the published CE-CADD standards as specified by the CE-CADD manual version 6.11. (The CE-CADD standards can be obtained by downloading the CE-CADD manual from the Coast Guard Civil Engineering Technology Center web-site. Standards and Software are available to A/E firms on the internet for public down load at the following URL address: http://www.cgcetc.org) Firms desiring consideration are invited to submit TWO COPIES of an SF-254 and SF-255 -- annotate with the solicitation number DTCG83-99-R-3CL038. Only those firms which meet the USCG's requirements as outlined above will be given consideration. The USCG recommends that Block 10 of the SF-255 contain the executive summary of the firm's field(s) of expertise (continuation pages are allowed). The submission SHALL INCLUDE a summary page that clearly indicates which page each element of the ranking criteria can be found on. In order to be considered, the required forms shall be received by 1:30PM EDT, 10 November 1998. This is not a request for proposal. NO RFP WILL BE ISSUED> Posted 09/30/98 (W-SN256937). (0273)

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