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C -- IDT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENGINEERING SERVICES FOR THE KCD SOL DACA41-99-R-0034 DUE 091699 POC Brad Cornell 816-983-3844 CONTRACT INFORMATION: AE Services are required for one or more indefinite delivery-type contracts for environmental and engineering services for the Kansas City District (KCD). Each contract will be accomplished by separate task orders not to exceed $1,000,000 for the base period not to exceed one year, with an option to extend the contract for two (2) additional periods and $1,000,000 for each period. The contract will involve the preparation of various environmental documents, studies, and specifications for various military installations and civil works projects supported by the KCD, Corps of Engineers. The first of these contracts is expected to be awarded by October 1999. The method used to allocate task orders, if multiple contracts are awarded, will include consideration of experience and user needs, workload, performance, and proximity of the firm to the project. The scope of work and services will include all projects assigned to the Kansas City District and may include any effort assigned to a District within Northwestern Division when such work and services are considered applicable under the scope of this acquisition.@ Work orders may be assigned for any work within the jurisdiction of Northwestern Division but the selection will be based on criteria within the Kansas City District. 2. PROJECT INFORMATION: The work under this contract may involve areas of biological monitoring (including preparation of monitoring plans); environmental compliance (including but not limited to preparation of biological assessments [Endangered Species Act], environmental assessments and environmental impact statements [National Environmental Policy Act], and 404 Permit Applications [Clean Water Act]); environmental management; preparation of planning studies for military installations and civil works projects (including, but not limited to, risk assessments, mitigation planning and specification, integrated natural resource management plans [including component plans], biomonitoring, pollution prevention plans, and various supporting studies); archeological survey, site testing and data recovery; historic structures studies; Native American Graves and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) gravesite evaluation and forensic analysis; and preparation and/or updating of existing databases (including but not limited to mapping, aerial photography, geographic information systems [GIS], and computer-aided design and drafting [CADD]). Use of global positioning system (GPS) may be required. 3. SELECTION CRITERIA: Selection criteria are listed in order of importance. Items f. through h. will be used only as tie breakers. a. Specialized experience and technical competence. (1) Responding firms should demonstrate experience in all areas of the PROJECT INFORMATION portion of the announcement. (2) Experience in completing projects listed in Section 2, AProject Information, at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, especially in those areas pertaining to the compliance with the procedural provisions of the Endangered Species Act. The Contractor must possess detailed knowledge and have demonstrated experience in working with the Federally-listed threatened and endangered species found at Fort Leonard Wood, including the Indiana bat, gray bat and bald eagle. (3) Experience in complying with the Reasonable and Prudent Measures (RPMs) included in the Biological Opinion issued by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for the Biological Assessment prepared for BRAC 95 actions at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. (4) Experience in working cooperatively and productively with the Columbia, Missouri Office of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Region 7 of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the Missouri Department of Natural Resources. (5) Capability to prepare documents specified in Army Regulations (AR) 200-1, 200-2 and 200-3; and Engineering Regulation (ER) 200-2-2. (6) Quality management procedures. Include a proposed organizational chart and a narrative description of how the quality management procedures will function in Block 10 of SF 255. (A detailed quality control plan will be submitted by the AE as part of the negotiation process.) b. Professional capabilities. (1) Responding firms shall demonstrate capability in these primary disciplines (in order of priority): environmental sciences, wildlife biology (including threatened and endangered species management and conservation), ecology, aquatic/wetlands biology, ecotoxicology, ecological and human health risk assessment, botany, civil engineering, chemistry, program/project management, economics (as it pertains to natural resources and environmental impact assessment), entomology, soil science, zoology, hydrogeology, prehistoric and historic archeology, history, historic architecture, forensic anthropology and GIS/CADD. c. Past performance on DOD and other contracts with respect to cost control, quality of work, and compliance with performance schedules. d. Capacity for potential concurrent workload of $500,000 to $1,000,000 of environmental services. e. Knowledge of, and capability to perform, work within Corps of Engineers and Department of Defense environmental programs and environmental compliance as it pertains to NEPA, Clean Water Act, and the Endangered Species Act. Specific knowledge of local conditions and project site features within the KCD area of responsibility. Ability to meet the Secretary of the Interior's Professional Qualification Standards (dated September 29, 1983) for historian, prehistoric archeology, historic archeology, and historic architecture and experience in performing work related to the disciplines. Experience in performing prehistoric archeology in the Central Great Plains, Missouri and Iowa. Capability to perform forensic anthropology study as it pertains to NAGPRA. Work under this contract may occur anywhere in the KCD area of responsibility, but a significant portion of the initial work under this contract is anticipated to occur at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, and therefore greater weight will be given to experience at Fort Leonard Wood. f. Extent of participation in small business (SB), small disadvantaged business (SDB), historically black colleges and universities (HBCU), and minority institutions (MI). Large business will be expected to place subcontracts to the maximum practical extent with DB, SDB, HBCU and MI firms in accordance with Public Law 95-507. The plan is not required with the submittal, but changes to the study/analysis/design team may require reconsideration by the Selection Board and must be approved prior to award to any large business. Of the subcontract amount, goals assigned to the KCD are 60.3 percent for small business, 9.8 percent for small disadvantaged business, and 3.0 percent for women-owned small business concerns. Small Disadvantaged Business Goals for less than 5 percent must be approved two levels above the Contracting Officer, pursuant to DOD FAR Supplement 219.705-4. For informational purposes, the small business size for this solicitation is one where they average annual receipts of the concern and its affiliates for the preceding three (3) fiscal years does not exceed $2.5 million, the Standard Industrial Classification Code is 8731. Participation will be measured as a percentage of the total anticipated contract effort, regardless of whether the SB, SDB, HBCU or MI is a prime contractor, subcontractor or joint venture partner. The greater the participation, the greater the consideration. g. Location of firm in general geographical area. h. Volume of DOD contracts awarded in the last 12 months to the prime A-E firm. In Block 10 of the SF 255, responding firms should cite all contract numbers, award dates and total negotiated fees for any DOD contract awarded within the last 12 months to the office expected to perform this work. Please indicate all delivery orders awarded your firm by DOD agencies within the last 12 months under an indefinite delivery type contract, regardless of the award date of the contract itself. Indicate date of delivery orders and fee for each. Clarifications to task orders which were awarded prior to the last 12 months need not be listed. SUBMITTAL REQUIREMENTS: Interested firms having the capabilities to perform this work must submit a SF 255 to the address listed below no later than close of business (September 16, 1999 4:00 p.m. Kansas City time). The SF 255 will be no longer than 125 pages in length (excluding SF 254's) and Block 10 will be 20 pages or less in length. Each firm/consultant listed within the SF 255 must have a current SF 254 (submitted with the last 12 months) on file with the Corps of Engineers, or one must be submitted with this package. Solicitation packages are not provided. This is not a request for proposal. Submit responses to: U.S. Army Engineer District, Kansas City ATTN: Brad Cornell, 757 Federal Building, 601 East 12th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64106-2896. Questions of a technical nature should be addressed to Alan Gehrt at 816-983-3142 and those of an administrative nature to Vera Murray 816-983-3840. Posted 08/17/99 (W-SN368788). (0229)

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