C -- TWO INDEFINITE DELIVERY INDEFINITE QUANTITY CONTRACTS FOR HAZARDOUS, TOXIC AND RADIOACTIVE WASTE (HTRW) SERVICES WITHIN THE SOUTH ATLANTIC DIVISION

Notice Date

February 7, 2001

Contracting Office

U. S. Army Engineer District, Savannah, P.O. Box 889, Savannah, Georgia 31402-0889

ZIP Code

31402-0889

Solicitation Number

DACA21-01-R-0025

Response Due

March 12, 2001

Point of Contact

Sharon Godbee, Contract Specialist, 912-652-5400, or Mike Sydow, 912-652-5625

E-Mail Address

Sharon H. Godbee (sharon.h.godbee@sas02.usace.army.mil)

Description

1. CONTRACT INFORMATION: The Savannah District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, requires the services of Architect-Engineer firms for multidiscipline indefinite delivery indefinite quantity contracts for environmental engineering service needs in the areas of environmental restoration, pollution prevention, conservation, and compliance. The type of work expected to be performed includes plans, investigations, studies and designs; disposal or treatment of waste and contaminated soil, such as investigative derived waste (IDW); erection of containment structures or other facilities incidental to the work; sampling and testing of materials, water and soil; well installation or abandonment; short-term operation and maintenance of facilities and the planning of work efforts; support services during the construction phase; completion of required reports and preparation of as-built drawings to include environmental site assessments, investigations, feasibility studies and remedial designs. Each contract will cover South Atlantic Division boundaries; however, primary use of each contract will be for work within Savannah District's area of responsibility. THIS ANNOUNCEMENT IS A SMALL BUSINESS SET ASIDE. Two indefinite delivery contracts will be negotiated and awarded. Each contract will consist of a base ordering period and four option periods, each period not to exceed one year, for a total of five years. The total of all task orders during each ordering period may not exceed $3,000,000.00. Individual task orders may not exceed $1,500,000.00. The total amount of each contract over the five-year ordering period may not exceed $15,000,000.00. An option period may be exercised early when the contract amount for the base period or preceding option period has been exhausted or nearly exhausted. The Contracting Officer will consider the following factors in deciding which contractor will be selected to negotiate an order: performance and quality of deliverables under the current contract, current capacity to accomplish the order in the required time, uniquely specialized experience, and equitable distribution of work among the contractors. The wages and benefits of service employees (see FAR 22.10) performing under this contract must be at least equal to those determined by the Department of Labor under the Service Contract Act. To be eligible for contract award, a firm must be registered in the DOD Central Contractor Registration (CCR). Register via the CCR Internet site at http://www.ccr2000.com or by contacting the DOD Electronic Commerce Information Center at 1-800-334-3414. SIC code 8711 and NAICS code 541330 apply to this announcement. The size standard is $4 million.****2. PROJECT INFORMATION: Firms must have expertise in producing plans, studies and engineering designs under the Clean Water Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, Clean Air Act, RCRA, CERCLA, SARA, TSCA, NEPA, OSHA, UST programs and regulations as well as other Federal and State Environmental laws. Responding firms must be affiliated with a laboratory that is either currently validated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Missouri River Division (MRD) or that is capable of gaining the MRD validation prior to contract award. In addition to the MRD validation, where work under the resultant contract requires additional laboratory certification by a State, territorial, or local Government, the affiliated laboratory must have or be able to obtain a required certification before work commences. Firms must indicate under project information the type of CADD system they employ, and if their system is not Microstation, describe how they translate drawings into Microstation while maintaining compliance with CADD Spatial Data Standards and/or Architect, Engineer and Construction (AEC) Standards.****3. SELECTION CRITERIA: See Note 24 for a general description of the A-E selection process. The selection criteria in descending order of importance: criteria a-e is primary; criteria f-g is secondary and will be used as "tie-breakers" among technically equal firms.****(a) Specialized Experience and Technical Competence: The selected firm must demonstrate recent (within the past 5 years) and significant experience in the following: (1) development of typical deliverables supporting HTRW activities to include site assessments, remedial investigations, feasibility studies, remedial designs, monitoring, risk assessments, and support during remedial action involving fields of study such as hydrogeology, geochemistry, geophysics, geotechnical/soils, radiochemistry; (2) development of various environmental studies and plans to achieve pertinent environmental compliance, ecological restoration, and objectives for pollution prevention and conservation; (3) knowledge and application of Clean Water Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, Clean Air Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, Toxic Substance Control Act, Office of Safety and Health Act, Underground Storage Tanks programs and regulations, DOD Safety Regulations and other applicable Federal and State environmental laws and regulations; (4) knowledge of Ordnance and Explosive Wastes, Unexploded Ordnance, Chemical Warfare Material; (5) producing cost estimates using the Corps of Engineers Micro-Computer Aided Cost Estimating System (MCACES Gold) and using the Air Force Remedial Action Cost Engineering and Requirements (RACER) cost estimating system; (6) utilization of geographic information systems and other data management and visualization techniques.****(b) Past Performance -- on DOD and other contracts with respect to cost control, quality of work, and compliance with performance schedules (1) DOD contracts. The evaluation factors will be ACASS rating, evidence of repeat work with Federal clients and local Savannah District project performance; OR (2) NON-DOD contracts. The evaluation factors will be evidence of repeat work for non-DOD clients and quality and timeliness of past work for those clients. Firms must list points of contact, names and phone numbers for each project shown in Block 10.****(c) Capacity and Management Capability: Capacity to perform numerous simultaneous task orders and provide sufficient staffing and/or teams to accomplish them while insuring delivery of quality products and service. Minimum capacity is one professional for each discipline, but additional capacity is desirable. Please disregard the "to be utilized" statement at Block 4 of SF 255 and show the total strength of each discipline; however, for IN-HOUSE PERSONNEL, Column 4(B), only indicate the number of personnel located in the specific office submitting the SF 255. All others, including personnel from the firm's offices in other locations and subcontractors' personnel, are to be indicated as consultants in Column 4(A). Disciplines to include chemical, civil, structural, environmental, mechanical and electrical engineers, geologists, health physicists, chemists, biologists, archeologists, safety professionals, industrial hygienists, land and aerial surveyors, drillers and technicians. In Block 10 provide the following: (1) a brief description of the firm's management plan, the teams organizational chart, quality assurance, cost control, and coordination of the work with consultants; and (2) the firm's present workload and the availability of the project team (including consultants for the specified contract performance period). Evaluating factors will be the ability to create and maintain a team with a single point of contact responsible for all efforts, size and capacity of resource pool, cadre of subcontractors' experience, capacity and amount of previous experience collaborating with the prime in previous projects.****(d) Professional qualifications to include appropriate education, training, professional registrations, certifications, and other state licensing as required for personnel in the disciplines listed in 3c. Firms must have state licensing for all professionals, trade certifications, or registrations as required for projects located in NC, SC, TN, GA, AL, MS, FL, Puerto Rico, and Virgin Islands. The states of registration and certification of each team member must be included in each resume in Block 7 of SF 255. Block 7 may also include a matrix that displays the discipline, degree, years of experience, states of registration or certification and years of experience in each of the specialized experience categories for each person on the proposed team.**** (e) Knowledge of locale as it relates to previous HTRW services provided in the states/areas indicated above.**** (f) Geographic proximity of prime and subcontractors to the area of performance.****(g) Volume of DOD contract awards in the last 12 months as described in Note 24.****4. SUBMITTAL REQUIREMENTS: See Note 24 for general submission requirements. Interested firms having the capabilities to perform this work must submit ONE (1) copy of SF 255 (11/92 VERSION ONLY WILL BE ACCEPTED) for prime and ONE (1) copy of SF 254 (11/92 VERSION ONLY WILL BE ACCEPTED) for prime and each consultant (extra copies will not be kept) to the following address: U.S. Army Engineer District, Savannah, ATTN: CESAS-EN-ES (Natasha Givens), 100 West Oglethorpe, Savannah, GA 31401-3640 not later than the close of business the 30th day after the DATE of this announcement. If the 30th day is a Saturday, Sunday, or Federal holiday, the deadline is the close of business of the next business day. FIRMS MUST INCLUDE PRIME'S ACASS NUMBER in block 3b of SF 255. For ACASS information, call 503-808-4595. FACSIMILE SUBMITTALS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. Cover letters and extraneous materials (brochures, etc.) will not be considered. Response to Block 10 is limited to 25 pages.****PHONE CALLS ARE DISCOURAGED UNLESS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY.****PERSONAL VISITS for the purpose of discussing this announcement will not be scheduled. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR A PROPOSAL.

Web Link

Corps of Engineers, Savannah District, Contracting (http://ebs.sas.usace.army.mil)

Record

Loren Data Corp. 20010209/CSOL001.HTM (W-038 SN50D0N2)