Amendment 01: Environmental remediation services and investigations for the

Sources Sought Announcement No. W912GB19R0053 Environmental remediation services and investigations for the Compliance Cleanup (CC) Program at USAG Italy-VMC, located in Vicenza, ITALY PURPOSE OF THIS ANNOUNCEMENT: This is a market survey for information and planning purposes. The US Government intends to solicit and acquire services as described within this announcement. The purpose of this announcement is to help determine the interest and capability of potential contractors to perform these services. The US Government intends to use information obtained in response to this announcement to make important acquisition planning decisions including but not limited to: - Contract type - Number of contracts - Scope, magnitude, and geographical coverage of resulting contracts (Technical and Geography) This is not a Request for Proposal (RFP) and is not to be construed as a commitment by the US Government, implied or otherwise, to issue a solicitation or award a contract. INFORMATION ABOUT THE SERVICES TO BE PROCURED: The intent of this Sources Sought is to acquire fully executing remediation services under a Performance-Based Acquisition (PBA), by: conducting required environmental remediation services for which the United States Department of the Army (the "Army") is statutorily responsible; addressing any and all unforeseen environmental, explosive safety, scheduling, and regulatory issues; and, assuming contractual liability and responsibility for the achievement of the performance objectives for the CC Program at USAG Italy-VMC, located in Vicenza, ITALY identified in this Performance Work Statement (PWS). The contractor must possess all the required expertise, knowledge, equipment and tools required to meet or exceed the government's objectives identified in this PWS in accordance with established industry standards. The Contractor must have the capability and experience to perform, or provide, investigative services required for hazardous substance and waste sites). It is the Contractor's responsibility to comply with all applicable laws and regulations and to fulfill the performance objectives of this PWS in a manner that is consistent with any applicable orders or permits, all existing and future cleanup agreements or guidance for the Installation, and relevant DoD and Army policy, for the duration of the contract. All environmental services will comply with the CC Program as amended by the Host Nation Italian Regional Agency for Environment Protection (Agenzia Regionale per la Protezione Ambientale - Regione), known as ARPAT or ARPAV, USAG Italy-VMC Environmental Divison, and the U.S. Army Environmental Command Northeast ESSD (Forward - Europe) & Midwest Environmental Services and Support Division. The Contractor shall perform all necessary field activities to meet the overall objectives of this PWS. Contractor will also be responsible for coordinating and providing funding for HN confirmatory sampling. The most pertinent NAICS code associated with this work is primarily 562910 (Remediation Services). PLACES OF PERFORMANCE / LIST OF SITES: These services are primarily anticipated to be needed on U.S Army installation project site is located in Italy. PLANNED SOLICITATION INFORMATION: One or more pre-solicitation announcements will follow this market survey, and the solicitation announcement(s) will follow no sooner than 15 days later. Currently it is estimated that the formal solicitation could occur anytime before 30 July 2019. It is not known at this time how many solicitations will be issued for these services. PLANNED CONTRACT INFORMATION: The US Government forecasts the need for services described above. As a result, the Government intends to issue one contract for this service. Any resulting contracts will likely be Firm Fixed Price (FFP) in nature. REQUIREMENTS TO RESPOND TO THIS SOURCES SOUGHT Prospective Offerors are encouraged to respond to this announcement in order to express interest performing these services and describe their capabilities. At a minimum, responses should include: (1) Company name to include physical and mailing address, (2) Point of contact information including phone and email. (3) CAGE Code and DUNS number and/or a copy of your entity record on the System for Award Management (SAM, www.sam.gov). NOTE: Companies MUST be SAM registered to be eligible for award of any contracts for these services. See special SAM notice below. (4) Statement of Capability (SOC) stating your firm's skills, experience, and knowledge required to perform the specified type of work. This should include documentation of past experience and competence in performing similar services. The SOC should be no more than six (5) pages in length and should identify the following: Offerors shall submit a narrative technical approach, limited to five (5) pages, to include a detailed schedule for the planning,monitoring, and sampling. The technical approach must include, in sufficient detail, two (2) examples of previous project experience with Monitored Natural Attenuation (MNA) monitoring and reporting within the last five (5)years. NOTE: IF YOU DO NOT INTEND TO SUBMIT A PROPOSAL FOR THESE PROJECTS WHEN FORMALLY ADVERTISED FOR SOLICITATION, PLEASE DO NOT SUBMIT A RESPONSE TO THIS SOURCES SOUGHT ANNOUNCEMENT. HOW TO SUBMIT RESPONSES Interested parties may submit responses via electronic upload on this FBO announcement page, or may also be submitted via email to MSG Natasha McKellum, Contract Specialist, at natasha.s.mckellum@usace.army.mil. If submitting over email, to ensure your submission is received and processed appropriately, please utilize the following verbiage for the subject of your email "SS RESPONSE: W912GB19R0053 FIRM NAME HERE" DEADLINE FOR RESPONSES: Responses will be actively accepted for approximately two weeks following the posting of this announcement and important acquisition planning decisions will be made shortly thereafter. Responses will no longer be taken via electronic upload on this FBO announcement page after the date posted. Late responses may be submitted for consideration via email, however interested parties are advised that acquisition planning decisions will be approved as soon as possible after the stated deadline, and as such the US Government reserves the right to disregard late responses. SPECIAL NOTICE, SYSTEM FOR AWARD MANAGEMENT (SAM, www.sam.gov): In order to eligible for the contract award(s) resulting from any solicitation(s) that follow this announcement, Offerors are advised to take immediate action to ensure their SAM entity registration is current and/or will be current before any proposal deadlines. Any solicitation(s) following this announcement will include the provision FAR 52.204-7 SAM or FAR 52.212-1 Instructions to Offerors--Commercial Items, and the resulting award(s) will include the clause FAR 52.204-13 SAM Maintenance or 52.212-4 Contract Terms and Conditions--Commercial Items. These provisions/clauses require all contractors to register and maintain an active SAM entity registration in order to be eligible for contract awards, as prescribed by the regulation at FAR Subpart 4.11. Please take notice that the SAM has a new entity registration requirement that firms submit an "original, signed notarized letter identifying the authorized Entity Administrator for the entity associated with the Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS) number before the registration will be activated." This applies to all new entity registrations and all entity registration renewals, effective 29 April 2018. Further information behind this new requirement is posted to the General Services Administration's (GSA) announcement page at https://www.gsa.gov/samupdate. Please also refer to Federal Service Desk's (FSD) instructions on how to comply with this new requirement. NOTE: the instructions are different for domestic (U.S. based) and international (not U.S. based) firms. Instructions for domestic entities (located in the U.S. or its outlying areas): https://fsd.gov/fsd-gov/answer.do?sysparm_kbid=d2e67885db0d5f00b3257d321f96194b&sysparm_search=kb0013183. Instructions for international entities (not located in the U.S. or its outlying areas): https://www.fsd.gov/fsd-gov/answer.do?sysparm_kbid=dbf8053adb119344d71272131f961946&sysparm_search=KB0013221