C--AE IDIQs for Army COS Projects CONUS and other projects on Federal Facilities (Primarily Army Installations) throughout the South Atlantic Division of the United States Army Corps of Engineers Area of Operations

The following sections of the announcement have been revised by this modification: **** 1. CONTRACT INFORMATION, **** 2. PROJECT INFORMATION, and **** FACTOR 1 - SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE AND TECHNICAL COMPETENCE. Revised Announcement: Technical Point of Contact is Dennis Lindemeier at email: contact@example.gov; Contractual Questions: Lee Tew at email: contact@example.gov; Questions concerning subcontracting plan: Leila Hollis at email: leila.hollis@s as02.usace.army.mil; Questions concerning SF 330; Hunter Lupton at email: contact@example.gov. **** 1. CONTRACT INFORMATION: The Savannah District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers requires the services of Architect-Engineer (A-E) firms for a minimum of one and a maximum of three Multidiscipline AE Indefinite Delivery Contracts (IDC) for Army Centers of Standardization (CoS) projects within the Continental United States and other primarily large miscellaneous type AE projects located on Federa l Facilities (primarily Army Installations) throughout the South Atlantic Division of the United States Army Corps of Engineers Area of Operations and includes the states of Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi. All Architects and Engineers (AE) are cautioned to review the restrictions of FAR 9.5 Organizational and Consultant Conflicts of Interest and 36.209 - Construction Contracts with Architect-Engineer Firms. For projects that are the responsibility of a Center o f Standardization (COS) within the US Army Corps of Engineers, any AE that prepares a Design-Build Request for Proposal (RFP) for a particular COS facility type will be restricted from participating in any contract or task order for the Design-Build of tha t particular COS facility type regardless of project location. For the particular COS facility types that will be worked on under the contracts resulting from this announcement the Government anticipates this restriction will enforced through the end of F Y10. However if warranted by the facts of a particular situation the Government reserves the right to extend the application of the restriction. For all other projects (not the responsibility of a COS), any AE that prepares a Design-Build Request for Pro posal for a particular project will be restricted from participating in any contract or task order for the Design-Build of that particular project. If awarded a contract resulting from this announcement, AEs are reminded that they may decline to accept a task order, which is appropriately placed on the contract, only in accordance with the terms and conditions of FAR contract clause 52.216-19  Order Limitations. These contracts are being procured in accordance with the Brooks A-E Act as implemented in F AR Subpart 36.6. Firms will be selected for negotiations based on demonstrated competence for the required work. Offerors are cautioned to read this announcement in its entirety. The contracts awarded as a result of this announcement will be administere d by the Savannah District. Contracts may be issued up to one year after selection approval. Contract limits and contract size will be determined at the time of selection. Typically, the contracts will consist of three ordering schedules, each schedule not to exceed one year, for a total of three years maximum. The total amount of each contract over the three-year ordering period may not exceed $4,500,000. Task Orders issued under these contracts will be primarily for Army CoS Projects and other primar ily large projects within the geographic boundaries stated above with a construction value greater than $5 million, however as required, smaller projects may be executed under these contracts. These task orders will be firm fixed price. Projects to be de signed are not yet determined and funds are not presently available. It is anticipated that individual projects will primarily be located at Army installations within the geographic boundaries stated above Assignment of individual task orders to contracts with the same or overlapping scopes of work will be based on the following factors in accordance with local clause 52.216-4007: (1) Performance and Quality of deliverabl es under current IDCs, (2) Awardee's ability to accomplish the order in the required time, (3) Uniquely specialized experience, (4) Price (except for A-E services ), and other relevant factors. The NAICS is 541330; size standard $4.5 million. This announ cement is open to all businesses regardless of size. Small businesses are encouraged to team with other businesses. The firm must be capable of responding to and working on multiple task orders concurrently at locations throughout the Continental United States. Large business firms that intend to do any subcontracting must convey their intent to meet the minimum small business goals on the SF 330, Section C, by identifying subcontracting opportunities with small business. If selected, the large business offeror will be required to submit a Small Business Subcontracting Plan in accordance with FAR 52.219-9 and DFARS 219.7704/705 as part of the Request for Proposal package. The following subcontracting goals are the minimum acceptable goals to be included in the subcontracting plan. Of the subcontracted work, 51.2% to small business; 8.8% to small disadvantaged business (a composite of small business); 7.3% to women-owned business (a composite of small business); 3.1% to HUBZone small business (a composit e of small business); and 1.5% to service-disabled veteran-owned small business (a composite of small business and veteran-owned small business). While the Savannah District does not have a specific target for subcontracting with Veteran-owned Small Busin esses, this must be addressed in any subcontracting plan. Written justification must be provided if the minimum small business goals cannot be met. The small business subcontracting plan will be evaluated in accordance with AFAR 19.7, Appendix DD. The p lan is not required with this submittal, but will be required with the fee proposal of the firm selected for negotiations. 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.ccr.gov or by contacting the DOD Electronic Commerce Information Center at +1 (555) 000-0000. **** 2. PROJECT INFORMATION: Work may consist of preparation of reports, studies, project planning, design criteria, preparation of dra wings and specifications, cost estimates, and other general A-E services for multi-disciplined new construction projects. The work primarily consists of the preparation of RFPs for new vertical construction of CoS facility types: Company Operations, Tacti cal Equipment Maintenance , and Headquarters Facilities, but may also consist of design for other new vertical construction on facilities commonly found at military installations (barracks, dining facilities, offices, training facilities, equipment mainte nance facilities, labs, etc.) as well as some smaller horizontal construction projects (airfields, roads, ranges, etc.). The firm may be required to provide construction phase and other services that may include preparation of operation and maintenance ma nuals, shop drawing review, and commissioning/start-up/fit-up design support. All design must comply with the Savannah District Design Manual. BIM (Building Information Modeling) technology must be utilized for all vertical design projects. The BIM mode l and all data files required for the complete reproduction of the model must be delivered in accordance with Savannah District instructions. Drawing files of vertical design projects must be developed though the BIM model. All drawing files must be deli vered in the (*.dgn) format. All drawing files will be developed using the Tri Service AEC Standard as supplemented by the Savannah District instructions. The standards include naming convention, file and directory structure, line weights, levels, and color. Specifications will be produced in SpecsIntact using the Unified Facilities Guide Specifications (UFGS). Cost estimates will be completed utilizing the latest version of the MCACES software. Responses to Government review comments will be provided on the Corps of Engineers Design Review and Checking System (DrChecks). **** 3. SELECTION CRITERIA: The selection criteria for this project are listed below in descending order of importance. Proposals will be evaluated on each of the criteria factors listed below. Each factor will be assigned a rating from outstanding to unsatisfactory based on the risk to the government that the offeror will successfully pe rform the factor being evaluated. An overall consensus rating will be given to each submission. Award will be made to the firm(s) determined to be most highly qualified. Factors listed below will be rated based on a relative weighting as follows: Signif icantly More Important - means that the factor is at least two times greater in value than another factor. More Important - means that the factor is greater in value than another factor but less than two times greater. Equal - means that the factor is of the same value or nearly the same as another factor. For this solicitation, Factor 1  Specialized Experience and Technical Competence and Factor 2  Key Personnel are weighted equally and each factor individually is more important than Factor 3  Past P erformance and Factor 4  Work Management and significantly more important than Factor 5  Small Business Participation and Factor 6  Volume of DoD Contract Awards. Past Performance and Work Management are weighted equally and each factor individually is more important than Small Business Participation and Volume of DoD Contract Awards. Small Business Participation and Volume of DoD Contract Awards are weighted equally and will only be used as *tie-breakers* among firms that are essentially technically e qual. Information on each factor should be submitted FOR THE OFFICE AND/OR EMPLOYEE PERFORMING THE WORK IN RESPONSE TO THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. It is recognized that for firms with multiple offices, a project team may be formed from personnel from more than on e office. If more than one office is represented, this must be stated clearly in the work management plan and the Selection Board will consider the performance risk associated with that team not being co-located and the geographical proximity to the suppo rted projects. **** FACTOR 1 - SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE AND TECHNICAL COMPETENCE. Specialized experience and technical competence in (in descending order of importance within this category): a. Design of company operations facilities, tactical equipment mai ntenance facilities, and battalion/brigade headquarters projects on military installations throughout the United States. b. Design of facilities involving a wide range of engineering variables (wind, seismic, soil, temperature, materials, etc.) as would b e expected for facilities located in vastly different regions of the United States. c. Preparation of the development of the technical information for design-build Request for Proposals. d. Design of facilities similar to company operations facilities, t actical equipment maintenance facilities, and battalion/brigade headquarters. e. Application of the DoD Antiterrorism/Force Protection (AT/FP) criteria. f. Sustainable design utilizing the LEED rating tool. g. Use of automated design systems described a bove (MCACES, CADD, SpecsIntact, BIM, and DrChecks). h. Construction phase services including shop drawing review and preparation of O&M manuals. Technical competence will be judged based on a minimum of satisfactory performance and experience of the fir m and its design team, longevity and previous working relationships among the working parties on similar projects, and most recent firm and employee history of experience on similar projects. The evaluation of this factor will be limited to the specialized experience and technical competence presented for the previous five years. **** FACTOR 2 - KEY PERSONNEL. All key personnel for whom resumes are provided sha ll be shown on the organizational chart in Section D of SF 330. Additional staff available for work on this contract shall be indicated on the chart by numbers. Resumes shall be provided for qualified professional personnel in Section E of SF 330 in the numbers indicated in parenthesis in the following key disciplines that are required to be licensed, registered, and/or certified: architect (2), structural engineer (2), civil engineer (2), mechanical engineer (2), electrical engineer (2), fire protection engineer (1), geotechnical engineer (1), land surveyor (1), and certified industrial hygienist (1). One resume shall be provided for other key personnel as follows: project manager, interior designer, cost estimator, and landscape architect. Registration /certification for all is encouraged. The fire protection engineer must be either: an engineer having BS or MS degree in fire protection engineering from an accredited university engineering program, plus a minimum of 5 years work experience in fire prote ction engineering; or, a registered PE who has passed the NCEE fire protection engineering written exam; or a registered PE in a related engineering discipline with a minimum of 5 years experience dedicated to fire protection engineering. Other personnel should be shown on the organizational chart by discipline in the total number available for utilization on task orders assigned under this contract. Show lines of responsibility and communication between project team leaders and team members. The evaluat ion of all key personnel will consider education, training, registration, overall and relevant experience, and longevity with the firm. **** FACTOR 3  PAST PERFORMANCE Past performance on DoD and other contracts with respect to quality of work, complianc e with performance schedules and cost control. Indication of favorable performance ratings, awards, and repeat clientele in Section H of SF 330 is recommended. Past performance will be based on ACASS ratings and other data presented by the offeror or as determined by the Government. The evaluation of this factor will be based on the past performance information presented from the previous five years. **** FACTOR 4 - WORK MANAGEMENT A proposed management plan shall be presented in Section H of SF 330. T he plan will be judged on experience producing quality designs based on an evaluation of the firms design quality management plan. The design quality management plan should include an organization chart in Section D of SF 330 and briefly address the mana gement approach, team organization, quality control procedures, cost and schedule control, value engineering, coordination of in-house disciplines and consultants, and prior relationships of the prime firm and any of their significant consultants on simila r projects. The SF 330 shall clearly indicate the primary office where the work will be performed and the staffing at this office. Any work not done out of the primary office shall be addressed within this work management plan. Address the firms capaci ty and necessary experience to perform multiple simultaneous $500,000 task orders in a 180-day period. **** FACTOR 5 - SMALL BUSINESS PARTICIPATION. Degree of participation of all types of small business as prime contractor, subcontractor, or joint ventur e partner. ALL OFFERORS (except small businesses) who plan to subcontract portions of the work are required to provide a narrative discussion of their plan for utilization of small and small disadvantaged businesses. As a minimum, the narrative shall disc uss: a. Goals for subcontracting with small and small disadvantaged businesses in sufficient detail to allow government evaluators to determine that these goa ls are realistic, justifiable, positive, and in accordance with the government's policy to maximize opportunities for these types of businesses. b. The extent to which small disadvantaged businesses, and where appropriate, historically black colleges and universities/minority institutions (HBCU/MI) have been identified for participation as part of the offeror's team. c. The offeror's past and present commitment to providing subcontracting opportunities and encouragement to small and small disadvantaged businesses. **** FACTOR 6 - VOLUME OF DoD CONTRACT AWARDS. Volume of DoD contract awards in the last 12 months. **** 4. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS. Interested firms having capabilities to perform this work must upload Parts I and II of the SF 330 to https:/ /sasweb.sas.usace.army.mil/aeselection/ by 4:00 p.m., local time on March 15, 2007. NO HARDCOPY OR FACSIMILE SUBMISSIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED. Any submissions received after the exact time specified for receipt is considered late and will be processed in acc ordance with FAR 15.208 Submission, Modification, Revision, and Withdrawal of Proposals. The entire submission of the SF 330 must not exceed 5 Megabytes and shall be submitted as one file using Microsoft Word (.doc) or Adobe Acrobat (.pdf). Part I of the SF 330 should not exceed 50 pages, including 15 pages for Section H. Font size shall be 10 or larger. Resumes in Section E and example projects in Section F shall not exceed one page each. Indicate in Section C.11 if the prime has worked with the team members in the past five years. In Section G.26, include the firm each of the key personnel is associated with. Registration in the Savannah District electronic A-E Selection System is required and instructions may be found at the website above. FIRMS S HOULD BE REGISTERED WELL IN ADVANCE OF THE CLOSING DATE FOR SUBMISSION OF THE SF 330 AS THE PROCESS MAY TAKE 3-5 DAYS. FIRMS MUST INCLUDE THE DUNS NUMBER FOR THE OFFICE OF THE FIRM PERFORMING THE WORK IN SECTION B.5 OF THE SF 330. Cover letters and extra neous materials (brochures, etc.) will not be considered. Questions concerning submissions should be directed to Sherry Turner at +1 (555) 000-0000. **** PERSONAL VISITS for the purpose of DISCUSSING this announcement WILL NOT BE SCHEDULED. THIS is NOT a RE QUEST for a PROPOSAL.