C--Award Notice

Solicitation Announcement CONUS Small Business Set-aside For Airfield Design THIS IS AN A-E ANNOUNCEMENT. NO FURTHER DOCUMENTATION WILL BE PREPARED OR PROVIDED. Solicitation W9128F-09-R-0067 is RESTRICTED TO SMALL BUSINESS ONLY under NAICS Code 541330 having a size standard of $4.5 Million Dollars. The Government intends, after successful negotiations with the most qualified firms, to award one or more contracts for design of airfields at locations throughout CONUS (Continental United States). Work stated will occur on various civil works and military projects within the Continental United States, Alaska, and Hawaii. Firms responding to this announcement must, if work is on a military installation, be able to pass all security checks, have proper insurance and meet all other regulatory requirements necessary to gain access to military installations. Work under a resultant contract from this announcement will include designing airfield pavement, lighting and NAVIDS systems at military and civil works/commercial airfields and some vertical construction related to control tower, hangars, etc. Contractors are required to have experience with Department of Defense Unified Facilities Criteria. Delivery orders will be issued through out the contract period as work is required under this contract and may include services in conjunction outlined below: The Six (6) selection criteria listed immediately below are in descending order of importance. Offerors should submit and demonstrate the following areas of expertise and capabilities to be evaluated as part of the selection process: (1) Contractor shall submit a minimum of 4 examples of airfield designs done within the last 6 years that demonstrate the specialized experience and technical competence of the firm (including consultants) in: (a) Design of new airfield pavements including the use of DOD pavement design software (PCASE), (b) Knowledge of Army and Air Force airfield and air space criteria (UFC 3-260-01, 3-260-02 found at http://www.wbdg.org/ccb/browse) and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) standards, (c) Design and evaluation of airfield repair and maintenance projects, (d) Design of new roadway pavement. (e) Design of electronic NAVAIDS and airfield lighting (UFC 3-535-01) (f) Nondestructive testing/evaluation of existing pavements, (g) Field and laboratory testing of existing pavement and proposed paving materials, (h) Knowledge and experience with sustainable design for airfields, (i) Comprehensive knowledge of DOD material specifications for asphalt and concrete, (j) Producing (CADD) drawings fully compatible with the most recent version of one of either Micro Station or AutoCAD and contract specifications with SPECINTACT software. (k) Experience in creating design-build Request for Proposal documents, (l) Construction cost estimating and preparation of estimates using Micro Computer Aided Cost Estimating System (M-CASES) Gold version or similar system (M-CASES Gold software will be provided). (2) Professional qualifications and specialized experience resumes, in providing services similar to those listed above, of the proposed team members (including any or all consultants) in the following disciplines: Project Manager, Civil Engineer with emphasis in Airfield Engineering, Construction Pavement Engineer Geotechnical Engineer, Soil/Paving Laboratory Technician, Electrical Engineer (NAVAIDS i.e. ILS, PAR, etc. and aviation lighting) Estimator, Clerical, CADD Operator, (3) Design Management Plan (DMP). The DMP should be brief and include an explanation of the firms management approach, management of subcontractors (if applicable), specific quality control procedures used and an organizational chart showing the inter-relationships of management and various team components (including subcontractors). (4) Capacity to accomplish a major project within 4 months, including the ability to complete more than one work order at a time. (5) Past performance on contracts with respect to cost control, quality of work and compliance with performance schedules. (6) Volume of Department of Defense (DOD) contract awards it has received and has active actions on in the last twelve months. The following evaluation criteria will be used to evaluate offerors documentation submitted: Exceptional The offer exceeds the scope of the announcement requirements in the majority of the aspects of the particular factor. The offer also provides advantages and exceeds the announcement requirements in performance or capability indicating maximum benefit to the Government. The factor has no weaknesses or omissions. Above Average The offer exceeds the scope of the announcement requirements in many aspects of the particular factor. The offer provides advantages in key areas or exceeds announcement requirements in performance or capability indicating significant benefit to the Government. The factor may contain weaknesses or omissions that have no impact on the offer as a whole. Average The offer matches the scope of the announcement requirements of the particular factor. There may be strengths but them may not aggregate into an advantage indicating additional benefit to the Government or may be offset by weaknesses. Marginal The offer matches some but not all of the announcement requirements of the particular factor. There may be limited or individual requirements of the particular factor. There may be limited or individual strengths but they do not aggregate into an advantage and are offset by weaknesses, significant weaknesses, deficiencies or omissions. The Government may still receive benefit from the offer submitted. Unacceptable The offer fails to meet a majority of announcement requirements or has omitted critical information required to evaluate the factor. There are no strengths. The offer contains a large number of highly significant weaknesses, significant weaknesses, omissions and/or deficiencies. For the factors any omissions or failure to match the announcement requirements will be evaluated as unacceptable. Upon completion of evaluation of the SF 330 offers received, a short list of most qualified firms will be determined. Until selection is completed, there will be no notification of any type to firms either on the short list or not who submitted information for consideration. Once the short list is approved by the Source Selection Authority, those firms that did not make the short list will be promptly notified. There will be up to two (2) contracts awarded as a result of negotiations. Each contract will have a period of performance consisting of a two year base period and a $2 million capacity with an option to extend the contract to 5 years with a maximum capacity of the $5 Million Dollars. No one single task order issued against a contract will exceed $1Million Dollars. The Government reserves the right to, at any time, exercise the option of a contract if the capacity for that contract period has been exhausted through issuance of task orders or modifications to task orders. Firms having capabilities for this work and desiring consideration for selection are invited to submit a completed SF-330 identifying personnel and equipment owned by the firm including but not limited to resumes of the disciplines listed above and other key personnel. Offering firms should have sufficient workforce personnel, including consultants or sub consultants, with technical competence and expertise to perform the work without assigning or reassigning a significantly large portion of their resources to a project. If not available in the firms personnel, a sub consultants SF330 shall be submitted with experience in aircraft hangar design, airfield control tower design and topographic surveys. Completed SF 330 information must reach the Contracting Division Offices no later than Close of Business (COB) 30 July 2009. COB is considered 4:30 PM CST (Omaha Time). All questions concerning the above requirements should be sent by email to contact@example.gov or call +1 (555) 000-0000. Send offers to: U.S. Army Engineer District, Omaha, (CENWO-CT-M, Denning) 1616 Capitol Avenue, Omaha, NE 68102-4901. Mark offers with the announcement number W9128F-09-R-0067, submittal date, 30 July 2009 and add a line stating Offer, Announcement W9128F-09-R-0067, to be opened by Contracting Division personnel ONLY.