C--INDEFINITE DELIVERY CONTRACT FOR GEOTECHNICAL AND GEO-ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES

1. CONTRACT INFORMATION: DISREGARD REGISTRATION INSTRUCTIONS. NO SOLICITATION DOCUMENT WILL BE ISSUED. THEREFORE, IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO REGISTER. INTERESTED PARTIES PLEASE SEE PARAGRAPH 4. "SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS" BELOW. POC: Paul D. Bacani, +1 (555) 000-0000. The Philadelphia District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) intends to award up to two (2) Indefinite Delivery Contracts for Geotechnical and Geo-Environmental technical services. Each contract will be for a base period with options for up to four (4) additional periods. A contract period shall not exceed 12 months. An option period shall not exceed one year. Although the maximum task order limit is estimated to be $1,000,000 it is envisioned that most task orders will be less than $300,000.00. *The cumulative total of all task orders for the base shall not exceed $1,000,000. The cumulative total of all task orders for any option period shall not exceed $1,000,000. The Contractor must be capable of managing and performing multiple technically complex task orders simultaneously, often with critical durations requiring rapid mobilization of resources and turnaround of deliverables, with each task order having a dollar value in the range described above.* **The cumulative total of all task orders for the base and option periods shall not exceed $5,000,00.** Options may be awarded based on value used or time at the discretion of the Contracting Officer. 2. PROJECT INFORMATION: The selected firm will be used to supplement the District's capability for providing geotechnical, geo-environmental and professional services for planning, design and services during construction in support of the civil works, work for others, and military missions assigned to the District. The use of approved innovative field screening technologies and methodologies are strongly encouraged. Work outside the District's civil works boundaries, which generally include the Delaware River basin, the coastlines of New Jersey and Delaware, and a portion of Maryland may be required. The work will include, but is not limited to the following items: A. Geotechnical Design, Investigations, Testing, and Analysis. These primary efforts shall include, but not be limited to, the following items: (1) Subsurface Explorations, including, but not limited to soil borings using traditional or direct push methodologies, rock coring, cone-penetrometer testing, vibrational coring, and geophysical investigations for geotechnical purposes. All sampling shall be continuous unless otherwise specified in task order scopes of work. Soil sampling and rock coring may be conducted either on land or on water; vibrational coring shall be conducted solely on water. Water work may be riverine, bay, inlet, or in the ocean. Land-based drilling may require specialized equipment for soft ground, low headroom, or limited-space conditions. Drillers or those involved in certain site investigations will be required to have the 29 CFR 1910.120 OSHA 40 hour basic health and safety training of the job's health and safety plan, including medical monitoring and current annual 8 hour refresher course. Supervisors and those tasked with safety and health responsibilities must have completed the 8 hour supervisor's course. Record surveys meeting USACE standards for surveying and mapping will be required for locations of all land and water explorations; (2) Instrumentation installation shall include but not be limited to the installation, monitoring and analysis of piezometers, groundwater monitoring wells, and inclinometers. This item shall include all appurtenant and essential items pertaining to piezometer and monitoring well development; Other related primary work shall include: (1) Technical support of field work, for which the contractor shall provide experienced, qualified degreed engineers, geologists or other qualified staff approved by the Government for all field work, including subsurface exploration. The contractor shall be responsible for: logging soil samples and/or rock cores; handling, labeling, chain of custody and shipping of soil samples, rock core and environmental samples; coordinating with other government, private and related groups in obtaining access, information, etc., performing any necessary air monitoring, and laying out the borings; (2) Soil testing shall include but not be limited to visual and laboratory classification, index testing, gradation, moisture-density relations, permeability testing, direct shear testing, triaxial shear testing, unconfined compression testing, consolidation testing, laboratory and field compaction testing, and other physical and hydrological property testing. All final boring, vibrational coring, well, and test pit logs, as well as all geotechnical laboratory testing results shall be processed using gINT software version 8.0 or later. The collection and testing of HTRW contaminated samples may be required. It is not necessary for the geotechnical or HTRW laboratories to be resident in-house. However, the designated geotechnical laboratory must be capable of being approved by the USACE Materials Testing Center (MTC) prior to work on the contract. The analytical laboratory must possess and maintain current National Environmental Laboratory Accreditation (NELAC) and comply with the DOD Quality Systems Manual Version 5 requirements. The approved analytical laboratory must be capable of providing Electronic Data Deliverables (EDD) in an approved USACE software format, Automated Data Review (ADR.NET), version 1.70 or later, A1 and A3 or Stage Electronic Data Deliverables (SEDD) 2B. All analytical data generated by the contractor shall be reviewed against the ADR project library (generated by the contractor and approved by the USACE). All reviewed data shall be uploaded to the Environmental Data Management System (EDMS), version 7.1 or later, for further data processing. Reviewed ADR EDDS and the EDMS data base shall be submitted to the USACE for review. All analytical summary tables shall be generated from EDMS; B. Geo-Environmental Studies, Investigations and Related Work. These secondary efforts shall include: (1) Phase I Environmental/Preliminary Site Assessments; (2) Preparation of Remedial Investigations (RI) and CERCLA/RCRA Facility Investigations. As a part of the above work the contractor will be required to complete geophysical investigations, groundwater investigations, soil, groundwater and surface water chemical sampling, testing and analysis, preparation of baseline risk assessments, preparation of conceptual site models and other related work. Other related primary efforts shall include: (1) Preparation of Feasibility Studies (FS) / Corrective Action Studies and Hazardous, Toxic, and Radiological Waste (HTRW) Measures and Studies; (2) Ordnance and Explosive Waste (OEW) Site Assessments. The firm must have access to an unexploded ordnance specialist. The ordinance specialist must be a graduate of the U.S. Naval Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) School in Indianhead, Maryland and have been awarded the master EOD Skill Badge; (3) Preparation of Health and Safety Plans, including a safety, health and emergency response plan (SHERP) approved by a certified industrial hygienist, not necessarily on staff; C. Geotechnical and Geo-Environmental Design. Other secondary efforts may include, but are not limited to, (1) geotechnical design support for embankments and cut slopes, retaining structures, waterfront construction, pavements, sheet pile structures, shallow and deep foundations, slope protection, slope failure analysis and remediation, bank protection, coastal structures and protection, geosynthetics, soil stabilization, ground improvement, site drainage, dewatering, and groundwater control, and preparation of reports on the same; and (2) support of various Environmental Restoration project efforts and design of remediation techniques of HTRW sites, and preparation of reports on the same. The firm must be able to prepare specifications using SPECSINTACT, detailed cost estimates using MCACES MII Version 4.1 estimating software, and computer-aided drawings in AutoCad Version 13 or later. The selected firm will have primary services capability in-house. Reports shall be in Microsoft Word and scheduling shall use Primavera. The firm must be able to provide compatible digital products on CD ROM; D. Miscellaneous Professional Services. This secondary work shall include but not limited to environmental assessments and impact statements, environmental inventories, baseline ecological evaluation (BEE) reports, historical and archaeological investigations and reports and peer review of USACE reports. If in-house capabilities in these areas are not available, an approved subcontractor may be utilized. All work shall comply with the jurisdictional regulations and laws to include the requirements for registrations, licenses and certifications. The A/E should have the capability of executing a minimum of three (3) task orders simultaneously. 3. SELECTION CRITERIA: The significant evaluation criteria which are the basic for selection, are listed in relative descending order of importance: (1) Specialized Geotechnical engineering experience in Geotechnical design and miscellaneous environmental services, as generally outlined in Sections 2A and 2C above; (2) Specialized Geo-Environmental experience and technical competence in the type of work required, as generally outlined in Sections 2B, 2C, and 2D above, including, where appropriate, experience in energy conservation, pollution prevention, waste reduction and the use of recovered material and general experience in related types of work; (3) Professional qualifications of the available staff necessary to perform the services required; (4) Capacity of the firm to accomplish the work within the required timeframe; (5) Past performance, especially, on Department of Defense contracts; (6) Extent of participation of SB, SDB, historically black colleges and universities, and minority institutions in the proposed contract team, measures as a percentage of the estimated effort. (7) Location of the service provider's office may also be taken into consideration in the final selection as a secondary selection criteria element provided a sufficient number of qualified A/E firms respond to this announcement. 4. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS: Responding firms must clearly present billing amounts for all Corps of Engineers as well as Department of Defense work for the 12 months prior to the date of this announcement. Firms which desire consideration and meet the requirements described in the announcement are invited to submit a completed SF 330 Parts I and II (revised 6/04) Part I for the prime firm and Part II for each consultant to: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Philadelphia District, Wanamaker Building, Room 702, 100 Penn Square East, Philadelphia, PA 19107-3390, ATTN: Paul D. Bacani, not later than the close of business on the 30th day after the published date of the announcement. If the 30th day is a Saturday, Sunday or Federal holiday, the deadline is the close of business the next business day. Include your DUNS number in block 11 of paragraph C of Part I of the SF 330. All contractors are advised that registration in the System for Award Management (SAM) Database is required prior to award of a contract. Failure to be registered in the SAM Database may render your firm ineligible for award. All firms are encouraged to register as soon as possible. Information regarding this registration may be obtained by accessing web site www.sam.gov. As a requirement for negotiations, the selected contractor(s) will submit for government approval a quality control plan that will be enforced through the life of the contract(s). This plan must include the specific measures to be used to document internal quality reviews and corrective responses as applicable. The Contracting Officer reserves the right to terminate negotiations with firms that do not respond to Government requests for proposals, information, documentation, etc. in accordance with the established schedules. The NAICS Code is 541330 with a Size Standard of $14M. This is not a request for proposals. No other notification to firms for this project will be made.***** *PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS A MODIFICATION TO THE ORIGINAL SYNOPSIS POSTED 10 JULY 2013. PLEASE DELETE STATEMENTS IN BOLD (LOCATED IN PARAGRAPH 1 ONLY) IN THEIR ENTIRETY. * **NOTE 2: PLEASE CORRECT THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT TO READ: THE CUMULATIVE TOTAL OF ALL TASK ORDERS FOR THE BASE AND OPTION PERIODS SHALL NOT EXCEED "$5,000,000.00".**