C--Indefinite Delivery Contract for Geotechnical and Geo-Environmental Services

1. CONTRACT INFORMATION: NO SOLICITATION DOCUMENT WILL BE ISSUED. THEREFORE, IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO REGISTER. INTERESTED PARTIES PLEASE SEE PARAGRAPH 4. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS BELOW. POC: Robert M. Bencal, +1 (555) 000-0000. The Philadelphia District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) intends to award a one-year Indefinite Delivery Contract for geotechnical and geo-environmental technical services with options for up to two additional periods. An option period shall not exceed one year. A lthough the maximum task order limit is $1,000,000.00, it is envisioned that most task orders will be less than $300,000.00. The cumulative total of all task orders for the base or any option period is estimated not to exceed $1,000,000.00. Task orders i ssued under this contract shall not exceed a cumulative total of $3,000,000.00 for the period of performance (base plus two, one-year option periods) a total of three years. Options may be awarded based on value used or time at the discretion of the Contr acting Officer. 2. PROJECT INFORMATION: The selected firm will be used to supplement the District capability for providing geotechnical, geo-environmental and professional services for planning, design and services during construction in support of the military, support for others, and civil work missions assigned to the District. The use of approved innovative field screening technologies and methodologies are strongly encouraged. Work outside the District civil works boundaries, which generally inclu de 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 in descending order of importance: A. Geotechnical Design, Investigations , Testing, and Analysis. These shall include, but are not limited to, the following items: (1) The design of embankments and cut slopes, retaining structures, pavements, shallow and deep foundations, slope protection, geosynthetics, soil stabilization an d site drainage. Design work shall include the preparation of drawings using AutoCAD, cost estimates and technical specifications according to USACE formats (MCASES GOLD and SPECSINTACT). Reports shall be provided in both Microsoft Word and PDF formats and all scheduling shall be performed using Primavera software. The selected firm must be able to provide digital products on CD ROM. (2) Geotechnical Investigations shall include, but not be limited to, soil sampling, rock coring, vibrational coring, cone penetrometer testing, geo-probes, and geophysical investigations. 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, including medical monitoring and a current annual 8 hour refreshers course. Supervisors and those tasked with health and safety responsibilities must have completed the 8 hour supervisor course. (3) Instrumentation installation shall include, but not be limited to the installation, monit oring and analysis of piezometers, groundwater monitoring wells and inclinometers. This item shall include all essential items pertaining to monitoring wells and piezometer development. (4) All soil sampling and rock coring will be performed continuously unless otherwise noted within the project specific scope of work. Soil borings or rock coring may be conducted either on land or on water; vibrocoring shall be conducted solely on water. Record surveys meeting the Corps of Engineers standards for surveyi ng and mapping of all land and water explorations will be required. Water work may be riverine, bay or in the ocean. The Architect-Engineer (A/E) shall be responsible for: logging of soil samples and/or rock cores; handling, labeling, chain of custody an d storing soil samples, rock core and environmental samples; related coordination with other government, private and related groups in obtaining access, inform ation, etc., performing any necessary air or environmental monitoring, and laying out the borings. (5) Soil testing shall include, but not be limited to visual and laboratory classification, gradation, moisture-density relations, permeability testing, dir ect shear testing, triaxial shear testing, unconfined compression testing, consolidation testing, laboratory and field compaction testing and other physical and hydrological property testing. The collection and testing of Hazardous, Toxic and Radiological Waste (HTRW) contaminated samples may be required. It is not necessary for the soil or HTRW laboratories to be resident in-house. The designated laboratory must be capable of being approved by the USACE prior to work on the contract and must possess and maintain current National Environmental Laboratory Accreditation (NELAC) and comply with the DOD Quality Systems Manual Version 3 requirements. The approved laboratory must be capable of providing Electronic Data Deliverables (EDD) in an approved USACE s oftware format, Automated Data Review (ADR), version 7 or later, A1 and A3 or Stage Electronic Deliverables (SEDD) 2A or 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 or later, for further data processing. Reviewed ADR EDDS and the EDMS data base shall be submitted to the USACE for review. All an alytical summary tables shall be generated from EDMS. B. Geo-Environmental Studies, Investigations and Related Work. These secondary efforts shall include the following: (1) Phase I Environmental/Preliminary Site Assessments; (2) Preparation of Remedia l Investigations 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 analys is, preparation of baseline risk assessments, preparation of conceptual site models and other related work. (3) Preparation of Feasibility/Corrective Hazardous, Toxic, and Radiological Waste (HTRW) Measures and Studies; (4) Ordnance and Explosive Waste (O EW) Site Assessments. The firm must have access to an unexploded ordnance specialist. The ordnance 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; (5) 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. Miscellaneous Professional Services. This secondary work shall include but not be limited to environmental 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 contractor 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 ex ecuting a minimum of two (2) task orders simultaneously. 3. SELECTION CRITERIA: The significant evaluation criteria which are the basis for selection, are listed in relative descending order of importance: (1) Specialized Geotechnical engineering exper ience in Geotechnical design and miscellaneous environmental services, as generally outlined in Section 2A above, including, where appropriate, experience in energy conservation, pollution prevention, waste reduction and the use of recovered material and g eneral experience in related types of work; (2) Specialized Geo-Environmental experience and technical competence in the type of work required, as generally ou tlined in Sections 2B and 2C 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, hi storically black colleges and universities, and minority institutions in the proposed contract team, measured as a percentage of the estimated effort. (7) Location of the service provider office may also be taken into consideration in the final selection a s 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 all other 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 this announcement are invited to submit a completed SF 330 Parts I and II revised 6/04 or more rec ent, to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Philadelphia District, Wanamaker Building, Room 702, 100 Penn Square East, Philadelphia, PA 19107-3390, Attn: Robert M. Bencal, not later than the close of business on the 30th day after the published date of this ann ouncement. 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 DOD Central Contractor Registration (CCR) Database is required prior to award of a contract. Failure to be registered in the DOD CCR Database may render your firm ineligible for award. All firms are encouraged to register as soon as possible. Inf ormation regarding this registration may be obtained by accessing Web Site http://www.ccr.gov/ or you may call +1 (555) 000-0000. This is not a request for proposals. No other notification to firms for this project will be made.