F--Pre-Placed Remedial Action Contract

RECOVERY: In compliance with the transparency and accountability requirements associated with the supplemental appropriations provided by the American Recovery and Re-Investment Act (ARRA) of 2009, Pub, L. 111-5, the Government posts this pre-solicitation announcement. (Recovery funding may or may not be utilized for potential future Task Orders.) In support of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Northwestern Divisions Hazardous, Toxic, Radioactive Waste (HTRW) Program, the Kansas City District, intends to issue a Request for Proposal (RFP) on or about 20 May 2009, on the FedBizOpps website at www.fedbizopps.gov. The RFP will be for a Small Business Set-Aside, Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ), Multiple Award Task Order Contract (MATOC). The RFP is for the Pre-Placed Remedial Action Contracts (PRACs) for a period of performance of one-year, with four one-year option periods with a total estimated maximum contract capacity of $445 Million. In order to accomplish this mission, the PRACs will be used within the Continental United States (CONUS) but primarily within the USACE Northwestern Division and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 2 geographical boundaries, which includes the states of Washington, Oregon, Montana, North and South Dakota, Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this requirement is 562910, with a size standard of 500 employees. The program proposes to award up to four (4) Indefinite Delivery / Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) contracts under which Task Orders will be either Firm-Fixed-Price (FFP) or Cost Reimbursable (CR). The Request for Proposals (RFP) will be due approximately forty-five (45) days thereafter. Specific dates and times will be publicized in the actual RFP. The scope for these HTRW contracts includes a broad range of remedial action services dealing with contaminated material sampling, testing, various treatments, removal and disposal. The contractors must provide personnel with current safety training as required by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). Contractors must also be capable of performing work on a wide variety of sites in a manner that complies with federal, state and local regulations and laws, and within time frames required. Experience, qualifications, capacity, appropriate staffing, successful past performance, and knowledge of local regulatory requirements will be important considerations when selecting firms for award. The types of services to be accomplished may include, but is not limited to, sampling and analyzing the contents of a variety of tanks, drums and transformers; removing tanks, drums, transformers and treatment of their waste and contaminated soil; sampling and testing of water and soil samples; removing unsafe buildings with and without asbestos; incinerating a variety of types of contaminated materials; removing, treating and disposing of wastes from radiation; laboratory decommissioning; short-term operation and maintenance of facilities; providing temporary or permanent relocation and other assistance to affected residents and businesses; providing security services at applicable sites and short-term O&M for personal property; and the planning of work efforts required. The types of construction activities to be accomplished may include, but not limited to, erection of containment structures; installing monitoring wells; constructing caps, slurry walls and grout curtains; installing soil-venting systems, groundwater treatment systems, and thermal extraction systems; and installing new tanks and new water supply systems. Investigations, studies, and engineering support services as necessary to complete a remedial action may also be conducted. The types of skills required may include, but are not limited to, estimator, superintendent, industrial hygienist, environmental engineer, structural engineer, mechanical engineer, electrical engineer, civil engineer, chemist, geologist, hydrogeologist, truck driver, equipment operator, laborer, plant operator, industrial engineer, and electrician. For on-site investigations, the firms must provide personnel with current health and safety training, as required by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). Firms must also be capable of performing work on a wide variety of sites in a manner that complies with federal, state and local regulations and laws, and within time frames required. Specific needs will be determined based upon project requirements as described in each task order. This procurement is being advertised as a Request for Proposal (RFP) that requires separate technical and cost proposals to be evaluated based on Best Value for award of the project. Competitive proposals will be evaluated based on the evaluation criteria includes: Company Experience and Past Performance, Operational Approach and Personnel, Operational Expertise and Management Plan, Price/Cost. This Small Business MATOC solicitation will be one of 5 MATOC solicitations being issued by NWD in support of the HTRW Program over the next five years. The synopses for the Unrestricted solicitations will be posted within the next two weeks. In the event the solicitation process for the Small Business set-aside results there are no responsive/responsible offerors, the remaining capacity of the remaining contract capacity of the pool not established will be distributed by equally distributing the total contract capacity to the remaining set-aside pools. Please be advised of the online registration requirement in Central Contractor Registration (CCR) database http://www.ccr.gov/ and directed solicitation provisions concerning electronic annual Online Representations and Certifications (ORCA) at http://orca.bpn.gov . Representations and certifications are required to be updated annually as a minimum to keep information current, accurate and complete. The electronic annual representations and certifications are effective for one year from date of submission or update to ORCA. The solicitation will be available by means of the INTERNET ONLY. All solicitation documentation will be posted to the Army Single Face to Industry (ASFI) website (https://acquisition.army.mil) and made available for viewing in FedBizOpps (http://www.fbo.gov). Please direct all inquiries in regards to this synopsis announcement to contact@example.gov