Indefinite Delivery Contract for Geo-Environmental & Geotechnical Services

1. CONTRACT INFORMATION: This contract is being procured in accordance with the Brooks A-E Act as implemented in FAR Subpart 36.6. Firms will be selected for negotiation based on demonstrated competence and qualifications for the required work. The services will consist of consist of geo-environmental, geotechnical and professional services for planning, design and services during construction. One Indefinite Delivery Contract will be negotiated and awarded with a five-year duration. The amount of the contract will not exceed $5,000,000.00. Work will be issued by negotiated firm-fixed-price task orders. North American Industrial Classification System code is 541330 Engineering Services, which has a size standard of $15 Million. This contract is unrestricted. The wages and benefits of service employees (See FAR 22.10) performing under these contracts must be at least equal to those determined by the Department of Labor under the Service Contract Act, as determined relative to the employee's office location (not the location of the work). 2. PROJECT INFORMATION: The selected firm will be used to supplement the District's capability for providing geo-environmental, geotechnical and professional services for planning, design and services during construction in support of the military, work 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'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. Geo-Environmental Studies, Investigations and Related Work. These shall include the following types of primary efforts: (1) Phase I Environmental/Preliminary Site Assessments; (2) Preparation of Remedial 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 analysis, preparation of conceptual site models and other related work; (3) Pre-Demolition or Renovation Building Inspection. The contractor will be required to conduct building inspections for hazardous or potentially-hazards materials in support of demolition or renovation efforts. Such inspection will include, but not be limited to, asbestos-containing materials, lead-based paint, mercury-containing switches and lighting equipment, lighting, PCB-containing lighting ballasts of other equipment, Freon-containing equipment, Halon systems, radiation-containing smoke detectors, exit and emergency light systems batteries and similar materials. Other related primary efforts shall include: (1) Preparation of Accident Prevention Plans (APP) and Health and Safety Plans, including a safety, health and emergency response plan (SHERP) approved by a certified industrial hygienist, not necessarily on staff; (2) Preparation of sampling and analysis plans, including in the format specified by the Uniform Federal Policy-Quality Assurance Project Plans (UFP-QAPP). B. Geotechnical Investigations, Testing and Analysis. These secondary efforts shall include: (1) Subsurface Explorations, including, but not limited to soil borings using traditional or direct push methodologies, and rock coring for geotechnical purposes. All sampling shall be continuous. Soil sampling and rock coring will be conducted on land. 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. All personnel must have completed the required three (3) days of supervised field experience required by OSHA. Surveyed locations of all land and water explorations will be required; (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 essential items pertaining to monitoring wells and piezometer development. Other related secondary work shall include: (1) Technical support of field work, 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: (1) logging of soil samples and/or rock cores; handling, labeling, chain of custody and shipping of soil samples, rock core and environmental samples; related 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, gradation, moisture-density relations, permeability testing, direct shear testing, triaxial shear testing, unconfined compression testing, consolidation testing, laboratory field compaction testing and other physical and hydrological property testing. All final boring, 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. The designated geotechnical laboratory must be capable of being approved by the USACE 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 3 requirements. The approved analytical laboratory must be capable of providing Electronic Data Deliverables (EDD) in an approved USACE software format, Automated Data Review (ADR), version 7 or later, A1 and A3 or Stage Electronic Deliverables (SEDD) 2B. C. Geo-Environmental and Geotechnical Design. Other secondary efforts include, but are not limited to, support various Environmental Restoration project efforts, embankments and cut slopes, retaining structures, pavements, shallow and deep foundations, slope protection, geosynthetics, soil stabilization, site drainage, and the preparation of reports on same. Design work shall include the preparation of drawings on AUTOCAD Version 2011 or later, estimates and technical specifications according to USACE formats (MII and SPECSINTACT). 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 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 two (2) task orders simultaneously. 3. SELECTION CRITERIA: The evaluation criteria which are the basis for selection, are listed in relative descending order of importance: (1) Specialized Geo-Environmental experience and technical competence in the type of work required, 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 general experience in related types of work; (2) Specialized Geotechnical engineering experience in Geotechnical design and miscellaneous environmental services, as generally outlined in Sections 2B, 2C and 2D above; 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. All personnel must have completed the required three (3) days of supervised field experience required by OSHA (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; demonstrate ability to perform multiple, complex task orders simultaneously with awards amount over $100,000.00. (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: Interested firms having the capabilities to perform this work must submit one completed hardcopy SF 330 Part I and II (revised 3/13) for the prime firm and prepare a separate Part II for each firm that will be part of the team proposed and submitted with Part I. If a firm has branch offices, submit a separate Part II for each branch office that has a key role on the team to: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Philadelphia District, Wanamaker Building, 100 Penn Square East, ATTN: Megan R. Coll, Philadelphia, PA 19107-3390 not later than the close of business on the 30th day after the date of this announcement. If the 30th day is a Saturday, Sunday or Federal holiday, the deadline is the close of business of the next business day. No electronic submissions will be accepted. All contractors must be registered in the DODs System for Award Management (SAM) database as required by DFARS 204.7300. 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 http://www.SAM.gov. As a part of this submittal, it is required that all responding firms clearly present billing amounts for all Corps of Engineers work as well as all other Department of Defense work for the twelve (12) months preceding this announcement. As a requirement for negotiations, the selected contractor will submit for government approval, a quality control plan that will be enforced through the life of the contracts. The Contracting Officer reserves the right to terminate negotiations with firms that do not respond to Government requests for proposal, information, documentation, etc. in accordance with established schedules. Solicitation packages are not provided and no additional project information will be given to firms during the announcement period. This is not a request for proposal. Michelle L. Johnson Contracting Officer