--Performance of Work Pertaining to the Range and Training Land Program

The Government anticipates awarding a modification to the current existing contracts. This extension to the current contracts, DACA87-00-D-0017 and DACA87-00-D0020 will be exercised on a month to month basis for a period not to exceed six months wit h an additional capacity of $3M to the Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contracts. The original award was made to two qualified small business. The extension of the contracts will provide services while the procurement for the Combat Readin ess Support Team's solicitation is in process. The services for the extension are similar in nature to the impending procurement. These services relate to the study, analysis and planning associated with the existing use, sustainment and future developme nt of live-fire ranges, training areas, training facilities and training lands at military installations world-wide to include support services described below and in accordance with Army Regulation 210-20 and 210-21. The responsibilities under this cont ract will include planning and planning related studies; Ordnance  EECA Studies, Real Property Master Plans; Real Property Development Plans, Summary Development Plans, Comprehensive Plans; Utility Support Studies; Stationing Studies; Strategic Plans; NEP A Documentation; Environmental Studies; Installation Compatibility Use Zone (ICUZ) Studies; Land Use Studies; Force Modernization / Force Integration Studies/Unit Set Fielding Studies; DD Form 1391s military installation facilities planning; and related it ems such as construction programming documents, environmental documents, mapping, geographic information systems, and utility support studies. This acquisition focuses on three functional pillars including 1) Training Requirements Analysis and Supporting Studies; 2) Installation Infrastructure Planning, Analysis and Supporting Studies; 3) and Environmental Studies related to National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) Process Studies and Supporting Documentation. This extension will not affect the cap acity or the award schedule of the CRST solicitation W912DY-04-R-0016. Potential offerors interested in this procurement shall be experienced firms with a North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code 541330, Engineering Services with average annual receipts of $4 million or less for the past three (3) years; capacity to dedicate a single point of contact for this work; and who have successfully demonstrated performance related to services or activities for the Army Range and Training Land Pro gram and related training activities as stated herein. Experienced firms must be capable of putting a team of qualified and experienced firms together to support all three of the functional pillars of this acquisition under a teaming concept. The three functional pillars are: 1) Training Requirements Analys is and Supporting Studies; 2) Installation Infrastructure Planning, Analysis and Supporting Studies; 3) and Environmental Studies related to National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) Process Studies and Supporting Documentation. The prime firm must s upport 51 per cent of the contracted work. This acquisition requires interested firms to demonstrate experience and execution related to the Range and Training Land Program to include the assessment of quality and quantity of training assets, ranges and f acilities, and training opportunities / capabilities; determining requirements for a wide spectrum of live-fire ranges, training areas, maneuver areas, and related training support facilities and assets such as, simulation/simulator centers and complexes. The work also includes analyzing unit-training requirements, developing training investment strategies, and determining force integration and modernization effects on training capabilities and support requirements, and a variety of supporting justificatio n and programming documents, National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) studies, analyses and documen tation. In addition firms should be experienced in mapping, geographic information systems, and database development. It is the intention of the Huntsville Center to Contract period of performance will be extended on a month to month basis for a period up to six months or from Aug 2005 to Feb 2005. There is not a notice of a new solicitation that will be available for co mpetition. This work is planned at U.S. military installations world-wide; therefore all personnel performing work on-site must be U.S. citizens. Interested offerors/firms interested in the new solicitation W912DY-04-R-0016 should register as an interested source and download the solicitation when it becomes available from the US Army Corps of Engineers, Huntsville Centers electronic bulletin board. Go to the US Army Engineering and Support Centers homepage at: http://www.hnd.usace.army.mil Responses will be accepted for a period of 16 days or until 13 May 2005Questions concerning this acquisition shall be submitted to the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, 4820 University Square, Huntsville, Alabama 35816-1822, ATTN: CEHNC -CT-P, Ms. Katherine Atkins or Ms. Phyllis Pond. You may also submit your questions via e-mail, in word format, to the following address: contact@example.gov or Ms. Katherine Atkins at contact@example.gov