Software Maintenance and Support Contract for Tri-Service Automated Cost Engineering System

The United States Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville (CEHNC), 475 Quality Circle, Huntsville, AL 35806 is publishing this Special Notice to advise Industry it intends to issue a sole source services Single Award Task Order Contract (SATOC) indefinite delivery indefinite quantity (IDIQ) with a five year ordering period to AECOM, 300 S. Grand Ave Ste 1100, Los Angeles, CA 90071. The period of performance is anticipated from September 2019 to September 2024 for the development of parametric models for cost estimating applications and the provision of associated programming, training and support. The Government intends to solicit and negotiate with only one source in accordance with 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(1) as implemented by FAR 6.302-1. 1.0 SPECIAL NOTICE TO INDUSTRY: This Special Notice is to provide transparency to the public for CEHNC IT acquisitions and is for information purposes only. This is to advise industry that the Government intends to award a contract to AECOM, 300 S Grand Ave Ste 1100, Los Angeles, CA 90071; CAGE code 4L767: This is not a request for competitive proposals and no solicitation is available. Any response to this Special Notice will be treated as information for market research only. No entitlement to payment of direct or indirect costs or charges by the Government will arise as a result of submission of responses to this announcement or the Government use of such information. This notice does not constitute a solicitation for proposals or the authority to enter into negotiations to award a contract. No funds have been authorized, appropriated, or received for this effort. Any information provided by industry may be used by CEHNC in developing its acquisition strategy, statement of work or statement of objectives and performance specifications for this and future acquisitions. Interested parties are responsible for adequately marking proprietary or competition sensitive information included in any response or communication as the result of this notice. The Government does not intend to award a contract on the basis of this notice or to otherwise pay for any information submitted in response to this notice. 2.0 NAICS CODE: North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) code for this notice is 541511. Small Business Size Standard is $27.5M in average annual receipts as defined by FAR Part 19. 3.0 CLASSIFICATION CODE: D399, Other Computer Services 4.0 GENERAL BACKGROUND INFORMATION: CEHNC is recognized as the Assigned Responsible Agency (ARA) to provide software applications designed to support the cost engineers throughout USACE as well as the cost engineers with additional federal stakeholders such as the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy. PACES and RACER are used in support of military, civil works, hazardous and radioactive toxic waste (HTRW), and other projects worldwide. These software applications provide a standard suite of automated tools used for the preparation of planning and budgetary estimates for analysis on budget cost data during design, Independent Government Estimates (IGEs) during bid opening or negotiations, modification estimates during construction, and captures contract costs for historical purposes. CEHNC supports the Tri-Services (Army, Navy and Air Force), as well as the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Department of Energy, Defense Logistics Agency, the U.S. Coast Guard, the Federal Aviation Administration, and the Environmental Protection Agency. 5.0 DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES: The purpose of this acquisition is to develop cost engineering estimating models for building construction, environment remedial action cleanup, and site work construction. The models must be in the correct format required and be consistent in structure with other models developed for use with/by the current Parametric Cost Engineering System (PACES) and/or the Remedial Action Cost Engineering Requirements (RACER) software programs. The PACES and RACER applications are parametric software programs used by the Department of Defense, Department of Energy, and Environmental Protection Agency for the computation of budgetary construction cost estimates which are then the basis for budget requests submitted to congress for approval. PACES and RACER produce budgetary construction cost estimates for MILCON, FUDS, and environment cleanup projects using minimal information available at the time. With the import of these estimates into more detailed cost estimating systems, the federal agencies are capable of updating and providing more accuracy to the estimate as details become available. The type of tasks that are performed using PACES and RACER include: - Cost Estimating Services using Parametric Software - Specific Software Development relating to Model Creation - Development of Interfaces with Parametric Systems - Software/Model Development and Training - Telephone Hotline Support - Software Registration, & Distribution 6.0 SUBMITTAL INFORMATION: CEHNC is requesting sources that are interested and have the capability of providing parametric models for building, construction, remedial action cleanup, and site work construction with rights to use the existing/current technology/software. Submit capability statements and/or technical responses to this Special Notice not later than 12:00 pm CDT, 19 July 2019 to Tezra.J.Hamilton@usace.army.mil. Please title email subject, "PANHES-18-P-0000-017557 - PACES/RACER."