Z--Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Remedial Action Contract for New Bedford Harbor Superfund Site

The New England District is acquiring an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Remedial Action Contract to support the District's work for United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) in the execution of the Superfund cleanup of New Bedford Harbor and provide technical support for Aerovox and Operable Unit 3. The Request for Proposal will be solicited under full and open competition and unrestricted to business size; per FAR subpart 19.704 all large businesses will be required to submit a small business sub-contracting plan. The Total Acquisition Value (TAV) of the contract awarded under this solicitation will not exceed $240M and will have a 10-year ordering period with a 5-year base period, one 3-year option period and another 2-year option period. The work will be performed primarily at the New Bedford Harbor site, although the contract will allow for work at other sites requiring these services within the mission areas of the North Atlantic Division. The awarded contract will include firm-fixed price and cost reimbursable task orders. This will be a performance-based procurement. Specific outcomes will be defined in each negotiated task order. Task orders will be awarded up to the maximum capacity of $240,000,000.00. There is no limit of the number of Task Order(s) that may be executed, but in no case shall the sum of all Task Order(s) executed exceed $240,000,000.00. The Government is obligated to satisfy a minimum guaranteed amount of not less than $200,000.00 over the base period of the contract. The primary work involves dredging, de-sanding dewatering, and disposal of sediments contaminated with PCBs. Other requirements include the operation of a water treatment facility, technical support including evaluations, cost analysis, studies, investigations, and other remedial actions as necessary. The remedial action at the New Bedford Harbor Superfund Site (NBHSS) is expected to take an additional 20+ years to complete based on the current annual funding levels. NBHSS operations are unique in both their complexity and scale. Highly contaminated sediment is pumped in a slurry through de-sanding, dewatering and treatment processes with the end product being clean water and dry filter cake that is then shipped to an offsite disposal facility. There are very few projects in the country that present the challenges faced by the contractor working in New Bedford. The work is currently being conducted through a Total Environmental Restoration Contract (TERC) under a Joint Venture agreement with Jacobs Engineering Group Inc and Tetra Tech EC, Inc. The work under the solicitation involves providing all labor, equipment, materials, program/project/ construction management and engineering required to perform remediation of PCB contaminated sediment from the Acushnet River in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Remediation includes dredging, removal of sand/oversized material from the dredge material, dewatering of the dredge sediment, PCB/metals treatment of the dredge water stream, loading, securing of contaminated waste streams in rail cars for disposal in a PCB regulated landfill, provide trucking option for disposal of same waste in the event rail service becomes unavailable. Remediation will also include the construction of three CDFs along the shoreline, maintenance, monitoring, and closure of Cell 1 (pilot CDF/Dredge Disposal Area), and monitoring of pilot cap area in the outer harbor. Remediation will also be performed on wetlands and mudflat areas of the Acushnet River estuary. Proposed PCB disposal also includes construction of Confined Aquatic Disposal (CAD) cells to receive up to 300,000 cubic yards of untreated dredge material. The contractor may also be responsible for construction and disposal of dredge material in CAD cells with split hull dredge scows using appropriate methods to promote consolidation. Once filled and consolidated, the contractor shall install an engineered CAD cell cap. Underwater capping of low PCB contaminated sections of the upper New Bedford Harbor estuary may also performed under the scope of this contract. As part of the remediation activities, a rigorous environmental monitoring program of air and water contamination is required. Results from the environmental program are used in contamination modeling applications. Please note this is not a request for proposals at this time, the solicitation requirements and contract documents to include instructions for submission and the response date will be available on or about OCTOBER 31, 2012. Neither telephonic, mailed nor faxed requests for hard copies of the solicitation will be accepted. The solicitation will only be available online; in order to download the solicitation offerors must access the Federal Business Opportunities website (www.fbo.gov). All responsible sources may submit a proposal which shall be considered by the New England District. Additional questions may be emailed to the Contract Specialist at raushanah.m.muhammad@usace.army.mil.