Inactive Total Small Business Set-Aside (FAR 19.5)

Synopsis – Pre-Solicitation Number: W912EE-20-O-0002 Title: INDEFINITE DELIVERY TYPE (IDT) CONTRACT FOR AUTOMATED HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYING FOR GAGE AND DISCHARGE MEASUREMENTS AND IN SUPPORT OF THE MAINT... Synopsis – Pre-Solicitation Number: W912EE-20-O-0002 Title: INDEFINITE DELIVERY TYPE (IDT) CONTRACT FOR AUTOMATED HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYING FOR GAGE AND DISCHARGE MEASUREMENTS AND IN SUPPORT OF THE MAINTENANCE DREDGING PROGRAM WITHIN THE GEOGRAPHIC BOUNDARIES OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY DIVISION This Pre-solicitation Notice is for interested firms to submit their SF 330 by 23 March, 2020, 1600 hours, CDT. Firms will be selected for negotiations based on demonstrated competence and qualifications for the required work. This is not a Request for Proposal. 1. CONTRACT INFORMATION: SF 330s are due by Close of Business on 23 March 2020, 1600 hours, CDT. Firms will be selected for negotiation based on demonstrated competence and qualifications for the required work. Up to three (3) indefinite delivery contracts may be negotiated and awarded as a result of this announcement. Work will be accomplished under Indefinite Delivery Contracts over a five (5) year period. The contract period will be five (5) years from the date of contract award or exhaustion of the contract value of $6,000,000.00 for each contract. The cumulative total of Task Orders issued over the life of the contract shall not exceed $18,000,000.00. The work will be accomplished primarily within the Vicksburg District, but may be within the Mississippi Valley Division (MVD) and other areas as needed to support the mission of the US Army Corps of Engineers. Work will be issued by negotiated firm-fixed price or labor-hour task orders. It is anticipated that the estimated workload for each performance period will be $1,200,000.00. The cumulative total of Task Orders issued over the life of the contract shall not exceed $6,000,000.00 for each contract. Allocation of Task Orders will be based on specialized experience, past performance, project schedules, and/or current workload. This announcement is a total Small Business set-aside, which includes Small Disadvantaged Businesses, Section 8(a) Firms, HUBZone Small Businesses, Women-owned Small Businesses, Veteran-owned Small Businesses, Service-disabled Veteran-owned Small Businesses, and Historically Black Colleges or Universities/Minority Institutions. The small business size standard for surveying and mapping services is $16,500,000.00, NAICS code 541370. 2. PROJECT INFORMATION: The work consists of providing professional services as required in connection with Automated Hydrographic Surveying, including both single-beam and multi-beam methods, and Automated Topographic Surveying in support of the Vicksburg District Maintenance Dredging and Mat Sinking Operations at various locations primarily within the limits of the Vicksburg District but may include any district within MVD. Automated Real-Time Kinematic (RTK) Differential GPS Hydrographic Surveys and Automated Topographic Surveys will be required on the Mississippi River, its tributaries, and smaller rivers and streams and associated harbors. ADCP Surveys for the acquisition of river current and discharge data may be required for acquisition of current and flow patterns at locks and dams, around dikes, bridge piers or obstructions in channels. The work consists of taking a defined number of discharge measurements on a routine basis along the Mississippi, Red, and Ouachita Rivers. The measurements will be taken with the use of an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) and a single beam depth sounder. The data collected will be imported into personal computer software specifically designed to calculate and view flow measurements. The Proposal shall include the Contractor’s software(s) to be employed under this solicitation if selected. The work will also require collecting daily water stage data at approximately 50 gaging sites throughout the Vicksburg District and reporting information daily and monthly to the Vicksburg District. Additional work will consist of maintenance of permanent reference elevation markers at each gaging site and infrequent collection of suspended sediment samples at specific discharge ranges. Extreme flow conditions may require a combination of the ADCP, a single beam depth sounder, and differential GPS. The contractor may be required to take special purpose flow pattern and discharge measurements at lock and dam locations. The contractor may be required to verify his system by comparison with conventional discharge methods. All measurements will be in English units. Work will be accomplished by up to three (3) indefinite delivery contracts not to exceed $6,000,000.00 for each contract. 3. SELECTION CRITERIA: Selection will be based on the following criteria, which are in descending order of importance with A and B being of equal value. Criteria A through F are primary; criteria G is secondary and will only be used as a "tie-breaker," if necessary. A. Specialized experience with sub-factors in descending order of importance: (1) Firm must have prior recent experience in Automated Hydrographic Surveying in streams ranging in size from the Mississippi River to small creeks, oxbows, and canals. (2) Firm must have prior recent experience in topographic, construction, and maintenance dredging surveys. Firm should demonstrate the capability to provide all services in a timely, professional manner and in a format consistent with Corps of Engineers CADD/GIS systems by submission of examples of completed work. (3) Firm must have prior recent experience in horizontal and vertical control surveys. (4) Firm must have experience in ADCP hydrographic surveying with data collection integrating a single beam depth sounder and differential GPS positioning. (5) Firm must have experience in collecting discharge measurements by conventional methods. (6) Firm must have experience in collecting and analyzing suspended sediment samples from river streams ranging in size from the Mississippi River to small creeks, oxbows, and canals. B. Professional Qualifications with sub-factors in descending order of importance: (1) Firm must have at least one professionally registered land surveyor in Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana. (2) Firm must delineate the capability, background, and experience of the key personnel within the firm who will be responsible for the administration of the contract and should indicate the ability to insure the successful performance of the work required. (3) Firm must clearly demonstrate the availability of adequate numbers of experienced personnel to perform the various tasks associated with automated hydrographic surveys, automated topographic surveys, ADCP data collection and with dredge alignment surveys. C. Capacity with sub-factors in descending order of importance: (1) Firm must clearly demonstrate the ability to respond to emergency dredge alignment survey requirements which may require commencement of field work on less than 8 hours’ notice, onboard and/or real-time plot of unedited data, analysis of plotted/graphed/printed data, setting of dredge alignment points with determination of coordinates, and may require submittal of final plotted survey within 24 hours of completion of field work. Firm must clearly indicate the capability in writing or through demonstration, if required, to respond on short notice to emergency dredging requirements. This includes travel to the job site, completion of field-work, field plotting of information, and setting of survey control points for dredge alignment as directed. (2) Firm must clearly demonstrate the accuracy and speed of data collection, editing, processing, plotting, and output of final submission. (3) Firm must clearly demonstrate the availability of all incidentally required equipment such as tools, markers, stakes, paint, boats, vehicles, spare units, etc. (4) Firm must clearly demonstrate the capability to furnish a minimum of two complete and independent automated hydrographic survey parties as well as a two man ADCP hydrographic survey party with all necessary equipment and supplies, including boat. D. Knowledge of the Locality. Consideration will be given to familiarity with the waterways of the Vicksburg District. E. Past Performance with sub-factors in descending order of importance: (1) Consideration will be given to ratings on previous DOD contracts. (2) Consideration will be given to the performance of firms that have experience with other DOD organizations in the type of work required under this contract and work of similar nature, complexity, and difficulty. F. DOD contract awards in the past 12 months; the greater the award the lesser the consideration. G. Geographic proximity to Vicksburg Mississippi. 4. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS: Block E – Resumes of key persons, specialist and individual consultants anticipated for this project will be limited to a maximum of 20 pages. Block H—Additional information will be limited to a maximum of 20 pages. Pages in excess of the maximum of 20 will be discarded and not used in evaluation. All telephone calls should be directed to Ms. Michelle Moore, (601) 631-5139. APPOINTMENTS WILL NOT BE SCHEDULED TO DISCUSS THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. Include DUNS numbers in Block 9 for all firms listed in the SF 330. This is not a RFP. A fee proposal will be requested at a later date. ALL QUESTIONS MUST BE SUBMITTED VIA PROJNET. The pre-solicitation number is: W912EE20O0002 The bidder inquiry key is: TGACSF-4796MF *************************************************************************** Revised: 16 March 2020 To cut down on the handling of packages, please DO NOT hand deliver or mail your submissions. The submission requirements are hereby amended as follows: Interested firms must send only one electronic copy (in pdf) of SF 330 for the prime and consultants to MVKAECoordinator@usace.army.mil and Freteshia.L.Johnson@usace.army.mil using the subject: Gage and Discharge Pre-Solicitation No. W912EE-20-O-0002. Submissions are due by 23 March 2020 at 4:00 PM Central Daylight Time.