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This Pre-solicitation Notice is for interested firms to submit their SF 330. Firms will be selected for negotiations based on demonstrated competence and qualifications for the required work. This is ... This Pre-solicitation Notice is for interested firms to submit their SF 330. 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 Monday, 15-May-2020, 1600 hours, CST. Up to three (3) indefinite delivery contracts may be negotiated and awarded as a result of this solicitation. Each contract will have a period of performance of five years or until exhaustion of the contract value of $12.0 million, whichever comes first. 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 $2.4 million. The cumulative total of Task Orders issued over the life of a contract shall not exceed $12.0 million. Allocation of Task Orders will be based on specialized experience, past performance, project schedules, and/or current workload. The work will be accomplished primarily on the nation's military bases but may also include work at various worldwide locations Contract award is anticipated on or before December 2020. This opportunity is being offered on an Unrestricted Basis and is open to all businesses regardless of size. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code for this requirement is 541330 and the Small Business size standard is $16.5 million. Large Businesses that are selected for award must comply with FAR 52.219-9 regarding the requirement for a subcontracting plan for that part of the work it intends to subcontract and will be required to submit a detailed subcontracting plan. 2. PROJECT INFORMATION: The work under this contract shall consist of professional services for miscellaneous inspection, analysis, load rating, and design of highway, railroad and pedestrian bridges for military and civilian loads as well as inspection, analysis, load rating, and design of waterfront facilities/structures such as piers, cargo areas, wharfs, bulkheads, landships, docks, mooring dolphins, etc, for military and civilian loads. Work may be comprised of civil, structural, hydraulic, hydrologic, geotechnical, environmental, electrical, mechanical, surveying, mapping, CADD, and architectural design. Work may include, but is not limited to studies, preparation of sketches, conceptual drawings, related drafting, cost estimates, specifications, contract drawings, and design analysis. Studies, designs, and drawings shall be in English and/or metric units as directed by each task order or the contracting officer. 3. SELECTION CRITERIA: Pre-selection will be based on the following considerations, which are listed in descending order of importance. Criteria A thru D are primary. Criteria E thru G are secondary and will only be used as a “tie- breaker,” if necessary, in ranking the most highly qualified firms. The firm (either in house or through association with a qualified consultant(s)) must demonstrate: (A) Specialized experience and technical competence of the firm and consultants in the work described in items i-viii below. i) demonstrate worldwide bridge inspection experience in compliance with the CFR Title 23 Part 650, AR 420-1 and ER 1110-2-111; this shall include underwater bridge inspection requirements; ii) demonstrate worldwide waterfront facilities inspection experience in compliance with the following: 1. UFC 4-150-07: O&M – Maintenance of Waterfront Facilities, June 2001 2. UFC 4-150-08: O&M – Inspection of Mooring Hardware, April 2001 3. UFC 4-150-06: O&M – Military Harbors and Coastal Facilities. iii) demonstrate capability and experience in bridge analysis including: current load rating requirements (AASHTO’s Manual for Bridge Evaluation), and scour analysis (level I and level II); determining the Military Load Classification using foreign country design vehicles as well as using innovative state of the art analytical modeling, load testing and other experimental techniques; iv) demonstrate capability and experience in analysis of waterfront facility structural elements. v) demonstrate capability and experience in design and specifications of bridge and waterfront facilities and miscellaneous bridge and waterfront facility repair, upgrade, and operation and maintenance projects; vi) demonstrate an established team including a qualified bridge inspection team leader and technicians, as well as a qualified waterfront facility inspection team leader and technicians; because of the requirement to be admitted onto U.S. military installations worldwide, the contractor must be eligible to obtain a security clearance, and therefore, must be a U.S. citizen; vii) demonstrate experience in use of CADD systems. Drawings and plates shall be prepared as required to present project details and/or study results. All drawings shall be furnished in a specified design file compatible format. (B) Professional Qualifications: The firm must employ qualified registered professional personnel in the following key disciplines: civil engineering, structural engineering, geotechnical engineering, hydraulic engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, and architecture. The firm must indicate professional registration and work experience of key personnel. The firm should emphasize professional registration, advanced degrees, and specific work experience of key personnel. The selected firm should also indicate adequate management personnel with required qualifications and experience to assure prompt response to assignments. (C) Capacity to Accomplish the Work: The firm should indicate the ability to perform numerous projects at the same time regardless of unexpected equipment breakdowns, and/or personnel problems; and complete work in a timely manner. (D) Knowledge of the Locality: locality refers to military installations and civil works projects worldwide. (E) Past Performance: Consideration will be given to ratings and verifiable past performance on previous DoD contracts (F) Volume of DOD Work: DoD contract awarded in the past 12 months, the greater the awards the lesser the consideration. (G) Small Business Considerations: Extent of participation of SB, SDB, historically black colleges and universities (HBCU), Women owned Small Businesses (WOSB), Service Disabled veterans (SDV), and minority institutions (MI) in the contract team. Participation will be measured as the greater the participation, the greater the consideration. In the final selection process, the most highly qualified firms will be interviewed and must demonstrate the ability to perform to the satisfaction of the selection team. 4. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS: DO NOT hand deliver or mail your submissions. Interested firms must send one electronic copy (in pdf) of SF 330 information for the prime and consultants to the following (2) email addresses; 1) MVKAEcoordinator@usace.army.mil 2) Shelia.R.Bradley@usace.army.mil You must include the following in the subject line: “Bridge and Waterfront Facility Inspection Pre- Solicitation No. W912EE20O0003” Submissions are due on or before Monday, 15 May 2020 at 4:00 PM Central Daylight Time. 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. This is not a Request for Proposal. A fee proposal will be requested at a later date. Along with the fee proposal, the selected firm (if a large business) will be required to submit a Subcontracting Plan in accordance with FAR 19.702. The objective of the plan is to offer subcontracting opportunities to small business concerns and small disadvantaged business concerns to the maximum practicable extent consistent with the efficient performance of the contract. The subcontracting plan shall separate percentage goals composed of direct cost, indirect costs, or a combination of the two for using small and small disadvantaged business subcontractors. Include DUNS number in SF 330. ****NOTE: Contractors must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM). For information see http: www.sam.gov. 5. TECHNICAL INQUIRIES AND QUESTIONS: NOTE: Contractors must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) database (for information see http://www.sam.gov). Technical inquiries and questions relating to this pre-solicitation are to be submitted via bidder inquiry in ProjNet at (https://www.projnet.org). Offerors are encouraged to submit questions five (5) days prior to due date in order to ensure adequate time is allotted to form an appropriate response and amend the pre-solicitation, if necessary. To submit and review inquiry items, prospective vendors will need to use the bidder inquiry key presented below and follow the instructions listed below the key for access. A prospective vendor who submits a comment/question will receive an acknowledgement of their comment/question via email, followed by an answer to the comment/question after it has been processed by our technical team. All timely questions and approved answers will be made available through ProjNet. Approved answers to all timely questions will also be posted on the beta.SAM.gov in the form of a report generated from ProjNet as soon as the comment/question entering period is over and all answers are finalized. The pre-solicitation number is: W912EE20O0003 The bidder inquiry key is: QTKX7V-B7296A Specific instructions for ProjNet bid inquiry access: 1. From the ProjNet home page linked above, click on quick add on the upper right side of the screen. 2. Identify the agency. This should be marked as USACE. 3. Key. Enter the bidder inquiry key listed above. 4. Email. Enter the email address you would like to use for communication. 5. Click continue. A page will then open saying that a user account was not found and will ask you to create one using the provided form. 6. Enter your first name, last name, company, city, state, phone, email, secret question, secret answer, and time zone. Make sure to remember your secret question and answer as they will be used from this point on to access the ProjNet system. 7. Click add user. Once this is completed you are now registered within ProjNet and are currently logged into the system. Specific instructions for future ProjNet bid inquiry access: 1. For future access to ProjNet, you will not be emailed any type of password. You will utilize your secret question and secret answer to log in. 2. From the ProjNet home page linked above, click on quick add on the upper right side of the screen. 3. Identify the agency. This should be marked as USACE. 4. Key. Enter the bidder inquiry key listed above. 5. Email. Enter the email address you used to register previously in ProjNet. 6. Click continue. A page will then open asking you to enter the answer to your secret question. 7. Enter your secret answer and click login. Once this is completed you are now logged into the system.