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In accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 52.215-3, “Request for Information or Solicitation for Planning Purposes”. This is a SOURCES SOUGHT SYNOPSIS announcement to be used for prelimi... In accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 52.215-3, “Request for Information or Solicitation for Planning Purposes”. This is a SOURCES SOUGHT SYNOPSIS announcement to be used for preliminary market research purposes only. No proposals are being requested or accepted with this synopsis. THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION FOR PROPOSALS AND NO CONTRACT SHALL BE AWARDED FROM THIS SYNOPSIS. No reimbursement will be made for any costs associated with providing information in response to this sources sought notice or any follow up information requests. The purpose of this synopsis is to gain knowledge of interest, capabilities, and qualifications of various members of 8(a), HUBZone, Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB), Women Owned Small Business (WOSB), and Economically Disadvantaged Women Owned Small Business (EDWOSB) to compete and perform service under a contract. The type of solicitation and contract issued will depend upon the responses to this source sought notice. The vendor must be capable of furnishing all labor, supervision, tools, materials; equipment and transportation to perform Value Engineering Services within the Mississippi Valley Division for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Vicksburg District. The contractor shall furnish A-E service capabilities are required for various projects and support for other agencies. More specifically, services of qualified A-E firms are sought to conduct and/or participate in Value Engineering (V-E) studies and related technical review, planning and design analysis of civil works, military and infrastructure projects. Work will be provided for the six districts in the Corps of Engineers Mississippi River Valley Division (St. Paul, MN, Rock Island, IL, St. Louis, MO, Memphis, TN, Vicksburg, MS and New Orleans, LA) and may, on occasion, be performed for any other Corps district or mission area of responsibility within the United States Army Corps of Engineers. While the primary work under this contract will be for the execution and documentation of traditional VE studies, the contractor may be requested to perform other related VE Program work of limited scope and duration. This work includes but is not limited to the following: executing plan formulation activities, performing entire small studies such as Planning Assistance to States, Continuing Authorities Program or other similar USACE planning function, and performing various engineering design activities on specifically scoped design reports, decision documents or other similar project needs. Study report documents shall be provided in general accordance with Corps of Engineers Value Engineering (ER 11-1-321). Projects to be studied include, but may not be limited to, both the planning and design of hurricane protection, navigation, flood control, environmental protection, ecosystem restoration, hazardous, toxic, and radiological waste control and/or treatment, military facilities and urban infrastructure. Project features encompass such items as embankments, channels, floodwalls, hydraulic structures, gates, bank protection, structures, structure foundations, sheet piling, roads, bridges, dredging, pumping stations, environmental protection, appurtenant structures, water supply and storage, wastewater treatment and distribution systems, military barracks, and other miscellaneous civil and military works. Studies will be conducted by a multi-disciplinary professional engineering team that is lead by a team member who has been certified by the Society of American Value Engineers (SAVE) International as a Certified Value Specialist (CVS) or equivalent USACE approved certification. Studies shall be performed by a team comprised of engineers experienced in the disciplines appropriate for designing the project feature(s) under study. In addition to the CVS, the availability of at least one professional engineer of each of the following disciplines will be required: civil, environmental (hazardous waste), structural, geotechnical, hydraulic, mechanical, electrical, and cost engineering. Therefore, professional design experience in civil, structural, geotechnical, hydraulic, hydrologic, sanitary, mechanical, and electrical engineering and survey and mapping, CAD, architecture, and cost estimating is required. Subcontracting guidelines referenced in FAR 19.505(b)(1)(i) shall be followed. Firms must demonstrate their ability to perform at least 50% of the work pursuant to FAR 19.505(b)(1)(i), on multiple projects involving the required disciplines referenced in the PROJECT INFORMATION paragraph, with experience in the items listed below. The requirement being considered will be an Indefinite Delivery Type (IDT) Contract as outlined in FAR Part 36 Construction and Architect-Engineer Contracts. The North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) Code applicable to this requirement is 541330, Engineering Services with a small business size standard of $25.5 million. Interested companies responding to this sources sought should include the following information: 1. Company name, address, phone number, email, Unique Entity Identification (UEI) Number, CAGE Code, point of contact (POC) name, as well as business category (small businesses or other than small to include subsets). 2. Information describing the company’s capability to perform the work described. Provide specific capabilities on relevant work of the same or similar in size and complexity. Include contract numbers, contract descriptions, dollar value, and a customer point of contact, telephone number and email address. Identify whether your firm was a prime vendor or subcontractor. Specialized Experience should be demonstrated in the following areas: Specialized Experience and Technical Competence: List no more than 10 projects that best illustrate current qualifications, relevant project experience and technical competence of the firm and consultants in the work described in paragraph 2 above. 3. Provide company’s professional qualifications. The firm should indicate professional registration and work experience of key personnel, specifically identifying staff for the key disciplines of Certified Value Specialist, Civil Engineer, Hydraulic Engineer, Structural Engineer, Geotechnical Engineer, Environmental (hazardous waste) Engineer, Mechanical Engineer, Electrical Engineer, and Cost Engineer, with regard to the 10 key projects. The firm should emphasize professional registration, advanced degrees, and specific work experience of key personnel. The firm should also indicate adequate management personnel with required qualifications and experience to assure prompt response to assignments. 4. Provide company business size based on NAICS code 541330. Also, provide business type ((i.e., Small Business or Other than Small) and all applicable socio-economic category information (Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business, Small Disadvantaged Business, Women-Owned Small Business, Hub Zone Small Business, etc.)). 5. Provide a Statement of Interest in the project. 6. A narrative statement demonstrating your firm's capability and experience in providing Miscellaneous Design services of a similar nature as described above. Your response should include the following information: details of similar contracts/projects (within the past 5 years) to include contract number, dates of service, project references (including owner with phone number and email address), size and scope of contract/project. Interested contractors shall submit their response by e-mail only. The response must be submitted as a single application-generated (not scanned) PDF document that is less than or equal to 4MB in size. Please note that hard copies will not be accepted. Responses to this notice are due NO LATER THAN 2:00 p.m., Central, August 18, 2023, via email to the primary point of contact listed Amy.L.Starks@usace.army.mil. Interested parties should register on-line and subscribe to receiving procurement announcements related to this sources sought notice at www.sam.gov. Any questions related to this notice shall be submitted in writing by E-mail to the point of contact listed. All information marked as proprietary information will be safeguarded to prevent disclosures to non-government personnel and entities. Any future solicitation, including specifications and/or drawings, will be made available on the SAM.gov website (https://www.sam.gov/). Interested parties are solely responsible for monitoring the aforementioned website for the release of a solicitation package and/or any updates/amendments.