Inactive Total Small Business Set-Aside (FAR 19.5)

Amendment 0002 is issued on 13 March 2023 to: 1.Revise submission due date to 3 PM PST on 24 March 2023. Amendment 0001 is issued on 2 March 2023 to: Revise Section 3 Paragraph C “Past Performance” an... Amendment 0002 is issued on 13 March 2023 to: 1.Revise submission due date to 3 PM PST on 24 March 2023. Amendment 0001 is issued on 2 March 2023 to: Revise Section 3 Paragraph C “Past Performance” and Section 4 “Submission Requirements”. See Revised Pre-Solicitation attached with changes highlighted in red. Provide responses to request for information received. See RFI responses attached. Provide Pre-Proposal Conference Slides and Attendance Sheet Revise submission due date to 3 PM PST on 17 March 2023. ***************************************************************************** 1. CONTRACT INFORMATION This is a pre-solicitation being procured in accordance with the Brooks Act as implemented in FAR Subpart 36.6. Firm will be selected for negotiations based on demonstrated competence and qualifications for the required work. This requirement is being solicited as a Small Business (SB) set aside Indefinite Delivery Contract (IDC) primarily within the Corps of Engineers San Francisco District boundaries and secondarily for other South Pacific Division districts (Sacramento, Los Angeles, and Albuquerque) geographical area of responsibility which will include CA, NV, UT, and AZ and portions of OR, ID, CO and WY as determined by SPN’s Contracting Officer. This work will include services necessary to complete the assigned task orders for civil works and environmental studies and/or designs. The intent is to award one Single Award Task Order Contracts (SATOC) Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) to the most highly qualified small business firm for a total capacity of $9,900,000.00. The contract will have a guaranteed minimum amount of $2,500.00. The period of performance shall include one 36-month base period and one 24-month option period, for an overall performance period of 60 months (5 years). North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) code for this acquisition is 541330, which has a small business size standard of $22,500,000 in average annual receipts and corresponds to Standard Industrial Code (SIC) 8711. The Product and Service Code (PSC) is C219. This small business announcement is open to all interested parties who meet the business size standard of a maximum of $22,500,000 in average annual receipts for the preceding three (3) fiscal years. Contract Award Procedures Professional Labor Rates will be negotiated for base year and increased at the end of each 12-month period by the contract escalation rate. Any task order issued must use the rates of the period in which the task order is executed by the Contracting Officer. To be eligible for contract award, a firm or Joint Venture must be registered with the System for Award Management (SAM) database. For instruction on registering with SAM, please see the SAM website at https://www.sam.gov/. No State-Level certificates shall be accepted. The Service Contract Act (SCA) (for reference see FAR 22.10) will apply to this acquisition. Anti-Antiterrorism and Operations Security (AT/OPSEC) requirements: E-Verify (employment) will be required for all military or critical infrastructure projects; for other tasks, determination will be made per individual task order. For requirements, see attached Scope of Work, secton 1 thru 1.1.7. The anticipated award for the IDC is around May 2023. The solicitation period will be a minimum of thirty (30) calendar days from the posting date. 2. PROJECT INFORMATION Services to be performed under this contract will consist of, but are not limited to: The preparation of supporting studies and deliverables for civil works feasibility reports, other feasibility-level design documentation, and operation and maintenance projects associated with US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) water resources business lines including ecosystem restoration, flood risk management, coastal storm risk management, navigation, shoreline protection, watershed planning, as well as support for Interagency and International Support (IIS) projects. The services may include environmental, planning, and engineering support services. Services should be developed in accordance with USACE’s Engineering Regulation (ER)-1105-2-100, ER- 200-2-2, and other pertinent USACE policies and regulations. Located -https://www.publications.usace.army.mil/USACE-Publications/Engineer-Regulations/ For example, the A-E may be asked to: prepare environmental and cultural resource compliance or supporting resource surveys and studies; prepare and execute strategic, inclusive, and equitable community engagement and public involvement; develop, perform, and prepare sediment suitability sampling and analysis and associated sediment suitability reports; prepare economic analyses or supporting studies; and develop and design natural and nature-based features and process-based landscape scale interventions (i.e., Engineering with Nature). Prepare concept design stage spreadsheet cost estimates and for further developed studies prepare estimates using MCACES MII software The A-E should be able to perform the following Environmental support services in compliance with USACE, federal and state agency policies and regulations where studies and projects are located: Inventory, forecast, and analyze all environmental resources in a study area and identify describe effects of proposed alternatives on such resources; develop avoidance, minimization, and mitigation measures to address effects to support National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) analyses and documents. Plan and conduct biological and habitat surveys and wetland delineations (including written documentation and mapping/GIS) and prepare Biological Assessments to support consultation under the Endangered Species Act, Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act; Marine Mammal Protection Act, other applicable laws and regulations, ecosystem restoration design efforts, monitoring, and compliance. Plan, conduct, and prepare cultural and historic resource studies; cultural and archaeological surveys; resource evaluations; consultation documents including providing support and deliverables for State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO), tribal consultations, and relationship building with tribes. Perform emission quantifications and air quality analyses related to the Clean Air Act (e.g. General Conformity Applicability or Analysis) or other applicable statutes. Prepare analyses, applications, and coordination and obtain environmental compliance such as Clean Water Act Section 401 Water Quality Certification; Clean Water Act Section 404(b)(1) and Rivers and Harbors Act Analyses; Coastal Zone Management Act (CZMA) Consistency Determinations; National Historic Preservation Act Section 106 Consultations; Marine Protection, Research and Sanctuaries Act analyses; and for obtaining other permits approvals, such as applicable state, regional and local laws. Prepare environmental monitoring plans, conduct monitoring, and prepare associated reporting deliverables (written documentation and mapping). Develop sediment suitability sampling and analysis plans; conduct sediment sampling and testing; and produce related sampling and analysis reports/compliance for navigation projects (aquatic sediments) as well as terrestrial sediments. The A-E should be able to perform the following Engineering support services: Develop and prepare designs and design documentation for nature-based measures (e.g., beneficial-reuse of dredged materials, horizontal levees, levee setback and floodplain restoration, living breakwaters, etc.) and natural process-based interventions. Execute and prepare documentation of hazardous, toxic, radiological waste (HTRW) phase I or phase II site assessments for civil works studies and projects. Prepare groundwater characterization and monitoring plans. Prepare spatial data and analyses using geographic information systems (GIS) using ESRI or other industry standard GIS software and Computer-Aided Design and Drafting (CADD) using Microstation or other industry standard CADD tools (includes generating Aerial Photography, Topographic/ Bathymetric Surveying and Mapping, database development, preparation of contract drawings; CADD Drafting) The A-E should be able to perform the following Planning support services: Develop and execute inclusive and equitable public involvement and communication plans, consensus building strategies, and outreach and stakeholder engagement, including identification and engagement of people with disabilities, economically disadvantaged communities, minority groups, and environmental justice communities. Provide facilitation, public meeting, and engagement services including leading in-person or virtual meetings and preparing deliverables that are accessible and inclusive (e.g. by providing multi-lingual translators, sign language interpreters, or other accessible features as appropriate, providing ADA Section 508 compliant documentation; conducting webinar technology and promotion in accessible ways). Prepare visuals, mapping and graphics to communicate complex ideas and enhance communication. Perform economic studies to support the use of cost benefit analysis and cost effectiveness and incremental cost analysis (CE/ICA) including land use inventory data collection and analysis of flood damages; ecosystem benefit inventory (e.g. Habitat Evaluation Procedures) and analysis for CE/ICA; navigation economic studies; and any related technical reports, mapping, and datasets. Prepare historical watershed assessments (using historical landscape data to understand the watershed context). 3. SELECTION CRITERIA The selection criteria for this solicitation are listed below in descending order of importance. Criteria A through E are primary, with criteria A and B being considered most important and are of equal importance; criteria C, D, and E are of lesser importance and listed in descending order of importance. Criteria F through G are secondary criteria, are of equal importance, and will only be used as a tie-breaker among firms ranked technically equal using the primary criteria. Firms should provide examples of successfully completed work that encompass the selection criteria listed below. Primary Selection Criteria A. Specialized experience and technical competence: Specialized Experience and Technical Competence (SF 330, Part I, Section F & G): provide examples of not more than 10 projects completed within the last 5 years that best demonstrate specialized experience and technical competency in the areas listed above in section 2, PROJECT INFORMATION and as outlined in (i) thru (viii) below; and of the prime firm and proposed significant subcontractors in working together. Project examples submitted should be of completed projects and deliverables (i.e. completed environmental studies, reports, or compliance; completed sediment sampling and analysis reports; designs or design documentation reports; equity assessments or action plans, etc.). All projects cited shall identify start and completion dates as well as the project size (cost and scope). Prime Contractors that do not have specific experience in the areas listed above in Section B, PROJECT INFORMATION and as outlined in (i) thru (viii) below, will be evaluated based on their proposed subcontractors’ experience. However, projects where the prime contractor performed 50% or more of the work with in-house forces will be weighted more heavily than projects performed predominantly by proposed subcontractors. NOTE: An Indefinite Delivery Contract (IDC) or Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contract (IDIQ) is not considered a project; only single task orders are projects. Include only specific task orders which demonstrate the experience for this announcement. (i) Examples of completed dredge material sediment suitability process including Sampling and Analysis Plans, sediment sampling and testing services, Sampling and Analysis Reports, and placement suitability determinations. Examples of terrestrial sediment testing and evaluation support. (ii) Examples of environmental resource inventories, effect analyses, and mitigation measure development; Federal Endangered Species Act (ESA) Biological Assessments and supporting technical analyses; Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act Essential Fish Habitat Assessments; wetland delineations, habitat and biological surveys, and environmental monitoring services; emission inventories, air quality analyses, and Federal Clean Air Act Applicability or Conformity Analyses; Clean Water Act Section 401 and 404 and Rivers and Harbors Act compliance and related technical studies; Coastal Zone Management Act (CZMA) Consistency Determinations; Marine Protection, Research and Sanctuaries Act (MPRSA) analyses; environmental resource monitoring plans and monitoring reports. (iii) Examples of National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) Section 106 coordination, cultural resource surveys, evaluations, or other NHPA compliance activities. Examples of tribal consultation support and relationship building with Tribal communities. (iv) Examples of projects where the firm has designed nature-based solutions or “Engineering with Nature” approaches to water resources management problems and prepared historical watershed assessments. (v) Examples of community outreach, involvement, and engagement plans; facilitation services; and leading community-driven planning, including strategies and implementation materials that demonstrate inclusion of disadvantaged communities, people with disabilities, and others from under-represented groups. (vi) Examples of completed HTRW phase I or II assessments and groundwater characterization and monitoring plans. (vii) Examples of economic technical reports, mapping, dataset development, and analyses including land use inventory data analyses; ecosystem benefit inventories; navigation economic studies; and analyses that evaluate socio-economic conditions and effects. (viii) Examples of spatial data, GIS products, CADD drawings completed to support water resource studies or projects such as maps, Aerial Photography, Topographic/ Bathymetric Surveying and Mapping, database development, preparation of contract drawings. B. Professional Qualifications: Firms shall demonstrate personnel qualifications and specialized experience for key disciplines related to environmental, planning, and engineering. Evaluation of professional qualifications will consider education, training, professional registrations, and relevant experience in the following disciplines: environmental management and compliance; civil, coastal, environmental, hydraulic engineering; archeology; biology (wildlife and fishery); botany; terrestrial, aquatic, coastal, and marine ecology; economics; community engagement; public participation, environmental justice; climate change, sociology, geology; geography; geomorphology (fluvial, estuarine, coastal); hydrology; cartography/graphics; geographic information systems; The Prime or the chosen subcontractors shall provide resumes of personnel who are certified, registered, and/or highly trained in the above disciplines. Resumes are not required for each disciplines listed above (i.e., one or two resumes for each discipline will demonstrate qualifications). For services that require any design and initial cost determination, the prime or the chosen subcontractor shall have a minimum of two qualified professional personnel must be a registered Professional Engineer in the United States and have at least five (5) years of experience in water resources planning and engineering projects. Experience working on USACE projects is desirable but not necessary. C: Past Performance: Past performance on Department of Defense (DoD) and other federal contracts with respect to the quality of work, cost control (maintaining the project construction cost below the programmed amount), and compliance with performance schedules, as determined by Contractor Performance Assessment Reporting System (CPARS and other sources. Past Performance Questionnaires (PPQ) may be used to provide or supplement a firm's past performance with other than U.S. Government clients. Firms which choose to use the PPQ may obtain a PPQ standard form by submitting a request to the below referenced POC via email. Projects where the prime contractor performed 50% or more of the work with in-house forces will be weighted more heavily than projects performed predominantly by proposed subcontractors. CPARS and PPQ’s addressing the projects included in SF 330 Section F will be weighted more heavily. Past performance information for subcontractors will not be considered if they are not going to be used for the proposed contract. D: Capacity to accomplish the work: Adherence to project schedules for all projects is critical to the Government. Completion within the schedule requires the engagement of sufficient and competent staff and subcontractors. Firms must demonstrate the capacity to accomplish multiple task orders in multiple locations simultaneously. Small business firms shall demonstrate the capacity to accomplish at least two (2) $250,000.00 individual task orders simultaneously. E. Location in the General Geographic Area of the Project and Knowledge of Locality: In PART I, Section H, firms must demonstrate familiarity with the San Francisco District and SPD areas, positive relationships with local communities and agency partners, primarily California, displaying knowledge of local and regional conditions such as the soil conditions, seismic requirements, coastal processes; local and regional project stakeholders, project proponents, and non-Federal sponsors; local economically disadvantaged communities, and regional environmental regulations and regulatory requirements of the region. This knowledge can be demonstrated by showing examples of work completed for projects in these areas. Secondary Selection Criteria F. SB and SDB Participation: Extent of participation of small business (SB) or small disadvantaged businesses (SDB), or woman-owned small businesses, and participation of historically black colleges and universities (HBCU) or minority institutions (MI) in the proposed contract team, measured as a percentage of the total estimated efforts, regardless of whether the SB, SDB, HBCU or MI is a prime contractor, subcontractor, or joint venture partner. The greater the participation, the greater the consideration. G. Volume of DOD contract: Offerors shall provide the volume of work awarded by DoD agencies during the previous 12 months. If a proposing as a Joint Venture, include volume of work awarded by DoD agencies for both the Joint Venture and members of the Joint Venture. Volume of work shall be demonstrated in a table format and be categorized by contract, task order, project award, completion dates, and dollar amount. 4. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS: Interested AE firms having the capabilities for this work are invited to submit one completed Standard Form 330 (current version) Architect Engineer Qualifications Parts I and II and one (1) SF330 Part II for each firm that will be part of the team, no later than 3 pm PST on 24 March 2023. All bidders are required to submit their bids electronically via the DoD Secure Access File Exchange (DoD SAFE) (https://safe.apps.mil/). No hand-delivered bids will be accepted. To submit via DoD SAFE, contact Dennis Neal at James.Neal@usace.army.mil to receive a submission code. Once you have a submission code, you can upload the SF330s to DoD Safe. They must be uploaded no later than 3:00 pm on the response date above. In addition to your electronic submission to DoD Safe, please also mail a copy of your submission on one Compact Disc by the response date above to the following street address: SPN Contracting Office, 450 Golden Gate Ave 4th Floor, San Francisco California 94102. Lengthy cover letter and generic corporation brochures or other presentation beyond those to sufficiently present a complete and effective response are not desired. Phone calls and personal visits are discouraged. Response to this notice must be received by the due date specified herein. Include Unique Entity Identification (UEI) number of the office that will perform the work. The SF330 Part I shall not exceed 70 pages (8.5 inches x11 inches) including no more than 16 pages for Section H. In Section E of the SF 330, provide resumes for all key team members, whether with the prime firm or a subcontractor. List specific project experience for key team members; and indicate the team member's role on each listed project (i.e. project manager, planning engineer, environmental engineer, design engineer, etc.). In Section D of the SF 330, provide the quality management plan and organization chart for the proposed team. In Section H of the SF 330, indicate the number and amount of fees awarded on DoD (Army, Navy, and Air Force) contracts during the 12 months prior to this notice, including change orders and supplemental agreements for the submitting office only. The firm selected for this contract will be expected to submit a quality control/quality assurance plan and to adhere to it during the work and services required under the contract. In Section H, describe the firms Quality Control Plan (QCP), including Quality Assurance Plan (QAP) of subcontractor work. The plan must be prepared and approved by the Government, as a condition of contract award, but is not required with this submission. PLEASE NOTE: RESUMES DO NOT COUNT AGAINST THE 70 PAGE LIMITATION. Each side of paper is a page (70 pages single sided or 35 pages double sided). Use no smaller than 12 font type. In Section H, indicate the estimated percentage involvement of each firm on the proposed team. Include an organization chart (11" x17" will count as 1 Page) of the key personnel to be assigned to the project. No other general notification will be made of this work. Solicitation packages are not provided, and no additional project information will be given to firms during the announcement period. This is not a request for proposal and no other general notification will be made. Include solicitation number in your submission package. 5. PRE-PROPOSAL CONFERENCE A Virtual Pre-Proposal Conference will be held at 1 pm PST on 22 Feb 2023. Attendance is not mandatory for submitting qualifications. All attendees must submit names, name of company, and title email address of attendees to Dennis Neal no later than 12 pm PST on 20 Feb 2023. The purpose of the Pre-Proposal Conference is to assist interested firms on the process of applying for Government A-E services contracts, explain requirements, and to answer questions from potential offerors. VI. QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS Questions regarding this announcement and the pre-proposal conference must be in writing and shall be addressed to Dennis Neal via email at james.neal@usace.army.mil All questions must be submitted no later than 3 pm PST on 27 Feb 2023 to allow adequate time to respond.