Inactive Total Small Business Set-Aside (FAR 19.5)

SITE MONITORING AND INTERIM REMEDIAL MEASURES OPERATIONS, MAINTENANCE, AND MODIFICATIONS, BULK FUELS FACILITY, KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, NM The proposed procurement will be competed as a Small Business... SITE MONITORING AND INTERIM REMEDIAL MEASURES OPERATIONS, MAINTENANCE, AND MODIFICATIONS, BULK FUELS FACILITY, KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, NM The proposed procurement will be competed as a Small Business Set-Aside using a Best Value Trade-off source selection process in accordance with FAR 15, open to all small businesses. NAICS is 562910, with a size standard of 750 employees. The solicitation will be issued on or about 17 April 2020, with proposals due on or about 18 May 2020. Offerors are advised that this requirement may be delayed, canceled, or revised at any time during the solicitation, or final award process, and is subject to the availability of funds. In general, the services are to address groundwater contamination associated with historical releases from the Bulk Fuels Facility (BFF) at Kirtland Air Force Base (KAFB). The primary objective of this contract is to fulfill KAFB obligations to address groundwater contamination resulting from historical releases of the BFF. The Government is seeking qualified, experienced sources capable of performing a full range of environmental remedial services necessary to meet stringent Department of Defense (DoD) quality requirements and to meet complex and evolving regulatory criteria. The services include planning; permitting; regulatory compliance; collection of contaminant, geochemical, lithologic, hydraulic, and mechanical data; interpretation of chemical data sets to make assessments of contaminant nature extent and degradation processes; use of operational data to generate optimized system designs; perform remedial treatment system operation and construct system upgrades; produce technical documents capable of withstanding subject matter expert scrutiny. In order to effectively address remedial objectives, KAFB is required to coordinate multiple studies, operations, and interim measures and to make effective communication with stakeholders and regulators. As such numerous supporting tasks are required and include: Maintaining and operating the existing BFF Groundwater Treatment System (GWTS) in accordance with regulatory permits and approved Operation Maintenance and Monitoring (OM&M) plans. Monitoring groundwater soil gas, drinking water, GWTS and associated media to assess plume conditions, assess safety of drinking water supplies, and assess interim measures. Optimizing, improving, and modifying the GWTS to most effectively contain groundwater contamination in order to ensure safety of public and KAFB water supply. Optimizing, improving, and modifying groundwater interim measure in order to address regulatory requirements as needed to address environmental hazards, Evaluating remedial alternatives by implementing studies or pilot testing as required by the Government. Coordinating with the Government and other contractors to provide the Government information necessary to perform planning and to brief stakeholders and regulators. The Contractor shall execute environmental remedial services necessary to address contamination at KAFB SWMUs ST-106 and SS-111. The Contractor shall implement, monitor, and maintain interim measures in accordance with approved permits and Contractor plans. The Contractor shall perform remedial services, remedial construction, and environmental studies tasks at the Government’s discretion and based upon the current site condition and need. Services include: planning and permitting meetings and presentation OM&M of existing interim measure infrastructure design and construction for expansion, modification, and optimization of interim measures pilot test implementation environmental investigations, studies, and site monitoring, drinking water monitoring, interim measures system performance assessment, and preparation of documents. All work will be performed in accordance with any and all applicable rules, regulations, publications, manuals, and guidelines. The contractor shall provide all personnel, equipment, supplies, facilities, transportation, tools, materials, supervision, and other items and non-personal services necessary to provide groundwater monitoring and interim remedial operations, maintenance and modifications, Bulk Fuels Facility, Kirtland Air Force Base, Bernalillo County, New Mexico. The solicitation will be advertised as a Request for Proposal via Internet only, as well as any issued amendments. Competitive proposals will be evaluated based on the evaluation criteria set forth in the solicitation package. Evaluation by the Government will result in selection of a firm that represents the best value to the Government. The proposed procurement will result in firm fixed price service contract. The period of performance will be one 24-month base period and three 12 month option periods. Questions of a technical nature regarding this synopsis should be addressed to Behnaum Moayyad at (505) 342-3104 or e-mail at: Behnaum.Moayyad@usace.army.mil. OFFERORS MUST BE REGISTERED with System for Award Management (SAM), in order to receive a Government Contract award. To register, the SAM Internet address is: https:// sam.gov. If you require assistance with your SAM registration contact the Federal Service Desk at www.fsd.gov or by telephone at 866-606-8220. This solicitation will be issued via Internet only under solicitation #W912PP20R0009. For security reasons, all technical data related to this solicitation will be distributed under Contract Opportunities at https://beta.sam.gov. The beta.SAM.gov site is a web-based dissemination tool designed to safeguard acquisition-related information for all Federal agencies. Interested offerors must register for an account or they will not be able to download information from the site. Further information and instructions can be found on the website under Customer Service, Learning Center. Contractors registered with the site may view and/or download this solicitation and all amendments from the Internet AFTER SOLICITATION ISSUANCE. Again, offerors are advised that this requirement may be delayed, cancelled, or revised at any time during the solicitation, or final award process, and is subject to the availability of funds.

Inactive

This is a SOURCES SOUGHT announcement; a market survey for information only, to be used for preliminary planning purposes. THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION FOR PROPOSALS AND NO CONTRACT WILL BE AWARDED FROM... This is a SOURCES SOUGHT announcement; a market survey for information only, to be used for preliminary planning purposes. THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION FOR PROPOSALS AND NO CONTRACT WILL BE AWARDED FROM THIS SYNOPSIS. No reimbursement will be made for any costs associated with providing information in response to this notice or any follow up information requests. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers – Albuquerque District has been tasked to solicit for and award an environmental remedial services contract for Groundwater Monitoring and Interim Remedial Measures Operations and Modification for the Bulk Fuels Facility (BFF) site at Kirtland Air Force Base (KAFB), New Mexico. The proposed solicitation will be for a competitive, firm-fixed price service contract procured in accordance with FAR 15, Negotiated Procurement using a Best Value trade-off process. The results and analysis of this market research will finalize the procurement method and type of set-aside decision. The purpose of this notice is to gain knowledge of interest, capabilities and qualifications of various members of industry, to include the Small Business Community: Small Business, Section 8(a), Historically Underutilized Business Zones (HUB-Zone), Woman-Owned Small Business (WOSB), and Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB). The Government must ensure there is adequate competition among the potential pool of responsible contractors. The Government is seeking qualified, experienced sources capable of performing a full range of environmental remedial services necessary to meet stringent Department of Defense (DoD) quality requirements and to meet complex and evolving regulatory criteria. The services include planning; permitting; regulatory compliance; collection of contaminant, geochemical, lithologic, hydraulic, and mechanical data; interpretation of chemical data sets to make assessments of contaminant nature extent and degradation processes; use of operational data to generate optimized system designs; perform remedial treatment system operation and construct system upgrades; produce technical documents capable of withstanding subject matter expert scrutiny. Regulatory Expertise: The service provider shall have demonstrable regulatory expertise necessary to assessing New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) regulatory requirements under numerous regulatory criteria and in achieving regulatory concurrence on submittal documents. The provider must have experience that demonstrates compliance with NMED requirements under Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). The provider should have verifiable experience complying with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as well as State and Local governmental requirements of the National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES), the Clean Air Act of 1963, and the Clean Water Act of 1972. Environmental Remedial Expertise: The service provider must have demonstrable expertise in groundwater and petroleum remedial system design, construction, and operation. An environmental chemist and risk assessor are required to perform data validation on site monitoring and to determine human health and environmental impacts of KAFB releases. Database management is a critical task requiring management of thousands of lines of analytical data each quarter and providing database submittals to the Air Force Environmental Restoration Program Information Management System (ERPIMS). A broad foundation of expertise in organic contaminant fate and transport properties as phase separated liquids, vapor, and dissolved phases through vadose zone and aquifer media is required for successful operation of groundwater interim measures. A groundwater modeler with demonstrable experience in generating finite element models of sufficient complexity to simulate measured head and contaminant transport in dynamic well fields is required for interim measures quantitative assessments. A team of groundwater remedial design experts is required to maintain the existing interim measures system in compliance with regulatory and DoD quality requirements. Expertise in microbial and geochemical properties affecting petroleum hydrocarbons and halogenated compounds is necessary to operation, maintenance, and optimization of the existing remedial system. The provider must demonstrate these requirements are met in the capabilities and past performance. Remedial Construction and Operation: The service provider must be able to plan, design, construct, and operate groundwater remedial systems at federal facilities, such as KAFB. The service provider must demonstrate a history of satisfactory performance in compliance with administrative, security, contractual, and financial requirements of contracts for the DoD. Design, construction, and operation of wells, conveyance, and water purification systems capabilities must be demonstrated. The service provider shall have sufficient local staff (as prime or subcontract) or be able to mobilize staff to the Albuquerque New Mexico metropolitan area for the duration of the 5-year period of performance. Experienced water treatment operations and facilities maintenance staff must be demonstrated by past performance. Document Preparation and Public Outreach: The service provider must be able to produce highly technical document, data, simulations, and design deliverables. The current project produces more than 65,000 pages in document deliverables annually that include assessments of remedial operation compliance and performance, proposed remedial actions, and site characterization. The service provider must demonstrate sufficient capabilities with a broad range of technical, editorial, and production capabilities to meet stringent document quality and aggressive schedule requirements. The service provider must be able to translate highly technical material to the public in the form of stakeholder and public meeting presentations on a regular interval. The minimum/special capabilities required for this project are: --Prime Contractor experienced with analysis of large environmental chemistry data sets and performing risk analysis according to federal and New Mexico state criteria --Prime Contractor experience with groundwater remedial design, construction, and operation at a federal facility --Prime Contractor experience with NMED regulations --Prime Contractor local presence or committed ability to maintain core project staff in the vicinity of Albuquerque, NM for the 5-year period of performance The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this procurement is 562910, Remediation Services and has a small business size standard of 750 employees. Estimated duration of the project is 60 months (5 years). Small Businesses are reminded under FAR 52.219-14, Limitations on Subcontracting that at least 50 percent of the cost of contract performance incurred for personnel shall be expended for employees of the concern. 8(a) firms are reminded they need to have a bona fide office in the area where the work is to be performed should the acquisition be set-aside for 8(a) program. Prior Government contract work is not required for submitting a response under this sources sought notice. Anticipated solicitation issuance date on or about 10 April 2020. The official notice citing the solicitation number will be issued under Contract Opportunities on beta.SAM.gov inviting firms to register electronically to receive a copy of the solicitation when it is issued. Firm’s response to this Notice shall be limited to 12 pages and shall include the following information: 1. Firm’s name, address, point of contact, phone number, and e-mail address. 2. Firm’s experience on projects of similar scope that includes the type of work and minimum capabilities listed in this Sources Sought Notice, include firm’s capability to execute groundwater environmental remediation services, and comparable work performed within the past 5 years: 2a. Capacity of technical experts and key staff along with ability to move to the project area. 2b. Past performance with brief description of the project, customer name, and dollar value of the project – provide at least 3 examples. 3. Firm’s Business Size – LB, SB, 8(a), HUBZone, WOSB, SDVOSB 4. Firm’s Joint Ventures (existing), including Mentor Protégés and teaming arrangement information is acceptable Interested Firm’s shall respond to this Sources Sought Notice no later than 20 February 2020, 5:00PM MST. All interested firms must be registered in SAM.gov to be eligible for award of Government contracts. Email your response to Erica.M.Talley@usace.army.mil. Firms responding to this sources sought notice who fail to provide ALL of the required information requested will not be used to assist the Government in the acquisition strategy decision, which is the intent of this sources sought notice. NOTE: IF YOU DO NOT INTEND TO SUBMIT A PROPOSAL FOR THIS PROJECT WHEN IT IS FORMALLY ADVERTISED, PLEASE DO NOT SUBMIT A RESPONSE TO THIS SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE. If inadequate responses are received, the solicitation may be issued for full and open competition.