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FBO DAILY ISSUE OF MAY 04, 2007 FBO #1985
SOLICITATION NOTICE

R -- Monitoring John Day Dam Project, Oregon

Notice Date

5/2/2007
 

Notice Type

Solicitation Notice
 

NAICS

712120 — Historical Sites
 

Contracting Office

Portland District, US Army Corps of Engineers, Contracting Division (CENWP-CT_, P.O. Box 2946, Portland, OR 97208-2946
 

ZIP Code

97208-2946
 

Solicitation Number

W9127N07R0015
 

Response Due

6/5/2007
 

Archive Date

8/4/2007
 

Small Business Set-Aside

N/A
 

Description

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Portland District, CENWP-CT-C, 333 SW 1st Avenue, Portland, OR 97208, intends to issue a Request for Proposal No. W9127N-07-R-0015. To provide Monitoring Services for The Corps of Engineers, Portland District, at J ohn Day Dam, in accordance with the project Historic Properties Management Plan and in compliance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act. Monitoring specifically supports project goals for inventory, evaluation and treatment of histori c properties. Shoreline inspections under the monitoring program maintain the project's inventory of historic properties, updating it through discovery of sites newly exposed by shoreline erosion. The monitoring program also carries out evaluation of pro perties by retrieving and analyzing data (features and artifacts) that have been exposed at sites by shoreline erosion. Monitoring supports treatment of adverse project effects by assessing on-site impacts including erosion, recreational impacts, looting and vandalism and inspecting site stabilization measures to assure their continued integrity. The sites to be monitored under this contract are located on federal fee-owned lands within John Day Dam Project, Oregon. No special rights-of-entry will be nec essary to access these properties. The contractor will be expected to provide monitoring services and create or update GIS information. Field work for this contract will run from June through September in FY 2007. PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS: The princi pal investigator involved in fieldwork and report preparation for the tasks, shall meet the Secretary of the Interiors Standards for Professional Qualifications, 36CFR61.8 Appendix A. If the contractor desires to use a field director to direct the crew, a crew leader who meets the Secretary of Interiors standard is preferred, but a field director with substantial pertinent experience and an undergraduate degree in anthropology/archaeology may take on this role. PROPOSALS: The proposal shall include a pro posed field schedule for conducting the required site visits as well as a statement of the offers ability to complete the planned level of effort within the prescribed schedule based on their existing staffing structure and workload commitments. A detail ed project cost estimate and payment schedule shall be developed and submitted separately. The names of the Principal Investigator and staff shall be identified along with evidence of their professional qualifications. SITE MONITORING: The Contractor sha ll conduct periodic monitoring at 33 archaeological sites; visit each site at least one time during the contract period. Activities shall include, but not be limited to: 1. Archaeological Site Monitoring. 2. Site Protection--ARPA Enforcement. 3. Traditio nal Cultural Property Identification and Assessment. As an option item the contractor may accompany Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Nations cultural specialists and elders during on-site visits to identify traditional cultural properties associated wi th recorded properties and to assess project effects on such properties. Documentation of the contractors previous ability to work with the four Columbia River Tribes will be required. SELECTION CRITERIA: Selection criteria for this project will be base d upon the following non-price factors that will be of equal importance to each other: Professional qualifications of personnel to be assigned to the project. Evaluation will consider education, overall and relevant experience in archaeology and longevity with the firm. The following disciplines will be evaluated: a. Personnel Qualifications: The offeror shall provide a resume on the lead archaeologist with minimally a Masters Degree and five, 5, years experience. At a minimum the offeror shall provide i nformation/references showing their capability of providing at least 3-4 staff, whom are available to participate in this project. The Offeror shall provide a resume on the Field Crew Leader who will work on this project. At a minimum, provide information/references showing that the proposed crew leader has the educational requirements plus 4 years of experience as a Field Crew Leader. Resume shall include a l ist of projects in which the individual has filled the role of field crew leader. b. Company Experience: At a minimum, the Offeror shall provide at least five, 5, monitoring projects or cultural resource inventory projects, performed on the Columbia River that included surveys, testing and monitoring. Only those projects wherein the Offeror performed the work should be deemed for creditable. c. Past Performance: At a minimum, past performance should consist of a short narrative discussing the project an d should include: 1. a description of the project; 2. contract award amount (estimated or actual); 3. location; 4. project start date; 5. and completion date (if finished). All examples should also contain the name, address, telephone and fax number of a representative of the customer. The offeror shall also provide a list of prior monitoring jobs or cultural resource inventories with over 35 sites in a single report containing four, 4, or more reports. d. GIS Background: The Offerors GIS background mu st be in ArchInfo/ArchView GIS. At a minimum, the offeror shall provide a GIS structure between 15 to 20 fields, including mapping, site attribute list, topography, artifact attributes and have at a minimum five, 5, years experience dealing with GIS produ cts. e. Price, Proposal price is approximately equal in importance to the combined non-price factors. RFP will be available on or about May 4, 2007. Tentative due date is June 5, 2007. This procurement is open to both large and small businesses. The s mall business size standard for this procurement is a firm with average annual sales or receipts, including all affiliates, for the preceding three years not in excess of $6.5 million. The solicitation will be available on the FedTeDS website: https:// www.fedteds.gov/fedteds/start.nsf/frm.vendorlogin?openform&SolicitationNumber=W9127N-07-R-0015. In addition, in order to do business with the Department of Defense contractors must enroll on the Central Contracting Register (CCR) www.ccr.gov. Interested parties must be registered on FedTeDs, www.fedteds.gov to download the solicitation information. Interested parties should be sure to click on the Register to Receive Notification button to receive automatic update notices, or check often on FBO for upda tes. Direct all technical questions to Michael Martin at (503) 808-4771 email: Michael.A.Martin@nwp01.usace.army.mil. For administrative or contracting questions call Kathleen Seitz at (503) 808-4628 or email at Kathleen.D.Seitz@nwp01.usace.army.mil. N AICS code is 712120.
 

Place of Performance

Address: Portland District, US Army Corps of Engineers Contracting Division (CENWP-CT_, P.O. Box 2946 Portland OR

Zip Code: 97208-2946

Country: US
 

Record

SN01286069-W 20070504/070502225549 (fbodaily.com)
 

Source

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