SOURCES SOUGHT
F -- GROUNDWATER MONITORING AND INTERIM MEASURES REMEDIAL OPERATIONS, MAINTENANCE, & MODIFICATIONS, KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, NM
- Notice Date
- 2/6/2020 7:36:12 AM
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 562910
— Remediation Services
- Contracting Office
- W075 ENDIST ALBUQUERQUE ALBUQUERQUE NM 87109-3435 USA
- ZIP Code
- 87109-3435
- Solicitation Number
- W912PP20R0009
- Response Due
- 2/20/2020 4:00:00 PM
- Archive Date
- 03/06/2020
- Point of Contact
- Erica Talley, Phone: 5053423223
- E-Mail Address
-
erica.m.talley@usace.army.mil
(erica.m.talley@usace.army.mil)
- Description
- 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 $22.0 Million.� 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 Prot�g�s 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.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Albuquerque, NM, USA
- Country: USA
- Country: USA
- Record
- SN05554002-F 20200208/200206230138 (samdaily.us)
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