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C -- PREPARATION OF A TACTICAL TERRAIN ANALYSIS DATA BASE AND A PLANNING TERRAIN ANALYSIS DATA BASE, ENVIRONMENTAL AND RELATED TERRAIN STUDIES SOL EDC000-6137-0004 POC John A. Gaal, (314) 331-8301; T. M. Laws, Contracting Officer, (314) 331-8500 (Site Code DACW43) Reference Solicitation No. DACW43-96-R-0722. 1. CONTRACT INFORMATION: This will be a firm fixed-price indefinite delivery contract with a total accumulative limit of $750,000, and each task order limited to $150,000. The contract will be for a one-year base period, with an option to renew for one additional year. Pending approval to implement, the contract option may be exercised before the expiration of the base contract period if the total for base year task orders has been exhausted or nearly exhausted. The contract is anticipated to be awarded in September 1996. Funds are presently not available for award of this contract, but should be available during the fourth quarter of FY 96. The government's minimum obligation under this contract is $15,000 for the base year and $7,500 for the option year, if exercised. Services are procured in accordance with PL 92-582 (Brooks A-E Act) and FAR 36. The solicitation does not supersede contracts previously awarded for similar work by other Corps Districts. This announcement is open to all businesses regardless of size. If a large business is selected for this contract, it must comply with FAR 52.219-9 regarding the requirement for a subcontracting plan on that part of the work it intends to subcontract. The sub-contracting goals for the contract are that a minimum of 25% of the contractor's intended subcontract amount be placed with small businesses (SB), including 5% of the contractor's intended subcontract amount be placed with Women-Owned Small Businesses (WOSB), and 5% of the contractor's intended subcontract amount be placed with Small Disadvantaged Businesses (SDB). The plan is not required with this submittal. The wages and benefits of service employees (see FAR 22.10) performing under this contract must be at least equal to those determined by the Department of Labor under the Service Contract Act. 2. PROJECT INFORMATION: The A-E shall be required to produce military terrain analysis data bases, at various map scales, of selected areas of the world to be used in staff planning. Map, photo, and document analysis will be required. Preparation of compilation manuscript for cartographic presentation and photographic laboratory reproduction as well as capturing the data digitally (digitizing) will be required. Compilation manuscripts of numerous topical presentations at various map scales are to be compiled on mylar overlays and may include, but are not limited to: surface materials, roads, railroads, bridge information, airfields, landing zones, drop zones, helicopter landing zones, vertical obstructions, surface drainage, surface configuration, vegetation, obstacles, line of sight and cross-country movement. The final product will be stable base film positives and reproduction negatives of each manuscript and/or a digitally produced product of each manuscript. Source data collection will not be required. Source materials, sample map legends, format, layout, and specifications for the analysis and production of all topical map overlays, text and chart data, as well as digitizing will be furnished by the government. The studies will include data classified secret. The A-E must have personnel clearances, approved secure facilities, automated data processing equipment accredited for operation at the secret level, and storage containers for secret information or the ability to achieve this level of security clearance for both facilities and personnel that will be involved in the analysis, manuscript compilation, predigitizing, cartographic, typesetting/word processing, photo lab reproduction and digitizing portions of this project. Qualification statements should clearly indicate the office where the work will be performed. The A-E will be required to visit the government's facilities to utilize the light table mensuration system (L.T.M.S.) in the development of some topical data. Work space and equipment will be available. A top secret sensitive compartmented information (TS/SCI) clearance for the firm and its personnel is required to use this system. 3. SELECTION CRITERIA: A. See Note 24 for general A-E selection process information. B. The following evaluation criteria for this proposed contract are mandatory requirements and are related to one or more of the evaluation factors in Note 24: (1) Professional qualifications necessary for satisfactory performance of required services: Subfactors: a) Firms applying for consideration must demonstrate expertise in the disciplines of civil engineering, forestry, hydrology, groundwater geology, geography, soils, photo/imagery interpretation, technical writing, typesetting/word processing, cartography, and photographic laboratory reproduction. b) Demonstrate expertise in clear, concise compilation manuscript preparation and engineering technical writing associated with the analysis of terrain and terrain features military applications. c) Demonstrate expertise in the use of ARC/INFO and ERDAS software operating on UNIX work stations. (2) Specialized experience and technical competence in the type of work required: Subfactors: a) Demonstrate a typesetting/word processing capability for processing text and marginal information. b) Demonstrate a photographic laboratory capability sufficient to process film sizes up to and including 40 X 60 inches. c) Demonstrate a digitizing capability for processing multiple task orders using ARC/INFO software. (3) Capacity to accomplish the work in the required time: a) Demonstrate secret security clearances for facilities and personnel involved in the analysis manuscript preparation phase, and in the cartography, typesetting/word processing, photographic reproduction and digitizing phase, or the ability to readily achieve these levels of clearances. b) Demonstrate Top Secret - Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) security clearances for personnel who would utilize the light table mensuration system (L.T.M.S.). c) Demonstrate that they have in-house capacity to accomplish all of the work in accordance with the proposed contract performance period. d) Interested firms must demonstrate the capability to perform multiple task orders issued under this contract simultaneously. (4) Past performance on contracts with government agencies and private industry in terms of cost control, quality of work, and compliance with performance schedules: Subfactor: The proposed contract type is firm fixed price-indefinite delivery, therefore, cost control is not of prime importance in the evaluation of this contract. Firms with unsatisfactory or marginally unsatisfactory past performance evaluations (poor or below average) will not receive consideration for award of this contract. (5) Extent of participation of SB, SDB, historically black colleges and universities, and minority institutions in the proposed contract team, measured as a percentage of the total estimated effort. (6) Volume of work awarded by DOD during the previous 12 months as described in Note 24. Firms are requested to state in block 10 of the SF 255 the value of all A-E contract awards to the firm, including modifications, by DOD during the previous 12 months as of the date of this announcement. The relative order of importance of the factors and subfactors follow: Factor 1 is twice as important as factor 3. Factor 3 is slightly more important than factor 2 and 4 which are of equal importance. Factors 5 and 6 are secondary criteria and will only be used as ''tie-breakers'' among technically equal firms. Subfactor a) under factor 1, is three times as important as subfactor b). Subfactors b) and c) under factor 1 are of equal importance. Subfactor a) under factor 2, is twice as important as subfactor b). Subfactors b) and c) under factor 2 are of equal importance. The subfactors under factor 3 are of equal importance. 4. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS: See Note 24 for general submission requirements. Firms having capabilities to perform this work and desire to be considered must submit two copies of completed SF 255 (11/92 edition) and two copies of SF 254 (11/92 edition) for the prime firm and all consultants, to the above address not later than the close of business on the 30th day after the date of this announcement. If the 30th day is a Saturday, Sunday or Federal holiday, the deadline is the close of business of the next business day. Include the firms ACASS number in SF 255 Block 3b. For ACASS information, call 503-326-3459. In SF 255 Block 10, describe owned or leased equipment that will be used to perform this contract, as well as CADD capabilities. No other notification to firms under consideration for this work will be made. This is not a Request For Proposal (RFP).(0143)

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