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C -- INSTRUMENTATION AND EVALUATION PROGRAM WITHIN THE LIMITS OF THE NEW ORLEANS DISTRICT SOL DACW29-98-R-0013 POC Contract Specialist, Eileen Upton, 504-862-1996 1. CONTRACT INFORMATION: A-E services are required for an instrumentation and evaluation program contract within the limits of the New Orleans District. A one year indefinite quanity task order contract NTE $300,000, base period, with two option periods NTE $300,000 is scheduled for award in or around October 1998. 2. PROJECT INFORMATION: Work will consist of: (1) surveying specific features of civil works structures to include locks, pumping stations, floodgates, control structures, drainage structures, floodwalls, channels and bridges;(2) preparation of instrumentation evaluation reports (to include an evaluation of instrumentation data and site visits); (3) CADD drafting service in support of the instrumentation program; and (4) instrumentation surveys to include hydrographic, overbank, horizontal distances, control and piezometer readings. Firms must indicate their capability of utilizing Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and total stations with a data collector system. Office assignments include computing and compiling the above types of surveys, CADD drafting and report preparation. 3. SELECTION CRITERIA: The selection criteria are listed below in order of precedence (first by major criterion and then by each sub-criterion). Criteria 1-7 are primary. Criteria 8-10 are secondary and will only be used as "tie Breakers" among technically equal firms. (1) Specialized experience and technical competence in the type of work required (to include firm and key personnel). (2) Capacity to accomplish the work in the required time. Firms must have at least the following personnel: one professional registered civil engineer and one geotechnical engineer or one professional registered civil engineer with geotechnical experience, two 4-person survey parties, one GPS survey party and one registered land surveyor. All key personnel and major items of equipment available for project assignment must be listed along with other pertinent data. (3) Professional qualifications of the personnel available for the satisfactoryperformance of the required service. (4) Past performance of Department of Defense (DOD) and other contracts in terms of cost control, qulaity of work, and compliance with performance schedules. (5) Knowledge of geographic area of the project. (6) Safety plan and performance (manhours lost to accidents in the last 100,000 manhours of work by firm). (7) Quality control plan. (8) Location of the firm in the general geographical area of the New Orleans District. (9) Extent of participation (measured as a percentage of total contract) by Small Business, Small Disadvantaged Business, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and Minority Institutions. (10) Volume of DOD Work. To be considered for selection, firms must clearly idintify in the SF 254 or block 10 of the SF 255 expertise in the types of work cited above, identify capacity to produce CADD drawings that are fully operational with Bentley Microstation Version 5.0, identify availability of individuals qualified by specialized knowledge to evaluate instrumentation data in the following disciplines: civil and geotechnical engineering, indentify surveying experience in the types of surveys stated above. 4. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS: See Note 24 for general submission requirements. Interested firms having the capabilities to perform this work must submit five (5) copies of SF 254 and SF 255 (11/92 editition for the prime firm and all subcontractors and consultants, to the below 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 firm's ACASS number in the SF 255, Block 3b. For ACASS information, call 503-326-3459. Address the minimum personnel and equipment requirements and each of the Selection Criteria in Block 10 of the SF 255. For criteria (6) and (7), comprehensive outlines of safety and quality control plans will be satisfactory. Complete plans will be required after contract award. Safety performance data (manhours lost) must be submitted, including data for any subcontractors. For courier deliveries, the physical address is U.S. Army Engineer District, New Orleans, Foot of Prytania Street, New Orleans, LA 70118-1030. This is not request for proposal. Refer to Solicitation No. (0062)

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