A&E Serices for the Alaska Region
Added: Feb 10, 2017 7:01 pm THE SOLICITATION SHOULD BE POSTED ON fEBUARY 25, 2017 (SATURDAY)The USDA Forest Service Region 10 Regional Office is seeking qualified firms to provide professional landscape architectural and engineering services on an as-needed basis for Forest Service owned or managed lands and facilities located within the Tongass and Chugach National Forest.SCOPE OF SERVICE: (a) It is the purpose of this indefinite delivery contract to secure, on an individual order basis, professional services for landscape architectural work. Civil, environmental, geotechnical, and/or structural engineering work, surveying, and/or graphic design work may be incidental needs of individual orders. (b) Work may consist of any or all of the following: land use assessment and development, circulation and facility planning, land surveying, siting, design, and presentation; preparation of construction documents; and construction assistance on Forest Service owned or managed sites and facilities. Typical sites and facilities will be recreation-related such as, but not limited to, camping and picnic grounds, toilet facilities, potable water, trails, boat docks, cabins, and wildlife viewing platforms, but may also include sites associated with other constructed features such as administrative offices, crew quarters, multi-use facilities such as small Visitor Information Centers with offices, staff housing, warehouses, etc. The work may be for development of new sites, construction of new facilities, and/or evaluation, renovation, major repair, or alteration of existing sites and/or facilities. Individual task orders may be for work located in sites that range from remote to urban. National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) work may also be required. The work will require varying levels or resource analysis, field investigations, public involvement, interdisciplinary alternative development, analysis of public comments, and preparation of camera ready documents.Scope of work consists of any or all of the following:TITLE 1 SERVICES: Assessments, studies, engineering reports, surveys, design narratives, site plans, preparation of conceptual and preliminary designs, liaison with other agencies such as State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO), National Park Service (NPS), State of Alaska, cities and boroughs, etc.TITLE 2 SERVICES: Preparation of construction documents for bidding and contract award (design drawings, grading plans, specifications, cost estimates, etc.).TITLE 3 SERVICES: Construction inspection, site visits, consultation, review of submittals, and shop drawings, preparation of construction contract modifications, and other construction assistance as needed.NEPA SERVICES: Scenery Management System analysis for construction of recreation facilities, trails, and other forest management activities.The Forest Service anticipates awarding up to two indefinite quantity indefinite delivery contracts with a one-year performance period with options for four additional one year periods. Contracts will have a Not-to-Exceed value of $800,000 over the life of the contracts, including any option periods. Firms responding to this notice should be prepared to provide the full range of landscape architect and engineering services using in-house capacity or sub-consultant agreements. Work under this contract will be subject to satisfactory negotiation of individual task orders. The price of any single task order will be at least $2,500. Contract awarded will have a guaranteed minimum order of $5,000 for the life of the contract.EVALUATION. Evaluation will be conducted in accordance with FAR Subpart 36.6. After the evaluation and ranking process, an IDIQ contract will be negotiated and awarded to the two firms ranked as the most highly qualified. If the Government and the contractor cannot come to terms and negotiate a contract agreeable to both parties, the Government will cease negotiations and negotiate with the next highest ranked offeror.This solicitationis a 100% smallbusiness set-aside.TheNAICS is 541320 -$7.5 million. AG-0109-S-17-0008 Department of Agriculture Forest Service R10-Alaska Region
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