ENVIRONMENTAL MULTIPLE AWARD CONTRACT (EMAC), NAVAL FACILITIES ENGINEERING COMMAND, MIDWEST (NAVFAC, MW)
Added: Nov 22, 2010 3:52 pm THIS NOTICE IS PROVIDED FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. SOLICITATION DOCUMENTS WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOADING ON OR ABOUT DECEMBER 15, 2010. On or about DECEMBER 15, 2010 a solicitation for an Environmental Multiple Award Contract (EMAC) for Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) nationwide will be posted on FedBizOpps (www.fbo.gov). Historically, volumes of work have been performed at various locations toughout the NAVFAC Midwest Area of Responsibility (AOR), which includes the following states: Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North and South Dakota, Oklahoma, Ohio, Tennessee, and Wisconsin. The preponderance of the work is at the Naval Station Great Lakes, Illinois, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Crane, Indiana, and Naval Support Activity Millington, Tennessee. However, other locations nationwide as deemed necessary may be included to meet workload. This procurement is 100% set-a side for competitive Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) firms located in the contiguous United States. The NAICS Code for this procurement is 562910, with a size standard of 500 employees. The Government's objective is to obtain services, including all labor, material, appurtenances, transportation, equipment, and supervision required to provide environmental services entailing a wide range of projects; such as, but not limited to: 1. Environmental remedial actions such as; removal actions; expedited cleanup actions; landfill maintenance and repair, AST/UST removal and/or replacement; building decontamination and demolition, asbestos/lead/mold abatement; environmental dredging ; repair/placement of natural resource/erosion controls; and other related activities associated with returning sites to safe and acceptable levels of contamination. Remedial actions may include, but will not be limited to demolition, landfills repair, pump-and treat remediation, bioremediation, soil vapor extraction, natural attenuation, bioventing, air sparging, thermal treatment, phytoremediation; physical removal; soil washing, and free product recovery. 2. Environmental services supporting remedial activities such as; operating, maintaining monitoring, and optimizing performance of remedial action systems including pilot and treatability studies; long term monitoring and operation and maintenance of remedial action systems; implementation of monitoring plans; and Restoration activities such as masonry, paving, electrical, plumbing, painting, etc as an appurtenance to environmental projects. Types of remedial action systems to be operated, maintained, and monitored may include but are not limited to: capped landfills, pump-and-treat remediation, bioremediation, soil vapor extraction, natural attenuation, bioventing, air sparging, reactive walls, thermal treatment, phytoremediation, soil washing, capped aquatic environments, storm water systems, and free product recovery. 3. General Environmental services such as; soil and groundwater remediation; site characterization and assessment; remedial design; hazardous and environmental waste documentation, handling, treatment, and disposal; wetland & other biological surveys/delineation; environmental baseline/assessment studies; media sampling including; air, water, asbestos, lead, hazardous waste, and other potentially regulated materials; noise monitoring/analysis; and geological, hydro-geological and environmental engineering design and oversight. Offerors shall demonstrate the ability to have performed this work on previous projects. This solicitation will use source selection procedures in which the Government will evaluate proposals based on the following factors: 1) Past Performance 2) Management Approach 3) Safety 4) Technical Approach for initial/seed project 5) Price The solicitation will result in between tee to five Multiple Award Contract (MAC) awards. The best value offeror will receive one of the MAC awards, as well as the initial/seed project. The remaining best value offerors selected will receive a Multiple Award Contract that will include a minimum guarantee of $1,000. The preponderance of the work will be between $10,000 and $500,000. The contract vehicle may have occasional projects ranging from $3.5 million to $8 million. The contracts will be for a 12 month base year and potential four option years. The estimated maximum value for all contracts is $40,000,000. This will be a service contract, but may have occasional construction task orders issued off of it. Performance and payment bonds will required on all follow on construction task orders. All interested firms must have bonding capability of $8,000,000 for a single project, and will be required to provide proof of bonding capability at time of proposal. As the solicitation will be issued via the internet, all prospective offerors MUST register themselves on the website. All contractors are encouraged to attempt to download prior to obtaining the solicitation tough alternate sources. Many firms and commercial printing services have the capability to print the solicitation package and plan holders list off the internet, if necessary. The official plan holders list will be created by registration and will be available from the website only. Amendments will also be posted on the website for downloading. This will be the normal method for distributing amendments; therefore, it is the offerors’ responsibility to check the website periodically for any amendments to this solicitation. FOLLOW-ON WORK AFTER AWARD: The successful offerors awarded a MAC contract will compete on future task orders. Offerors will be expected to submit technical and price proposals on all future task orders. Lack of participation may result in the Government not exercising the option for extending the contract. Participation in the pre-proposal conferences or site visits for the initial award or any task orders is mandatory and is the responsibility of the offeror and is not reimbursable by the Government. The task order statements of work may be written based on Government/Contractor team cooperative scoping of the work. Each awarded task order will indicate a specific completion date and NFAS Clause 5252.246-9303 Consequences of Contractor's Failure To Perform Required Services will be incorporated in the contract as prescribed in 46.407(a). Liquidated Damages and Davis Bacon Wages will apply to any construction task orders. Subsequent task orders may be awarded on either the best value trade off continuum or lowest price technically acceptable. If the Government decides to issue the task order as a best value trade off, award factors will vary depending on the unique requirements for each task order. IMPORTANT NOTICE: All contractors submitting bids, proposals, or quotes on Department of Defense solicitations must be registered in the Central Contractor Registration (CCR) prior to award of the contract. The purpose of this database is to provide basic business information, capabilities, and financial information to the Government. The CCR website can be accessed at www.ccr.gov. Reference is made to DFARS Clause 252.204-7004, Required Central Contractor Registration. All new contracts can ONLY be made to contractors who are registered in CCR. This requirement will apply to all solicitations and awards, regardless of the media used. For inquiries about the proposal, please contact Ms. Amy Franks by email: amy.franks@navy.mil.
N4008311R0005 Department of the Navy Naval Facilities Engineering Command
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