032 1Req SF330s.pdf

IDENTIFICATION NO.: REQUIREMENTS-23-1079

NOS/OCM Coastal Geospatial Services

CONTRACT INFORMATION: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Acquisition and Grants Office, Eastern Acquisition Division (EAD), on behalf of the National Ocean Service (NOS), Office for Coastal Management (OCM) is seeking firms highly qualified to provide professional geospatial services, in support of various local, state, and regional coastal resource management needs. This acquisition is being solicited on a full and open competition basis, with the goal of one award reserved for a small business. This acquisition will be conducted in accordance with the procedures outlined in the Selection of Architects and Engineers Statute and Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Subpart 36.6, Architect-Engineer (A-E) Services, and will be on the basis of demonstrated competence and qualifications of prospective firms.

Coastal geospatial services directly support multiple NOAA statutory mandates, to manage the nation’s coastal resources, including the Great Lakes, with the goal to “preserve, protect, develop, and where possible, to restore or enhance the resources of the nation’s coastal zone” [pursuant to the Coastal Zone Management Act (CZMA)], and to “establish a constituent-driven program to provide a digital information platform capable of efficiently integrating coastal data with decision-support tools, training, and best practices and to support collection of priority coastal geospatial data to inform and improve local, State, regional, and Federal capacities to manage the coastal region” [pursuant to the Digital Coast Act]. OCM works closely with state and local coastal zone management partners and other NOAA and Federal Agency programs to identify requirements and to provide geospatial data and services that enhance understanding of coastal environments, as well as the ability to manage, protect, and use valuable coastal resources.

The NOS OCM is responsible for collecting geospatial data throughout the United States (U.S.), including all coastal and Great Lakes states, commonwealths, freely associated states, possessions and territories. The work is highly technical in nature and requires specialized technical expertise. Geospatial data collection services are essential for OCM’s mission to protect the nation’s coastal areas and communities. Additionally, this geospatial data is vital in the sustainment and usefulness of the Digital Coast, a comprehensive information repository for the nation’s coastal management community, providing data, tools, and training most needed by coastal communities looking to address pressing coastal issues to include coastal hazards and resilience, flood risk, infrastructure planning, coastal and ocean habitat, as well as, coastal and ocean planning. A-E Firm support services are necessary to conduct geospatial data collection and analysis services to provide NOAA with accurate data, geospatial products, and training that will be distributed via the Digital Coast. This proposed acquisition will consist of the following services:

● Data acquisition using multiple platforms, including aerial, satellite, ship-based, subsurface, and unmanned vehicles. Data acquisition shall include Topographic and Bathymetric Lidar, Multispectral and Hyperspectral Imagery, Multibeam and Side Scan Sonar, and Interferemetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (IfSAR);

● Thematic mapping for land use/cover, impervious surfaces, wetland and benthic habitats including demonstrated methods using supervised and unsupervised classification techniques;

● Survey and control services, including tide and water level collections for tidal datum determination, and independent ground control surveys for accuracy assessments;

● Coastal engineering services including: natural and nature based design and construction, wave/tide/sediment transport modeling, erosion control, and soft and hard stabilization solutions;

● Geographic Information Systems (GIS) services to include data production, geospatial data and map service development, data management, data conversion, data integration, data analysis, data modeling, and data visualization; and

● Geospatial training.

The Government anticipates awarding a multiple-award indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract. The contract will be for a five-year ordering period. The shared maximum award value across all awardees shall not exceed the threshold of $49.0 Million (M) over the five-year period. The contract minimum guarantee for all awardees will be $10,000. The NAICS code is 541370, Surveying and Mapping (except Geophysical) Services, which has a small business size standard of $19.0M in average annual receipts for its three previous fiscal years.

Large businesses must comply with FAR 52.219-9, Small Business Subcontracting Plan (JAN 2025), regarding the requirement for a subcontracting plan. Once awarded, services will be ordered by negotiating firm-fixed price task orders in accordance with the selection procedures outlined in FAR Subpart 36.6, A-E Services and as detailed in the IDIQ contract.

SELECTION CRITERIA: The IDIQ award selection criteria, in accordance with FAR Subsection 36.602-1, listed in descending order of importance are provided below.

1. Professional Qualifications necessary for satisfactory performance of required services.

In order to be qualified, the proposed team as a whole (prime and subcontractors) must have all of the labor categories identified in Attachment B, Labor Categories, (including key personnel), on payroll. Firms shall demonstrate this by identifying each labor category title from Attachment B, in the Standard Form (SF) 330, Part I, Section D, and SF330, Part II. Firms must provide resumes for all proposed key personnel in SF330, Part I, Section E, in order to demonstrate the key personnel meet the minimum education, experience qualifications, and experience requirements identified in Attachment B. Key personnel include the labor category of Project Manager. Firms must also provide one resume for each of the following labor categories: LiDAR Specialist, Senior GIS Analyst, Senior Remote Sensing Specialist, QA/QC Manager in order to demonstrate the personnel meet the minimum education, experience qualifications, and experience requirements identified in Attachment B. Firms will also be evaluated on the ability of proposed personnel to perform the work required under this contract, including participation in example projects as outlined in the SF330 Part 1, Section G.

2. Specialized Experience and Technical Competence in the type of work required as outlined in Attachment A, Statement of Work. Firms shall provide a maximum of eight projects completed or substantially completed (defined as 80% of the project invoiced), in the SF330, Part I, Section F, within the past five years immediately preceding the date of issuance of this notice that best demonstrate specialized experience of the proposed team in the areas outlined below. All projects provided must contain a contract/task order number and the point of contact name, number, and email address. Furthermore, base level ordering vehicles such as indefinite-delivery contracts and blanket purchase agreements shall not be referenced as a project, as no work is completed at the base level.

In order to be qualified, firms shall demonstrate successful experience in the following:

○ Data acquisition using multiple platforms, including aerial, satellite, ship-based, subsurface, and unmanned vehicles. Data acquisition shall include:

i. Topographic and Bathymetric Lidar

ii. Multispectral and Hyperspectral Imagery

iii. Multibeam and Side Scan Sonar

iv. Interferemetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (IfSAR)

○ Thematic mapping for land use/cover, impervious surfaces, wetland and benthic habitats including demonstrated methods using supervised and unsupervised classification techniques;

○ Survey and control services, including tide and water level collections for tidal datum determination, and independent ground control surveys for accuracy assessments;

○ Coastal engineering services including: natural and nature based design and construction, wave/tide/sediment transport modeling, erosion control, and soft and hard stabilization solutions;

○ Geographic Information Systems (GIS) services to include data production, geospatial data and map service development, data management, data conversion, data integration, data analysis, data modeling, and data visualization; and

○ Geospatial training.

3. Capacity To Accomplish The Work In The Required Time (personnel and equipment).

In order to be qualified, firms shall demonstrate availability of the following:

○ Three or more precision aerial mapping cameras;

○ Three or more Lidar sensor systems;

○ Control survey equipment (GPS and conventional);

○ Hardware and software for data collection of planimetric and topographic features, including elevation data;

○ Hardware and software to edit and manipulate digital data;

○ Access to high performance computing;

○ Storage for modeling, managing, and serving large datasets;

○ The ability to provide digital aerial photography and orthophoto-products, including hardcopies;

○ Capacity to accomplish at least three task orders simultaneously; and

○ Availability of suitable survey platform(s), as stated above, that comply with the applicable requirements found in the following web sites:

i. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) https://www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/,

ii. International Civilian Aviation Organization (ICAO) https://www.icao.int/about-icao/Pages/default.aspx https://www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/ https://www.icao.int/about-icao/Pages/default.aspx

iii. U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/,

iv. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) http://www.epa.gov/lawsregs/,

v. Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) http://www.osha.gov/,

vi. National Park Service (NPS) https://www.nps.gov/aboutus/lawsandpolicies.htm,

vii. Homeland Security, https://www.dhs.gov/

4. Past Performance. Firms shall demonstrate past performance with Government agencies and/or private industry completing geospatial data collection and analysis services (relevant in size, scope, and complexity to a typical task order under this acquisition) with respect to quality of work, compliance with performance schedules, stakeholder/customer satisfaction, and regulatory compliance. The average task order award value is between $329,000 and $1.0M. Evaluating past performance will include information provided in the Contractor Performance Assessment Reporting System (CPARS) for the maximum of eight projects provided in the SF330, Part I, Section F; Past Performance Questionnaires (PPQs); and may include customer inquiries, Government databases, and other information available to the Government including contact with points of contact provided in the SF330. PPQs will only be reviewed if CPARS is not available. A PPQ shall not be submitted if a CPARS evaluation has been completed, as the CPARS is the final record and will be the information considered. In the event a CPARS report is not available, a PPQ shall be submitted. If a PPQ is utilized, the firm is to complete the Contractor Information and the Contract Information on the first two tables, and the Client Reference (the agency, private firm that the firm completed the work for) is to complete the Client Information and the remainder of the form. The Client Reference shall provide the completed PPQ via email to the Contract Specialist, Carley Flaxman at Carley.Flaxman@noaa.gov, with a carbon copy (cc) the Contracting Officer, Dorothy Curling at Dorothy.Curling@noaa.gov. The Client Reference shall submit the PPQ. PPQs containing information in Client Information table, and the remainder of the form, will not be accepted directly from a firm responding to this notice. A PPQ shall not be submitted for IDIQ contracts; only one project shall be included for each PPQ. Therefore, a separate PPQ must be completed for each project. It is the responsibility of the firm to follow-up and encourage references to submit the questionnaire prior to the offer due date and time. Past performance references without a CPARS report or PPQ provided by the offer due date and time will not be evaluated. PPQs without contract and order (if applicable) numbers and the percentage of project invoiced will not be evaluated.

5. Location and Knowledge. Firms shall demonstrate their knowledge and capacity of coastal management issues and to work simultaneously in diverse geographical areas throughout the U.S., including all coastal and Great Lakes states, commonwealths, freely associated states, possessions, and territories.

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS: Firms having capabilities to perform this work and desiring to be considered shall submit their package electronically, in readable and searchable PDF format, consisting of a completed SF330 (latest edition), to Carley Flaxman at Carley.Flaxman@noaa.gov, with a cc to Dorothy Curling at Dorothy.Curling@noaa.gov, no later http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/ http://www.epa.gov/lawsregs/ http://www.osha.gov/ https://www.nps.gov/aboutus/lawsandpolicies.htm https://www.dhs.gov/ mailto:Carley.Flaxman@noaa.gov mailto:Dorothy.Curling@noaa.gov mailto:Carley.Flaxman@noaa.gov mailto:Dorothy.Curling@noaa.gov than 12:00 PM ET, August 25, 2025. Late responses will be handled in accordance with FAR 52.215-1, Instructions to Offerors - Competitive Acquisition.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) content and responses are prohibited for this requirement and responding firms shall include a clear statement in the SF330 submission that AI was not used to generate the contents or response. Firms that fail to provide this statement will be ineligible for evaluation and award.

The following limitations apply:

● SF330, Part I, Section E, shall be limited to Project Manager, LiDAR Specialist, Senior GIS Analyst, Senior Remote Sensing Specialist, and QA/QC Manager only and no more than 20 pages total.

● SF330, Part I, Section F, shall be limited to eight projects and no more than 16 pages total.

● SF330, Part I, Section H shall be no more than 30 pages.

● The overall submission package (Part I and Part II of SF330) shall not exceed 75 pages, exclusive of Part (I and II) dividers. The cover letter, table of contents, list of exhibits and list of acronyms are included in the 75-page total. CPARS and PPQs are not included in the 75-page total.

● Pages in excess of the maximums established above shall be discarded and not used in evaluation.

● Pages should be 8 ½ x 11. Use no smaller than 9-point font for SF330 forms and no smaller than 12-point font for non-SF330 pages (Section H). Single line spacing and no less than 1-inch margins are also required.

Responding firms must state whether they are a large, small, small disadvantaged, women-owned, Historically Underserved Business Zones (HUBZone), veteran-owned, or service disabled veteran-owned small business. All subcontracting or teaming arrangements must be included in the SF330, in Part I, Section C, with the business size of each.

Prior to contract award, a large business must submit a subcontracting plan that complies with FAR clause 52.219-9, Small Business Subcontracting Plan (JAN 2025). A subcontracting plan is not to be submitted with the SF330. The following subcontracting goals are provided for developing subcontracting plans:

Business Category Subcontracting Goals Small Business 70.00%

Small Disadvantaged Business 0.75% 8(a) N/A

Women-Owned Small Business 5.00% HubZone Small Business 3.00%

Veteran-Owned Small Business 5.00% Service-Disabled Veteran Owned 5.00%

No Pre-Submittal Conference is planned for this award. Interested parties should email any questions concerning this announcement to Carley Flaxman at Carley.Flaxman@noaa.gov, with mailto:Carley.Flaxman@noaa.gov a cc to Dorothy Curling at Dorothy.Curling@noaa.gov, no later than 12:00 p.m. ET, August 4, 2025. No other notification to firms under consideration for this work will be made. It is the firm’s responsibility to ensure that any submission transmitted to the specified Government representative(s) is received prior to the due date specified. Firms are highly encouraged to contact the Government representative(s) specified above prior to the stated time and date for receipt of SF330s to ensure the Government has received the submission. SF330s received after the date and time specified herein may be excluded from consideration. FAR Subpart 4.11 requires that offerors are required to be registered in SAM at the time an offer or quotation is submitted (FAR 4.1102). Firms without an active registration in SAM at the time that the SF330 is submitted are ineligible for award. The Government will not evaluate submissions for firms that are ineligible for award.

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