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STATEMENT OF WORK (SOW)

BIA SAFETY OF DAMS (SOD) BRANCH

MULTIPLE AWARD ARCHITECTURE AND ENGINEERING (A/E)

INDEFINITE DELIVERY INDEFINITE QUANTITY (IDIQ) CONTRACT

11 JULY 2023

1. INTRODUCTION

1.1. The principal mission of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) Safety of Dams (SOD) Branch is to ensure that dams under the jurisdiction of the BIA do not present unacceptable risks to public safety and property loss. To achieve this goal, dams that pose unacceptable risks should be identified and actions taken to reduce those risks in an economically, technically, environmentally, and culturally sound manner. As part of the BIA Division of Water and Power (DWP), the SOD Branch promotes the self-determination, economic opportunities, and public safety of tribes through the sound management of dam facilities owned or operated by the BIA. The SOD Branch performs a wide variety of technical services for the tribes, including assistance with dam safety engineering, emergency management, dam security, and dam operations, management, and maintenance.

1.2. This contract will support the SOD Branch’s mission. Projects will be located in the continental US and might be located in Alaska. The SOD Branch intends to award multiple Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contracts for A/E services. Other BIA offices with A/E needs similar to the SOD Branch may issue task orders under this IDIQ.

This Statement of Work (SOW) identifies the types of related technical services and activities that may be requested and are to be furnished by an A/E firm in support of the SOD Branch’s mission, which includes civil engineering services and related, integrated services as described in the Scope section.

1.3. Additional Background: The BIA SOD Branch has developed and updated a program handbook that serves as a program guideline with standard operating procedures. All A/E services are expected to comply with guidelines in the SOD Program Handbook (https://www.bia.gov/sites/bia.gov/files/assets/public/raca/handbook/pdf/idc1-027631_1.pdf).

The SOD Program Handbook, which was updated as of 2014:

Guides overall program activities for the safety of the BIA’s current141 high- and significant-hazard potential dams (approximate locations shown in Figure 1 and subject to change) and summarizes current design practices, engineering applications, decision making, and program best practices.

Figure 1: Approximate locations of current BIA SOD Program dams and regions.

2. TASK ORDERS (TOs):

2.1. Under this IDIQ contract, individual tasks will be directed by Task Orders (TOs), and more than one TO may be issued concurrently. TOs will include work in engineering services, especially as related to dam safety, including dam rehabilitation design and/or construction management; dam safety inspections or risk analysis studies; geotechnical, geologic, hydrologic, and hydraulic studies; survey, geographic information systems (GIS), value engineering, and risk reduction analyses; environmental permitting; hazard classification studies; emergency action planning; and/or emergency exercise conduct and evaluation. Some task orders might require the integration of additional areas of expertise, such as but not limited to seismic hazards, materials engineering, structural engineering, technical support services, mechanical engineering services, water and environmental services, electrical engineering services, and consultant review boards. For each TO, the specific requirements for the services to be provided by the A/Es will be described in detail in the SOW of that particular TO. TOs issued under the IDIQ contract will be primarily firm-fixed price.

2.2. All work shall be performed by personnel having professional skill and experience in the required field. As required by the specific TO, engineering services shall be performed by or under the direct technical supervision of a registered professional engineer or architect as outlined in FAR 52.236-25, Requirements for Registration of Designers (June 2003):

Architects or engineers registered to practice in the particular professional field involved in a State, the District of Columbia, or an outlying area of the United States shall prepare or review and approve the design of architectural, structural, mechanical, electrical, civil, or other engineering features of the work.

3. SCOPE: All work directed by TOs under this IDIQ contract will include engineering services related to dam safety, security, emergency management, levee safety, floodplain management, water resource management, water sanitation, related data management and integrated areas of expertise as described below. This Scope and the descriptions included are not intended to be all-inclusive.

3.1. Structural Analyses and Designs:

3.1.1. Structures: Embankment dams, spillways, outlet works, concrete dams (gravity, arch, and buttress), pumping plants, buildings, power plants, switchyards, substations, water and wastewater treatment facilities, fish facilities, roads, bridges, pipelines, tunnels, canals, tanks, retaining walls, and visitor facilities. The structures to be analyzed or designed may be composed of earthen materials, mass concrete, roller-compacted concrete, reinforced concrete, pre-stressed concrete, precast concrete, steel, masonry, wood, and composite materials.

3.1.2. Structural Analyses and Design: Stability analyses; stress analyses; finite element modeling and analyses; analysis of structures subjected to various static, dynamic, blast, internal (uplift and/or alkali-aggregate expansion), and thermal loadings; structural sizing; and reinforcement design and detailing. Analyses may be simple two-dimensional linear-elastic analyses or could involve three-dimensional non-linear dynamic analyses using explicit computer codes.

3.1.3. Structural Seismic Safety Risk Identification and Reduction Activities:

Preparing and/or peer reviewing seismic evaluations and rehabilitation designs;

preparing concept and/or final seismic rehabilitation construction cost estimates;

performing destructive and/or nondestructive material strength testing; and conducting finish removal and repair activities to verify and document hidden structural components. These activities will be performed on existing structures, including dams and appurtenant structures, power plants, buildings, and pumping plants and will be in accordance with the latest identified National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) Guidelines, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Handbooks, and/or American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Standards.

3.1.4. Design Build Scopes of Work: Development of scopes of work to support design-build acquisitions related to other tasks in this Scope.

3.2. Hydraulic Analyses and Designs: Sizing of hydraulic structures including spillways, outlet works, tunnels, pipelines, penstocks, canals, pumping plants, power plants, tanks, and culverts; design of energy dissipaters; hydraulic transient analyses; reservoir routings;

cavitation evaluations; water surface profile studies; river hydraulic analyses; and other open-channel and pressure flow analyses.

3.3. Architecture and Landscape Architecture Designs and Analyses: Architectural design of new and existing power plants, pumping plants, buildings, and visitor facilities;

interior layouts and selection of materials and colors; life safety, accessibility, and sustainability considerations; Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification; site layouts; visual environment considerations; historic preservation considerations; and landscape, recreation, and wetlands design.

3.4. Construction management services: Providing reviews of designs for constructability; preparing Critical Path Method (CPM) logic diagrams and construction schedules; reviewing contractor-prepared CPM logic diagrams and construction schedules;

determining construction contractor conformance with designs and specifications prepared by the A/E or the BIA; field review of construction to observe and evaluate field conditions, foundation acceptance for structures, review of contractor-prepared drawings and data, review of contractor-prepared Value Engineering and other proposals; reviewing and analyzing construction contractor claims and requests for adjustments; preparing written reports of the analyses and presenting findings to contractors; providing expert testimony if litigation occurs; and preparing cost estimates for direct costs, effects on other work, and delays using contractor-prepared CPM data when modifications are considered or required.

3.5. Materials Engineering and Research: Testing and evaluating concrete, concrete materials, concrete construction methods, and concrete repair methods; investigating and analyzing the prevention, detection, control, and mitigation of corrosion; providing technical expertise and applied research on geosynthetics and polymeric materials for engineering uses; and providing technical assistance and applied research on the use and removal of paints and protective coatings.

3.5.1. Testing and Analysis of Earth Materials: The field and laboratory testing and analysis of soil, rock, and foundation materials obtained from samples or performed on in-situ deposits. The tests would be performed in accordance with American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), the BIA, and other provided standards or codes and in compliance with the Bureau of Reclamation’s Quality Assurance Plans. The materials may require petrographic examination, analyses, and classification.

3.5.2. Field Sampling and Testing Services: Development, execution, and interpretation of coring programs; and forced vibration testing and response analysis of existing steel and/or concrete structures.

3.6. Hydraulic Investigations Research Services: Using physical models, computer models, field investigations, and analytical studies to conduct hydraulic investigations including: testing and evaluation of hydraulic systems, including spillways, outlet works, energy dissipaters, dam overtopping protection, reservoir and river sedimentation and erosion control, and rock and alluvium scour; river sedimentation flushing; environmental hydraulic studies, including fish passage, fish screening, selective withdrawal, fish protection, aquatic habitat and restoration; water management, including water measurement, and water quality.

3.7. Flood Hydrology, Hydrometeorology, and Paleoflood Hydrology Services:

Developing probable maximum floods and inflow design hydrographs for reservoirs;

determining probable maximum precipitation and design storms; conducting flood frequency analyses and cross-drainage studies; planning, designing, installing, and servicing early warning systems; conducting statistical and stochastic hydrologic analyses; identifying the magnitude and frequency of extreme flood events using quaternary geologic and geomorphic data; developing drought indices; and researching various topics related to hydrometeorology, flood hydrology, paleoflood studies; and the impacts of climate change on the aforementioned elements. Services related to the impacts and consequences of floods or dam failure flows include dam break inundation studies, floodplain delineation, threat-to-life studies, and determination of base safety conditions for BIA dams. Services related to the impacts and consequences of floods or dam failure flows including dam break inundation studies, floodplain delineation, threat-to-life studies, and determination of base safety conditions for BIA dams.

3.8. Geotechnical Services:

3.8.1. Embankment Dam and Foundation Engineering: Engineering studies and sensitivity analysis, embankment dam analyses and designs, quantity calculations, construction specifications and drawings, design summary preparation, first filling (and refilling) analysis and documentation for new construction, rehabilitation, and dam safety modifications. Specifically, analysis or design may include: determination of static and dynamic stability and deformations, embankment zoning, filter zones, systems and compatibility, drainage zones and drainage systems, seismic and liquefaction analysis (including Newmark), and blast analysis. Embankment dam foundation analysis or design may include: foundation treatment and improvement;

grouting; settlement analysis; static and dynamic stability and deformations, construction and other excavations; seismic and liquefaction analysis; groundwater and seepage analyses, cutoffs and dewatering systems. Engineering support of field activities may be required. Numerical modeling may be required of dam or foundations using basic or advanced techniques that may include finite element, distinct element, and/or finite difference computer applications (including Fast Lagrangian Analysis of Continual (FLAC)).

3.8.2. Soil and Rock Mechanics: Work is anticipated in soil and rock mechanics for embankment dams and their foundations, and other structures and their foundations, and may include: dikes, concrete dams, spillways, outlet works, pumping plants, power plants, buildings, water and wastewater treatment facilities, canals, pipelines, tunnels and underground excavations, and other civil engineering structures. Analysis or design may address settlement, static and dynamic stability, natural and excavated soil and rock slope stability, landslides, and shallow and deep foundations.

Studies and design work may be required on discontinuous rock masses (and their effects); groundwater and seepage, dewatering systems; foundation remediation and improvements including grouting.

3.8.3. Engineering Geology Services: The planning, execution, and coordination of geologic site characterization activities, and evaluating and portraying geologic and geotechnical conditions. This geologic work includes field mapping; surface exploration by backhoe, excavator, or dozer; subsurface exploration, testing, and sampling, including rotary drilling, Becker-type drilling, three-dimensional modeling evaluation and presentation of geologic and geotechnical data, and interpretation of geological conditions and properties. Accessing high and steep slopes using high scaling or photogrammetry techniques may be required for some mapping programs.

Geologic expertise would be required for studies, investigations, analyses, designs and construction specifications and drawings for dams, foundations for structures, excavation support requirements, slope stability and landslides, hazardous waste site characterization, blasting, grouting, and dewatering systems.

3.8.4. Seismotectonic Services: All facets of seismic source characterization and the development of site-specific probabilistic ground motions. Seismic source characterization involves evaluation of the tectonic settings of project sites, assessment of fault activity (possibly including detailed field studies involving Quarternary geology, geomorphology, soil stratigraphy, age dating, and trenching); assessment of maximum earthquake magnitude and activity rate for all plausible seismic sources and characterizing historical and instrumental seismicity (including any data from regional seismic networks). Deliverables may take the form of hazard curves for various representative loading parameters, equal hazard spectra, target spectra, or time histories.

3.8.5. Engineering Geophysical Services: Conducting surface and borehole geophysical survey data acquisition, data interpretation, and report preparation.

Methods of geophysical surveys may include: seismic reflection / refraction / MASW / SASW; determination of compression (p-) and/or shear (S-) wave velocities in soils and rock formations, electrical resistivity values in soils and rocks; ground penetrating radar, electrical resistivity and/or self-potential surveys to delineate possible seepage paths beneath or through earth embankments, Impact Echo (IE) and Impulse response (IR) testing; large-scale structural assessment via seismic surface tomography, cross-borehole seismic tomography, and cross-borehole electrical resistivity tomography.

Investigations for borehole geophysical surveys may include the following logs:

gamma-gamma, natural-gamma, neutron, resistivity (16-64), caliper, borehole deviation, gyro directional surveys, acoustic/optical image logging, sonic, temperature, fluid replacement flow logging, heat-pulse flow logging, and impeller flow logging.

3.8.6. Hazardous Waste Services: Conducting remedial investigations/feasibility studies, preparing sampling and analysis plans, quality assurance and quality control plans, risk assessments, health and safety plans, and work plans, providing field support, and performing site specific time critical and non-time critical removal designs and actions, and remedial designs and actions for a variety of hazardous waste clean-up projects. Services could also include planning and execution of hazardous waste site feasibility studies, remedial investigations, remedial designs, and construction oversight of remedial and removal actions. Work may require OSHA Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response (HAZWOPER) Training Certification.

3.8.7. Structural Behavior and Instrumentation Services: Analyzing instrument data;

evaluation and design of instrumentation to determine type, number, and location of instruments; preparing drawings and specifications; and procuring, installing, maintaining, and repairing instrument systems and automated data collection and transmission systems for instrumentation information.

3.9. Engineering, Inspection, and Technical Support Services:

3.9.1. Engineering Support Services: Preparation of specifications for construction or construction-related supply items; preparation of cost estimates, cost risk analyses (Monte Carlo), and other cost studies; and the preparation or facilitation of, or participation in, Value Engineering studies. Cost estimates shall be completely documented so that they can be easily reviewed, and the accuracy of the computations easily verified. Supporting documentation shall permit a thorough understanding of the quantities, unit prices, lump sum items, and uncertainties associated with the cost estimate. Sources of information and all assumptions shall be clearly identified. As stated by the individual TO, cost estimates may be required to be detailed on a BIA-furnished estimate worksheet.

3.9.2. Inspection Services: Qualifications for all inspection services will be reviewed and must be approved by the BIA prior to each TO.

3.9.2.1. Construction Inspection Services: Providing qualified civil, geotechnical, mechanical and electrical construction inspectors; construction materials testing personnel and testing equipment; surveying personnel and equipment at remote sites.

3.9.2.2. Mechanical Inspection Services: Field and factory inspection of hydraulic equipment; warranty inspections; commissioning (startup and acceptance testing); and operational testing.

3.9.2.3. Electrical Inspection Services: Field and factory inspection of electrical equipment; warranty inspections of generators; commissioning (startup and acceptance testing); and wiring checkout and operational testing.

3.9.2.4. Canal Inspection Services: Development of databases for data storage, review of existing construction and operating data, development of safety program prior to canal inspections, onsite visual canal inspections, coordination of inspections with BIA and canal operating personnel, completion of BIA-supplied checklists, preparation of inspection reports using BIA-furnished report template, and populating databases with checklist and other inspection data.

Canal inspections shall be performed in accordance with BIA guidance.

3.9.3. Hazardous Material Testing Services: Identify sources of hazardous materials including asbestos-containing materials, lead based (heavy metal) or polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) paint, and universal wastes associated with structures and disturbed materials. Services may include sampling in accordance with accepted industry practice, analysis by a State-qualified laboratory, equipment, materials, facilities and other requirements necessary to perform the requested services; and the ability to address and interpret all aspects of environmental law and regulations.

3.9.4. Technical Support Services:

3.9.4.1. Technical Communications: The preparation of a variety of technical and non-technical documents and webpages, technical reports, calculations, planning documents, environmental impact statements, and narrative discussions for designs. Work includes the development, writing, editing, formatting, checking, review, and production of a variety of publications from document conception to printing.

3.9.4.2. Visual Presentations and Drafting Services: The preparation of conceptual, preliminary, layout, and final design drawings; building information modeling (BIM), drawing scanning/conversion; presentation and publication graphics; and all required drawing documentation. Drawing conversion may require scanning existing engineering drawings and converting them to AutoCAD format.

3.10. Risk Analysis, Dam Safety, Dam Security, and Emergency Management Services:

3.10.1. Risk Analysis: The BIA has established a risk-informed decision making to help meet the objectives of its Dam Safety and Security programs. Risk analysis encompasses the loading probability, the probability of an adverse response of the system to the loading, and the consequences of the adverse response. Risk analysis services that may be performed under this contract may include potential failure mode analysis (PFMA), qualitative or quantitative estimation of risk, screening level analyses, or detailed team risk analyses using event trees. The risk analysis may focus on new and existing dams, proposed modifications to dams, canals and other facilities, and construction risk. Risk analysis shall be performed in accordance with Reclamation’s Dam Safety Public Protection Guidelines (http://www.usbr.gov/ssle/damsafety/documents/PPG201108.pdf).

3.10.2. Comprehensive Reviews: Comprehensive reviews of dam facilities by teams are accomplished on a periodic cycle to evaluate the condition and safety of the facility.

The team may be comprised of a senior engineer (team leader), civil, geotechnical, and mechanical examination specialists, geologist, instrumentation engineer, and earthquake and flood loading specialists. This evaluation of dam safety includes evaluation of pertinent engineering and geologic data for dam design, construction, operation, maintenance, performance, safety problems and deficiencies compromising dam safety; risk analysis; onsite examination of facilities, and preparation of reports documenting findings and conclusions regarding the safety of a dam, recommendations for any future actions, further studies, or needed maintenance. Comprehensive Reviews shall be done in accordance with BIA policies and guidelines using BIA methodologies for evaluation and documentation as described in the BIA SOD Program Handbook. Assuming the role of the senior engineer, peer reviewer, or other roles on the Comprehensive Review team may be required. The senior engineer and peer reviewer shall possess state-of-the-art knowledge of dam safety concerns.

3.10.3. Periodic Reviews: Periodic reviews of dam facilities by teams are accomplished on a periodic cycle to evaluate the condition and safety of the facility. The team may be comprised of a senior engineer (team leader), civil, geotechnical, and mechanical examination specialists, geologist, instrumentation engineer, and earthquake and flood loading specialists. This evaluation of dam safety includes evaluation of pertinent engineering and geologic data for dam design, construction, operation, maintenance, performance, safety problems and deficiencies compromising dam safety; risk analysis;

onsite examination of facilities, and preparation of reports documenting findings and conclusions regarding the safety of a dam, recommendations for any future actions, further studies, or needed maintenance. Periodic Reviews shall be done in accordance with BIA policies and guidelines using BIA methodologies for evaluation and documentation as described in the BIA SOD Program Handbook. Assuming the role of the senior engineer, peer reviewer, or other roles on the Periodic Review team may be required. The senior engineer and peer reviewer shall possess state-of-the-art knowledge of dam safety concerns.

3.10.4. Security Services: Assessment of dam security, onsite inspection of facilities, and the preparation of reports documenting findings and observations regarding the security of a dam with recommendations for any additional security measures.

3.10.5. Emergency Management: Revising/Updating Emergency Action Plans (EAPs), creating dam failure inundation models and products including detailed reports and maps, designing and conducting and evaluating Tabletop and Functional Exercises of EAPs onsite involving local tribes and emergency response agencies, and creating and editing related documentation.

3.10.6. Program, Policy, Advisory and Administrative Support: Assistance with developing programmatic technical and administrative policy, advisory support related to program policy development, advisory support of technical decision making, administrative assistance relating to document scanning and management, tribal technical and administrative guidance and other related services.

3.11. Mechanical Engineering Services

3.11.1. Mechanical Equipment Engineering: Analysis and design of mechanical systems may include compressed air systems; plumbing, cooling water, domestic and service water systems; lubricating oil systems; fire suppression systems; heating, ventilating, and air conditioning systems; hydraulic valve operating systems; engine-generators; elevators, cranes, hoists, and cableways; stoplogs, draft tube gates, bulkheads, trashracks and safety racks, trash rakes and conveyors, moss screens and traveling water screens; fish screens and fish-handling equipment, safety and debris booms, water-temperature control devices and selective withdrawal systems;

instrumentation and control-system and water treatment equipment.

3.11.2. Hydraulic Equipment Engineering: Analysis and design of hydraulic equipment may include pumps, hydroelectric turbines, pump-turbines, turbine governors, large custom-designed radial gates, bulkhead gates, jet-flow gates, clamshell gates, high-pressure gates, sleeve valves and operators, commercial slide gates, hollow-jet valves, butterfly valves, steel penstocks, steel manifolds, air chambers, steel water storage tanks, and steel surge tanks.

3.12. Water and Environmental Science Services

3.12.1. Remote Sensing and Geographical Information Systems Services: Design and compilation of tabular and graphic spatial databases and extraction of information from these data using the analytic capabilities of GIS. Data compiled may come from existing maps, Global Positioning System aerial photography, airborne videography, satellite imagery and associated photogrammetric techniques. Remote sensing and GIS applications may include resource inventories, lake limnology, endangered fish habitat studies, water spreading, canal seepage, cost estimation for potential facility construction and detection of environmental change. GIS Applications Development including but not limited to: ArcSDE geodatabase management to support multiuser editing, ArcSDE geodatabase management to support optimized data sets for map and image service publication, Microsoft Silverlight/WPF, and design of interfaces for Rich Internet Applications using Microsoft Expression Blend.

3.12.2. Ecological Services: Project specific investigations in the areas of aquatic and terrestrial ecology, water quality, fisheries, aquatic plant management, aquatic pest control, wetlands, endangered species, and general wildlife biology; National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) scoping, alternative formulation, data collection and analyses; development of resource management plans for BIA properties; Clean Water Act compliance activities; in-stream flow studies (Instream Flow Incremental Methodology (IFIM) and other techniques); Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act compliance activities; Endangered Species Act compliance activities; risk assessment and remedial investigations/feasibility studies in support of hazardous-waste site activities.

3.12.3. Economic and Financial Analyses Services: Benefit-cost analyses, regional economic impact analysis, crop and livestock enterprise studies which include the use of optimization modeling, economic risk analysis for dam safety, evaluation of factors that influence recreation benefits, quantification of fish and wildlife benefits, nonuse values for threatened and endangered species or other environmental resources, Indian Trust Asset valuation, power system modeling to evaluate economic benefits or impacts, socioeconomic data collection, evaluation of factors influencing municipal and industrial water supply benefits, and ability-to-pay determinations for irrigators' flood damage assessments, flood control benefits.

3.12.4. River Systems and Meteorology Services: Development of advanced decision support systems (ADSS) for integrated river systems management and reservoir operations; hydrologic forecasting; flood control operations; system optimization;

management of water delivery; stochastic hydrology; and collection and dissemination of hydrometeorological data. Meteorology investigations may include developing new water supply forecasting tools using existing and emerging nowcast and forecast products including NEXRAD radar measurements of precipitation area, and other hydrometeorological data including precipitation, snowpack accumulation and melt, and evaporation/evapotranspiration.

3.12.5. Water Supply, Use, and Conservation Services: Reliability and dependability studies of water supplies, analyses of present water usage, projecting future water requirements; analyzing water rights and legal and institutional constraints; improving water management and conservation; simulation modeling of river and reservoir operations; developing and applying advanced computer hydrologic engineering analyses methods, impact analyses to watershed and river basin streamflow’s and other hydrologic conditions; collecting and analyzing hydrologic data; developing hydrologic records; studies of watershed hydrology; developing technical standards and guidelines;

providing training in hydrologic techniques; and conducting research into new methodologies for hydrologic analyses.

3.12.6. Sedimentation and River Hydraulics Services: reservoir surveys, computation of water surface profiles, design of erosion protection works, channel aggradation and degradation analyses, scour studies, sediment movement and deposition analyses, design of dikes, operation and maintenance of facilities and reservoirs, and fish and wildlife habitat restoration.

3.12.7. Groundwater and Drainage Services: drainage and groundwater investigations which may include modeling, planning, operations and maintenance, design, and construction. Typical investigations and design may include those for aquifer testing and analysis, wellhead protection, dewatering systems, safe yield of aquifers, aquifer recharge and recovery systems, remediation of contaminated groundwater systems, design of wells and well fields, modeling ground-water flow and contaminant transport, agricultural drainage investigations and subsurface drainage system design, and canal seepage tests and analyses.

3.12.8. Land Suitability and Water Quality Support Services: sampling, data collection, and analysis related to investigations concerning suitability and management of water quality and land resources. Data may include chemical and physical characteristics of soils and water.

3.12.9. Resource Management and Planning Services: Management of investigative activities for a full range of problems associated with the BIA’s resource management and planning functions. This includes assisting the BIA’s client or cost-share partner in the initiation of resource investigations through the scoping of objectives, appropriate investigation management roles and responsibilities, technical tasks required, capabilities to perform those tasks, and potential costs to perform work.

3.12.10. Social Analyses and Public Involvement Support Services: Identification of the social issues, problems and affected public, management of conflict; analysis of social impacts, including Environmental Justice analyses; evaluation of Indian Trust Assets; and preparation, implementation, and documentation of public involvement plans. Data collection would be subject to the provisions of the Federal Reports Act.

Archaeological, historic, and historic architectural support services may include identification of cultural resources by field survey, background research, evaluation of resources for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places, and documentation of resources (National Register forms and Historic American Engineering Record and Historic American Building Survey studies). Outdoor recreation planning support services performed under this contract may include recreation research, analyses and conceptual designs and resource management plans.

3.12.11. Environmental Applications and Research Services

3.12.11.1. Environmental Impact Assessment Studies: Environmental impact assessment studies associated with BIA’s and other Federal agencies’ compliance requirements under the National Environmental Policy Act, Endangered Species Act, Clean Water Act, and other legislation; evaluating project effects on anadromous and resident fisheries, raptors, waterfowl, and neotropical migrant songbirds, wetlands and riparian habitats, and desert ecosystems.

3.12.11.2. Analytical Chemistry & Environmental Research: Use state of the art technologies related to analyses of water, soil, plant and animal tissue, and other associated environmental samples to help BIA better understand, protect, and enhance water quality and other environmental conditions.

3.12.11.3. Aquatic Site Pest Management: Develop and coordinate Integrated Pest Management (IPM) techniques for use with water transport and storage systems to assist in operational efficiency of these systems as well as help reduce adverse environmental impacts, such as those caused by noxious weeds and pests.

3.12.11.4. Reservoir Monitoring & Research: Reservoir research for the protection and improvement of reservoir water quality as well as related environmental, recreational, and fishery values.

3.12.11.5. Riparian & Wetland Studies: Combine numerous scientific and engineering disciplines to help understand and manage natural riparian and wetland ecosystems.

3.12.11.6. Water Quality Monitoring & Improvement: Studies to optimize water system operation for the protection of aquatic environments and to support the multiple resource values of BIA projects; this may involve both natural and regulated systems and may be studied in both field and laboratory settings.

3.13. Electrical Engineering Services

3.13.1. Electrical Design Services: Analysis, design, and evaluation of new and existing plant electrical equipment and/or systems including: rotating machinery (generators and motors); generator up rates and rewinds, excitation systems, generator/motor bus, and generator neutral grounding equipment; unit switchgear; plant station-service systems including unit substations, AC/DC distribution boards, battery chargers, and batteries;

unit and auxiliary controls, protective relaying control interface, instrumentation, and annunciation systems; lighting and fire detection and alarm systems; medium and low-voltage power cable systems and control cable systems; grounding, electrical conduit, and cable tray systems; electrical features of mechanical equipment such as: governors, HVAC, gates, valves, cranes, and elevators; electrical substations and switchyards;

high-voltage solid dielectric cables and gas-filled power cable systems; outdoor electrical distribution systems; and power transformers and circuit breakers. Services may be used for preparation of design summaries, designer's operating criteria (DOCs), and standing operating procedures (SOPs).

3.13.2. Hydropower Technical Services: Power system modeling, which includes short circuit, transient, synchronous stability, harmonic system performance, arc flash analysis, insulation coordination, and power flow studies; protective relaying recommendations, settings, and commissioning; real time automation systems, and supervisory control and data acquisition systems; voice and data communications systems; voltage regulator, power system stabilizer, and speed governor tuning and testing; plant battery testing; machine condition monitoring; power apparatus insulation system testing and evaluation for rotating machinery; and power transformers and cable systems.

3.14. Consultant Review Boards (CRBs): BIA policies require independent external review by CRBs for Dam Safety and other programs. CRBs shall be staffed with world-renowned, technical experts capable of providing independent external review of BIA designs, studies, and analyses that may include state-of-the-art and state-of-the-practice methodologies to assess the adequacy of BIA’s work or safety of our facilities. CRBs consist of individual experts who have relevant experience and expertise in subject matter areas directly related to the work being performed and can provide expert opinion in a risk context consistent with the BIA’s overall risk reduction objectives. The number of CRB participants and specific expertise in dam engineering, dam safety, infrastructure protection/security, geotechnical engineering, structural engineering, construction, geographic information systems, hydraulics, hydrology, geology, seismology, materials science, risk analysis, dam modifications or other related field will be stated in the specific TO. Once selected, the same board members shall remain associated with the project throughout any design, construction, and first-filling activities.

3.15. Survey: Surveying earth's surface to determine precise location and measurements of points, elevations, property boundaries, utility location, lines, areas, and contours for construction, mapmaking, land division, titles, or other purposes.

3.16. Training: Provides technical training related to services included in this scope.

Trainings shall be provided by staff with expertise in relevant subjects. Trainings may be provided for federal staff, tribal member or staff and other parties BIA deems appropriate.

Trainings may be held remotely or in person at facilities provided by either the AE or the

BIA.

3.17. Emergency Response: Provide technical expertise to the BIA Safety of Dams branch during emergency response situations at all dams and appurtenant structures in the program.

The AE shall strive to provide emergency response services within 24 hours when requested by the BIA.

4. GENERAL REQUIREMENTS FOR ALL SERVICES: The following are requirements that must be followed for all services provided. This list is not intended to be all-inclusive.

4.1. Report and Drawing Requirements:

4.1.1. Documents: The A/E shall become thoroughly familiar with the BIA-furnished data and established project functional requirements which will be identified in the TO.

Written documents shall be prepared using the software version specified in the TO.

Digital documents shall be capable of being read with screen readers and pass accessibility tests. As required by the individual TO, written documents may be required to meet BIA’s document standards. All information sources shall be appropriately referenced, and assumptions clearly identified.

4.1.2. Drawings: Drawings shall be based on approved designs and layouts; shall be developed according to the most current version of Reclamation's Information Management Handbook, Volume III, Drawing Management and Drafting Standards, and American National Standards Institute (ANSI) standard Y-14, or as stated in the specific Task Order. Submitted drawings shall be electronic and reproducible.

Generally, any drawings or output data files produced on a Computer Aided Design and Drafting (CADD) system and furnished to BIA shall be compatible with the current version of AutoCAD, manufactured by Autodesk, Inc., Sausalito, CA, as used by BIA.

4.1.3. Signatures: As required by individual TOs, all reports, design calculations, and drawings prepared by the A/E shall be signed and dated by the registered professional architect or engineer responsible for the work. The stamp and signature of the registered professional engineer or architect shall appear on all drawings.

4.2. Quality Control and Assurance:

4.2.1. General Quality Control and Assurance: Provide management and personnel to create, sustain, and verify a quality value system. All work shall be checked and technically reviewed and approved in accordance with BIA policies, directives, and guidelines. Checks and reviews shall be clearly documented on the work by appropriate labels, signatures, and the necessary registration certification. Designers shall not review their own work. Peer reviewers shall be independent reviewers of the work being reviewed.

4.2.2. Quality Control for Testing:

4.2.2.1. Laboratory test facilities for materials testing shall be accredited by regular inspections of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) Materials Reference Laboratory (AMRL), Cement and Concrete Reference Laboratory (CCRL) (NIST Gaithersburg), or equivalent; and performed in accordance with ASTM, American Concrete Institute (ACI), or other appropriate testing specifications for the materials being tested. These inspections shall be current and maintained through the life of the contract. The laboratories shall also participate in regular proficiency testing programs provided by the above agencies. BIA personnel shall be granted entry into the laboratory test facilities to perform quality inspections without notice.

4.2.2.2. Laboratory testing required to obtain chemistry data shall be obtained from laboratories accredited under National Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Conference (NELAC), National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program (NVLAP), Proficiency Testing (PT) Program, and Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), Clean Water Act (CWA), Superfund (RCRA), and Occupational Health and Safety (OSHA, NIOSH) as appropriate.

4.2.2.3. Quality Control for Hazardous Waste Work (EPA): Quality assurance program support for hazardous waste related work may include providing management and personnel to develop, implement, and assess quality systems.

This includes developing and implementing quality assurance project plans and providing audit oversight as described in USEPA documents including, but not limited to, ANSI/ASQC E4-19.94, EPA QA/R5, EPA QA/G5, and EPA QA/G4.

5. PERSONNEL REQUIREMENTS

5.1. ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER SCHEDULE. The items listed below are based on minimum engineering requirements only. The following clarification applies to all labor categories. In some cases, the following will be considered in place of minimum education and experience: unique education; specialized experience, skills, knowledge, training, or certification; military training and/or experience; quality of experience;

national recognition; or exceptional Grade Point Average. Related experience may be substituted for education. In addition to the minimum requirements listed below, individual task orders may require a higher level of education or experience.

5.2. Senior Manager

5.2.1. Minimum General Experience: Ten or more years of experience in related field, including seven years of supervisory or management experience, and a minimum of ten years of experience as a Project Manager.

5.2.2. Functional Description: The Senior Manager provides top-level leadership and generally supervises two or more programs/projects at multiple geographic sites. Formulates and enforces work standards; and solves complex technical, administrative, and management problems. Serves as top-level interface with government management personnel. Provides verbal and written skills required at all management levels to maintain complete program control.

5.2.3. Education: Bachelor's Degree in related field or equivalent experience.

(Master’s Degree or PhD preferred)

5.3. Project Manager

5.3.1. Minimum General Experience: Ten or more years of experience in related field including at least four years of supervisory experience.

5.3.2. Functional Description: The Project Manager is responsible for all aspects of project performance and provides overall direction to all project activities and personnel. Formulates and enforces work standards, assigns project schedules, reviews work, supervises project personnel and communicates policies and organizational goals and objectives to all project personnel. Provides verbal and written skills required at all management levels to maintain complete project control.

5.3.3. Education: Bachelor's Degree in related field or equivalent experience.

(Master’s Degree or PhD preferred)

5.4. Engineer (Level V)

5.4.1. Minimum General Experience: Ten or more years of specialized work experience is required. Professional license, registration, or applicable certification in the area of expertise required.

5.4.2. Functional Description: Oversees major programs or performs independent work of significant technical value for government and industry customers. Has outstanding knowledge and competence in one or more specific technical areas and is recognized internally and externally as exceedingly well qualified to conceptualize, manage, coordinate, and carry out complex projects and programs.

External reputation may be national or international within area of expertise. Applies expert knowledge of engineering and scientific concepts, principles, and practices in his/her field of expertise and contributes to advancing that field. Manages resources and activities or defines technical approaches to be implemented by others. Prepares and delivers presentations to colleagues, subordinates, and government representatives.

5.4.3. Education: Bachelor's Degree (Master’s Degree or PhD preferred).

5.5. Engineer (Level IV)

5.5.1. Minimum General Experience: Eight or more years of specialized work experience. Alternate Education/Experience Requirement: Five years of specialized work experience with a professional license, registration, or applicable certificate.

5.5.2. Functional Description: Manages, directs, and carries out complex assignments often requiring the development of new concepts, techniques, and procedures. Requires experience in managing diverse functional and subordinate activities and groups of technical and administrative personnel. Requires experience in management and control of large budgets for complex, multitask, commercial and government contracts. Provides communication to all levels of management and staff for planning and control of projects and communicates with customer and agency representatives. Formulates and reviews project feasibility studies, determines costs, and ensures that work standards, schedules, policies, purposes, and goals are communicated to subordinates and subcontractors for the performance of work. Prepares and delivers presentations to colleagues, subordinates, and government representatives.

5.5.3. Education: Bachelor's Degree.

5.6. Engineer (Level III)

5.6.1. Minimum General Experience: Four or more years of specialized work experience. Alternate Education/Experience Requirement: Two years of specialized work experience with a professional license, registration, or applicable certificate.

5.6.2. Functional Description: Working with minimal oversight, carries out assignments often requiring the development of new tools or improved methods, techniques, and procedures. Displays expert and innovative use of concepts and principles in conducting complex assignments. Develops related findings, conclusions and recommendations and prepares and presents client reports.

5.6.3. Education: Bachelor's Degree.

5.7. Engineer (Level II)

5.7.1. Minimum General Experience: Two or more years of specialized work experience.

5.7.2. Functional Description: Working under moderate supervision in the application of engineering knowledge, carries out professional assignments that require the use of conventional analysis programs, approaches, or techniques to support technical assignments. Develops findings, conclusions and recommendations and prepares and presents client reports or sections thereof.

5.7.3. Education: Bachelor's Degree.

5.8. Engineer (Level I)

5.8.1. Minimum General Experience: Two years of relevant work experience.

5.8.2. Functional Description: Working under supervision in the performance of technical activities, applies standard engineering knowledge and practice in support of technical assignments. Contributes to findings, conclusions and recommendations used in technical reports.

5.8.3. Education: Bachelor's Degree.

5.9. Engineering Technician (Level III)

5.9.1. Minimum General Experience: Ten years of related technical work experience.

5.9.2. Functional Description: Highly experienced and knowledgeable regarding field operations. Primary duties involve field data collection and documentation.

Monitors field explorations and construction monitoring projects. Documents field conditions and writes field reports. Plans, budgets, and coordinates field operations for specific projects. Has knowledge of commonly used concepts, practices, and procedures within a particular field. Relies on instructions and pre-established guidelines to perform the functions of the job. Works under general supervision.

Primary job functions do not typically require exercising independent judgment.

Directs the field activities of other…