A.01.32_Sources Sought Env_Services_Dredged Material Evaluation 21R5012 10262020.pdf

W91236-21-R-5012, Environmental Services for the Collection, Analysis, and Evaluation of

Dredged Material in Accordance with the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries

Act (MPRSA) for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Civil Works Navigation

Program in the Lower Chesapeake Bay and Tributaries in Virginia.

This is a Sources Sought notice only; it is not a request for competitive proposals. There is no solicitation, specifications, and/or drawings available at this time. The purpose of this Sources

Sought Notice is to identify business concerns with sufficient similar experience that are capable and interested in performing the work described herein. The Government will not reimburse respondents for any cost incurred in preparation of a response to this notice. The Government intends to use responses to this Sources Sought to make appropriate acquisition decisions for the project. NO AWARD will be made from this Sources Sought notice.

STATEMENT OF GOVERNMENT REQUIREMENTS

This notice is posted as a market research tool only. The Government will utilize this information in determining an acquisition strategy. Sources are being sought for firms with a North

American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code 562910, Environmental Remediation

Services with a Small Business Size Standard of 750 employees.

The Norfolk District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), is contemplating an Indefinite-

Delivery Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) Task Order contract(s) for the collection, analysis, and evaluation of dredged material.

The Task Order contract will require collection and evaluation of dredged material from deep-draft Federal navigation channels located in unprotected marine environments subject to high volume deep-draft navigation traffic including commercial and national defense navigation interests. This work entails performing grab and core sampling of dredged material for evaluation in accordance with the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act, Section 103

(MPRSA) consisting of sediment, site water, elutriate, and eco-toxicological (i.e. water column bioassays, whole sediment bioassays, and bioaccumulation studies) samples.

In addition to dredged material evaluations, related services not foreseen prior to the contract may be required to complete the dredged material evaluation, project dredged material management plans, or comply with other policy and regulatory requirement. The related services consists of but are not limited to placement site characterizations, dredged material discharge modeling (fate/mixing), current modeling and monitoring (drogue studies) in support of fate modeling, ecological and human health risk assessment associated with dredged material placement, dredged material management plans, placement site inspections, site sampling (e.g.

physical, chemical, and biological), placement site management and monitoring plans, remedial planning and investigations, contaminant pathway analyses and investigations, environmental compliance monitoring, permitting, wetland delineations and compensation plans, resource management planning, conservation planning, and pollution prevention plans.

The District is contemplating the award of up to two (2) contracts with it either being one large contract to encompass the entire project or one large (Contract A) and one small contract

(Contract B). This is dependent on the responses received from this Sources Sought notice.

Generally, sampling programs with 10 or fewer total samples required for ecotoxicological testing may be directed towards the smaller contract, while sampling programs with 11 or more total samples required for ecotoxicological testing will be directed towards the larger capacity contract. Decisions concerning all Task Orders directed to each Contract A and B will be made based on what is in the best interests of the Government for the specific project requirement.

The Contract A not to exceed (NTE) amount is anticipated to be $3,000,000. The Contract B

NTE amount is anticipated to be $7,000,000. If only one contract is awarded the NTE amount is anticipated to be $10,000,000. The anticipated Period of Performance is five (5) years with no options. The project work hours will be specific to each Task Order requirement.

The orders will characterize navigation projects with varying volumes of dredged material between 100,000 and 8,000,000 cubic yards of dredged material per order. The total number of required samples per order will be based on coordination with regulatory agencies. The

Government anticipates that it will require the contractor(s) to manage up to two (2) orders concurrently and require the contractor to batch samples required in the order for concurrent eco-toxicological testing with reference sediment samples.

The geographic scope of the Task Order contract will include the Atlantic Ocean Channel, Thimble Shoals Channel, Cape Henry Channel, York Spit Channel, Rappahannock Shoals

Channel, and the navigation channels encompassed within Hampton Roads, Elizabeth River, James River and other tributaries within Virginia.

***VERY IMPORTANT*** USACE will require that these dredge material collection, analysis, and evaluation functions be performed in strict compliance with the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act (MPRSA) requirements as implemented in applicable federal regulations, to include:

MPRSA Section 103 testing protocols

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) Regional Implementation Manuals

USACE/USEPA technical guidance manuals

INFORMATION REQUESTED FROM INDUSTRY

We are requesting interested businesses to respond to this Sources Sought notice providing the following:

General Information

Small business-size status, if applicable

All socio-economic categories (8(a), Hub-zone, Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small

Business, Woman Owned) in which your company belongs, if applicable

Cage Code and DUNS number, if applicable

Specific Relevant Experience

Identify all contracts previously performed by your company as the prime contractor that are similar in scope

For each contract provide the following:

o Agency that awarded the contract and contract number o Total ordering capacity for the contract o Time of performance of the contract o A short narrative describing the services performed under the contract that are relevant to this Sources Sought o The geographic area(s) covered by the contract o The total number of task orders issued under the contract o The range in size of the task orders that were performed (stated in cubic yards) o Description of the extent to which multiple task orders were performed concurrently under the contract o Description of experience, if any, coordinating with navigation stakeholders (e.g.

U.S. Coast Guard, port authorities, pilots’ associations, U.S. Navy or other military interests) to accommodate and plan for field sampling operations o Description of experience, if any, performing field sample collection operations in high traffic volume deep-draft navigation channels o Description of experience, if any, performing dredge material placement site characterization and related tasks relevant to this Sources Sought o Description of experience coordinating evaluation results with USEPA Region III o Description of any critical contract activities that were performed by subcontractors

Corporate Capability

Describe your firm’s maximum laboratory capability to batch samples for concurrent eco-toxicological testing (e.g. water column toxicity, whole sediment toxicity, and bioaccumulation studies) of reference sediment and dredged material samples and/or managing of multiple task orders concurrently

Since this is a Sources Sought announcement only, no evaluation letters and/or results will be issued to the respondents. No solicitation exists and solicitation requests will not be acknowledged. USACE Norfolk District is not seeking or accepting unsolicited proposals and will not accept telephone inquiries. No reimbursement will be made to any costs associated with providing information in response to this announcement.

Respondents shall submit capability statements electronically via email to the Contract

Specialist, Mrs. Raven Sasser at Raven.D.Sasser@usace.army.mil with a copy furnished to the

Contracting Officer, Mrs. Eartha Garrett at Eartha.D.Garrett@usace.army.mil. Capability statements must be submitted on or before 4:00pm Eastern Standard Time (EST) on 09

November 2020.

This Sources Sought should not be construed in any manner to be an obligation of the U.S. Army

Corps of Engineers, Norfolk District to issue a contract, or result in any claim for reimbursement of costs for any effort you expend responding to this request.

mailto:Raven.D.Sasser@usace.army.mil mailto:Eartha.D.Garrett@usace.army.mil