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SOURCES SOUGHT REFERENCE NUMBER N62470-20-R-2008

Title: Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity Contract for Architect-Engineer Services for Architectural and Engineering Work for Oil Management, Waste/Hazardous Material Management, Toxic Substances Control, and Other Environmental Compliance Engineering Support for Navy, Marine Corps, and Other DOD Installations, and Federal Agencies.

THIS IS A SOURCES SOUGHT SYNOPSIS FOR INFORMATION AND PLANNING

PURPOSES ONLY. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP) AND NO

CONTRACT WILL BE AWARDED FROM THIS ANNOUNCEMENT.

This Sources Sought Synopsis is being used as a market research tool to determine the availability and adequacy of potential qualified small business sources prior to determining the method of acquisition and issuance of a solicitation for architect-engineer services. All Service- Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses (SDVOSB), Veteran-Owned Small Businesses (VOSB), Economically Disadvantaged Women-Owned Small Businesses (EDWOSB), Women- Owned Small Businesses (WOSB), Small Disadvantaged Businesses (SDB) certified under the Small Business Administration’s (SBA’s) 8(a) Business Development Program, Historically Underutilized Business Zone Small Businesses (HUBZone SB) certified by SBA, and all other small businesses are encouraged to respond. If you are a HUBZone or an 8(a) Small Business, please submit the SBA Certification Letter or contract information for assigned SBA Business Development Specialist. Responses to this notice will determine the feasibility and/or basis for the Navy’s decision to proceed with an acquisition. Information received in relation to this notice will be used to assist the Government in developing an overall acquisition strategy, including the type and number of contracts and use of small business concerns.

The Government is not obligated to and will not pay for any information received from potential sources as a result of this synopsis.

Large business submittals will not be considered. Upon review of industry response to this Sources Sought Synopsis, the Government will determine whether a set-aside acquisition in lieu of full and open competition is in the Government’s best interest.

The Government is contemplating the award of a Single Fixed Price Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Contract. The work will occur worldwide, including Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Atlantic's (NAVFAC LANT’s) Area of Responsibility (AOR), which includes the continental United States (CONUS) and areas outside the continental United States (OCONUS).

The principal geographical regions encompassed by this contract include the following Commander Navy Installations Command (CNIC) Navy Regions:

- Naval District Washington (NDW)

- Commander, Navy Region Mid-Atlantic (CNRMA)

- Commander, Navy Region Southeast (CNRSE)

- Commander, Navy Region Europe Africa Central (CNREURAFCENT)

The NAICS code for this proposed procurement is 541330 (small business size standard is $16.5 million). If the solicitation is issued, the contract will likely consist of a one-year base period and four (4) one-year options, totaling five (5) years of performance. The anticipated total work to be issued over the life of the contract via task orders (base year plus four one-year options) is not anticipated to exceed the estimated maximum amount of $75 million.

The primary tasks anticipated under this contract are:

(1) Petroleum Storage Tank (PST) and Assets Compliance - The completion of PST inventories, notification forms, and management plans; certified tank inspections; third party professional engineering certification for new tank installations, tank closures and major repairs; integrity evaluations of petroleum pipelines including inspections and intelligent pigging; installation of monitoring wells, soil and groundwater sampling and analysis, completion of site checks at suspected leaking PST sites (including disposal of petroleum contaminated soil from boring and well installations) and development of corrective action plan; training of tank custodians on operations, inspections, and maintenance of PSTs and supporting equipment including automated PST inventory control and tank/line leak detection systems. Also may include tank removal closure plan development; tank/pipe leak tightness testing; petroleum system cathodic protection testing; release detection equipment testing/certification; spill bucket testing; pipe interstitial integrity testing; pipe sump interstitial integrity testing; overfill prevention equipment testing;

PST integrity testing; and PST level gauge calibration. Generate, review, amend, and certify Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasures (SPCC) Plans; and conduct prepare and provide oil handling personnel training.

The preparation of detailed construction planning engineering documents including budget estimates and assistance in preparing DD Form 1391’s may also be required for petroleum facility upgrade projects required in order to meet environmental regulations, such as to correct deficiencies noted in an installation SPCC plan or to correct UST system deficiencies.

Additionally, construction design request for proposal (RFP) package development assistance for both design-bid-build and design-build type construction projects may be required, along with associated support such as post construction award services consultation.

(2) Oil Spill Preparedness and Planning Compliance - Preparation/modification of plans and manuals such as Facility Response Plans (FRP); Oil and Hazardous Substance (OHS) Spill Contingency Plans; OHS Spill Response Plans; Integrated Contingency Response Plans (ICP);

designing, conducting, and evaluating drills and exercises to meet the National Preparedness for Response Exercise Program (PREP) Guidelines; designing, conducting, and evaluating joint NOSC Program/Emergency Management Program all risk/all hazard exercises; conducting Navy On-Scene Coordinator (NOSC) and other Spill Response Training; design of OHS Spill Contingency Plan facilities; and also may include Navy On-Scene Coordinator (NOSC) Plan Updates and Natural Resources Damage Assessment pre-incident plans.

(3) Waste/ Hazardous Material Management Compliance –The Waste Management Program including the preparation or revision of documents, plans, and reports in support of the Navy and Marine Corp’s Hazardous Waste (HW), Solid Waste (SW), Polychlorinated Biphenyl (PCB), Regulated Medical Waste (RMW), Pollution Prevention (P2), Emergency Planning and Community Right To Know Act (EPCRA), Hazardous Material (HM), Waste Material Potentially Posing an Explosive Hazard (MPPEH); Asbestos-Containing Materials (ACM), and Lead-Based Paint (LBP) Programs. Environmental documentation includes management, minimization, characterization, documentation, disposition, contingency, evaluation, elimination, closure and decontamination plans and studies; site investigations and evaluations; P2 Plans and opportunity assessments; HW Management Plans; EPCRA toxic release inventory (TRI) Form R Reports; Non TRI EPCRA Reporting; and permit applications. The work required may include site surveys; document reviews; soil, water, sediment, gaseous sampling and analysis; soil gas surveys; monitoring well installations and well testing; aerial and/or on-site photography;

groundwater modeling and geophysical contamination migration; risk assessments and air modeling; and designs and Post Construction Award Services (PCAS) for environmental restorations.

(4) Miscellaneous tasking to support other environmental compliance technical requirements (laboratory work, pesticide management, environmental condition of property programs, sustainability work, Environmental Management System (EMS) and compliance auditing support), and other technical media (water; air; radon; or asbestos) that may be incidental to petroleum storage tank and assets compliance, oil spill preparedness and planning compliance, and/or waste/hazardous material management compliance such as follow on studies; GIS mapping; computer aided design and drafting (CADD) drawing production; database development and/or management; pilot studies; audits; surveys; inventories; monitoring;

inspections; production of reports, work plans, and safety plans; development of specialized environmental compliance training; and other Architect Engineering (AE) services as specified by contract task order. Collection and management of Other Environmental Liabilities (OEL) data as well as engineering studies and other environmental compliance support for the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) environmental program may also be required.

The potential contract will require that the selected firms have on-line access to E-mail via the Internet for routine exchange of correspondence.

Statement of Capabilities Submittal Requirements: The Statement of Capability (SOC) will determine the feasibility and/or basis for the Navy’s decision to proceed with acquisition.

Interested firms must submit a SOC, which describes, in detail, the firm’s capability of providing these services at various Military and other Federal facilities worldwide.

Your SOC shall include the following:

(A) Company Profile

a. Full name and address of the firm

b. Year firm was established

c. Office location(s)

d. Indication of System for Award Management (SAM) registration

e. DUNS Number and CAGE Code

f. Number of employees and average annual receipts based on the last three (3) fiscal years

g. Small Business Designation and/or Copy of any certifications (if 8(a) certified, provide the SBA Business Development Specialist name and phone number assigned); If designated as a HUBZone, provide SBA certification.

(B) Provide information that illustrates your qualifications for this proposed contract. It is requested that interested firms submit a brief SOC to demonstrate the ability to meet and execute the requirements as set forth below. The SOC must be complete and sufficiently detailed to allow for a determination the firm’s qualifications to perform the defined work. The SOC must be on 8 by 11-inch standard paper, single spaced, Times New Roman, 12 point font minimum and is limited to twenty (20) single-sided pages (including all attachments). The Government will evaluate sources’ capabilities based on the following:

(1) Prime and Key Consultants’ recent experience (within the last five years) with regard to the services listed above, knowledge of pertinent regulations, and experience working with NAVFAC LANT AOR. Provide up to five project examples within the past five years that demonstrate this experience. Provide the following information for each project listed:

a. Contract number and project title

b. Name of contracting activity

c. Administrative Contracting Officer’s name and current telephone number;

d. Contracting Officer’s Representative or primary point of contact name and current telephone number

e. Contract type (e.g., cost plus, requirements, firm fixed-price, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity, or combination)

f. Period of performance (start and completion date)

g. Basic contract award amount and final contract value

h. Summary of contract work. i. If award fee or award term incentivized, average performance rating received.

(2) Professional qualifications and capabilities of the staff to be assigned to the resulting contract; include experience within the past five years in the types of work addressed above. Firms will be evaluated in terms of their staff’s active professional registration, role expected to play in this contract, and roles played in the projects addressed in item 1 above.

(3) Provide a brief description on the management plan for this contract; in particular, illustrate management’s approach/plan for managing multiple concurrent task orders for this contract and personnel roles in the organization.

(4) If you are considering entering into a teaming arrangement, provide the name of all teaming partners and the anticipated type of teaming arrangements, address the specific services each member will provide, include applicable professional qualifications and experience for each member and to what extent your firm has worked with proposed subcontractors in the past. For other than bundled requirements, you may be able to joint venture with one or more small businesses and not be considered affiliated as long as each member of the joint venture is small under applicable NAICS code (See 13 CFR 121.103(h)(3)). If the procurement is ultimately set aside for small businesses, the small business prime will be required to comply with FAR 52.219-14, which states that at least 50% of the cost of contract performance incurred for personnel shall be expended by employees of the concern. Provide evidence that, on past contracts of similar nature, your firm (as prime contractor) was able to comply with requirement FAR 52.219-14 and will be able to comply with this requirement under the proposed contract.

Responses are due on Tuesday, 7 April 2020, by 2:00 PM EDT.

The package shall be sent either by mail to the following address: Commander Naval Facilities, Atlantic, ACQ21 (ATTN: Olga Dynov), 6506 Hampton Blvd, Bldg. A – Room 1105, Norfolk, VA 23508-1278, or electronically to olga.dynov@navy.mil. Submissions must be received at the office cited no later than 2:00 PM EDT on Tuesday, 7 April 2020. Questions or comments regarding this notice may be addressed to Olga Dynov either by e-mail olga.dynov@navy.mil or by telephone (757) 322-4438.

LATE RESPONSES WILL NOT BE ACCPETED.

The Government will not provide a debriefing on the results of this notice. All information submitted will be held in confidential manner and will only be used for the purpose intended.