Sources_Sought_Notice_Geotech.pdf

Sources Sought Notice identification number: W9128F25S0009

This is a Sources Sought Notice and is for market research purposes only. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST

FOR PROPOSAL, QUOTATION OR BID. NO SOLICITATION IS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District is conducting market research to identify sources (Small Businesses and Other-than-Small Businesses) that have the knowledge, skills and capability to perform the work concerning the potential project described below. The responses to this sources sought announcement will be used by the Government to make appropriate acquisition decisions for this project.

Responses are to be sent via email to jacob.j.thomas@usace.army.mil no later than 2:00 p.m. CST, 15 April 2025.

Project Description:

The overall scope/title of these A-E contracts will be for full geotechnical engineering services for military and civil projects within the Northwestern Division (NWD) of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The scope will include geotechnical engineering and engineering geology investigations, studies, designs, and engineering construction support as described below.

Levee Engineering Services. Perform inspections, investigations, evaluations, studies, analyses, risk assessments, and designs for new levees and for the repair, replacement and/or rehabilitations of existing levees and related structures (e.g., drainage structures, relief wells, flood walls, pumping plants, channels, etc.) in accordance with USACE criteria and guidance. Prepare technical documents (e.g., reports, presentations, analyses and studies) and contract documents (e.g., plans and specifications). Perform evaluation, design, installation, monitoring and rehabilitation of geotechnical engineering instrumentation including, but not limited to, inclinometers, piezometers, relief wells and movement monitoring devices, etc. In addition, work may include supporting emergency operations such as inspection and evaluation of levee systems during flood events and post-flood repair design.

The contractor may also be tasked to revise or update an existing Operation and Maintenance (O&M) manual; and in certain instances they may be required to prepare addendums to an existing O&M manual.

Dam Engineering Services. Perform inspections, investigations, evaluations, studies, analyses, risk assessments and designs for new dams and/or for the repair, replacement and/or rehabilitations of existing embankment dams and related structures (e.g., spillways, intake structures, outlet works, channels, relief wells, etc.) in accordance with USACE criteria and guidance. Perform designs and prepare technical documents (e.g., reports, presentations, analyses, and studies) and contract documents (plans and specifications). Perform evaluation, design, installation, monitoring and rehabilitation of geotechnical engineering instrumentation including, but not limited to, inclinometers, piezometers, relief wells, and movement monitoring devices, etc. The contractor may also be tasked to revise or update an existing Operation and Maintenance (O&M) manual; and in certain instances they may be required to prepare addendums to an existing O&M manual.

Field Investigations and Soil, Rock, and Material Testing. Perform geotechnical field investigations that include, but are not limited to, drilling and sampling using a variety of drilling equipment/techniques, surveying and geophysical assessments. Drilling capabilities to include: solid stem, hollow stem, air and mud rotary, casing advancement, sonic, direct push, CPT, and large diameter borings and wells. Additional drilling capabilities shall include underwater barge drilling, levee or dam embankment drilling, steep slope drilling, angled drilling, in-situ testing, sampling, rock coring, Standard Penetration Tests, dilatometer and cone penetrometer soundings; and groundwater monitoring wells installation. All subsurface exploration methods will be performed in accordance with the appropriate USACE guidance, criteria and ASTM standards. Geophysical investigations may include borehole/downhole, surface, and airborne surveys employing electrical resistivity, electromagnetic, ground conductivity, shear wave velocity, seismic evaluation and analysis, magnetometer, gravity, thermal, and radar techniques. Soil, rock and construction material testing will be performed at laboratories having a current Corps of Engineers Research and Development Center (ERDC)

Certification. Required tests include, but are not limited to, general soils and rock index and classification tests, moisture content, specific gravity, density, compaction, consolidation, shear and compressive strength, hydraulic conductivity and petrographic analysis. Perform evaluation, design, installation, monitoring and rehabilitation of geotechnical engineering instrumentation including, but not limited to, inclinometers, piezometers, relief wells and movement monitoring devices, etc.

Engineering Services. Engineering services may be required for a wide range of projects to include earth retention structures, impoundments, embankments, roadways, airfield pavements, multi-story structures, roadways, bridges, storage tanks, landfill design, environmental mitigation issues, utilities and other infrastructure. Services include deep and shallow foundation design and analyses, bearing capacity analyses, settlement analyses, slope stability analyses, seepage analyses, probable failure mode analyses, probabilistic assessments (risk, reliability, uncertainty), drainage and dewatering, groundwater modeling, pavement design and analyses (including airfield pavements) and value engineering. .

Services will be performed utilizing commercially available software such as Slide, Slope/W, Seep/W, Sigma/W, LPile, APile, PCASE, UTEXAS4, and other currently recognized industry software. Project support efforts may include hydraulic and hydrologic engineering, civil engineering, structural engineering, geographical information systems (GIS), and surveying. Contractor may also provide construction phase services to include construction activity monitoring, field inspections, review of requests for information and submittal reviews.

Surveying Services Land-based surveying work may include determining geospatial reference data (coordinates and elevation) for key project features with both traditional land surveying equipment and techniques as well as Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) techniques. GIS work may include integrating project information on to GIS platforms for comprehensive data interpretation, analyses, manipulation, and archiving.

This notice is provided as information to the marketplace and is an invitation for an expression of interest and demonstration of small business capability to perform the anticipated work. The Government will not pay for the provision of any information, nor will it compensate any respondents for the development of such information.

Submission Details:

All interested, capable, qualified (under NAICS code 541330 – Engineering Services) and responsive contractors are encouraged to reply to this market survey request. Interested CONTRACTORS ONLY should submit a narrative demonstrating their experience in A-E Services projects of similar nature as described above. Narratives shall be no longer than 10 pages. Email responses are required.

Please include the following information in your response/narrative:

Company name, address, and point of contact, with phone number and email address, and DUNS number. Identify any corporate affiliations.

Business size to include any official teaming arrangements as a partnership or joint venture. As well as, any socio-economic categories (i.e. SDB, HUBZone, SDVOSB, VOSB, WOSB).

Details of similar projects and state whether you were the Prime or Subcontractor Dates of A-E Services Geotechnical work Project references (including owner with phone number and email address) Project cost, term and complexity of job

Comments will be shared with the Government team, but otherwise will be held in strict confidence.

PLEASE NOTE: AT THIS TIME, WE ARE ONLY INTERESTED IN RESPONSES FROM

COMPANIES WHO HAVE THE ABILITY TO BE A-E PRIME CONTRACTOR.