B.01.03 Pre-Solicitation Synopsis REV_01.docx

1. Action Code: M

2. Date: 1201

3. Year: 2021

4. Contracting Office Zip Code: 25701-2070

5. Classification Code: C – Architect and Engineering Services

6. Contracting Office Address: US Army Corps of Engineers, Huntington, District, 502 8th Street, Huntington, WV 25701-2070

7. Subject: INDEFINITE DELIVERY CONTRACT FOR GEOSPATIAL SERVICES WITHIN THE GREAT LAKES AND OHIO RIVER DIVISION GEOGRAPHICAL BOUNDARIES

8. Proposed Solicitation Number: W91237-21-R-0005

9. Closing Response Date: 12/09/2021

10. Contract Points: Thomas P. Hartman, Contract Specialist, (304) 399-5183 Samantha L. Stiles, Contracting Officer, (304) 399-5705

11. Contract Award Number: N/A

12. Contractor Award Dollar Amount: N/A

13. Contract Line Item Number: N/A

14. Contract Award Date: N/A

15. Contractor: N/A

16. Description:

CONTRACT INFORMATION: This contract is being procured in accordance with the Selection of Architect Engineers Act, the provisions outlined in FAR Subpart 36.6 and the procedures provided in Engineer Pamphlet (EP) 715-1-17, section 3-16. Architect-Engineers (A-E) will be selected for negotiations based on demonstrated competence and qualifications for the type of professional services required. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Huntington District, proposes to obtain the services for up to five Architect-Engineer (A-E) contracts for Geospatial Services, including surveying, mapping, and GIS which are required for various types of civil works projects assigned to Districts within the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Great Lakes and Ohio River Division geographical boundaries which include the Buffalo, Chicago, Detroit, Huntington, Louisville, Nashville and Pittsburgh Districts. If work is required outside the Huntington District, wage rates will be furnished per task order. Up to five indefinite delivery contracts will be negotiated and awarded with a one-year base period and four one-year option periods. The overall contract amount will not exceed $35,000,000.00 over the life of the contract (shared capacity). Work will be issued by negotiated firm-fixed price task orders. Task orders may be awarded between $2,500.00 and $5,000,000.00 in value. The contract is anticipated to be awarded in February 2022. North American Industrial Classification System (NAICs) code is 541370, which has a size standard of $16,500,000.00 in average annual receipts. This announcement is open to small businesses only. To be considered eligible for set-aside procedures, firms must clearly indicate on their SF 330 appropriate certification as small business (self-certification). Per FAR 52.219-14 Class Deviation 2021-O0008, Limitations on Subcontracting, for a contract or order assigned a North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for services (except construction), the concern will not pay more than 50 percent of the amount paid by the Government for contract performance to subcontractors that are not similarly situated entities. Any work that a similarly situated entity further subcontracts will count towards the concern’s 50 percent subcontract amount that cannot be exceeded. When a contract includes both services and supplies, the 50 percent limitation shall apply only to the service portion of the contract. Quality Control Plans will be required at the time of award. The wages and benefits of service employees (see FAR 22.10) performing under the resulting contract must be at least equal to those determined by the Department of Labor under the Service Contract Labor Standards, formerly the Service Contract Act, as determined relative to the employee’s office location (not the location of the work). To be eligible for contract award, a firm must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) at the time of SF330 submissions. Register via the SAM internet site at http://www.sam.gov. Multiple contracts are being awarded under this synopsis, the most highly qualified firms will each receive a Request for Proposal to allow development and submission of a price proposal. Task Orders will be awarded in accordance with the Selection of Architect Engineers Act guidance to ensure fair distribution of awards.

2. PROJECT INFORMATION: Geospatial services will consist of Horizontal and Vertical Control Surveys; Structural Deformation Surveys; Boundary and Retracement Surveys; Topographic and Planimetric Surveys; Terrestrial LiDAR Scanning; Mobile LiDAR Scanning, both Vessel and Vehicle Based; Geodetic Control Surveys; Engineering Design Surveys; Aerial LiDAR and Photogrammetric Mapping from both manned and unmanned systems; Orthophoto Production from both manned and unmanned systems; Photo Control Surveys; HTRW Surveys; Quantity and Volume Surveys; Data Computations including Network Adjustments and Reports; CADD Drafting; Digital Terrain Modeling; GIS and Database Design Services; Hydrographic Surveys including Multibeam, Single Beam and/or Side scan Sonar surveys; Construction Layout and Monitoring Surveys; 3-D Modeling, Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Civil Information Modeling (CIM) Services, Subsurface Utility Engineering (SUE); Hyper-spectral and Multispectral Imaging and Processing. These services shall be used when necessary to support engineering studies to include design and construction, planning, operation and maintenance of navigation and flood control projects, real estate, and emergency management activities for projects within the jurisdiction of the selecting Districts and may be utilized for Division wide projects. The District and division boundaries are shown at http://www.lrh.usace.army.mil. All travel costs computed in regard to a particular task order will be measured from the District office or the A-E’s office whichever is closer to the work site. Firms must be able to submit surveys and mapping data in the formats and standards requested by the government. The formats for data include, but are not limited to Trimble Business Center, Rinex, Adobe PDF, FGDC-STD-001-1998 Metadata, Bentley 3D-Microstation, Bentley InRoads, Autodesk AutoCAD and Civil3D format 2019 or greater, Hypack, MS-Word, MS-Excel, ESRI ArcGIS Version 10.1 or higher, ERDAS Imagine, Land XML, PTS and LAS Point Storage Schema and ASCII. The files may be requested on CD ROM, DVD, Government Approved USB Hard Drive, or other electronic transfer; no flash media will be accepted for product deliverables. The contractor will also be required to provide electronic copies of all raw data files from GNSS receivers and data collectors in their unedited format. In addition to the above formats, firms must have e-mail capability for project updates and status reports; and file transfer abilities (FTP, SFTP), etc. The government will only accept the final product, without conversion or reformatting, in the stated formats. Firms must have the capability of complying with all current U.S. Army Corps of Engineers manuals including but not limited to:

Engineer Manual (EM) 1110-1-1000 Photogrammetric Mapping;

EM 1110-1-1002 Survey Markers and Monumentations;

EM 1110-1-1003 Navstar Global Positioning System Surveying EM 1110-1-1005 Control and Topographic Surveying;

EM 1110-2-1003 Hydrographic Surveying;

EM 1110-2-6056 Standards and Procedures for Referencing Project Evaluation Grades to Nationwide Vertical Datums;

EM 1110-1-2909 Geospatial Data and Systems Engineer Regulation 1110-2-8160 Policies for Referencing Project Evaluation Grades to Nationwide Vertical Datums;

EM 1110-1-1009 Structural Deformation Surveying.

Work may require using the metric system.

These services are required for various types of civil works projects assigned to the Districts within the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Great Lakes and Ohio River Division. Geographical boundaries for the Great Lakes and Ohio River Division include Buffalo, Chicago, Detroit, Huntington, Louisville, Nashville, and Pittsburgh Districts.

3. SELECTION CRITERIA: The selection criteria for this contract are listed below in descending order of importance (first by major criterion and then by each sub-criterion). Criteria A through D are primary. Criteria E through F are secondary and will only be used as a tie-breaker among firms that are essentially technically equal. All work is to be performed under the supervision of a Professional Land Surveyor.

A. Specialized Experience and Technical Competence. Describe your firms' specialized experience and technical competence with respect to:

i. Successfully managing and performing broadly scoped geospatial projects as those present or anticipated within Great Lakes and Ohio River Division's environmental mission.

ii. Successful integrated management and execution of environmental projects requiring significant coordination of simultaneous activities, real-time integration of customer and regulatory agency coordination and input, and development of effective solutions to quickly arising technical/managerial challenges without a lapse of performance.

iii. Horizontal and Vertical Control Surveys on both a local and geodetic level utilizing both Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) technology and conventional surveying equipment to achieve precise survey networks.

iv. Cadastral surveying capabilities to re-establish, monument and sub-divide parcels, fee tracts, easements tracts, and rights-of-way in accordance with state and local requirements.

v. Topographic surveying capabilities using real time GNSS, Virtual Reference Station (VRS) GNSS surveys, and conventional surveying techniques.

vi. Current experience utilizing aerial-based LiDAR and imaging for field to finish products including aerial flight and sensor planning, calibration, and post-processing.

vii. Current experience utilizing GNSS capabilities for geodetic, topographic and GIS data collection including use of Real Time Kinematic (RTK), VRS and satellite-based corrections systems.

viii. Experience in the collection and processing of aerial and terrestrial LiDAR data into various mapping products to include classified and bare-earth elevation models, supplemental photogrammetric/ LiDAR-Grammetry break lines, surface models, and contours for large and small-scale mapping projects.

ix. Experience in large and small-scale aerial photogrammetric collection, processing, and mapping production in support of engineering design, facilities management, regional planning, and real property inventory.

x. Experience in digital orthophoto generation for large and small-scale mapping projects.

xi. Creation of GIS databases for project data including digitizing and transcribing of historical data, conversion of electronic data, and use of the current standard of Spatial Data Standards for Facilities, Infrastructure, and Environment (SDSFIE) 2.6 and newer schema.

xii. Hydrographic surveying capabilities using differential GNSS, acoustic and conventional survey techniques.

xiii. Ability to collect digital data for planimetric and topographic features, Digital Terrain Model (DTM), Digital Elevation Model (DEM), data collection, a breakdown of the firm's field to finish process, and manipulation of terrain data.

xiv. Experience in completion of surveys associated with Subsurface Utility Engineering.

xv. Experience in the completion of HTRW surveys from level B to level D.

xvi. Experience in completion of surveys related to and involving construction activities.

B. Professional Qualifications. Describe the professional qualifications of your firm. Provide the qualifications of professional personnel in the following areas:

i. Professional Land Surveyor

ii. Project Management Professional

iii. GIS Professional

iv. Registration, licensure, or certification as required by law and regulations of the appropriate state will be necessary. Submitting firms should demonstrate the education, training, registration, overall and relevant experience, and longevity with the firm of key management and technical personnel.

C. Past performance: Describe your firms' past performance during the past 5 years on similar contracts with respect to cost control, quality of work, ability to work independently and compliance with performance schedules as determined from the Contractor Performance Assessment Reporting System (CPARS), Federal Awardee Performance and Integrity Information System (FAPIIS) and other sources. The CPARS is the primary source of information on past performance. However, any credible, documented evaluations may be considered, but the government is not required to seek other information on the past performance of a firm if none is available from CPARS.

D. Capacity: Describe your firms' capacity to perform approximately $500,000.00 through multiple task orders, in a one-year period, and accomplish the anticipated work in an efficient manner. The evaluation will consider the availability of an adequate number of personnel in key disciplines.

E. Knowledge of the Locality: Knowledge of the geographical and ecological region within the Great Lakes and Ohio River Division and navigable commercial inland waterways in the United States.

F. Volume of DOD Contract Awards: Volume of DOD A-E contract awards in the last 12- months, with the objective of effecting an equitable distribution of DoD A-E contracts among qualified firms, including small business (SB) and small disadvantaged businesses (SDB).

4. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS: ALL RESPONSES TO THIS ANNOUNCEMENT SHALL BE SUBMITTED ELECTRONICALLY. Hand carried delivery or USPS/UPS/FEDEX delivery of hard copies and or CD-ROMs are not authorized. Facsimile submission is not authorized. Electronic Proposal Submission is required through the Army’s Electronic File Sharing Service, DOD SAFE (https://safe.apps.mil). Instructions for uploading submissions have been added to the Sam.Gov announcement. You must follow these instructions. Electronic proposals must be received to the Government NLT 4:00 PM Eastern Time on December 9, 2021. The SAFE Instructions clearly define what constitutes a timely electronic submission. Include the A-E's DUNS number in SF 330, Part II, Block 4. Solicitation packages are not provided and no additional project information will be given to A-Es during the announcement period. This is not a request for proposal. The POC for this procurement is Thomas P. Hartman, II. Thomas.p.hartman@usace.army.mil.

17. Place of Contract Performance: Geographical Boundaries of the Great Lakes and Ohio River Division

18. Set-aside status: 100% Small Business Set-Aside