MERSU Sources Sought 2 Rev3 2 MAR 2020.docx

Munitions and Environmental Response Services (MERS) Sources Sought:

The Government is seeking to identify qualified sources under North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code 562910, Environmental Remediation. The small business size standard is 750 employees.

This notice is for market research purposes only and does not constitute a solicitation nor does it restrict the Government as to the ultimate acquisition approach. This notice is open for responses from both small and large businesses. Responses will be utilized to determine if this requirement, or a portion of this requirement, can be set-aside for small businesses.

The Government will not reimburse respondents for any costs incurred in preparation of a response to this notice. Responses to this notice are not offers and cannot be accepted by the Government to form a binding contract. The Government does not intend to rank responses, provide any reply to interested companies and responses will not be returned.

1. CONTRACT INFORMATION:

This Munitions and Environmental Response Services (MERS) contract will support work assigned to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), including but not limited to, Department of Defense Environmental Restoration Program (DERP); Formerly Used Defense Sites (FUDS); Military Munitions Response (MMR) for various Department of Defense (DoD) customers including conventional munitions, Chemical Warfare Materiel, Biological Warfare Materiel and other munitions-related services (OMRS); DoD Environmental Compliance Program, Environmental Support for Others (ESFO) Program; support to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) including Superfund and Brownfield Programs; Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP); environmental cleanup for various military and Interagency customers; environmental stewardship, and other environmental related regulatory programs.

Task orders under this contract will be in support of existing and future USACE customers throughout the United States, including Alaska and Hawaii, the U.S. territories, Outlying areas as defined by FAR 2.101, and Territorial waters.

Task orders will be issued as firm-fixed price (FFP) or cost-plus fixed fee (CPFF) based on the requirements of the Performance Work Statement (PWS) at various known or suspected Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste (HTRW) sites and Munitions and Explosives of Concern (MEC) sites. Services may include, but are not limited to, the control of environmental contamination from pollutants, toxic substances, radioactive materials, and hazardous materials. Bonding will not be required for this contract.

Any contracts awarded are being procured in accordance with the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) 15. CEHNC anticipates awarding contracts for a 5-year base and one 3-year option period and one 2-year option period for a total of 10 years if all option years are exercised. The program capacity shared by all awarded contracts will be $1.136B.

2. PROJECT INFORMATION:

The objective of this Multiple Award Task Order Contract (MATOC) is to procure the services of Contractor to perform Military Munitions Response Program (MMRP) responses involving conventional munitions and chemical warfare materiel (CWM); Environmental Compliance and Remediation Services (ECRS); and Other Munitions-Related Services (OMRS), as necessary to enable lands and waters to be safely and efficiently used for their intended purpose. The Contractor shall provide services to safely locate; identify; recover, evaluate; assess; package; transport; manage; and make final disposition, as required, of Munitions and Explosives of Concern (MEC), and Hazardous, Toxic and Radioactive Waste (HTRW) at various currently and formerly used defense sites, property adjoining currently and formerly used defense sites, and other federally controlled/owned sites. Work performed under this contract may include project planning, assessments, inspections, surveys, investigations, studies, engineering evaluations, cost analyses, remedial design, remedial or removal actions, spill response, sampling and analysis, engineering containment and filtration, recovery, storage, transportation, and disposal, as required, of MEC to include Munitions Constituents (MC), HTRW, monitoring, data management, training, permitting, public involvement, and logistical, medical, and security support. In addition, for OMRS the work may also include anomaly avoidance, construction support, and range clearance. Work efforts may consist of robotic technology where feasible and practical.

3. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

Interested business firms who meet the capability requirements identified in this notice are requested to reply to this notice with a response to the Capability Questionnaire (Attachment 1). If no experience or capabilities are associated with a particular question, so indicate. Based upon responses received from both small and other than small businesses, consideration will be given to define an acquisition approach that provides maximum practicable opportunities and participation for small business programs.

Interested firms should submit detailed responses to the Capabilities Questionnaire (Attachment 1) which furnishes information describing relevant experience and qualifications in the following format:

Submission shall be received NO LATER THAN: 2:00 p.m. Central Time, Monday, 9 March 2020; and should not exceed ten (10) one-sided, 8 1/2” X 11” pages using no smaller than 12 sized font. Computer files must be compatible with Microsoft Word 2017.

NO HARD COPY OR FACSIMILE SUBMISSIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED.

Cover letters and extraneous materials (brochures, etc.) will not be considered.

Submit responses and questions concerning submissions to CEHNC-MERSU@usace.army.mil.

Office visits or site visits to meet with CEHNC personnel for the purpose of discussing this announcement will not be scheduled.

This notice does not restrict the Government as to the ultimate acquisition approach.

4. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Contractors who submitted capability statements and questionnaire under the SEER sources sought W912DY-20-R-0016 are not required to resubmit unless there have been changes to their capabilities.

Contracting Office Address:

USACE HNC, Huntsville, P. O. Box 1600, Huntsville, AL 35807-4301

Place of Performance:

Locations within the base PWS as designated at the task order level

USACE Point of Contact(s):

Latosha V. McCoy, Contracting Officer USACE HNC, Huntsville

Denise Parhm, Contracting Specialist USACE HNC, Huntsville

Interested parties are responsible for monitoring modifications to this notice and a Draft PWS has been posted with this notice.

ATTACHMENT 1

CAPABILITIES QUESTIONNAIRE

Use this form to provide contractor’s general information. The box at the bottom of the form may be used to clarify any requested information. Please respond to all questions as completely as possible and neatly print or type the requested information.

SECTION 1. GENERAL

DUNS: _______________ CAGE Code: ___________

A. Business Name: (Insert Business Name

B. Business Address: (Insert Business Address)

C. Is your firm registered under the NAICS code 562910 for Environmental Remediation services? (Yes or No)

D. Responsible Point of Contact:

SECTION 2. TYPE OF BUSINESS: (check all that apply)

|_| 8(a) small business, |_| Service-disabled veteran-owned small business

|_| Veteran-owned small business |_| HUB Zone small business

|_| Women-owned small business |_| Small Disadvantaged business

|_| Small business |_| Large Business

Experience:

Number of years/months in business executing environmental remediation service projects: ________years ______ months

Number of Years in Ordinance and Explosives Business: ______years_______months

CONTRACTOR ARRANGEMENT

Our firm will most likely be proposing on this project as a:

|_| Joint Venture with (Insert business name, business size, and cage code).

Refer to FAR subpart 9.6 for Government policy on teaming arrangements, as well as 8(a)Program regulations described in 13 CFR 124.513, HUBZone Program regulations described in 13 CFR 126.616, and Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Program regulations described in FAR 19.1403(c) and 13 CFR 125.15(b).)

|_| Sole Contractor, self-performing 100% of the work

|_| Prime Contractor (Small Business), self-performing at least 50% of the work

|_| Prime Contractor (Small Business) performing at least 50% of the work with the following team member subcontractor(s) (Insert business name, business size, cage code, and work which will be subcontracted)

|_| Subcontractor, performing less than 50% of the work for (Insert business name, business size, cage code, and work which will be done)

|_| Other – explain_________________________

SECTION 3. CAPABILITY

A. Our firm |_| is/|_| is not capable of performing at least 25%, but not more than (insert percentage) of the cost of the contract (not including the cost of materials) with its own employees.

B. Our firm is capable of performing the following number of task orders simultaneously:

|_|2-5 |_|6-10 |_|11-15

|_|16-20 |_| 21-30 |_|30+ orders

C. Has your firm been awarded any Federal contract in the past three (3) years?

|_| Yes |_| No

D. If awarded a contract, the maximum capacity our firm can adequately perform for any single task/delivery order is (Insert maximum capacity per task/delivery order). (i.e. If your firm cannot perform work per task/project over $3 million, your response for maximum capacity per task would be $3 million.)

E. If awarded an ID/IQ contract, the maximum aggregate contract capacity our firm can adequately perform is (Insert total contract capacity your firm can perform). (i.e. If your firm can perform no more than five (5) $3 million task/delivery orders simultaneously, your response for maximum aggregate capacity would be $15 million).

F. During the last 3 years our firm/team was responsible for successfully accomplishing:

· (Insert Number) - Military Munitions Response (MMR) Projects valued at $1 Million or greater

· (Provide a List of Project Titles, Locations, Customers, and Values for up to 10 projects that your firm executed in this area)

· (Insert Number) – Environmental Compliance and Remediation Services (ECRS) Projects valued at $1 Million or greater

· (Provide List of Project Titles, Locations, Customers, and Values for up to 10 projects that your firm executed in this area)

· (Insert Number) – Other Munitions-Related Service (OMRS) projects valued at $1 Million or greater

· (Provide List of Project Titles, Locations, Customers, and Values for up to 10 projects that your firm executed in this area)

H. If the government were to offer this requirement by regions, would you be likely to propose? If so, how would you suggest that the regions are broken out?

I. What contract incentives have proven most effective for your company?

J. Describe any applicable industry certifications your organization maintains.

K. List the States in which you have the capability/interest to perform work.

L. Your highest valued project was $_______________ . Please describe your firm’s role in this project and the services your firm executed.

M. Would you be willing to propose if the government were to break out different aspects within the PWS? If so, what aspects of the PWS should be separated into its own requirement?

N. Would you propose if the government were to combine only certain aspects of the PWS? If so, what aspects of the PWS would you suggest to be combined as one requirement?

O. Would you find it beneficial for this requirement to be a 7 year contract with a 4-year base and one 3-year option period?

P. Is there a financial risk for your corporation by the government opting to use Class Deviation 218-O0006? (Attachment 2)

FOR THE REMAINING RESPONSES (SECTIONS I-III), READ IN ITS ENTIRETY TO ENSURE ALL POINTS ARE ADDRESSED IN YOUR RESPONSE(S). NEGATIVE RESPONSES ARE NEEDED SO PLEASE DO NOT LEAVE ANY SECTION BLANK.

I. Explain your team’s capability, qualifications and experience for each of the following (listed in a-e). If no experience with any of a-e, please indicate.

a. conventional munitions and chemical warfare materiel (CWM);

b. Environmental Compliance and Remediation Services (ECRS);

c. Military Munitions Response Program (MMRP) responses

d. Munitions and Explosives of Concern (MEC),

e. Hazardous, Toxic and Radioactive Waste (HTRW)

Please include the following information in your response to support your experience for sections a-e above:

· Contract number (and TO if applicable)

· Current process/phase of the project

· Clearly state if you were the prime or sub for the project and what your involvement was with the project (e.g., describe both your role as well as the type of work you performed)

· Period of performance

· Location of work performed (e.g, city, state or city, territory)

· Contract Award Amount (if a multiple award contract, please provide the task order amount, not the base contract capacity)

· Permits and licenses obtained to conduct work described

· How schedule delays were resolved

· Key personnel roles

· Geophysical equipment that you have successfully operated while executing project. If you currently own the equipment please annotate.

· Experience with locating, identifying, recovering, evaluating, assessing, packaging, transporting, managing, and executing final disposition, as required, of MEC, CWM and HTRW

· Specific detail of MEC, CWM and HTRW items encountered on project. (Size, Qty, complexity, etc)

· Describe your firm’s knowledge/expertise of explosive safety and blast effects and how it was used on this project. Please include any experience preparing submittals or working with the Department of Defense Explosive Safety Board (DDESB)

· Describe your firm’s knowledge/expertise of anomaly avoidance, construction support, range clearance and robotic technology and how it was used on this project.

· CPARS rating(s) for specified contract

· Summary of all ECPs and REAs requested for each contract

II. Provide an example of how you were able to support multiple task orders. You may elect to place your awarded projects in a time graph to show that you are able to support multiple task orders simultaneously.

III. Is your firm currently DoD Advanced Geophysical Classification Accreditation Program (DAGCAP) accredited as Prime Contractor, Subcontractor, or neither (not accredited)?

(end of questionnaire)

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