PWS_Multi-Year_Riparian_Training_10_Mar2016.docx

Performance Work Statement (PWS)

EL EEE - Contract for R&D Services (Stream & Riparian Training) W81EWF53425742 02/10/2016

Performance Work Statement (PWS)

EL EE-E - Contract for R&D Services (Stream and Riparian Training) Vision Statement To provide science, technology, and expertise in engineering and environmental sciences for our Armed Forces and the Nation to make the world safer and better.

1 Introduction This Performance Work Statement (PWS) describes the type of research required to advance the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), Ecological Resources Branch (EEE) in the execution of its mission.

1.1 Mission

EEE branch in the Environmental Laboratory works within the Army and DoD to promote scientific innovation, environmental quality, regulatory compliance, and technical approaches to resource management.

1.2 Background

The U. S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is responsible for investigating, developing and maintaining the nation's water and related environmental resources; constructing and operating projects for navigation, flood control, major drainage, shore and beach restoration and protection, related hydro power development, water supply, water quality control, fish and wildlife conservation and enhancement, and outdoor recreation. USACE responds to emergency relief activities as directed by other federal agencies and enforces laws for the protection and preservation of navigable waters for emergency flood control and shore protection.

The Engineer Research and Development Centers (ERDC) Environmental Laboratory is the problem solver for the Corps and the Nation in environmental science and engineering research and development for environmental systems. Research is conducted in the environmental missions of the U.S. Army, the Department of Defense, and the Nation. Environmental Laboratory research includes a network of expertise and facilities from other ERDC and Corps laboratories, other government agencies, academia, and the private sector. The mission of the Environmental Laboratory spans both military and civil needs and objectives.

In executing its mission, the ERDC Environmental Laboratory requires a contractual vehicle for specific, defined, products for Research and Development, Science and Engineering goals.

The ERDC Environmental Laboratory background, missions and site information is located at http://el.erdc.usace.army.mil/index.cfm. Specifically, the Ecosystem and Engineering Division provides a full range of research and tool development for watershed and ecosystem planning, restoration, and stewardship management for USACE, the Army, and the Nation.

1.3 Scope

The contractor shall provide all personnel, supervision, and services necessary to provide 5 training workshops (one per year from 2016-2020) on the restoration and management of streams and associated riparian areas to prevent non-point source pollution and improve physical and ecological functions specific to USACE waterbodies to the ERDC Environmental Laboratory as defined in this Performance Work Statement. Two of these workshops will include hands-on training and project construction (i.e., planting riparian demonstration projects in FY17 and FY18). The work is defined as the general requirements as outlined below. Place of performance will be at various USACE District offices with the first course (2016) tentatively planned for the Albuquerque District office (training in Grand Junction, CO) on 19-21 July 2016. A field trip for the selection of future riparian field sites will also occur during 2016 with the Los Angeles, California area as the tentative location. Note that due to the course requiring field work along waterbodies, unexpected natural conditions such as floods may require a change in class/field locations.

2 General Requirements This section describes the general requirements for this effort. The following sub- sections provide details of various considerations on this effort.

2.1 Non-Personal Services

The Government shall neither supervise a contractor nor control the method by which the contractor performs the required tasks. Under no circumstances shall the Government assign tasks to, or prepare work schedules for, individual contractors. It shall be the responsibility of the contractor to manage its workforce and to guard against any actions that are of the nature of personal services, or give the perception of personal services. If the contractor believes that any actions constitute, or are perceived to constitute personal services, it shall be the contractor's responsibility to notify the Procuring Contracting Officer (PCO/KO) immediately.

2.2 Business Relations

The contractor shall successfully integrate and coordinate all activity needed to execute the requirement. The contractor shall manage the timeliness, completeness, and quality of problem identification. The contractor shall provide corrective action plans, proposal submittals, timely identification of issues, and effective management of subcontractors. The contractor shall seek to ensure customer satisfaction and professional and ethical behavior of all contractor personnel.

2.3 Contract Administration and Management

The following subsections specify requirements for contract, management, and personnel administration.

2.3.1 Contract Management

The Contractor shall establish clear organizational lines of authority and responsibility to ensure effective management of the resources assigned to the requirement. The contractor must maintain continuity with the designated Corps Technical POC.

2.3.2 Contract Administration

The Contractor shall establish processes and assign appropriate resources to effectively administer the requirement. The contractor shall respond to Government requests for contractual actions in a timely fashion. The contractor shall have a single point of contact with the Government.

2.3.3 Contractor Workforce Administration

The contractor shall work during designated Government work days during the class. The contractor shall make necessary travel arrangements to the training location.

2.4 Subcontract Management

The contractor shall be responsible for any subcontract management necessary to integrate work performed on this requirement and shall be responsible and accountable for subcontractor performance on this requirement. The prime contractor will manage work distribution to ensure there are no Organizational Conflict of Interest (OCI) considerations. Contractors may add subcontractors to their team after notification to the Procuring Contracting Officer (PCO/KO) or Contracting Officer Representative (COR). Cross teaming may or may not be permitted.

2.5 Contractor Qualifications

The contractor shall accomplish the assigned work by employing and utilizing qualified personnel with appropriate combinations of education, training, and experience. The contractor shall match personnel skills to the work or task with a minimum of under/over employment of resources.

The contractor shall provide the necessary resources and infrastructure to manage, perform, and administer the contract.

The Contractor shall have the following qualifications:

1. More than 20 years experience in river engineering and bioengineering practices, and served as an instructor in multiple courses that address stream investigation, stabilization, and restoration.

2. Specialize in teaching innovative, environmentally compatible, and cost-effective approaches and methodologies to river and stream bank stabilization; stream investigation and analysis using principles of fluvial geomorphology; development of function-based project design goals; project facilitation and conflict resolution; sediment transport; navigation channel improvement effects of river training structures; innovative construction methodologies for stream stabilization works; use of redirective techniques to protect roads, bridges, and pipelines, river and stream training structure inspection, monitoring, and performance analysis; and physical movable-bed modeling.

3. General experience with dam removal projects, karst topography (sinkhole) situations, arid dry-wash restorations, fisherman ingress and egress designs, and salmon and trout stream aquatic habitat and riparian corridor restoration, and on a range of river orders from ditches to large (i.e., Mississippi River) rivers.

4. Significant experience with construction of Living Half-Drowned Bushes; Two- Stage Slit Trench Pole Plantings; wide-trench pole and rooted stock plantings; Turkey Foot Trench Planting Configurations; Slit Brush Layering: Living Log Corner Crossers; the Willow Curtain and Willow Pole bioengineering methodologies; many variations of Bendway Weirs; Traffic Control Stones; Thalweg Control Stones; two-stage Bendway Weirs; minimal Longitudinal Peaked Stone Toe Protection (LPSTP at less than 1 ton/ft); LPSTP combined with floodplain benches, Rock Vanes or Bendway Weirs & Locked Logs; and LPSTP combined with vegetated benches and spur dikes for desert environments.

5. Significant experience with design and construction of Bendway Weirs to redirect stream flow to protect roads, highway bridge abutments, and high pressure pipeline crossings.

6. Significant experience with grade control structures, including Viffles (a combination Cross Vane and Rocked Riffle); Engineered Rock Riffles with loose stone, or all stones in compression (both end-to-end and imbricated compression); 3 tree trunk “Log Digger” Structures; Adjustable Engineered Rock Riffles; and Engineered Rock Riffles with Integrated Fishways.

7. Significant experience with restoration/aquatic habitat improvement projects, to include such techniques as "Locked-Limb"; "Locked-Log"; Extreme Fuzzy Locked Logs; “Half-Dense” Riprap; “SSmooshed” riprap; "Instant Shade"; Extreme Instant Shade; "California" style LUNKERS; “Corner LUNKERS”; ADA accessible fishing platform “LUNKERS”; "Hydraulic Cover Stones"; "Wiggle" shoreline deflectors; "Align & Catch" log revetment pairings; “Squeezers”; “Missing Tooth” Stone Transverse bars; "Dense Fibrous Root Replication"; "Pushed Trees"; Missouri River Kickers for small streams; many types of innovative fisherman access; keys built as stairs for fisherman access; vegetated, buried (soil-choked), and curved keys; vine cover for exposed stone, Duck Resting Rocks; Log Point Bar Enforcers with veg; and Stone Point bar Enforcers with integrated Living Dikes; and "Exclusionary Vegetation".

8. Knowledge and field application of techniques for pool creation in straight stretches, including Contraction Stones; Stone “Squeezers”; Log “Squeezers”; “Kink” Kickers; Missing Tooth Smiles; Missing Tooth Smiles with downstream Hydraulic Cover Stone Splitters; Constructed Transverse Oblique Bars; Missing Tooth Transverse Oblique Bars; & Missouri River Kickers for smaller streams; Abrupt Planform Modifiers: Angle Slams, Grand Slams, Boil-Up Pools, Wrong- Way Boil-Up Pools, Twin-Spin Boil-Up Pools & Slanted “T” Angle Slams with Stone Splitters.

9. A thorough understanding of Corps of Engineers programs and tailor training specifically to the needs of each District where the courses will be taught.

2.6 Location and Hours of Work

Accomplishment of the results contained in this PWS requires work at a Government facility and contractor work site. Normal workdays are Monday through Friday except US Federal Holidays. Workers typically work eight (8) hours per day, 40 hours per week. Specific work hours will be in accordance with the agenda for the training courses.

2.7 Travel

Travel to other government facilities, other contractor facilities, or field sites is required and will be specified in the PWS. All travel requirements (including plans, agenda, itinerary, or dates) shall be pre-approved by the government (subject to local policy procedures), and is on a strictly cost reimbursable basis. Costs for travel shall be billed in accordance with the regulatory implementation of Public Law 99-234 and FAR 31.205-46 Travel Costs (subject to local policy & procedures; may reference FAR).

The Contractor will travel twice in FY16, and one time each for FY’s 17-20. In FY16, the Contractor will travel to Grand Junction, CO (subject to change due to natural conditions), to conduct a training course, and a second trip to Los Angeles (subject to change due to natural conditions) for site selection for a riparian restoration demonstration that will be completed in FY17 and again in FY18.

3 Performance Requirements The following section specifies the Performance Objectives and Performance Elements for the contract.

3.1 The contractor shall provide instruction for a stream and riparian training course at the USACE Albuquerque District (in Grand Junction, CO) 19-21 July 2016 (subject to change due to natural conditions).

3.1.1 The Contractor shall design and deliver classroom and field instruction at a stream and riparian training course at the USACE Albuquerque District (in Grand Junction, CO) 19-21 July 2016 (subject to change due to natural conditions).

The Engineer Research and Development Center’s Environmental Laboratory has specific need for expertise in instruction on stream restoration directly relevant to Corps ecosystem restoration projects, and those stream/riparian projects under Corps regulatory authority. This training will provide hands-on experience for District staff who routinely plan, construct, monitor, and evaluate stream stabilization and restoration projects as a part of their duties in (a) developing ecosystem restoration projects under Corps authority, or (b) issuing regulatory permits under §404 of the Clean Water Act.

One 3 day workshop for a target of 50 students will be conducted in Colorado.

The Contractor will serve as part of the training team and will be a subject matter expert on stream restoration tools and techniques that have been proven to work in a wide variety of circumstances and situations. They shall provide classroom and hands-on field instruction of river restoration methodologies. The contractor shall provide regularly scheduled feedback on the status of on-going efforts to the Government’s principal investigator (PI).

Travel costs may be incurred for work in this task. Specific tasks include:

1. Develop and provide classroom and field instruction on stream and riparian restoration topics such as: the goal and function of river restoration, the channel evolution model, bioengineering and planting, USACE riparian restoration case studies, instruction at ecosystem restoration field sites, innovative restoration techniques, resistive and continuous bank stabilization methods, and re-directive methods for a class of approximately 50 students.

2. Develop and provide workshop materials such as PowerPoint presentations, hand- outs, and materials related to case studies specific to USACE waterbodies for a class of approximately 50 students.

Deliverables:

1. Draft curriculum plan 1 week prior to training class.

2. Monthly status report for months/years in which training is held describing instruction presented and customer/student feedback results.

3. Classroom and field instruction for a specified course at designated USACE District.

Tasks shall be completed at specified intervals and training dates. Tasks will require travel to training location.

Performance Standards

a) STD: Identifies and corrects deficiencies

AQL: 90% of the time no significant oversights are identified

b) STD: Addresses emerging capabilities/updates to curriculum

AQL: 90% of the time no significant oversights are identified

c) STD: Ensure compatibility with existing policies and guidance AQL: 90% of the time no significant oversights are identified

d) STD: Deliverables are made in accordance with schedule AQL: 90% of the time no significant oversights are identified.

Deliverables A001 Draft curriculum plan 1 week prior to training course. A002 Monthly status report for month in which training is held. A003 Classroom and field instruction for specified course.

The Contractor shall coordinate with ERDC-EL during FY16 to advise the Project Delivery Team in selecting two suitable restoration sites on USACE reservoir projects within the South Pacific Division (i.e., Arizona, California, New Mexico) (subject to change due to natural conditions). This will entail a 7-day trip to visit candidate restoration sites identified by SPD and assessing their suitability. The contractor subsequently shall provide a short written summary of the trip describing each site and the relative merits of selecting each as a focal site for subsequent design/build workshops (see below). This will require one trip to SPD in FY16 (7 days labor and travel) as well as in-office planning, conference calls, and developing project detail sheets (approximately 3 days labor) (subject to change due to natural conditions). The ERDC-EL will use this information to select two focal restoration sites to be integrated into training workshops in FY17 and FY18.

The contractor will also provide similar instruction during FY17-FY20 at the following locations (subject to change due to natural conditions):

FY17: Phoenix, AZ FY18: Los Angeles, CA FY19: Jacksonville, FL FY20: New York, NY A004 Out-Year Workshop Plan

The Contractor shall, in FY16, provide to ERDC-EL a plan for conducting design/build training workshops (one each during FY17 and FY18). The first workshop will be in or near Phoenix, AZ, in FY17 (subject to change due to natural conditions). This will entail classroom training (2 days) and field instruction (2 days) that includes the restoration and revegetation of a river reach through interaction with course attendees. The second workshop will be in or near Los Angeles, CA, and will have identical goals, objectives, logistics, and outcomes.

A005 Trip Report and Site-selection Recommendations

The Contractor shall provide a report, as detailed above in 5.1.9, to the COR by 30 Sept 2016.

4 Special Requirements This section describes the special requirements for this effort. The following sub- sections provide details of various considerations on this effort.

4.1 Security and Safety

a. Access and General Protection/Security Policy and Procedures:

The contractor shall comply with applicable installation, facility and area commander installation/facility access and local security policies and procedures (provided by government representative). The contractor shall also provide all information required for background checks or background investigation and to meet installation/facility access requirements to be accomplished by installation Provost Marshal Office, Director of Emergency Services or Security Office. The contractor must comply with all personal identity verification requirements as directed by DoD, HQDA, and local policies. In addition to the changes otherwise authorized by the changes clause of this contract, should the Force Protection Condition (FPCON) at any individual facility or installation change, the Government may require changes in contractor security matters or processes.

b. Suspicious Activity Reporting Training (e.g., iWATCH, CorpsWatch, or See Something, Say Something):

The contractor shall receive a verbal briefing from the Technical POC on the local suspicious activity reporting program. This locally developed training will be used to inform contractors of the types of behavior to watch for and instruct contractors to report suspicious activity to the project manager, security representative or law enforcement entity. The briefing shall be completed prior to the workshop training session with updates as necessary for local requirements.

4.2 Government Furnished Materials

The Government will make available the materials, training location and space, communications capability and information on the training dates determined in the base contract for use by the contractor in the performance of this contract.

4.3 Environmental Requirements

The contractor shall comply with all documents listed below as mandatory and referenced under paragraph 3.0, Performance Requirements. Compliance with documents listed as non mandatory is the contractors' option. This section will be populated if applicable.

4.4 Applicable Directives

The contractor shall comply with all documents listed below as mandatory and referenced under paragraph 3.0, Performance Requirements. Compliance with documents listed as non-mandatory is the contractors' option. This section will be populated if applicable.

4.5 Quality

This section describes the Quality Control components for this effort. The following sub- sections provide details of various considerations on this effort.

4.5.1 Quality Control

The Contractor shall develop a Quality Control Plan (QCP) and maintain an effective quality control program to ensure services are performed in accordance with the contract and this PWS. The Contractor shall develop and implement procedures to identify, prevent, and ensure non-recurrence of defective services. The Contractors QCP is the means by which he assures himself that his work complies with the requirement of the contract.

The finalized QCP will be accepted by the Government at the time of the award of the Purchase Order. The Contracting Officer may notify the Contractor of required modifications to the plan during the period of performance. The Contractor then shall coordinate suggested modifications and obtain acceptance of the plan by the Contracting Officer. Any modifications to the program during the period of performance shall be provided to the Contracting Officer for review no later than 10 working days prior to effective date of the change. The QCP shall be subject to the Governments review and approval. The Government may find the QCP "unacceptable" whenever the Contractors procedures do not accomplish quality control objective(s). The Contractor shall revise the QCP within 10 working days from receipt of notice that QCP is found "unacceptable."

4.5.2 Quality Assurance Surveillance Plan (QASP)

The Government shall monitor the Contractors performance under this purchase order in accordance with the Government’s QASP.

5 Deliverables The contractor shall provide deliverables as described in purchase order. Deliverables shall be specified by the government.

Offices.

Performance Requirement Summary (PRS)

3.1 The contractor shall provide instruction for stream and riparian training course.

field instruction. identified

b) Addresses emerging capabilities/updates to curriculum AQL: 90% of the time no significant oversights are identified

c) Ensure compatibility with existing policies and guidance AQL: 90% of the time no significant oversights are identified

d) Deliverables are made in accordance with schedule AQL: 90% of the time no significant oversights are identified