AE Services for Marine Design Center, Dredge Fleet

Pre-Solicitation Announcement:

This is not a request for proposals.

The Philadelphia District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) intends to post the solicitation on or around the 23nd of December 2020 to award one, five-year Indefinite Delivery Contract to support the Marine Design Center (MDC) which is the Army Corps of Engineers’ National Center of Expertise for Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering. The principle geographic areas of responsibility for this project is anywhere within the worldwide geographic footprint of the Marine Design Center work for other Government Agencies and work for overseas projects could be a part of this contract.

USACE Philadelphia intention is to award one, five-year indefinite delivery contract, having a total capacity of $15,000,000.00 with the average task order value of work being estimated to be $100,000.00 with an estimated maximum value of $1,000,000.00. The guaranteed minimum for the contract term will be $10,000.00 and will be satisfied by the simultaneous award of a task order with the base contract.

The NAICS code for this procurement is 541330 with a size standard of $41.5M and will be a 100% Small Business Set-Aside. 

PROJECT INFORMATION: 

Following award of the IDIQ Contract, the actual scope of work to be performed will be defined in detail under each individual Task Order. Task Orders will be negotiated and issued as firm fixed price orders under the terms and conditions of this IDIQ Contract. The Government is under no obligation to issue any particular number or type of orders. Labor rates for each discipline, overhead rates and escalation factors for each calendar year of the contract will be negotiated in the base contract with negotiated escalation factors applied to the years of the contract.  When determining whether work should be placed under this contract as opposed to other available sources, the Government will consider the following criteria in descending order of importance:

A. Relevant specialized experience noted in evaluation factor A of the selection criteria below

B. Capacity to accomplish the task order in the required time

The principle geographic areas of responsibility for this contract is anywhere within the worldwide geographic footprint of the Marine Design Center work for other Government Agencies and work for overseas projects could be a part of this contract.

ANTICIPATED SCOPE

Task orders will include design and engineering support in the following areas including but not be limited to:

•           Feasibility studies

•           Naval Architecture

•           Marine Engineering

•           Marine Electrical Engineering

•           Hybrid Power System Engineering

•           Dredging Engineering,

•           Dredge Hopper Pump Out Discharge Systems

•           Ballast Water Treatment, and Vessel VGP design & engineering

•           Regulatory (ABS, USCG, API) compliance

•           Vessel overhauls and life extension projects

•           Facilities Engineering Maintenance System (FEMS) Maintenance processes, and items

•           Vessel energy efficiency optimization

•           Propulsion type evaluation

•           Propulsion sizing and design

•           CRPP system design incorporating draft and velocity sensing.

•           Structural modeling (FEA), both steel and aluminum

•           Computer-aided design and drafting (CADD)

•           Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analyses

•           Tank testing

•           Sea keeping and motion analyses

•           Load Management Program Development and Support (GLM)

•           Dynamic Positioning System Analyses

•           Hopper Pump-Out Mooring System Analyses

•           Acoustic and vibration engineering

•           Preliminary design,

•           Contract level design

•           Detailed (final) design

•           Detailed weight estimating

•           Cost Estimates

•           Vessel laser scans

•           Vessel Photogrammetry

•           Dredge hopper volume calibration to API tank capacity calibration standards.

•           Sea Trials support, including propulsion shaft line instrumentation and HP measurement

And

•           Related design studies, analysis and reports.

•           Vessel Inclining Tests

•           Vessel inspections and condition evaluations

•           Shipyard Engineering phase support

•           Shipyard construction inspections

Additional Information:

This is not a request for proposals.

(A) All contractors are advised that registration in the System Award Management System (SAM) at www.sam.gov is required prior to submission of your SF330s to the solicitation.  Failure to be registered in SAM may render your firm ineligible for award.  All firms are encouraged to register as soon as possible.  Information regarding this registration may be obtained by accessing the SAM website at www.sam.gov. Additionally, all Services Disabled/Veterans Owned Business or Veterans Owned Small Business must be registered with the Department of Veterans Affairs Center of Veterans Enterprise Vet Biz Registry located at https://vip.vetbiz.va.gov/ 

(B) The Solicitation is expected to be posted on or around the 23nd of December 2020.

(C) The point of contact for this Pre-Solicitation announcement is Richard Rivera who can be reached at Richard.rivera2@usace.army.mil and the alternate is Jamaal Edwards at Jamaal.a.edwards@usace.army.mil

(D) The Contracting Officer reserves the right to terminate negotiations with firms that do not respond to government requests for proposals, information, documentation, etc., in accordance with established schedules. 

This is not a request for proposals.