Integrated Training Area Management (ITAM) Erosion Control

Sources Sought Announcement
No. W912GB-19-S-XX1X
Integrated Training Area Management (ITAM) Erosion Control
PURPOSE OF THIS ANNOUNCEMENT:
This is a market survey for information and planning purposes. The US Government intends to solicit and acquire services as described within this announcement. The purpose of this announcement is to help determine the interest and capability of potential contractors to perform these services. The US Government intends to use information obtained in response to this announcement to make important acquisition planning decisions including but not limited to:
- Contract type
- Number of contracts
- Scope, magnitude, and geographical coverage of resulting contracts (Technical and Geography)
This is not a Request for Proposal (RFP) and is not to be construed as a commitment by the US Government, implied or otherwise, to issue a solicitation or award a contract.

INFORMATION ABOUT THE SERVICES TO BE PROCURED:
The intent of this solicitation is to acquire services support for reducing/preventing erosion, revegetation and rehabilitation of damaged training lands, controlling dust, and protecting natural resources at multiple US military sites throughout Europe over the next five years in support of the US Army's Integrated Training Area Management program. The Contractor shall furnish all labor, supervision, management, tools, materials, equipment, facilities, transportation, incidental engineering, and other items necessary to accomplish tasks including but not limited to:
Maintenance, Repair and Construction Tasks:
- Vegetation maintenance and removal
- Brush clearing/tree pruning for Threatened and Endangered Species (TES) maintenance and to meet training requirements
- Repair of sinkholes
- Accomplishing fauna habitat improvements or modifications where necessary for support of protected species
- Removal, prevention and control of invasive species
- Repairing infrastructure that provides access to buildings housing threatened or endangered species (such as providing roosting and nesting areas for bats)
- Maintaining and installing of bird and bat nesting boxes
- Maintaining historic orchards and collecting scions from historic fruit trees
- Protecting/preventing/repairing eroded (or potentially eroding) areas
- Repairing/constructing check dams, retention basins, and dams for sediment control
- Installing simple wooden water control structures
- Cleaning water courses (grading and vegetation removal)
- Repair/placement of pipelines
- Aerial and ground seeding
- Construction of gravel hardened trafficable crossings
- Dust control measures
- Construction or repair of maneuver trails, access and maintenance roads, and tank roads (including culvert installation if needed)
Preparation and Planning Tasks:
- Preparation of work plans for erosion control work
- Planning, developing, and coordinating natural resources related services
- Develop designs, plans, and studies for land rehabilitation and maintenance in technical English and German.
- GIS - mapping, database management and database development
UXO Tasks:
Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) survey, identification and removal
The most pertinent NAICS code associated with this work is primarily 541620 (Environmental Consulting Services) with secondary 238910 (Site Preparation Contractors) for the physical ground work.
PLACES OF PERFORMANCE / LIST OF SITES:
These services are needed at following the sites.
- Germany
USAG Bavaria, Hohenfels; 49° 12′ 0″N 11° 51′ 0″E; Hohenfels, Germany
USAG Bavaria, Grafenwoehr; 49° 43′ 0″ N, 11° 54′ 0″ E; Grafenwöhr, Germany
USAG Ansbach, Oberdachstetten LTA; 49° 26′ 16″ N, 10° 23′ 56″ E; Ansbach, Germany
USAG Stuttgart, Boeblingen LTA; 48° 41' 0"N, 9° 01' 0"E; Boeblingen, Germany
USAG Kaiserslautern, Breitenwald LTA; 49° 24′ 0″ N, 7° 33' 0″ E; Landstuhl, Germany
USAG Kaiserslautern, Baumholder LTA; 49° 36′ 0″ N, 7° 20′ 0″ E; Baumholder, Germany
USAG Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden LTA; 50° 4′ 0″ N, 8° 14′ 0″ E; Wiesbaden, Germany
- BENELUX
Chievres LTA; 50° 34′ 33″ N, 03° 49′ 52″ E; Chievres, Belgium
- Bulgaria
Novo Selo TA; 42° 43′ 13″ N, 26° 35′ 31″ E; Kotel, Bulgaria
- Estonia
Tapa TA; 59° 14′ 43.09″N 25° 57′ 16.09″E; Tapa, 45107 Lääne-Viru County, Estonia
- Hungary
Varpalota TA; 47° 11′ 55.97″ N, 18° 8′ 15.4″ E; Várpalota, Mandulás lakótelep 2, 8100 Hungary
Tata TA; 47.6526° N, 18.3238° E; 2890 Tata, Bacsó Béla út 66
- Italy
Cao Malnisio; 45° 58′ 0″ N, 12° 39′ 0″ E; Pordenone, Italy
Monte Bivera LTA; 46° 26′ 0″ N, 12° 38′ 0″ E
Cellina Meduna LTA; 46° 10′ 0″ N, 12° 43′ 0″ E; Maniago, Italy
- Latvia
Adazi TA; 57° 4′ 0″ N, 24° 20′ 0″ E; Ādai, Ādau novads, LV-2164, Latvia
- Lithuania
Parbrade TA; 54° 59′ 0″ N, 25° 47′ 0″ E; Vytauto g. 4A, Pabradė 18182, Lithuania
Rukla TA; 55° 2′ 10″ N, 24° 19′ 50″ E; Gaiiūnai, Lithuania
- Poland
Zagan TA; 51° 37′ 0″ N, 15° 19′ 0″ E; Unnamed Road, 68-100 Żagań, Poland
Drawsko Pomorskie TA; 53° 32′ 0″ N, 15° 48′ 0″ E; Sawicka Małgorzata. Sklep wielobranżowy, Tatrzańska 16, 78-500 Drawsko Pomorskie, Poland
Bemowo Piskie TA; 53° 44′ 0″ N, 22° 3′ 0″ E
- Romania
Cincu TA; 45° 55′ 0″ N, 24° 48′ 0″ E; Cincu, Romania
Smardan TA; 45° 29′ 0″ N, 27° 56′ 0″ E; Smardan, Romania
Mihail Kogalniceanu (MK) Airbase; 44° 21′ 44″ N, 28° 29′ 18″ E; Constanta, Romania
Babadag TA; 44° 53′ 53″ N, 28° 44′ 31″ E; Babadag, Romania
PLANNED SOLICITATION INFORMATION:
One or more pre-solicitation announcements will follow this market survey, and the solicitation announcement(s) will follow no sooner than 15 days later. Currently it is estimated that the formal solicitation could occur anytime before 28 February 2018. It is not known at this time how many solicitations will be issued for these services.
PLANNED CONTRACT INFORMATION:
The US Government forecasts the need for multiple projects for the services described above and at the various locations listed above. As a result, the Government intends to issue one or more Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contracts for these services. Any resulting contracts will likely be Firm Fixed Price (FFP) in nature. It is not known at this time how many contracts will be issued for these services.
REQUIREMENTS TO RESPOND TO THIS SOURCES SOUGHT:
Prospective Offerors are encouraged to respond to this announcement in order to express interest performing these services and describe their capabilities. At a minimum, responses should include:
(1) Company name to include physical and mailing address,
(2) Point of contact information including phone and email.
(3) CAGE Code and DUNS number and/or a copy of your entity record on the System for Award Management (SAM, www.sam.gov). NOTE: Companies MUST be SAM registered to be eligible for award of any contracts for these services. See special SAM notice below.
(4) A completed questionnaire (provided as a MS Excel file attachment to this announcement).
(5) Statement of Capability (SOC) stating your firm's skills, experience, and knowledge required to perform the specified type of work. This should include documentation of past experience and competence in performing similar services. The SOC should be no more than six (6) pages in length and should identify the following:
a. details to support the information in the completed questionnaire
b. the nature of the services performed (prior or currently) (including a brief description)
c. name of the client for which the services were performed,
d. dates the services were performed
e. specific locations at which the services were performed (city/country)
f. project magnitudes and/or contract values
NOTE: IF YOU DO NOT INTEND TO SUBMIT A PROPOSAL FOR THESE PROJECTS WHEN FORMALLY ADVERTISED FOR SOLICITATION, PLEASE DO NOT SUBMIT A RESPONSE TO THIS SOURCES SOUGHT ANNOUNCEMENT.
HOW TO SUBMIT RESPONSES:
Interested parties may submit responses via electronic upload on this FBO announcement page, or may also be submitted via email to Mr. Jason Malak, Contract Specialist, at jason.r.malak@usace.army.mil. If submitting over email, to ensure your submission is received and processed appropriately, please utilize the following verbiage for the subject of your email "SS RESPONSE: W912GB-19-S-XX1X FIRM NAME HERE"
DEADLINE FOR RESPONSES:
Responses will be actively accepted for approximately two weeks following the posting of this announcement and important acquisition planning decisions will be made shortly thereafter. Responses will no longer be taken via electronic upload on this FBO announcement page after the date posted. Late responses may be submitted for consideration via email, however interested parties are advised that acquisition planning decisions will be approved as soon as possible after the stated deadline, and as such the US Government reserves the right to disregard late responses.
SPECIAL NOTICE, SYSTEM FOR AWARD MANAGEMENT (SAM, www.sam.gov):
In order to eligible for the contract award(s) resulting from any solicitation(s) that follow this announcement, Offerors are advised to take immediate action to ensure their SAM entity registration is current and/or will be current before any proposal deadlines. Any solicitation(s) following this announcement will include the provision FAR 52.204-7 SAM or FAR 52.212-1 Instructions to Offerors--Commercial Items, and the resulting award(s) will include the clause FAR 52.204-13 SAM Maintenance or 52.212-4 Contract Terms and Conditions--Commercial Items. These provisions/clauses require all contractors to register and maintain an active SAM entity registration in order to be eligible for contract awards, as prescribed by the regulation at FAR Subpart 4.11. Please take notice that the SAM has a new entity registration requirement that firms submit an "original, signed notarized letter identifying the authorized Entity Administrator for the entity associated with the Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS) number before the registration will be activated." This applies to all new entity registrations and all entity registration renewals, effective 29 April 2018. Further information behind this new requirement is posted to the General Services Administration's (GSA) announcement page at https://www.gsa.gov/samupdate. Please also refer to Federal Service Desk's (FSD) instructions on how to comply with this new requirement. NOTE: the instructions are different for domestic (U.S. based) and international (not U.S. based) firms. Instructions for domestic entities (located in the U.S. or its outlying areas): https://fsd.gov/fsd-gov/answer.do?sysparm_kbid=d2e67885db0d5f00b3257d321f96194b&sysparm_search=kb0013183. Instructions for international entities (not located in the U.S. or its outlying areas): https://www.fsd.gov/fsd-gov/answer.do?sysparm_kbid=dbf8053adb119344d71272131f961946&sysparm_search=KB0013221

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