Programs & Project Management Professional Services for Water Resources Projects in Projects and Restoration Branch, USACE New Orleans

The solicitation is hereby amended as detailed in the amendment document, W912P819R00110003. All other terms and conditions remained unchanged..

The solicitation is hereby amended as detailed in the amendment document, W912P819R00110002. All other terms and conditions remained unchanged.

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The solicitation is hereby amended as detailed in the amendment document, W912P819R00110001. All other terms and conditions remained unchanged.

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This pre-solicitation notice for W912P819R0011, Programs & Project Management Professional Services for Water Resources Projects in Projects and Restoration
Branch, USACE New Orleans, is hereby changed to update the solicitation issue date to on or about 14 December 2018.

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The work to be performed under this contract consists of conducting project management support, studies and analyses, and preparing reports, site layouts, concept renderings and supporting documents related to the Corps of Engineers Civil and "Support for Others" programs, within the New Orleans District (MVN) boundaries, but work may include the Mississippi Valley Division and USACE Headquarters. The programs include but are not limited to: Mississippi River and Tributaries (MR & T), Planning Assistance to States (PAS), Continuing Authorities Program (CAP), Flood Plain Management Services (FPMS), Silver Jackets (SJ), International and Interagency Support (IIS), Environmental Infrastructure (EI), Coastal Wetlands Planning Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA), and other civil works projects. These efforts may include, but are not limited to, the following:

a) Program and Project Management Support within standards of the Project Management Institute.
b) Budgeting and scheduling using the Corps' Financial Management System and Primavera system as required for implementation of the Civil Work Project as cited above.
c) Prepare, edit, and manage production of project documents; provide requested documentation for upward reporting of project features.
d) Programmatic and/or planning support for the completion of PAS, CAP, FPMS, SJ, IIS, EI, and CWPRRA projects and the review of project partnership agreements.
e) Formulating flood risk management, navigation, and ecosystem restoration plans supported by quantitative benefits analysis.
f) Conducting studies, inventory and forecast of problems and opportunities, formulation of measures and alternative plans, evaluation and comparison of alternatives, calculation and comparison of monetized and non-monetized benefits, making recommendations, concept renderings, and site layouts.
g) Preparing documents such as federal interest determination, reconnaissance, feasibility, post-authorization and other reports, including cultural resources studies and reports, and hazardous, toxic, and radiological waste (HTRW) investigations, National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and/or other environmental quality documents.
h) Preparing documents relating to compliance with applicable Federal, state, and local environmental laws and regulations such as the Federal Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act and Endangered Species Act, including Biological Assessments.
i) Documenting water and waste water issues as necessary to develop master plan level documents for environmental infrastructure, PAS, SJ, CAP, and other programs as required.
j) Developing ecosystem habitat surveys, endangered or threatened species surveys, wetlands assessments using standard State of Louisiana methods in cooperation with other Federal and State agencies, modeling, and mitigation and monitoring plans.
k) Conducting economic analyses using Corps guidance and procedures.
l) Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to store, access, and display data and mapping information.
m) Providing all documentation in MS Word format as both hard copies and electronic format computer discs. At Government option, provide Adobe .PDF format final reports.

The intent is to award a firm-fixe price service, Indefinite Quantity-Indefinite Delivery (IDIQ) contract. The period of performance will be one base year with four option years and not to exceed a total of five years and total contract capacity of $11.0M. Required services will be implemented through individual task orders on an as-needed basis. Task orders with separate scopes of work will be issued against this contract. The solicitation will issue on or about 5 December 2018, with proposals due on or about 4 January 2019. This procurement is 100% set aside for Small Business under NAICS Code 541330, Engineering Services, with a size standard of $15,000,000.00. The solicitation documents for this procurement will be posted on FedBizOps (www.fbo.gov). You will need the adobe acrobat reader for .pdf files (www.adobe.com) in order to open most files posted by the New Orleans District. You are encouraged, for marketing purposes, to register as an Interested Vendor in FedBizOps (www.fbo.gov). This can be done by clicking on the solicitation title and clicking on the button that says Register as an Interested Vendor and entering your business information. Offerors are also encouraged to post notices of prospective subcontracting opportunities on the Small Business Administrations Subnet, at http://web.sba.gov/subnet. Offerors must be registered with the System for Award Management (SAM), in order to receive a Government contract award. To register, the SAM Internet address is: http://www.sam.gov. The Contract Specialists for this solicitation are Bradley Cox at 504-862-1083 (email Bradley.A.Cox2@usace.army.mil) and/or Cori Caimi at 504-862-1352 (e-mail Cori.A.Caimi@usace.army.mil).

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