SOURCES SOUGHT for Inland Navigation Planning for U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, Huntington District

1. Action Code: X

2. Date: 05/30/2025

3. Year: 2025

4. Contracting Office Zip Code: 25701-2070

5. Product or Service Code: C211

6. Contracting Office Address:

US Army Corps of Engineers, Huntington District

502 8th Street

Huntington, WV 25701-2070

7. Subject: D – SOURCES SOUGHT for Inland Navigation Planning for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Huntington District

8. Proposed Solicitation Number: W9123725XXXX

9. Closing Response Date: 06/30/2025

10. Contract Points of Contact:

Brittani L. Stowers, Contract Specialist, brittani.l.stowers@usace.army.mil; (304) 399-5762

Danielle L. Roar, Procuring Contracting Officer, Danielle.L.Roar@usace.army.mil; (304) 399-5348

11. Contract Award Number: N/A

12. Contract Award Dollar Amount: N/A

13. Contract Line-Item Number: N/A

14. Contract Award Date: N/A

15. Contractor: N/A

16. This is a SOURCES SOUGHT notice to determine the capabilities of firms. This notice does not constitute a solicitation announcement, nor does it restrict the Government to an ultimate acquisition approach. No solicitation or technical scope of services is available currently.  The Government will use the responses to this SOURCES SOUGHT notice to make acquisition decisions.  Small businesses are strongly encouraged to review this SOURCES SOUGHT and submit according to the directions in this notice.

NO SOLICITATION, SPECIFICATIONS, OR DRAWINGS are available for this notice. Responses to this Sources Sought notice will be used by the Government to make appropriate acquisition decisions.

The purpose of this notice is to gain knowledge of potentially qualified large and small business sources to include small businesses in the following categories: Small Business, Small Disadvantaged Business, Certified HUBZone, Woman-Owned, and Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned.

Work would occur as assigned to Districts within the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Great Lakes and Ohio River Division, which includes the Buffalo, Chicago, Detroit, Huntington, Louisville, Nashville, and Pittsburgh Districts, though will primarily occur through the Huntington District.  However, work may occur outside the Great Lakes and Ohio River Division as the Inland Navigation Center is a National Center and has projects across the Nation.

Contractor shall demonstrate through professional registration, company, and personnel resumes, executed examples, and supporting customer feedback documentation its ability to provide Planning Services in support of the following activities:

• A working knowledge of the Corps six-step planning method as described in Corps of Engineer Regulation (ER 1105- 2-100) and its application to such agency missions as flood risk management, ecosystem restoration, navigation, hydropower, water supply and watershed planning.
• Contractor shall be capable of applying certified Corps federal statutes, regulations and planning models as may be needed to address water resources problems with emphasis on the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), including but not limited to associated federal laws and implementing regulations such as the Endangered Species Act, Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, National Historic Preservation Act, and Engineering Regulation 200-2-2.
• Contractor shall be capable of applying certified Corps models as may be needed to address Planning Services and capability must be exhibited in these areas:

1. 1. Economic analysis
   2. Plan alternatives identification, formulation, analysis and cost evaluation
   3. Physical and Biological baseline condition (including Cost-Effectiveness and Incremental Cost Analysis used for Habitat Units and mitigation)
   4. National and regional demographic and economic forecasts
   5. Environmental Impact Assessments
   6. Biological Assessments
   7. Master planning
   8. Public involvement programs
   9. Ecosystem restoration techniques/measures
   10. Development of reconnaissance level/preliminary concept plans
   11. Historic property and cultural resource management
   12. Water resources planning, investigations and analysis
   13. Environmental baseline studies and impact assessment
   14. Landscape architecture and community planning
   15. Watershed Planning
   16. Community planning
   17. Site planning
   18. Terrestrial and aquatic environmental design
   19. Architectural renderings
   20. Landscape architectural planning and design
   21. Landscape design and plant materials plans
   22. Visual resource analysis
   23. Transportation planning, modeling and economic analysis, with particular attention to deep/shallow draft inland navigation and port studies and peer reviews of these studies; and database management
   24. Social impact analysis
   25. Transportation system modeling and benefit estimation
   26. Bulk, neo bulk and container flows and projections
   27. Shipper and carrier surveys and interviews
   28. Freight transportation rate and cost analyses
   29. Navigation externality analysis
   30. Intermodal operations planning and Industrial/port site identification and investigation
   31. Inland shallow draft and deep draft fleet inventories and forecasts
   32. Risk and uncertainty analyses
   33. Discrete event simulation analyses of freight transportation features
   34. Database management and interface design, implementation and maintenance
   35. Technical Writing Proficiency
   36. Shallow and deep draft inland navigation planning
   37. Financial analysis and planning
   38. Mathematical programming (linear programming, genetic algorithm, GAMS, C-plex, and other solver and optimization techniques)
   39. Recreation demand modeling and forecasting
   40. Marketability and feasibility analyses
   41. Regional economic forecasting procedures
   42. Geospatial data interpretation and management
   43. Post flooding event damage compilations
   44. Nature-Based Solutions
   45. Risk and uncertainty analyses

The submission is limited to 15 pages (30 front and back), to include:

1. Contractor’s name, address, point of contact, phone number, and e-mail address.

       2. Contractor's interest in proposing on a solicitation, if issued.

       3. Contractor's capability to perform a contract of this complexity and examples of comparable work performed within the past 5             years based on the above criteria. 

      4. Describe the professional qualifications of your firm. Provide the number and qualifications of registered professional                          personnel in the key disciplines noted above.

       5. Describe your firms' capacity to perform up to approximately $4,000,000.00 in work of the required type within a one-year                   period and accomplish the anticipated work in an efficient and quality manner. This work will likely be for multiple task orders               within a given year across a broad geographic area.

      6. Verification of any Small Business Administration (SBA) certification(s), if applicable.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: Effective September 26, 2018, and in accordance with FAR Clause 52.204-7, “an Offeror is required to be registered in SAM when submitting an offer or quotation, and shall continue to be registered until time of award, during performance, and through final payment of any contract, basic agreement, basic ordering agreement, or blanket purchasing agreement resulting from this solicitation.”  This does not apply to being able to submit a response for this sources sought but would apply to a synopsis that is posted for similar requirements.

All interested contractors should provide a response by close of business, June 30, 2025.  Submit your response to Brittani L. Stowers via email at Brittani.L.Stowers@usace.army.mil and Danielle L. Roar via email at Danielle.L.Roar@usace.army.mil. Electronic submission is required.

17. Place of Contract Performance: N/A

18. Set Aside Status: Unknown at this time.