Water Quality Monitoring, Red Rock, Saylorville, Coralville

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers intends to solicit for services to be performed under a fixed-price indefinite delivery indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract. Services may include, but not be limited to, utilizing the contractor's equipment and personnel to operate and maintain a surface water quality monitoring program in the State of Iowa on the Des Moines River in the vicinity of Saylorville and Red Rock Reservoirs, which includes water and fish sample collection, field measurements, laboratory analysis, data input (Excel spreadsheet and Paradox database), reporting of the data and web page update/maintenance. In addition, the contractor will be responsible for analyzing water samples collected by Corps of Engineers' personnel from the Iowa River/Coralville Reservoir and for collecting and analyzing fish samples from these waters. Work and services under this contract shall be assigned by task orders duly issued by the Contracting Officer. Final products will be high quality technical reports on the results of the work delivered to the Rock Island District, Corps of Engineers.

The contract period will be for one (1) base period with the Government having the option to renew for four (4) additional option periods.

The Offerors must demonstrate expertise in monitoring the chemical, physical and biological components of waterways, including sample collection and preservation, field and laboratory analyses, data compilation (Excel spreadsheet and Paradox database), data interpretation and dissemination (including report preparation and developing and maintaining a web page).

Proposals will be evaluated using three major factors or categories as follows: Price, Technical Qualifications, and Past Performance. All evaluation factors other than cost or price, when combined, are significantly less important than cost or price. The Government intends to evaluate proposals and award a contract without discussions with offerors. Therefore, each initial offer should contain the offeror's best terms from a cost or price and technical standpoint. However, the Government reserves the right to conduct discussions if later determined by the Contracting Officer to be necessary. The total cost of all work orders per contract period shall not exceed $400,000. Minimum guaranteed annual amount shall be $6,000 for the initial period; $3,000 in any option period should options be exercised by the government.

It is anticipated that the solicitation documents for this procurement will be available on www.fbo.gov on or about July 17, 2012. Anyone wanting the solicitation document must download them from this website.