Environmental Services St. Louis District, Corps of Engineers (USACE)

This is the solicitation for an Indefinite Delivery / Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) Multiple Award Task Order Contract (MATOC) for Environmental Consulting Services. This requirement is being set-aside 100% for Small Business. Award will be made to the best overall proposal that is determined to be the most beneficial to the Government. This is a competitive acquisition for one (1) Firm-Fixed Price (FFP) Indefinite Delivery/ Indefinite Quality (ID/IQ) Multiple Award Task Order Contract (MATOC), five (5) year service contract (five ordering periods with a six month extension option) to provide environmental consulting services for the USACE-St. Louis District. This acquisition will utilize FAR subpart 12.6 in conjunction with FAR part 15, Contracting by Negotiation, Tradeoff source selection procedures in accordance with FAR 15.3. This is a competitive best value source selection in which competing offerors technical proposal and past performance history will be evaluated on a basis significantly more important than cost or price considerations. The Governments target is to award up to three (3) contracts for this MATOC; however, if the Contracting Officer determines during the source selection process that more than that number of contracts should be awarded, the Contracting Officer has the discretion of adjusting that number or awarding none at all.The Government intends to award this requirement without discussions. The maximum value for all orders issued against the contract is $49 million. The Contractor shall provide all personnel, equipment, supplies, facilities, transportation, tools, materials, supervision, and other items and non-personal services necessary to perform environmental consulting services as defined in this PWS except for those items specified as government furnished property and services. The contractor shall perform to the standards in this contract. The Contractor, under each task order (TO), shall perform all work required to accomplish the intent of such TO. The TO shall detail the appropriate methods and requirements (Federal, State and USACE) to be used to complete the given tasks. The work shall consist of a variety of environmental tasks to include, but not limited: Environmental consultation and assessments; Industrial hygiene (IH) surveys and associated tasks; HTRW related assessments, program tasks, remediation and restoration; Contaminated related water quality assessments; Other environmental/HTRW tasks To be eligible for award, offerors must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) at www.sam.gov under North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code 541620 (size standard $16.5M) for Environmental Consulting Services. This notice does not constitute a commitment on the part of the Government to award a contract, nor to pay for any costs incurred as a result in replying to this notice. This notice should not be construed as a commitment by the Government for any purpose. Questions and submission of proposals/offerors: All questions regarding this solicitation must be presented in writing via email to the points of contact listed in this solicitation no later than 1200 hours CST on March 15, 2021. The decision whether to respond to questions and requests for clarification made after March 15, 2021 will be at the sole discretion of the Contracting Officer. All questions and subsequent answers will be posted to beta.SAM.gov as an Amendment to the solicitation. Contractors are responsible for monitoring beta.sam.gov for updates. If no questions are submitted, the Government will assume that the offeror fully understands all requirements of the solicitation. Additional instructions on proposal submission and evaluation of offerors is included in ADDENDUM TO FAR 52.212-1, INSTRUCTIONS TO OFFERORS (page 59-66) and ADDENDUM TO 52.212-2, Evaluation-Commercial Items (page 67-72) March 15 - Amendment 0001 - Incorporate answers to questions. March 16 - Amendment 0002 - Incorporate updated answer to question 13