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1. CONTRACT INFORMATION: This contract is being procured in accordance with the Brooks Architect-Engineer (A-E) Act as implemented in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Subpart 36.6. Firm will be selected for negotiations based on demonstrated competence and qualifications for the required work. This announcement is for the procurement of an Architect-Engineer Indefinite Delivery Contract for Inland Navigation and Water Resources Planning Services assigned to Districts within the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers the Great Lakes and Ohio River Division (LRD). Geographical boundaries for LRD include Buffalo, Chicago, Detroit, Huntington, Louisville, Nashville, and Pittsburgh Districts. One indefinite delivery contract will be negotiated and awarded with a one (1) year base period and four (4) one-year option periods. The amount of the contract, including the base and all options, will not exceed $20,000,000.00. Work will be issued by negotiated firm-fixed price task orders. This announcement is restricted to small businesses only. The North American Industrial Classification System code (NAICS) is 541330, which has a standard size of $16,500,000.00 in average annual receipts. Limitations on subcontracting are referenced in FAR Clause 52.219-14(c)(1), at least 50 percent of the cost of contract performance incurred for personnel shall be expended for employees of the concern. A corporate Quality Control Plan (QCP) will be required at the time of award. Each task order will require a task specific Quality Control Plan (QCP) and if site work is required, a Site Specific Safety and Health Plan in accordance with the USACE Engineering Manual (EM) 385-1-1. To be eligible for contract award, firms must be registered in the System Award Management (SAM) at the time of submission (FAR 4.1102). Register via the SAM website at https://www.sam.gov/portal/public/SAM. 2. PROJECT INFORMATION: The A-E services to be provided under this contract will include but not be limited to: water resources planning; transportation system modeling and benefit estimation; economic impact analyses; bulk, neobulk, and container flows and projections; social impact analyses; shipper and carrier surveys and interviews; historic properties and cultural resources; freight transportation rate and cost analyses; physical and biological baseline condition; national and regional demographic and economic forecasts; environmental impact assessments; navigation externality analyses; biological assessments; intermodal operations planning and industrial/port site identification and investigation; plan alternatives identification, formulation, analysis and cost evaluation; inland shallow draft and deep draft fleet inventories and forecasts; risk and uncertainty analyses; resource and market surveys and analyses; master planning; discrete event simulation analyses of freight transportation features; public involvement programs; database management and interface design, implementation, an…

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