Indefinite Delivery Contract for Geotechnical Core Drilling and Laboratory Testing for Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Caribbean Area

Amendment 0002 - Response deadline extended to January 22, 2024. Questions and Answers posted in attachments. Amendment 0001 - Notice updated to extend response date to January 16, 2023. CONTRACT INFORMATION - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers USACE, Jacksonville District (SAJ) is soliciting for Architect-Engineer (A-E) Services in accordance with Public Law 92-582 (Selection of A-E Statute or Brooks A-E Act) as implemented in FAR Subpart 36.6. As a result of this announcement, the USACE SAJ District intends to a Single Award Task Order Contract (SATOC) to perform A-E Services for geotechnical design, core drilling, laboratory, testing, and hydrogeological investigations and studies located in Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Caribbean area.The primary purpose of this contract is to provide services for Jacksonville District projects located in the geographic boundaries of Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Caribbean area on land, and on protected and unprotected water. Secondarily, the contract may be used by other U.S. Army Corps of Engineers districts to provide services within the geographic boundaries of Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Caribbean area. Only the firm considered most highly qualified will be awarded a contract. An Indefinite delivery contract will be negotiated and awarded from this solicitation with subsequent work issued by negotiating firm-fixed price task orders. The contract will be a period of one year from date award, with options to extend for four (4) additional years, not to exceed a total of five years. The contract minimum is $10,000. While the estimated dollar amount per year is $3,000,000.00, the actual obligation per year may be greater than or less than $3,000,000.00. The maximum amount of the contract is $15,000,000.00 for the life of the contract, including options. The task order minimum is $10,000 and the maximum is $15,000,000 in accordance with FAR 52.216-19, Order of Limitations. Other applicable clauses include FAR 52.216-18, Ordering, and FAR 52.216-22, Indefinite Quantity.The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this action 541330. The Small Business size standard is $25.5M. Compliance with Federal Acquisition Regulation clause 52.219-14 Limitations of Subcontracting will be required. 1. PROJECT INFORMATION: The work will primarily consist of geotechnical core drilling and geotechnical subsurface sampling via continuous and/or standard penetration testing (SPT) and other standard drilling techniques, undisturbed sampling, rock coring in hard and soft rock units, large diameter coring within rock units, sonic drilling, vibracoring, probing, field and in situ testing, geophysical site investigations, field and laboratory geotechnical testing of materials (including construction Q/A testing), chemical analytical laboratory testing, site preparation, and establishing coordinate locations.