IDIQ - Drill Rig Rental and Support Services

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - St. Paul District requires a Contractor to provide rental of drilling equipment with operating personnel and supplies to meet the Government's requirements for drilling throughout the District's area of responsibility, covering parts of North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa. The Government intends to award one (1) Firm-Fixed Price, Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity contract, resulting from this solicitation, to the contractor submitting the overall lowest price technically acceptable proposal. At the time of the contract award the Contractor shall have all the necessary licenses, registration, etc., for personnel and equipment, to begin work immediately in all the states in which the awarded contract applies. The Contractor shall furnish drilling equipment, support vehicle(s), floating plant, supplies, and operating personnel capable of efficiently performing the task orders issued by the Government.Equipment requirements will vary from job to job as requested in individual delivery orders and defined in each scope of work. A typical scope of work will define the project requirements and will request the rig that can access the most remote boring. The majority of projects involve continuous split-spoon sampling using hollow stem auger to advance and clean the hole between samples, and mud-rotary drilling for maintaining an open borehole below the water table. The drill crew shall be experienced and skilled in drilling with hollow stem augers, flight augers, setting and pulling casing, backfilling boreholes, installing and abandoning monitoring wells, observation wells, and dewatering wells, piezometers, inclinometers, and other instrumentation, mixing and drilling with bentonite drilling mud, drive sampling, standard penetration testing, taking thin wall and fixed-piston-type undisturbed samples, and core drilling in hard and soft rock. The drill crew shall be OSHA certified to perform subsurface exploration work in the appropriate level of personal protective gear. The Contractor shall ensure that the operating personnel have the proper drilling licenses and certifications in accordance with state and federal guidelines and regulations prior to the commencement of drilling operations. Offerors shall certify in writing that they either own the following equipment necessary to do the job, or it can be obtained (rented) on a priority basis when a task order is issued by the Government during the term of the contract and any options exercised. Failure to supply this information may make a firm ineligible for award. *Unbalanced Offers: The Government may reject any offer that is materially unbalanced between contract line item numbers or sub-items on the pricing schedule. PLEASE E-MAIL ALL QUESTIONS to John Riederer, Contract Specialist, [email protected] This is a 100% Small Business Set-Aside solicitation, under NAICS code 238910, with a size standard of $16,500,000. OFFEROR SHALL BE REGISTERED IN SAM (System for Award Management)https://www.sam.gov to include the FAR and DFARS Reps and Certs sections with the NAICS code applicable to the solicitation. It is preferred that offers aree-mailed to: John Riederer, Contract Specialist, [email protected] Offers must be RECEIVED no later than the time/date stated on SAM to be considered for award.