Environmental and Biological Services

The contractor shall furnish all labor, personnel, facilities, instrumentation, equipment, tools, materials, and supplies required to perform chemical analytical services for environmental sample analysis and prepare any reports required by individual delivery orders issued by the Contracting Officer in accordance with Section C- Scope of Work: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Philadelphia District, is establishing a continuing program of intermittent biological, environmental and chemical investigations at various locations on Federally owned projects and in areas (Federally and privately owned) that are under study for proposed Federal projects or Federally-licensed projects. The work contained herein pertains to the full spectrum of marine and navigable waterways and associated tributary and wetland functions assigned to the Environmental Resources Branch including Project-oriented engineering and science, and environmental analysis supporting major District elements involved in advanced and continuing planning, operations and maintenance, regulatory functions, and resource and floodplain management. Services required may include documentary research, field investigations, documentation, laboratory and data analysis, chemical sampling, assessment of project impacts, development of mitigation plans, agency coordination, cultural investigations, benthic sampling, and all phases of report production. Services may be required on short notice, necessitating close contact between the Contractor and personnel in the District Office. Services may be required anywhere within the geographical area of responsibility of the Philadelphia District Corps of Engineers. The Philadelphia District's five-state area encompasses nearly 13,000 square miles of the Delaware River Basin, including most of Delaware, eastern Pennsylvania, western and southern New Jersey, a portion of northeastern Maryland at the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, and several counties in the western Catskills area of New York at the headwaters of the Delaware River. The geographical extent of the Philadelphia District is shown in Figure 1. In some cases, the contractor may also be asked to perform tasks outlined in the SOW for other Corps Districts within the North Atlantic Division. These Districts include New York, New England, Norfolk and Baltimore.

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General Requirements, Quality Control, Testing and Inspecting Services.