Architect-Engineer Indefinite Delivery Contract for Inland Navigation and Water Resources Planning Services Assigned to the Great Lakes and Ohio River Division

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. Geographical boundaries for the Great Lakes and Ohio River Division include Buffalo, Chicago, Detroit, Huntington, Louisville, Nashville, and Pittsburgh Districts. One indefinite delivery contract will be negotiated and awarded with a one year base period and four, one year option periods. Work will be issued by negotiated firm-fixed price task orders. 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, and maintenance; watershed planning; shallow and deep draft inland navigation planning; financial analysis and planning; mathematical programming; inventory of recreational resources/facilities; recreation demand modeling and forecasting; marketability and feasibility analyses; regional economic forecasting procedures; ecosystem restoration techniques/measures; development of feasibility level/preliminary concept plans; community planning; site planning; terrestrial and aquatic environmental design; architectural renderings; landscape architectural planning and design; landscape design and plant materials plans; visual resource analysis; geospatial data interpretation and management; and post flooding event damage compilations . Work under this proposed contract may require the performance or approval of a registered or licensed architect or engineer. The work and services may also include general development of feasibility reports. All work shall be accomplished in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act, National Historic Preservation Act and the Endangered Species Act.

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