URS | CH2M Oak Ridge LLC
PREQUALIFICATION CRITERIA
Prequalification No. MR-12-002269
Title: Professional Site Design Team and Museum Professional for
ETTP Site Interpretation and K-25 Historic Preservation
Procurement Representative: Bert Smalley
DATE REVISED: January 23, 2013 (See Set-Aside Information on Page 6)
DUE DATE: February 6, 2013
URS | CH2M Oak Ridge LLC (UCOR) intends to issue a Request for Proposal (RFP) for award of a Subcontract to provide services/goods generally described below to prequalified offerors only.
Accordingly, to be deemed prequalified to receive an RFP, a potential offeror must provide such documentation necessary to demonstrate its ability to meet each element of the Prequalification Criteria set forth below. Please organize submitted information in such a manner that reviewers can easily locate responses to questions and requirements. Information submitted that does not directly address the Prequalification Criteria below will not be considered. Failure to clearly state how the criteria are met or failure to respond by the stipulated time may result in a potential offeror not receiving an RFP.
To support the prequalification evaluation process, provide the following prime potential offeror information:
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Prequal Template 8-1-2011
URS | CH2M Oak Ridge LLC
PREQUALIFICATION CRITERIA
Prequalification No. MR-12-002269
Title: Professional Site Design Team and Museum Professional for
ETTP Site Interpretation and K-25 Historic Preservation
Procurement Representative: Bert Smalley
DATE REVISED: January 23, 2013 (See Set-Aside Information on Page 6)
DUE DATE: February 6, 2013
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It is expected that potential offerors will be prequalified based primarily upon the experience and capabilities of the prime prequalifying company as described in its prequalification submission. The prime company may elect to satisfy some Prequalification Criteria that cannot be met directly by the prime through the prequalification of teaming partner(s) and/or sub-tier subcontractor(s). Any change in the composition of the company, team, or other legal entity (including business unit changes) that prequalifies will cause that company’s, team’s, or other legal entity’s prequalification to be void. Prospective offerors that encounter a change in the composition of its company, team, or legal entity must resubmit a new prequalification submission for evaluation and approval before their proposal will be accepted.
Experience of the potential prime offeror (potential prime subcontractor), sub-tier subcontractors, or other teaming partners shall be limited to its corporate experience. Experience of parent companies, subsidiaries, or other corporate affiliates will not be considered unless these corporate entities are also a part of the potential offerors’ team and meet all applicable requirements of these Prequalification Criteria. UCOR will only consider employees currently on the staff of the potential offeror, or potential employees from whom written commitment to participate in any resultant agreement with the potential offeror has been documented and submitted with responses to Prequalification Criteria.
Note: UCOR reserves the right to disqualify a firm and/or its teaming partners from proposing on work if UCOR has actual knowledge of poor safety, quality, financial, and/or schedule performance on existing and/or past work for UCOR or others. This right to disqualify applies even if the firm and/or their teaming partners have otherwise met all other UCOR Prequalification Criteria.
The Subcontract contemplated may include, but not necessarily be limited to, the following work:
Summary Scope of Work:
UCOR (the CONTRACTOR) was selected by the U. S. Department of Energy Oak Ridge Environmental Management (DOE-OREM) to manage the site interpretation and K-25 Historic Preservation activities at the East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP) in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. As part of this work scope, UCOR is responsible for the execution of site selection, design (conceptual, preliminary, and final), and build of various elements that fulfill stipulations laid out in a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between multiple parties.
I. According to the MOA, DOE-OREM must obtain the services of a Professional Site Design Team, with experience interpreting historic sites, to prepare a design solution for the K-25 Preservation Footprint. The Professional Site Design will incorporate input from the MOA’s consulting parties into the overall conceptual design for the following elements:
a. Recommend an approach for delineating the unique "U" shape of the K-25 gaseous diffusion process building, and where practicable, using materials salvaged from ETTP that conveys the size, height and magnitude of the former building
b. Site and Design a facility ("Equipment Building") for the display of authentic, decontaminated and declassified process gas equipment.
1. The Equipment Building shall be constructed in vicinity of the southern end of the K-25 "U" in reasonable proximity to the firehouse located at ETTP. The Equipment Building shall follow the Design Documents and be a representation of a portion of the K-25 building and shall be built to achieve the height of the K-25 Building, with three stories and a basement, and recreate a representation (representative cross section) of the gaseous diffusion technology contained within the K-25 Building, making the maximum use of available authentic equipment. The Professional Site Design Team will assist DOE-OREM and UCOR with the Equipment Building’s site location, in consultation with the National Park Service (NPS), DOE Federal Preservation Officer (DOE-FPO) and Tennessee State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO). The objective is to display and configure authentic equipment in a manner that is most representative of operational conditions. The Equipment Building will display authentic equipment consisting of two (2) Size 2 cells across a truck aisle (withdrawal alley), valves, and representative operating floor equipment, fixtures and accessories consistent with Concept B of the Department of Interior Section 213 Report. The Equipment Building will also include space to display and interpret Cold War-era equipment consisting of a 0, 00, and 000 converter and axial compressors with motors, and one 40-ft centrifuge casing, which, to the furthest extent possible, will be declassified and decontaminated to enable display. The Equipment Building will be enclosed and will be of a size sufficient to provide space for ingress, egress, miscellaneous storage, viewing and interpretation of the equipment and its informational materials, and will take into consideration the potential for expansion and the relationship of the structure to the Fire Station, where additional authentic artifacts, oral histories, and other displays will be featured. The Equipment Build must be open to the public no later August 7, 2016.
c. Site and Design a viewing tower ("Viewing Tower") for site observation of the K-25 building footprint
1. The Viewing Tower shall follow the Design Documents and be located in reasonably close proximity to the Equipment Building and History Center. The Professional Site Design Team will recommend the best location and orientation of the tower, and recommend a height adequate to provide a view of the size, scale, and proportions of the K-25 Building. The Viewing Tower must be open to the public no later than August 7, 2016.
d. Design and recommend placement of the low-profile NPS standard-type Wayside Exhibits
1. The 12 low-profile NPS standard-type Wayside Exhibits will be located within both the "K-25 Preservation Footprint" and elsewhere. The Wayside Exhibits will be used in coordination with a self-guided tour brochure a Museum Professional will develop. The Wayside exhibits will be consistent with NPS' Wayside Exhibit Guide, dated October 2009. The Professional Site Design Team will work with the Museum Professional and DOE-FPO on the written and pictorial content of the exhibits and will coordinate the installation of the Wayside Exhibits with the implementation of the design for the dedicated K-25 Preservation Footprint. The installation of all the Wayside Exhibits must be completed no later than one (1) year after the opening of the History Center. As part of the design process for the wayside exhibits, the Professional Site Design Team shall decide whether the bricks from the S-50 Boiler House Chimneys may also be used to facilitate historic interpretation in displays, markers, or for other applications, where appropriate.
e. Work with the City of Oak Ridge (COR) on preliminary design for the K-25 History Center
1. The History Center will provide space to exhibit authentic equipment, artifacts, and other media to facilitate access to oral histories, film and video, and access to the K-25 Virtual Museum.
f. Prepare appropriate Design Documents that reflect these designs and conceptual recommendations.
g. Timeline/Milestones:
1. No later than nine (9) months after subcontract award, the Professional Site Design Team will present their conceptual options for the K-25 Footprint, Equipment Building, Viewing Tower, Wayside Exhibits, K-25 History Center, and to DOE-OREM, UCOR, and the Consulting Parties for review, comment, comment resolution, and incorporation. After resolving comments and incorporation, the Professional Site Design will resubmit the final concept for approval from all parties.
2. The Professional Site Design Team will submit preliminary design documents for a design review process no later than six (6) months after conceptual design approval.
3. The Professional Site Design Team will submit final design documents for a design review process no later than three (3) months after preliminary design approval.
4. Upon approval of the final design, the Professional Site Design Team will produce construction drawings with specifications no later than two (2) months after approval of final design.
5. No later than one (1) year after the K-25 History Center’s opening, the Wayside Exhibits are installed according to the Wayside Exhibit plan.
II. According to the MOA, DOE-OREM must also obtain the services of a Museum Professional. The Museum Professional must meet the Secretary of the Interior's Historic Preservation Professional Standards, as well as the professional qualification standards contained in the National Standards and Best Practices for US Museums, published by the American Alliance of Museums (formerly known as the American Association of Museums). The Museum Professional shall have specific professional qualifications and experience in interpretation of technological history and artifacts. The Museum Professional will be responsible for the following.
a. The Museum Professional, in consultation with the NPS, DOE-FPO, SHPO, and the Oak Ridge Historic Preservation Alliance (ORHPA), will:
1. Design the exhibits and displays for the Equipment Building
2. Design the exhibits and displays for the K-25 History Center
3. Develop the content of the 12 NPS standard-type Wayside Exhibits
4. Develop the historic information content of the self-guided tour brochure
b. The Museum Professional, in conjunction with a photographer, subject matter experts with information about the history and use of particular artifacts, DOE-FPO, an ORHPA representative, and a DOE-OREM representative, will conduct an inventory and review of all equipment identified for preservation in prior MOAs for the ETTP site, including the equipment and materials collected to date and those not yet collected. DOE-OREM, with input from the Museum Professional, shall determine the most appropriate and feasible equipment and artifacts to display in the Equipment Building and in the K-25 History Center and possibly elsewhere. DOE-OREM, with assistance from the Museum Professional, shall provide the completed inventory listing, which will identify the items to be retained, to SHPO, ACHP, and COR. Equipment and materials selected for retention by DOE-OREM and the Museum Professional will be set aside and prepared for display, if needed, according to a schedule that will enable their timely relocation to either the Equipment Building or History Center once the facility is available to receive the items. DOE-OREM, with input from the Museum Professional, may offer equipment and artifacts not selected for retention and/or display to third parties, both Federal and non-Federal, such as the NPS, the Smithsonian, or others for use in their museum collections, consistent with 41 CFR §109 et seq. The American Museum of Science and Energy (AMSE), located in Oak Ridge, TN, and the COR are considered third parties for purposes of the excess equipment and artifacts.
c. Timeline/Milestones:
1. No later than two (2) months after subcontract award, the Museum Professional will, with specified parties, assist in an initial inventory and review of all equipment currently collected to date.
2. No later than one (1) month after the initial inventory and review is complete, the Museum Professional will submit an initial inventory listing to DOE-OREM detailing what equipment and artifacts will be retained. This initial inventory will also anticipate which equipment and artifacts, from what remains to be collected, will likely be retained.
3. No later than one (1) month after the equipment and artifacts that remain to be collected are collected, the Museum Professional will submit a final inventory detailing which equipment and artifacts are and are not retained.
4. No later than nine (9) months after subcontract award, the Museum Professional will present their conceptual options for the Equipment Building displays, the K-25 History Center, Wayside Exhibits, and self-guided tour brochure to DOE-OREM, UCOR, and the Consulting Parties for review, comment, comment resolution, and incorporation. After resolving and incorporating comments, the Museum Professional will resubmit the final concept for approval from all parties.
5. The Museum Professional will submit interpretative display preliminary design for a design review process no later than six (6) months after conceptual design approval.
6. The Museum Professional will submit interpretative display final design documents for a design review process no later than three (3) months after preliminary design approval.
7. No later than one (1) year after the K-25 History Center’s opening, the Museum Professional publishes the self-guide tour brochure.
8. No later than one (1) year after the K-25 History Center’s opening, the Wayside Exhibits are installed according to the Professional Design Team’s plan.
III. Potential Funding Limitations: DOE-OREM's and UCOR’s responsibilities under the MOA are subject to the availability of appropriated funds, and the stipulations of the MOA are subject to the provisions of the Anti-Deficiency Act. DOE-OREM will make reasonable and good faith efforts to secure the necessary funds to implement the MOA in its entirety. UCOR will make reasonable and good faith efforts to allocate secured funds to implement the MOA in its entirety, but not do so at the expense of higher priority projects. In accordance with the Anti-Deficiency Act, UCOR will cease operations, when necessary, due to a lack of, or exhaustion of, funding. Upon the receipt of and allocation of secured funds, UCOR will continue operations.