SOLICITATION NOTICE
B -- Ocean Outfall Sampling, Monitoring & Reporting Services
- Notice Date
- 7/13/2006
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 541990
— All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
- Contracting Office
- International Boundary and Water Commission, Information Management Division, Acquisition Division, 4171 North Mesa, Suite C-100, El Paso, TX, 79902
- ZIP Code
- 79902
- Solicitation Number
- IBM06R00004
- Response Due
- 7/28/2006
- Archive Date
- 8/12/2006
- Description
- The United States Section of the International Boundary and Water Commission (USIBWC) intends to acquire on the basis of Other Than Full and Open Competition water quality sampling, sediment sampling, benthic monitoring, and fish monitoring for the wastewater discharge to the Pacific Ocean through the South Bay Ocean Outfall in San Diego, San Diego County, California. Laboratory services, data interpretation, trend analyses, as well as reporting for the sampling and monitoring program will be required. This is a Notice of Intent to award a firm fixed-price contract for the above services to The City of San Diego, 600 B Street, San Diego, California 92101-4587, under the authority of Federal Acquisition Regulation 6.302-7, Public Interest. In September 1997, the International Boundary and Water Commission constructed an International Wastewater Treatment Plant (IWTP) in the City of San Diego, California to serve the city of Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. This treatment plant was constructed under United States and Mexico Commission Minute No. 283, and is operated under the clauses contained in Commission Minute 296. The IWTP receives and treats raw wastewater generated by the City of Tijuana, and discharges the treated effluent into the Pacific Ocean through a land Outfall pipeline, and Ocean Outfall. The IWTP is operated under a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit No. 96-50, issued by the California Regional Water Quality Control Board. Identified within the NPDES permit is a Sampling, Monitoring and Reporting program for the receiving waters of the IWTP effluent which extends north and south over an area in the vicinity of the discharge point for the Ocean Outfall. The requirements for the description of services of this document originate from the NPDES permit requirements for the IWTP. In July 1990, the USIBWC entered into an agreement with the City of San Diego for sharing of design and construction costs of the South Bay Land Outfall. Also, as part of this agreement, the USIBWC and the City of San Diego agreed to a 50/50 share in the ownership of the Land Outfall after completion of construction. In January 1995, the USIBWC entered into an agreement with the City of San Diego for sharing of design and construction costs of the South Bay Ocean Outfall. As part of this agreement, the USIBWC and the City of San Diego agreed to share in the ownership of the Ocean Outfall. The ownership share of the Ocean Outfall is 0.3994 for the City of San Diego, and 0.6606 for the USIBWC. The City of San Diego participated in the cost sharing of the Land and Ocean Outfalls to be able to use these facilities for their future South Bay Reclamation Treatment Plant. The City?s South Bay Reclamation Plant was completed on May 6, 2002, and the City is discharging treated effluent through the South Bay Land Outfall and the South Bay Ocean Outfall to the Pacific Ocean. The effluent from the two wastewater treatment plants, the ITWTP and the City Reclamation Plant, is combined and is indistinguishable after discharge into the Pacific Ocean. The City of San Diego South Bay Reclamation Plant is operated under a NPDES discharge permit similar to the NPDES permit issued for the ITWP. In recognition of the same discharge point for the combined effluent of the two treatment plants, the California Regional Water Quality Control Board has issued the city of San Diego a NPDES permit with a similar, and in many cases, identical, Sampling, Monitoring, and Reporting Program to that of the IWTP NPDES permit. The City of San Diego currently operates an advanced primary wastewater treatment facility at Pt Loma, and the South Bay Reclamation wastewater facility within the City of San Diego. Both treatment plants are operated under NPDES permits issued by the California Regional Water Quality Control Board and require Sampling, Monitoring, and Reporting Programs. The City of San Diego has been conducting this sampling, monitoring and reporting program for many years, using their own equipment, resources, and staff. Since the City of San Diego will be performing the Sampling, Monitoring, and Reporting Program for their own South Bay Reclamation Plant at many of the identical monitoring stations for the IWTP, the City of San Diego has expressed a willingness to cost share these two programs. Significant savings to the federal government and the City of San Diego will be realized by sharing the two programs. However, it is only if the City of San Diego is allowed to perform the work involved in the program, as the City does not intend to bid their portion of the work out, and will not share in the costs if the government solicits for a Contractor. Savings to be realized will be on costs of performing the one and off shore sampling, analysis of samples and data obtained, documentation and forms required, and in maintaining the database of results. In addition, since the City of San Diego has on staff trained technical personnel capable of interpreting monitoring data and laboratory results, the federal government will benefit by having access to these personnel and not having to hire occasional consultants for the interpretation of the International Wastewater Treatment Plant data. In recognition of the co-ownership of the land and ocean outfall facilities, and the substantial savings to both the City of San Diego and the federal government for sharing of the Sampling, Monitoring, and Reporting Programs; it is in the public interest for the USIBWC and the City of San Diego to enter into a contract for the receiving water sampling, monitoring, analysis and reporting service for the IWTP. The resultant contract will be for a basic period commencing October 1, 2006 through September 30, 2007, with four one-year option periods. The proposed action is for services for which the Government intends to solicit and negotiate with only once source. There is no solicitation document available. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals. However, any and all proposals received by 10:00 a.m. local time on July 28, 2006 will be considered by the Government. Assertion of capability to provide the required service must be submitted in writing to Colleen Elliott, USIBWC, Acquisitions Division, 4171 N Mesa, Suite C100, El Paso, TX 79902. Information submitted must clearly demonstrate company capabilities to provide the required service. No further synopsis will be published.
- Place of Performance
- Address: The City of San Diego, 600 B Street, San Diego, CA
- Zip Code: 92101-4587
- Country: UNITED STATES
- Zip Code: 92101-4587
- Record
- SN01088700-W 20060715/060713221733 (fbodaily.com)
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