Current Status

The USAEC is awarding three multiple award task order contracts intended to help lower the cost of installation environmental services. These contracts offer proven contractors, task order competition, performance-based acquisition, and no contract management fees. The three contracts cover installation environmental services for:

• Environmental compliance (awarded July 2010),
• Cultural resources (awarded July 2010),
• Natural resources (awarded Sept 28 2010).

Here's how to put a task order on one of these contracts:

• Know what you want to buy and how much it should cost.
• Make sure that what you want to buy is covered by one of the contract scopes below.
• The Environmental Compliance contract is for purchasing services for regulation of air pollution, drinking water, water pollution, waste management, above-ground and under-ground storage tank management, spill prevention and cleanup, emergency planning and reporting, and pesticide management. Typical products under the contract are surveys, inventories, plans, permit applications, or other studies, program Improvement such as pollution prevention assessments, sampling and analysis, training and outreach, and compliance and management system reviews.
• The Cultural Resources contract is for purchasing services for management of historic buildings and archaeological sites and artifacts. Typical products are surveys, inventories and evaluations, archaeological data recovery, mitigation strategies, historic building documentation, and other documents, plans, or outreach.
• The Natural Resources contract is for purchasing services for management of threatened and endangered species, wetlands and riparian areas, habitat, soil and erosion control, forestry and reimbursable agriculture activities, and wildlife management. Typical products are surveys and inventories, habitat management, restoration, and mitigation, training, program improvement, and compliance review.
• Other contracts are available for purchasing Environmental Cleanup and for completing Environment Assessment or Impact Studies (Expected to be awarded by 1st quarter 2011).
• You cannot buy these things from these contracts: Construction, equipment purchase and installation hazardous waste disposal or staff augmentation. Please contact your Installation Contracting Command (MICC) office for more information on these topics.

These are the steps installation managers should take to place a task order on these environmental contracts.

Prepare a draft task order and include:

• Performance work statement. State your requirements in clear, concise, easily understood and measurable terms. Don't dictate how the work is to be accomplished; rather, allow the contractor the latitude for innovation and creativity.
• Independent government cost estimate.
• Performance standards and acceptable measures. Tell the contractor what you'll measure and how you'll know that the product or service is good.
• Requirements for security, installation access, camera passes, and site access.
• A brief overview of the installation compliance program relevant to the task order: Compliance universe (for example, is the facility or site permitted, compliance size in regulatory terms), significant physical facilities (such as treatment plants, boilers, or waste storage facilities), number and type of compliance sites at the garrison, government and contract staffing responsible for managing the program.

Submit to Contracting Authority

• Army Installations: Submit to your Mission and Installation Contracting Command (MICC) office who can award and administer task orders under these contracts.
• Other DOD contracting agencies may request delegation of authority for these contracts from the MICC Center at Fort Bragg. The Contracting Officer can be reached at 910-643-7347 and the Contracting Specialist 910-396-6401.

The MICC Center–Fort Bragg will be publishing more detailed Ordering Guides in September 2010.

Background

Strategic sourcing is the collaborative and structured process of critically analyzing an organization's spending and using this information to make business decisions about acquiring commodities and services more effectively and efficiently. Strategic Sourcing will help increase efficiency and savings to ensure that our Soldiers today — and the Soldiers of the future — have the resources necessary to maintain their readiness.

The Office of Management and Budget issued a directive May 20, 2005 that requires each federal agency and department to implement strategic sourcing, identify commodities for strategic sourcing and then report annually on progress. See the OMB Web site.

The U.S. Army Installation Management Command (IMCOM) implemented a strategic sourcing analysis of environmental services in FY 2007. IMCOM has chosen to implement many of the key findings from the analysis by establishing national indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contracts that will allow IMCOM to more effectively contract for its environmental services. These include

• Management and Professional Services
• Environmental Compliance
• Cultural Resources
• Natural Resources

This strategic sourcing initiative is intended to improve environmental performance, ensure a consistent approach to environmental requirements, reduce the amount of time to award contracts and reduce contract costs.

Please continue to check this section for updated information.

Strategic Sourcing of Environmental Services Article from IMCOM Journal

The Summer 2008 edition of the IMCOM Journal includes an article on Strategic Sourcing of Environmental Services. The article explains why the Installation Management Command (IMCOM) is pursuing the strategic sourcing process, what steps are involved, and where we are going next in the area of environment. It also provides examples of how USAEC is already using strategic sourcing concepts successfully in Cultural Resources, Environmental Cleanup, and the Military Munitions Response Program.