The agency is announcing an upcoming solicitation. Watch for the actual RFP/RFQ to be posted later.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers needs a small business to provide surveying and mapping services in the New Orleans District.
Key Details
- What exactly do they need?
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers needs a small business to provide surveying and mapping services in the New Orleans District. This includes topographic and control surveys, GPS vertical surveys, and hydrographic surveys. The firm must have the capability to perform surveys using a total station and a data collector, and to electronically transmit the survey data to a microcomputer. The firm must also have the capability to provide Global Positioning System (GPS) Real Time Kinematic (RTK) crews and DGPS Hydrographic crews.
- What's the contract structure and timeline?
The contract will be an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) A-E contract with a performance period of 3 years. The contract will not exceed $3,000,000.
- How will they pick the winner?
The selection criteria are listed below. Criteria a through h are primary. The selection criteria are listed below in descending order of importance (first by major criterion and then by each sub-criterion). All criteria require compliance with paragraph 2 PROJECT INFORMATION. PRIMARY CRITERIA:
- Specialized Experience and Technical Competence: Submittal must demonstrate the specialized experience and technical competence of the prime firm, joint venture partners, consultants, subcontractors and/or free-lance associates within the last five years in the types of services specifically indicated above in paragraph 2 PROJECT INFORMATION, to include conventional surveying and GPS Surveying, both static and RTK, as well as hydrographic surveys.
- Qualified Personnel: The submittal must identify the qualifications of personnel in key disciplines, typically: (1) Registered Land Surveyors, with State of Louisiana licensing and (2) Survey, CAD, or GIS technicians.
- Knowledge of Locality: Submittals must demonstrate familiarity with the New Orleans District's area of responsibility and demonstrate experience in Louisiana.
- Capacity: Submittals must demonstrate the capability to perform at least two task orders simultaneously within prescribed schedules.
- Past Performance: Past performance of the A-E, joint venture partners, and key subcontractors on DoD and other contracts with respect to cost control, quality of work, and compliance with performance schedules, as determined from CPARS, PPIRS and other sources.
- Quality Control Plan: Submit a sample Quality Control Plan outline sufficient to demonstrate a program that ensures delivery of a quality product.
- Safety Plan: Submit an outline sufficient to demonstrate an acceptable Safety Plan and an indication of Safety Performance (number of hours lost per 100,000 man-hours).
- Geographic Proximity: The location of the firm, or firms, and their survey crews' stationing, that have primary responsibility for the contract, with respect to time and distance to the New Orleans District headquarters.
- When and how do you bid?
Bid deadline is July 8, 2026, at 2PM CDT. Submit one electronic copy of SF 330 for the proposed team, including the prime firm and all joint venture partners, subcontractors, consultants and free-lance associates, to the address below not later than 1400 hrs Central Time on the closing date of this announcement.
Routine commodity buy — low-effort bid, modest payoff.
Who can apply
- Must be a certified small business
- Has experience in surveying and mapping services
- Has a team with qualified personnel, including registered land surveyors and survey technicians
Heads up — easy to miss
- The firm must have the in-house capability to provide a minimum of three (3) 3-person survey parties, each with vehicles, land and hydrographic survey equipment.
- The firm must also have the in-house capability to provide one (1) boat (18' minimum).
- The firm must demonstrate the in-house capability (staff and equipment) to perform surveys utilizing GPS RTK and must be able to provide a minimum of one (1) GPS RTK survey party.
If you're interested, do this first
- Check that your small business certification is still active in SAM.gov.
- Write a 1-page summary of similar surveying and mapping work you've done before.
- Email the contracting officer to RSVP for the site visit.
- Find a teaming partner who already has the required certification.