4.0 PRIMARY ENGINEERING DISCIPLINE DESCRIPTIONS

This contract defines four Primary Engineering Disciplines (PEDs) which may be used under each of the contract SINs; civil engineering, electrical engineering, and mechanical engineering.

4.1 Chemical Engineering:

Planning, development, evaluation and operation of chemical, biochemical or physical plants and processes. Changes in composition, energy content, state of aggregation of materials, forces that act on matter, and relationships are examined and new and conventional chemical materials, products and processes are produced and/or manufactured.

It includes, but is not limited to, planning, evaluating or operation of chemical plants and petroleum refineries, pollution control systems, biochemical processes, plastics, pharmaceuticals, fibers; analysis of chemical reactions that take place in mixtures; determination of methodologies for the systematic design, control and analysis of processes, evaluating economics, safety, etc.

Within the chemical engineering discipline, there are several specialties within the scope of this work; a partial listing follows:

  • Refining

  • Pharmaceuticals

  • Ceramics


  • Petrochemicals

  • Electronic Components & Chemicals

  • Textiles

  • Other Chemical
    Engineering Specialties not listed in the "Services not Included Paragraph"

  • Food

  • Pulp and Paper

  • Biotechnology

  • Safety engineering

4.2 Civil Engineering:

It includes, but is not limited to, planning, evaluation, and operations of power generating plants, the production, furnishing, construction, alteration, repair, processing or assembling of vessels, aircraft, or other kinds of personal property, including heating, ventilation and air-conditioning for such vessels and/or aircrafts.

Within the civil engineering discipline, there are several specialties within the scope of this work; a partial listing follows:

  • Geotechnical

  • Surveying

  • Other Civil
    Engineering Specialties not listed in the "Services not Included Paragraph"

4.3 Electrical

Engineering:

Planning, design, development, evaluation and operation of electrical principles, models and processes.

It includes, but is not limited to, the design, fabrication, measurement and operation of electrical devices, equipment and systems (e.g., signal processing; telecommunication; sensors, microwave, and image processing; micro fabrication; energy systems and control; micro  and nano electronics; plasma

processing; laser and photonics; satellites, missiles and guidance systems, space vehicles, fiber optics, robotics, etc.).

Within the electrical engineering discipline, there are several specialties within the scope of this work; a partial listing follows:

  • Aerospace and Electronic Systems

  • Circuits and Systems

  • Computer*

  • Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation

  • Geoscience & Remote Sensing

  • Information Theory

  • Lasers & Electro-Optics

  • Nuclear and Plasma Sciences

  • Power Electronics

  • Reliability

  • Solid-State Circuits

  • Vehicular Technology

  • Signal Processing on Social Implications of Technology


  • Antennas and Propagation

  • Communications

  • Consumer Electronics

  • Education

  • Engineering Management

  • Industrial Electronics

  • Intelligent Transportation Systems

  • Magnetics

  • Neural Networks Council

  • Power Engineering

  • Robotics & Automation

  • Systems, Man, and Cybernetics

  • Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

  • Broadcast Technology

  • Components Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology

  • Control Systems

  • Electromagnetic Compatibility

  • Engineering in Medicine and Biology

  • Industry Applications

  • Instrumentation and Measurement

  • Microwave Theory and Techniques

  • Oceanic Engineering

  • Professional Communication

  • Other Electrical
    Engineering Specialties not listed in the "Services not Included Paragraph"

4.4 Mechanical Engineering:

Planning, development, evaluation and control of systems and components involving the production and transfer of energy and with the conversion of one form of energy to another.


It includes, but is not limited to, planning, and evaluation of power plants, analysis of the economical combustion of fuels, conversion of heat energy into mechanical energy, use of mechanical energy to perform useful work, analysis of structures and motion in mechanical systems, and conversion of raw materials into a final product, etc. (e.g., thermodynamics, mechanics, fluid mechanics, jets, rocket engines, internal combustion engines, steam and gas turbines, continuum mechanics, dynamic systems, dynamics fluid mechanics, heat transfer, manufacturing, materials, solid mechanics, reactors, etc.).




  • ASME Heat Transfer/K16

  • Applied Mechanics

  • Dynamic Systems and Control

  • Fluids Power Systems and Technology Systems

  • Information Storage and Processing Systems

  • Materials

  • Management

  • Nuclear Engineering

  • Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering

  • Power

  • Rail Transportation

  • Technology and Society

  • Advanced Energy Systems

  • Bioengineering

  • Electrical and Electronic Packaging

  • Fuels and Combustion Technologies

  • Internal Combustion Engine

  • Manufacturing Engineering *

  • Materials Handling Engineering*

  • Non-Destructive Evaluation Engineering

  • Petroleum

  • Pressure Vessels and Piping

  • Safety Engineering and Risk Analysis

  • Textile Engineering

  • Other Mechanical Engineering Specialties not listed in the "Services not Included Paragraph"

  • Aerospace Engineering

  • Design Engineering*

  • Fluids Engineering

  • Heat Transfer

  • International Gas Turbine

  • Microchannel flow and heat transfer

  • Noise Control and Acoustics

  • Ocean Engineering

  • Plant Engineering and Maintenance

  • Process Industries

  • Solar Energy

  • Tribology

The following non-inclusive list represents a sampling of the types of engineering tasks contemplated:


Personnel categories for professional engineering services anticipated include, but are not limited to:

  • Administrative

  • Biologists

  • Chemists

  • Consultants

  • Documentation specialists

  • Economists

  • Engineering and technical analysts

  • Engineering software developers and analysts

  • Engineers

  • Information specialists

  • Logistics engineers and technical specialists

  • Material management engineers and technical specialists

  • Naval architects

  • Operations research specialists

  • Physicists

  • Project/program analysts/leaders/managers

  • Scientists

  • Statisticians/mathematicians

  • Support

  • Technicians

  • Trainers

  • Writers

4.5 Services Not Included:

The following services are not solicited under this contract:

4.5.1 Construction and Architect Engineering services

as set forth in FAR Part 36 (including construction, alteration or repair (including dredging, excavating and painting) of buildings, structures, or other real property). Offerors interested in providing these services may contact GSA's Public Buildings Service (PBS) for additional information.

4.5.2 Computer Engineering and information Technology.

Offerors interested in providing computer/software engineering and information technology services are directed to contact GSA's Group 70 Schedule for Information Technology for additional information (contact Chuck Popelka at (703) 305 7573.

4.5.3 Environmental Advisory Services

as. listed below are not currently being solicited:
  • Environmental Planning Services & Documentation (i.e., environmental impact statements; endangered species, wetlands, watersheds and other natural resource management plans, studies and consultations; archeological, historic and other cultural resources management plans, studies, and consultations; economic, technical, and risk analyses in support of environmental needs).

  • Environmental compliance services (i.e., environmental compliance audits; compliance management planning; pollution prevention surveys.

  • Environmental/occupational training services specific to environmental planning and environmental compliance as discussed above (i.e., conventional course development and presentation; customized courses to meet specific needs; computer based interactive course development).

  • Waste management services (i.e., data collection, data development, analyses of comments, regulatory and economic analyses, feasibility analyses, hazard assessments, exposure assessments, and risk analyses. Examples include, but are not limited to development of waste characterization studies and recommendations for management strategy including identification of recycling options. Assessments might include studies relating to collection and transfer of waste, source reduction, and evaluation of energy/fuel options. Services could include data collection, data development, analyses of comments, regulatory and economic analyses, feasibility analyses, hazard assessments, exposure assessments and risk analyses.

  • Hazardous materials management advisory services (i.e., furnishing of Material Safety Data Sheets ~MDSD) by compact disc, on line via Internet, mail or facsimile (FAX); reporting and compliance software, hazardous, materials tracking software and other related software/services.

  • Telephone advisory services (i.e., telephone assistance with hazardous material spills, poisons, MSDS, and other related services).

Offerors interested in providing environmental advisory services are directed to contact GSA's group 899 Schedule for additional information (contact Joan Rodgers at (253) 931 7900).

4.5.4 Foundations and Landscaping Engineering.

Offerors interested in providing foundations and landscaping engineering are directed to contact GSA's PBS, for additional information.

4.5.5 Heating, ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAQ)

related to buildings, structures, or other real property set forth for Construction and Architect Engineering services governed by FAR Part 36. Offerors interested in providing these services are directed to contact GSA's PBS for additional information. Please note that HVAC related to the manufacture, production, furnishing, construction, alteration, repair, processing. or assembling of vessels, aircraft, or other kinds of personal property IS included and solicited within the scope of PES.

4.5.6 Research and Development

as set forth in FAR Part 35.

4.5.7 Products/materials already solicited under other Federal Supply Service (FSS) Schedule

contracts (e.g., information technology, paper, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, laboratory instruments, etc.). However, PES contractors may team across FSS Schedules to provide a total solution to agency requirements.