SOLICITATION NOTICE
C -- Supplemental Architect-Engineer/Landscape Services
- Notice Date
- 10/24/2003
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- General Services Administration, Public Buildings Service (PBS), Center for Management Support & Admin Services (PHA), 1800 F Street, NW, Room 6037, Washington, DC, 20405
- ZIP Code
- 20405
- Solicitation Number
- GS-00P-03-CYD-0132
- Response Due
- 12/1/2003
- Archive Date
- 12/16/2004
- Point of Contact
- Collette Scott, Contract Specialist, Phone (202) 501-9154, Fax (202) 208-7413, - Regina Crews, Contracting Officer, Phone (202) 208-9990, Fax (202) 501-3836,
- E-Mail Address
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collette.scott@gsa.gov, regina.crews@gsa.gov
- Description
- The General Services Administration (GSA) announces an opportunity for Design Excellence in Public Landscape Architecture for Supplemental Landscape Architect / Engineering Design Services for the Public Building Service (PBS) First Impressions Program and Related Services, Nationwide, under the Office of the Chief Architect within GSA, PBS, Central Office, Solicitation No: GS-00P-03-CYD-0132. This procurement will establish Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Contracts to provide design and related services for federal facilities; owned, leased and/or controlled, nationwide. This contract is national in scope, supporting all existing and future federal and other types of real property. Multiple A-E contracts may be awarded. All work will be procured through the issuance of individual Work/ Delivery Orders, each defined by a separate scope of work. The term of the contracts shall be for one (1) base year period, followed by four (4) one-year option periods, not to exceed $2,500,000 for each period, for an aggregate dollar value of $12,500,000. Consideration for these contracts will be nationwide. The scope of the design Landscape services may include, but not be limited to the following pre-design, site survey and investigation, design security enhancements, plaza design, design programming, signage and graphics design, complete design services, computer aided design and drafting (CADD), working drawings, specifications, cost estimating, landscape design, design review, value engineering services, post construction contact services (PCCS) and other required supplemental services if so requested. This is a request for Qualifications under Design Excellence Program. The Landscape Architecture Firm as used in this RFQ is an association, joint venture partnership or other entity that will have contractual responsibility for the project design. The Lead Designer is the individual or design studio that will have primary responsibility to conceive the design concept and the building?s landscape design. The Landscape Architecture firm must address the contractual relationship with the Lead Designer and project team in Stage II. Landscape Architecture firms are advised that this is a national contract and as such, projects may be located anywhere within the United States. The Landscape Architect selection will be completed in two stages as follows: In STAGE I, interested firms will submit portfolios of accomplishment that establish the design capabilities of the Landscape Architecture Firm and its Lead Designer. All documentation will be in an 8 ?? x 11? format. The portfolio should include the following: a cover letter referencing the FBO announcement and briefly describing the firm and its location, organizational makeup, and noteworthy accomplishments; and modified Standard Form 254 (Architect-Engineer and Related Services Questionnaire) and Standard Form 255 (Architect-Engineer and Related Services Questionnaire for Specific Project). Identification of consultants is not required at this stage. The assembled Stage I portfolio should be no more than one-half (1/2) inch thick. STAGE I submission requirements and evaluation criteria: (1) PAST PERFORMANCE ON DESIGN (35%): The Landscape Architecture Firm will submit graphics (maximum of three pages per project) of not more than five non-residential, urban landscape projects completed in the last ten years. The narrative (maximum of two pages per project) shall address the design approach with salient features for each project and discuss how the client?s program, function, image, mission, economic, schedule and operational objectives were satisfied by the overall design/planning solution. Include tangible evidence where possible such as certificates, awards, peer recognition, etc. demonstrating design excellence. Provide a client reference contact for each project, including name, title, address, phone, and fax numbers. A portion of one page presented for each project must include a representative site plan illustrating the project and its relationship to the surrounding context. (2) PHILOSOPHY AND DESIGN INTENT (25%): In the Lead Designer?s own words, (maximum of two typewritten pages) stating his/her personal design philosophy and approach to the challenge of public architecture, issues, and parameters that may apply in creating landscapes, plazas and other public spaces that are by their very nature imbued with political and national meaning. (3) LEAD DESIGNER PROFILE (15%): Submit a biographical sketch (maximum of three pages) including education, professional experience, recognition for design efforts inclusive of examples. Identify and describe areas of responsibility and commitment to each project. (4) LEAD DESIGNER PORTFOLIO (25%): Submit a portfolio representative of the Lead Designer?s ability to provide design excellence. Submit graphics (maximum of three pages per project, and a typewritten description (maximum of two pages per project) of up to four non-residential projects completed in the last ten years. An additional, optional project, which has been fully designed but has not completed construction, may also be included. The narrative shall address the design philosophy with salient features for each project and discuss how the client?s program, functional, image, mission, economic, schedule, and operational objectives were satisfied by the overall design/planning solution. Include tangible evidence where possible such as certificates, awards, peer recognition, etc., demonstrating design excellence. Where there is duplication with criteria (1), the Lead Designer will address his or her participation in the project. An A/E Evaluation Board consisting of a private sector landscape architecture peer and representatives of GSA will evaluate the submissions. The Board will establish a short-list of three to six firms. For STAGE II, the short-listed firms will be notified and asked to submit more detailed information indicating each member of the design team, including all outside consultants. The firm will be required to complete Standard Forms 254 and 255 that reflect the entire design team. The Government will establish the detailed evaluation criteria and the date that these submittals are due and provide the selection criteria for the interviews along with the Stage I short-list announcement. Sufficient time will be provided for the Landscape Architecture Design Firm/Lead Designer to establish its team. The Board will interview each team. Candidates should be prepared to discuss all aspects of the criteria indicated above and to demonstrate their ability to fulfill all project requirements. Emphasis will be placed on the unique aspects of the project, design philosophy, possible approaches in carrying out the project and project management. The Stage II evaluations will include an interview with the A/E Evaluation Board. Firms selected to participate in STAGE II will be further evaluated by an anonymous, one-day design charret, judged by a jury of independent design professionals. The purpose of the design charrette is to further evaluate the A-E's qualifications for the project. The designer's, vision will weigh substantially in the selection of the A-E teams by GSA. The submitted design charrette concepts become the property substantially in the selection of the A-E Teams by GSA. The submitted design charrette concepts become the property of the Government. The design charrette proposal will be used in conjunction with Stage II rankings in the final evaluation of the A-E firms. Stage II rankings will be used in conjunction with Stage I rankings to select the winning A-E firm(s) FOR STAGE I SUBMITTALS: Firms having the capabilities to perform the services described in this announcement are invited to respond by submitting a complete SF-254's (for the LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE Design Firm), which must not be dated more than twelve (12) months before the date of this synopsis and (no response is required in blocks 6, 7, and 9) SF-255 (for the LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE Design Firm) along with a letter of interest and the portfolio To: General Services Administration, 18th & F Streets, N.W., Room 6028, Washington, DC 20405, by 3:30 p.m. local time on the due date of this notice. All hand carried proposals MUST be brought to the GSA Buildings E Street - West Court Entrance. A total of five (5) copies should be submitted. The following information must be on the outside of the sealed envelope 1) Solicitation Number/Title, 2) Due Date, 3) Closing Time. Late responses are subject to FAR Provision 52.214-7. In block 8 of the SF-254 specify only current W-2 payroll (non-contract) personnel of each firm. In Block 10 of the SF-255, the "Landscape Architecture Design Firm" MUST respond to the FOUR (4) EVALUATION CRITERIA stated in the FBO announcement for Stage I Solicitation. In Block 11of the SF-255, the "Landscape Architecture Design Firm" MUST sign, name, title and date the submittal. This procurement is being made under the Small Business Competitiveness Demonstration Program (FAR 19.10) This procurement is open to small and large business concerns. Before award of the contract, the A-E (if not a small business of $4,000,000 gross average over three years for NAICS Code 541320) shall be required to present an acceptable Small Business and Small Disadvantaged Business Subcontracting Plan in accordance with Public Law 95-507. Small, women-owned and small disadvantaged firms are strongly encourged to participate as prime contractors or as members of joint ventures with other small business. Further, contractors must be registered in the Central Contractor Registration (CCR) Database in accordance with FAR 52.204-7. No telephone inquiries are acceptable, address all inquiries concerning this solicitation through e-mail to the point of contacts listed. Award of this contract is continguent upon funding approval. This Contract will be procured under the Brooks Act and FAR 36. This is not a Request for Proposal
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