SOURCES SOUGHT
C -- RECOVERY C--"RECOVERY ACT ACQUISITION" Design of Conservation Measures Albany NY
- Notice Date
- 10/9/2009
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541310
— Architectural Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Veterans Affairs;National Energy Business Center 001E(B);4141 Rockside Rd. Suite 110;Suite Hills, OH 44131
- ZIP Code
- 44131
- Solicitation Number
- VA-776-10-RI-0012
- Response Due
- 11/10/2009
- Archive Date
- 1/9/2010
- Point of Contact
- Sherri L Stephan
- E-Mail Address
-
work
(Sherri.Stephan@va.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This is a Sources Sought Notice for the following services related to "Recovery Act" Project No: R101-09-050 (Albany, NY) - "Lighting and Motor Improvements, Building Automation System Upgrades and Heating Hot Water Boilers at the Stratton VA Medical Center, Albany, New York Facility". The VA Medical Center is seeking professional architect/engineering firms to provide investigative services, construction documents, working drawings, specifications and cost estimates, shop drawing reviews, and construction administration period services as required to Replace Lights and Install Lighting Controls, Replace Motors and Install Variable Frequency Drives, Improve, Upgrade and Expand the Building Automation System/Energy Management System and Install Hydronic Hot Water Boilers at the VA Albany, New York, Hospital. It is the intent to complete the design as early as possible in Fiscal Year (FY 2010) second (2nd) Quarter (January-March) to permit construction solicitation and construction award in the third quarter (April-June) of Fiscal Year 2010. Therefore ultimately an expedited design package will be required. The general scope of this project is to improve energy efficiency and water conservation by evaluating and designing: 1) Lighting Efficiency Measures, including utilizing existing lighting surveys and conduct a new survey of existing light fixtures to result in a design to upgrade lighting to more energy efficient lighting, primarily but not exclusively relamping and reballasting T 12 lamp fixtures with T 8 lamps, complete with occupancy sensors and daylight harvesting within Buildings 1, 2, 3, 4, 25, 26, 51 and 54. Replacement of parking lot lights with more efficient luminary units is part of this project. 2) Electric Motor Measures and Variable Frequency Drives, includes field verifying motor data on an existing list of approximately 100 motors, design replacements with premium efficiency motors, design installation of variable frequency drives on approximately 15 air handling unit motors, including associated integration into the Building Automation System for a fully functional system. 3) Improve, Upgrade and Expand Building Automation System/Energy Management System, includes conducting a survey of the existing Building Automation System (BAS) & Energy Management System (EMS), development of top 25 recommended system upgrades and expansions which most directly improves facility's energy efficiency beyond additions of measures detailed in this scope of work, measure includes design and construction documents for installing controllable zone dampers at each floor level for approximately six air handling units that shall be modified and equipped with variable speed drives, includes integration into existing BAS. 4) Hydronic Hot Water Boilers, includes investigations sufficient to properly size, design and provide contract documents to install multiple natural gas condensing hydronic hot water boilers and all associated support systems required to serve multiple air handling units and radiant panel heating loads, in parallel with existing steam to hot water convertors, where determined to be economically practical. The general scope of work for all measures shall include providing sufficient information to apply for applicable New York State Energy Research and Development Agency (NYSERDA) incentives under program opportunity notice (PON) 1219 Existing Building Program for energy conservation measures designed, including providing the information in the format required by the NYSERDA PON. All work will be in strict accordance with the latest codes and standards according to, yet not limited to, the Latest versions of VA Master Constructions Specs, Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organization (JCAHO) Environment of Care Standards, VA HVAC and Electrical Design Manual, Commissioning for Federal Facilities, and M&V Guidelines. The following Evaluation Criteria will be used during the A/E selection process: (criteria are listed in no particular order of importance) 1. Team proposed for this project; 2. Proposed Management Plan to meet schedule; 3. Previous experience of team proposed for this project. 4. Location and facilities of working offices; 5. Proposed design approach for this project; 6. Project control; 7. Estimating effectiveness; 8. Miscellaneous experience and capabilities; 9. Awards & recommendations; 10. Insurance & litigations. Firms desiring consideration must also have a working office and key personnel assigned within a 90 mile drive distance of the Albany VA Medical Center, 113 Holland Avenue, Albany, NY, as measured by mapquest, googlemaps, or similar. All interested A/E firms are invited to submit an electronic version to Sherri.Stephan@va.gov of Standard Form 330, Architect Engineer Qualifications and for any consultants, on SF 330 Extra Sections E and F. (Standard Form 330 can be obtained at the following web site: http;//www.gsa.gov/Portal/gsa/ep/formslibrary.do?formType=SF) The estimated construction cost for this project is between $2,000,000.00 and $3,000,000.00. The NAICS code for this procurement is 541310. Responses must be received no later than November 10th, 2009 and please submit all data to: Contracting Officer, Richard Dahmen VA National Energy Business Center (NEBC), 4141 Rockside Rd, Seven Hills, OH 44131. Places of Performance:(VA Albany) - 113 Holland Avenue, Albany, NY 12208 Point of Contact:Sherri L. Stephan Contract Specialist 4141 Rockside Rd. Seven Hills, OH 44131
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- Place of Performance
- Address: VA Albany Medical Center
- Zip Code: 12208
- Zip Code: 12208
- Record
- SN01983880-W 20091011/091009235330-2dd5842dba1c7ca185ec9e626f5117d5 (fbodaily.com)
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