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R -- INDEFINITE QUANTITY CONTRACT FOR PROFESSIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING SERVICES, FOR THE PITTSBURGH DISTRICT AREA (ZIP CODES 150-154, 156, 260) SOL RFP #232098-96-A-0027 DUE 120195. POC Purchasing Specialist, D. W. Tokasz (410) 997-6214. Professional Environmental Engineering Design and Support Services, which should include, but not be limited to, Underground Storage Tank Testing, Installation and/or Removal, Replacement, Clean-up and Restoration; Asbestos Abatement Design and Support; Lead Abatement, Soils Testing, and Air Quality Testing THIN Testing, and Air Quality Testing WITHIN THE AREA OF THE PITTSBURGH DISTRICT (ZIP CODES 150-154, 156, 260), are a few of the required services that will be required and part of the firm's performance evaluation. The contract for environmental architect-engineer services will have a base two (2) year term. Individual work orders will be issued. Each work order will be negotiated as an individual project. Work orders for any one project cannot exceed $100,000.00, and the total contract cannot exceed $500,000.00 for each 12-month contract period. The contract may be renewed for three, one year periods. The total amount of work ordered over the five-year period may not exceed $2,500,000.00. Architect-Engineer firms which meet the requirements described in this announcement are invited to submit: (1) a Standard Form 254, Architect-Engineer and Related Services Questionnaire, (2) a Standard Form 255, Architect-Engineer and Related Services Questionnaire for Specific Project, and (3) any supplemental data. These submittals must be received by December 1, 1995. The selection will be conducted with the combined use of SF-254 and SF-255. Interested firms with more than one office must indicate on their SF 255 the staffing composition of the office in which the work will be performed. Consideration will be given to interested firms responding to this advertisement in accordance with the foregoing instruction in the following order of preference: 1. Firms and consultants located within zip codes 150-154, 156, 260, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Wheeling, WV; 2. Firms located within a 30 mile radius around Pittsburgh and Wheeling city limits; 3. Firms within States of Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Architectural and engineering firms will be considered as local only if their sole office is in the local geographical area or they have a local branch office and all the architectural design, coordination, and management of the project will be performed in that office. The contract contains a requirement for firms to provide evidence of current insurance of $200,000 of errors and omissions per claim. Participation of Minority-Owned Businesses is a consideration in U. S. Postal Service architect-engineer selections. It is prohibited to pay any fee, commission, percentage, or brokerage fee to any person or firm contingent upon or resulting from award of a contract for this project. No other general notification for this project will be made. This is not a request for proposal. (283)

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