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C -- ARCHITECT-ENGINEER FIELD SITE SUPPORT (EAST) SOL IRS-96-0005 DUE 120495 POC Barry Kearns (202) 283-1103. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) maintains facilities throughout the nation and requires planning, design and construction monitoring services related to these facilities. The contract resulting from this selection will provide services to complement the IRS's Office of Real Estate Planning and Management's (REPM) support program for those facilites located in the eastern United States. This project is known as the Architect Engineering Field Site Support Contract - East (A/EFSSC - East). Please note that this project will be managed by the REPM office in Washington, DC. Task orders will be issued and monitored by the REPM in Washington, DC and not by the individual field sites. The selected firm will, therefore, be required to maintain a CORE Team office in the Washington, DC area. The firm selcted will be responsible for assisting the IRS in maintaining and modifying existing and new facilities in the Northeast Region (Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York) the Mid- Atlantic Region (Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Indiana and Kentucky) and the Southeast Region (North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas). The firm shall provide a complete range of architectural and engineering program support services to assist the IRS at 820 First Street NE, Washington DC in planning and implementing all design, repair, alteration and construction projects and tasks affecting its real and personal property at the national and regional offices, submission processing sites, customer service centers, computing centers, host sites, acs/tps call sites, district offices and subordinate posts of duty in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic and Southeast geographical regions. IRS holdings in these geographic regions include approximately 8,500,000 square feet of office space and 350,000 square feet of ADP space. A one-year indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity firm fixed price contract with four one-year renewal options is anticipated. The maximum to be obligated in each yearwill be $4,000,000 making the maximum value of this contract $20,000,000 over its life. The minimum to be awarded in any given year will be $20,000.00. A/E related and program support services will be provided in the following support categories: 1. Design and Engineering Program Assistance: The selected firm shall provide a full range of services to include, but not be limited to, supporting research, programming, criteria development, design, the technical portions of solicitation and procurement documents in coordination with and through the General Services Administration, and preparation of specifications, drawings, cost estimates, and related services for alteration, repairs, and new acquisitions of real and personal property. 2. System Integration and Telecommunication: The selected firm shall provide services to include, but not be limited to, designing, planning, budgeting, scheduling, reviewing and monitoring the implementation of all projects, tasks and related aspects for site preparation and physical environment issues necessary to support the IRS's field sites. Note that ADP software development and equipment istallation is not to be provided. 3. Project Monitoring: The selected firm shall provide architectural and engineering project monitoring support services to include, but not be limited to, operations planning, construction contract monitoring and review, milestones, cost control, scheduling, performance and quality assurance criteria and standards. 4. Physical Facilities Analysis: The selected firm shall prepare Physical Facilities Analyses and Studies of various sites to include, but not be limited to, architectural, engineering, telecommunications network infrastructures, operations and maintenance evaluations of the facilities, conceptual studies for expansion/renovation of the building or new buildings, functional analysis of work flow and organizational relationships, and budget estimates for improvements, expansions or new buildings. 5. Construction Monitoring: The selected firm shall develop a comprehensive construction monitoring program to include, but not be limited to, review, monitoring and inspection procedures, progress of projects, milestones and quality assurance review. The selected firm shall serve as a technical resource in contruction contract monitoring services and post contruction services for new construction, renovations, new lease acquisitions an site preparation work. 6. Operations and Maintenance Procedures: The selected firm shall provide operations and maintenance procedures and shall develop equipment and preventive maintenance programs to meet the maintenance program requirements recommended by the equipment manufacturers to include, but not be limited to, equipment maintenance schedules, inventory of properties and equipment, and developing a technical library. 7. Safety, Security and Risk Analysis: The selected firm shall provide safety, security, and risk analysis recommendations to include, but not be limited to, development, review, and preparation of guidelines, standards, specification and maunual, evaluations and inspections of existing facilites and buildings, disaster recovery plans, and the planning, scheduling, budgeting and implementation of safety, security and risk analysis systems and programs nationwide. 8. Special Technical and Supplemental Studies: The selected firm shall prepare special technical and supplemental studies for the IRS in areas to include but not be limited to, renderings and models, life cycle cost analysis environmental monitoring, space planning, traffic and transportation and real estate. 9. Other services as specified in the statement of work. Task orders will involve active interaction with the IRS and daily contacts with individuals at IRS national and field offices, coordination with GSA lessors, building developers and other A/E firms, and general contractors. A narrative statement, supplementing the SF-254's and SF-255's (both dated and signed by an officer of the firm) shall be submitted addressing the special qualifications and evaluation factors listed below. Six copies of the SF-254's and SF-255's should be submitted. Only those submittals which clearly demonstrate that the Qualification Criteria are met shall be technically evaluated in accordance with the Evaluation Criteria. Firms whose submittals do not meet the Qualification Criteria will be advised of that determination when final selection is made. The firm (''Firm'' means the prime contractor, not subcontractors or consultants. If the ''firm'' is a joint venture, the Government will consider the combined experience or assets of the entities in the joint venture.) shall meet the minumum requirements of the following Qualification Criteria: 1. Have successfully completed or be currently performing work on projects in buildng design, construction or construction management. This experience must exceed an average of $100 million per year in construction value awarded for the last three years and been performed in the name of the firm. 2. Have successfully completed or be currently performing work on projects in which A/E related services in support of a client's mission or program have covered at least the following: a) Design and Engineering Program Assistance; b) System Integration and Telecommunication; c) Project Monitoring; d) Construction Monitoring; e) Safety, Security and Risk Analysis; f) Special Technical and Supplemental Studies. 3. Have one production office located in each of the following geographic regions: Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, and Southeast (see above for the states which comprise these regions). The evaluation criteria are as follows: (1) Professional qualification necessary for satisfactory performance of the required services. The qualifications, including experience, professional registration and education of the key individuals proposed by the prime and subcontractors/consultants will be evaluated under this criteria. (60 Points) (2) Specialized experience and technical competence in the type of work required. The experience of the firms (prime and other team members) proposed will be evaluated under this criteria. Also evaluated will be the firm's previous experience with large, multi-task order nationwide contracts. (50 Points) (3) Capacity to accomplish the work in the required time. This factor includes an evaluation of the firm's ability to respond to and process multiple task orders for various IRS offices in the geographic areas. This factor also includes an evaluation of the firm's current corporate management structure and the proposed organizational structure to execute the work under this contract to include assigned responsibilities, communication flows, and flow of authority lines within and between the organizations in the team. (50 Points) (4) Past performance on contracts with Government agencies and private industry in terms of cost control, quality of work and compliance with performance schedules. (25 Points) (5) Compliance with small business subcontracting goals. The IRS has established subcontracting goals of 20% for small business, 10% for small disadvantaged businesses and 5% for small woman-owned businesses. These percentages apply to the total contract amount awrded (e.g. if the maximum amount of $4,000,000 is awarded in a given year, then $800,000.00 is the goal for small business subcontractor awards). Additionally, these goals are not mutually exclusive meaning that if 20% of the total dollars are awarded to a small disadvantaged woman-owned business, the prime firm meets all three goals. (10 Points) (6) Demonstrated success in prescribing the use of recovered materials and achieving waste reduction and energy efficiency in facility design. (5 Points) Contract award will be contingent on the submission of an acceptable subcontracting plan. Selection will be based on the qualifications statement and evaluation criteria. Interviews/discussions my be held. Responses must include SF-254's and SF-255's for any consultants (dated and signed by an officer of the firm within the past twelve months). Responses must be received by 4:00 Eastern Time, December 4, 1995 at the following address: Internal Reveune Service, M:RE:CA - ATTN: Harvey Crothers, 820 1st Street, NE, Suite 720, Washington, DC 20002. The IRS does not desire photographs, artwork, sketches or any other such information to be submitted in the response. Contract award will be contingent upon the availability of funds. This procurement is not being conducted as a small business set-aside. The anticipated contract start date is November, 1996. This is not a Request for Proposals. To assist interested firms in preparing their responses to this announcement, draft statements of work are available on written request which may be faxed to (202) 283-1514 or (202) 283-1511 Attn: Barry Kearns. The requests should provide a fax number or address. All attempts will be made to provide the draft statement of work by telefax within one business day of the receipt of the request. Please provide the Solicitation Number and project name in the request. (0305)

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