US Property & Fiscal Office for NY, Attn: MNPF-PC, 330 Old Niskayuna Rd., Latham, NY 12110-2224

C -- COMPOSITE OPERATIONS AND TRAINING FACILITY Sol DAHA30-96-R-0002, Due 120495, contact point, Bonnie Hetfield, (518) 786-4460, Contracting Officer, Major Russell Catalano, (518) 786-4740. An Architect-Engineer (A-E) Services Contract will be awarded by the United States Property and Fiscal Office for New York to a qualified A-E or consulting engineering firm to perform the design of a new Composite Operations Training Facility for the 174th Fighter Wing Air National Guard Base at Hancock Field, Syracuse, New York. The new facility is anticipated to be 26,300 square feet. The project will also include relocation and realignment of the main base entry. The object of this project is a facility of excellence in terms of meeting the functional and optimal energy conservation and economics. The new facility shall be architecturally consistent with the base master plan. The building should include the utilization of a new technology for heating and cooling systems that may include ground source heat pumps and/or other types of thermal storage. The project will also include the demolition of several buildings on base. The buildings to be demolished have asbestos insulation. The project will need the services of a soils engineer in addition to the traditional architect and engineering services. The estimated construction dollar range for the project is between 1 (one) and 5 (five) million dollars. Selection of the A-E Services is not based upon the competitive bidding procedure, but rather upon the professional qualifications necessary for the satisfactory performance of the services required, subject to the following additional considerations. Significant evaluation factors for the A-E selected are listed in order of importance: 1. Professional required services; 2. Specialized experience and technical competence in designing similar types of facilities; 3. Capacity to accomplish the required work on an accelerated schedule, workload; 4. Geographical location of firm in relation to the project site (Syracuse, New York); 5. Past performance on Department of Defense contracts, particularly in terms of cost control, quality of work, and compliance with performance schedules; and 6. Volume of work (to be identified in SF 254, Block 9, ``direct Federal Contract Work'') awarded to the firm by all DOD agencies within the past 12 months. The Standard Industrial Classification Code is 8712. The applicable small business size standard including affiliates is $2.5 million. Architect-Engineering firms meeting the requirements described in this announcement and desiring consideration are invited to submit appropriate data, to arrive no later than 04 December 1995, as described in CBD numbered Note 24. Submit responses to: Major John Baldwin, Base Civil Engineer, 174 FW/DE, Hancock Field, Syracuse, New York 13211-7099, Telephone: (315) 454-6446. The USP&FO-NY is not responsible for selection. (303)

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