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C -- INDEFINITE QUANTITY CONTRACT, ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING SERVICES, STATE OF MICHIGAN SOL 162640-96-A-0240 DUE 010496 POC Contact Point. John A. Vlcek, 312/669-5944 or Teri Wilcox-DuBois, 312/669-5974 The U.S. Postal Service requires one or more contracts for Environmental Engineering Services in the State of Michigan. Services required, may include design and contract administration of asbestos and lead abatement, underground storage tank repair and replacement, petroleum release corrective action, remediation of environmental impacted soil, phase I environmental studies. Firms must be qualified and listed by the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, Underground Storage Tank Division as a Qualified UST Consultant with a certified UST professional for all UST closure reports and provide documentation that they have been successfully involved in the described environmental remediation programs in the State of Michigan for at least the last five years. The contract for Architect-Engineer services, with a $5,000 minimum total amount, will be for a two year base terms, with individual work orders being issued. Each work order will be negotiated as an individual project. Work orders for any one project cannot exceed $100,000, and the total contract cannot exceed $500,000 for each 12 month contract period. The contract may be renewed for three one-year periods, totaling 5 years, providing the total contract amount does not exceed $2,500,000. Firms that have the qualifications to perform the services described previously are invited to submit a completed SF 255, Architect-Engineer and Related Services Questionnaire, and a completed SF 254, Architect-Engineer and Related Services Questionnaire, and a completed SF 254 for each of its proposed consultants, postmarked not later than 30 calendar days from publication date to the attention of Teri Wilcox-DuBois, Contract Specialist. The selection will be conducted by using the submitted SF 254 and the SF 254s. 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 firms responding to this advertisement in accordance with the instruction in the following order of preference: 1. lcal within the State of Michigan, 2. Out of State. 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. There is no restriction on the geographical location of consultants. 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. Submissions will not be retained or returned. This is not a request for proposal. (0335)

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