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Y -- US POSTAL SERVICE IS ISSUING REQUEST FOR FIRM, FIXED-PRICE PROPOSALS FOR A DESIGN/BUILD BUILDING EXPANSION AT THE HARTFORD, CT PROCESSING & DISTRIBUTION CENTER SOL RFP #415046-96-A-0009 DUE 030896. Project Manager, Edward Closta (215) 931-5410 and Contract Specialist, Anna Fuselli (215) 931-5456. The Postal Service is issuing a request for proposals for a Fixed-Price Design/Build-Expansion Project at the Hartford Processing & Distribution Center at 141 Weston St., Hartford, CT 06101. Contractor will provide the required engineering, design and construction services in conformance with federal, state and local codes. Program consists of: (1) a single story addition of +-61,400 square feet to the existing facility consisting of a large open workroom for automated mail processing equipment; a platform/dock with fourteen overhead doors; dock levelers and a canopy; a trash room with two overhead doors and a dock/ramp; men's and women's toilet rooms; a maintenance area; an expanded existing building and grounds room; a large electrical room; breakouts from the lookout gallery; cages for sprinkler risers and electronic equipment. (2) An alternate for an additional +-9,100 square feet consisting of a workroom; two vestibules; a new building and grounds room; and a new special delivery room. (3) A mechanical penthouse of +-3,300 square feet. (4) A lookout gallery of +-1,600 square feet tied into the existing gallery. (5) An outside covered storage area of +-4,600 square feet. The structure will consist of: (1) A reinforced concrete floor slab; (2) Steel wide flange columns protected by concrete bollards supporting steel joists girders, joists and wide flange beams as appropriate; (3) A high bay area is included with an alternate to extend the high bay. Wall systems will consist of: (1) A painted single wythe insulated concrete block at the platform and trash room; (2) A prefinished, insulated metal panel system to match existing at the workroom. Roofing will be a single-ply, fully-adhered EPDM membrane on rigid insulation on structural metal deck. An alternate for a fully-adhered, reinforced PVC membrane is included. Heating and ventilating will be accomplished by air handling units mounted in the mechanical penthouse tied into existing water loops. A compressed air loop is included. Primary electrical service will be bid as two alternates. Lighting will be provided by metal halide fixtures. Power to USPS equipment is included. The first phase of work will be to construct a road and relocate lighting around the perimeter of the expansion area to maintain USPS truck traffic during construction. All work will have to be planned and executed in phases and in close coordination with postal officials and in a manner that will cause the least disruption to postal operations. The design-build contractor will provide a temporary trash/recycle facility on site during construction, or phase construction such that the existing facility may operate until the new facility is complete. A 20% design will be provided with the solicitation package to all prospective offerors. The successful firm will be required to develop a phasing schedule for the approval of the Postal Service. The construction cost for the project is valued between $4,000,000.00 and $4,800,000.00. Offerors must be experienced in design/build work and primarily engaged in this line and, who, in addition, shall have satisfactorily completed at least three prior projects comparable in size and scope to the work required by this solicitation. A pre-proposal conference will be conducted on February 22, 1996 at 1:00 PM at the Hartford P&DC, 141 Weston St., Hartford, CT 06101. Solicitation packages will be available on February 9, 1996 at $75.00 per set, NON-REFUNDABLE, from the Architectural Firm of Edgewater Services, 323 E. Willow, Suite 201, Syracuse, NY 13203 (315) 471-4420, referencing Solicitation #415046-96-A-0009. All checks/money orders must be made payable to Disbursing Officer, U.S. Postal Service. CASH WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. OFFERS ARE DUE BY 4:00 PM ON MARCH 8, 1996. (052)

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