Navy Public Works Center, Washington Navy Yard, Code 222, Bldg 175, Washington DC

C -- CULTURAL RESOURCES SERVICES SOL N68925-96-D-A539 DUE 070896 POC Christine Henderson, Contract Specialist, 202-685-8226. This is an Indefinite Quantity Contract for services to include, but not limited to, evaluate analysis of cultural resources management and planning processes; interviewing techniques; preparing and conducting telephone surveys; preparing reports including the text, design, layout and graphics; obtaining specific professional preservation expertise; and cartography in the Washington DC area. The estimated start date 08/19/96 and the estimated completion date is 08/19/98. Other projects may be added which will require the same basic professional skills listed below in this announcement. The individual fee for any one project may not exceed $150,000. The guaranteed minimum will be $10,000. The contract will not exceed $750,000. The contractor must be able to perform 50% of all work in-house. The proposed contract is for a term of 12 months with a government option to extend for an additional 12 months from the expiration date of the original contract. This will be a firm fixed price professional services contract. SPECIFIC REQUIRED EVALUATION CRITERIA, IN RELATIVE ORDER OF IMPORTANCE, INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING SPECALIZED EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS: (1) Familiarity and understanding of Federal and Navy historic preservation/Cultural Resource laws and regulations and the primary Federal and state historic preservation organizations. (In particular, Navy Instructions regarding historic preservation, the National Historic Preservation Act, Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, Archeological Resources Protection Act, SOI Standards and Guidelines for Historic Preservation, the National Register of Historic Places, State Historic Preservation Offices, and the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation; (2) employ a preservation planner, an architectural historian, a preservation architect, an archeologist, an anthropologist and historian; (3) experience in preservation planning, historic properties maintenance and archeology on military installations, and experience with Native American cultural resources; (4) professional capacity to sustain the loss of key personnel while accomplishing the work for multiple delivery orders within the required time constraints; (5) past performance on similar Navy or other DoD contracts in terms of cost control, quality assurance, and compliance with performance schedule. The firms which meet the requirements described in the announcement above are invited to submit a completed SF 254 and 255; writing samples and examples of reports and publications that include graphics, text and photographs; complete information concerning preservation experience with references; and an up-to-date financial status report to the office shown above. Interested firms responding in writing 30 days from this announcement will be considered for selection. No other general notification to firms under consideration for this project will be made and no further action is required. THIS IS NOT AN RFP. (0199)

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