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C -- ARCHITECTURAL-ENGINEERING SERVICES FOR MODIFICATION AND/OR DISMANTLING OF ELECTRICAL AND RELATED UTILITY SYSTEMS Sol N62474-96-R-7186, Due 082696, contact Sheila Clark, Supervisory Contract Specialist, (408) 656-3454, Contracting Officer. This is a firm fixed price contract. Architectural-Engineering services are required to perform a study to include the evaluation of the existing 480 volt electrical distribution system in and around Bldg 700 at FNMOC; determine the impact resulting from the planned disconnection of the Cyber computer (400 Hz power) by end of 1996; re-configure the power feeds on the existing 480 power systems including modernizing the motor control centers; provide cost estimates for the various components and/or phases of the project. As a supplement to a hard copy of the study, the A-E should transfer the information on 31/2'' diskettes in a WordPerfect 6.1 or later format, which will be part of the deliverables. All drawings produced should be submitted as a hard copy and on 31/2'' diskettes in the AutoCAD R13 format. Time for completion of the contract is 160 calendar days from notice of award. Selection will be based upon the following criteria, which are numbered in order of importance: (1) Experience: Specialized (both government and private) and technical competence of the firm, its proposed personnel and consultants for the type of work required completed within the last five years; (2) Qualifications: Professional qualifications of the staff proposed for this work specially on related projects addressed in criteria (1) above; (3) Quality Control Process: Submit a summary presentation of the firm's internal quality control program; (4) Past Experience: Past performance (with emphasis on similar efforts cited in criteria (1) and (2) with government agencies and/or private industry; (5) Location: (a) location of firm in general geographical area of the Naval Postgraduate School and (b) ability of the firm to ensure timely response to request for on-site efforts; (6) Capacity: Ability of the firm to accomplish the contemplated work within a minimum reasonable time limit; (7) Volume of work previously awarded to the firm by the Department of Defense over the past 12 months. See Note 24 for general submission requirements. Interested firms that have the capabilities to perform this project must submit a SF 254 (unless a current one is already on file) and SF 255, U.S. Government Architect-Engineer Qualifications, to the office indicated above. This is a 100% set aside for Emerging Small Business Concerns. An ``Emerging Small Business'' means a Small Business Concern whose size is no greater than 50% of the Numerical Size Standard applicable to the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Code assigned to a Contracting Opportunity. A concern is small if its preceding three fiscal years did not exceed 2.5 million. The Standard Industrial Classification Code assigned is 8712. Firms responding to this announcement by 3:00 p.m., 26 August 1996 will be considered. Refer to Announcement N62474-96-R-7186. This is not a request for proposal. (204)

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