GSA New River Realty Svcs District (3PN), The Wanamaker Building Room 621, 100 Penn Square East, Philadelphia, PA 19107-3396

C -- SUPPLEMENTAL A/E TERM CONTRACT FOR PROJECTS IN THE ENTIRE STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA AND THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA WEST OF THE BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY AND SKYLINE DRIVE. SOL GS03P97DWD1004 DUE 123196 POC Contracting Officer, Ivy S. Skidmore, (215) 656-6151 SYNOPSIS OF PROPOSED PROCUREMENT OF A-E SERVICES Architectural-Engineering design services for a supplemental term contract for projects throughout the Primary Geographical Area of the entire state of West Virginia and the Commonwealth of Virginia west of the Blue Ridge Parkway & Skyline Drive. At the Government's option, services may be required in the secondary geographical area which includes the remainder of the Commonwealth of Virginia east of the Blue Ridge Parkway & Skyline Drive (excluding Fairfax, Loudon, Prince William & Arlington Counties & the cities of Fairfax, Falls Church & Alexandria). Projects under this contract are Architectural with Mechanical, Electrical, Structural, Fire Protection, and Code Compliance efforts. Projects may involve incidental asbestos abatement, and construction monitoring. Repair and alteration work will be for federal facilities and generally will be for projects under $1.6 million in construction costs and will almost always involve occupied buildings and may involve historically significant structures. The scope of architectural/engineering services under this proposed contract may include, but may not be limited to, the following: pre-design, programming, the preparation of feasibility studies; site investigation, complete design services; space planning, interior design; post construction award services (submittal review, as built drawing preparation and construction monitoring) if so requested by the General Services Administration. Hazardous materials may be encountered in the existing facilities. The A-E will be required to identify, quantify and test the types and locations of hazardous materials that will be abated during construction. The projects will be designed and constructed in metric, System International (SI) units in accordance with Public Law 100-576, the Omnibus Trade & Competitiveness Act of 1988, the Metric Conversion Act, and Executive Order 12770. GSA Contract requirements for project submissions require an electronic submission readable and alterable by AutoCAD release 12 only. DXF and IGES formats shall not be accepted as submissions. A hard copy and ASCII file listing all filenames on diskettes must be submitted. Drawings: NATIVE .DWG format, AutoCAD release 12 AutoCAD/LT. Written Documents Specs: NATIVE Microsoft Word, version 6.0 Estimates: NATIVE Microsoft Excel, version 5.0 All A/E participants are reminded that the selection/evaluation of the prime A/E and team shall be based on the compatibility of their systems with each other. GSA will not accept any other format. Detailed CAD Deliverable Policy is available upon request. Contractor agrees that all CAD, AutoCAD drawings and related files, photographs, drawings, renderings, blueprints, specifications and/or other materials generated for use by the contractor (A/E) on the project, whether in machine readable form or not, shall belong at all times to the General Services Administration (GSA) and/or government and will be delivered to GSA at the times specified and within the schedules contained in the Agreement or at the termination of the Agreement, whichever occurs first. The evaluation criteria to be applied in the selection process in the order of importance are as follows: 1) Quality of Past Projects and Experience: Experience with the repair/alteration of similar projects. The firm will provide, on the SF 255 item #8, a detailed narrative of five relevant projects and indicate percentage of their involvement and role as prime, consultant, joint venture or individual experience. List projects which demonstrate firm's experience with projects of similar size and scope. Include 8x10 photographs for the above five projects. 2) Professional Qualification and Design Ability: Team members will be evaluated on the basis of their education, professional certification or licensure and experience. Demonstrated ability to perform Repair and Alterations of similar size and scope in occupied buildings. Critical factors include prior experience, types and numbers of personnel in desired disciplines, experience of team members including length of service with the firm. Provide information on consultants such as: work in historic buildings, fire protection, hazardous materials, elevators, cost estimating, etc. 3) Organization and Management: Capability of team organization and ability to control budgets, project scheduling and quality assurance. Ability to handle multiple projects. Previous experience in coordination with consultants. 4) Familiarity with Federal Gov't Design standards and procedures: Previous working experience with PQ-100.1 (Facility Standards for PBS); all applicable Building Codes (including BOCA) NFPA, and Environmental regulations); Uniform Accessibility Standards (UFAS/ADA) as referenced in SF 255 item #8 & #9. Extra credit supplemental points are set aside for involvement of minority owned and women owned firms. GSA will consider only prime firms capable of providing at least 50% overall design services in-house from an existing office located in the Primary Geographical Area. The Government may conduct final selection interviews in the offices of the A/E Firms. The estimated early contract start date is 10/01/97 (The contract is for the base year plus four(4) one-year options). The contract work shall be performed with the issuance of work orders. The contract will include hourly rates for anticipated disciplines at various levels for use in negotiating fixed price work orders. The maximum amount to be expended under the contract shall not exceed $500,000 per year, with an anticipated annual value of approx $200,000 per year. The guaranteed minimum amount of the contract is $5,000 per year. For projects with an estimated construction cost up to $2,000,000.00, the Government will use the fixed price amounts provided in the Supplemental Architect-Engineer Contract Look-Up Tables for pricing work orders. These tables will be provided to the A-E during initial contract negotiations. It is the Government's intent to incorporate the Look-Up Tables into the contract as mandatory payment provision. However, the Government reserves the right to award a contract based on the negotiated hourly rates only. The contract will also include hourly rates for anticipated disciplines for use in negotiating fixed price work orders that are not covered by the Look-Up Tables. Firms meeting the geographical limitation and having the capability to perform the services described herein are invited to respond by submitting completed SF 254 and 255 Nov 92 edition along with a letter of interest (identifying this announcement by SOL number) to the office listed below. Special attention should be given to the following areas on the 255: Item 7 - List only the team members including staff professionals who will actually perform the major tasks under this contract. A qualified fire protection engineer is an individual with an undergradute/gradute degree in fire protection or fire safety plus a minimum of four years work experience fire protection engineering or a professional engineer registered Fire Protection Engineering, or a professional engineer registered in a related discipline and holding Member grade status in the Society of Fire Protection Engineers. This individual will have a thorough knowledge and understanding of the principles of physics and chemistry governing fire growth, spread, and suppression. Item 8 - List a total of five projects, not five projects for each firm (joint venture/consultants). Indicate which firms completed each of the projects. Include only relevant projects of similar size and scope to those to be performed under this contract. Item 8b - Give a synopsis of the scope of work for each project, stating clearly what tasks were performed by the prime firm. Item 9c - Give a point of contact and telephone number OF THE CLIENT for each project. Item 10 - In a narrative form, outline the firm's approach to design, design reviews, quality control and project management. Include any additional information regarding the firm's qualifications to perform work similar in scope and size to this contract. The last entry under item 10 must read: ''I hereby certify that the firm listed under item 1 meets the geographical limitations stated in the CBD announcement for this contract. This is not a request for proposal. This contract is Set Aside for small businesses, applicable to only the Prime firm. However, consultants may be either large or small businesses. The size standard for a small business, is a concern including its affiliates, having a gross receipts of $7,500,000 for its preceding three (3) fiscal years or an average of $2,500,000 per year.(SIC code 8712). Firms desiring consideration shall submit appropriate data on or before December 31, 1996. GSA Mid-Atlantic Region New River Realty Services District Tidewater Group (3PNT) The Wanamaker Building 100 Penn Square East Philadelphia, PA. 19107 Attn: Ivy Skidmore(0326)

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