VA Pittsburgh Health Care System, 7180 Highland Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15206-1297

C -- REPLACE HANDICAPPED BATHROOMS AND PARTITIONS IN BUILDINGS 1, 2, 4,5, AND 8" SOL 646-14-97 DUE 013097 POC Marian Ropelewski, Contract Specialist Request for Registered Architect and Professional Engineer Services to provide preliminary design for Project #645-96-103, "Replace Handicapped Bathrooms and Partitions in Buildings 1, 2, 4, 5, and 8" for the VA Pittsburgh Health Care System location at 7180 Highland Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15206-1297. Services include (but are not limited to), Site Investigation, Preparation of Preliminary Construction Drawings, Outline Specifications and other appropriate documents, and Preliminary overall cost opinion, including the VA-retained CIH Asbestos Abatement Cost Evaluation. Specific work disciplines are Architectural, Plumbing, HVAC and Electrical Construction. A/E will also be responsible to include VA-retained CIH Asbestos Abatement Data and Drawings in the preliminary construction documents. Work shall be in accordance with all DVA rules, regulations, specifications and standards, including ADA design standard compliance. The government will retain the option for award of construction document stage basedon estimated construction cost or revise the scope of the project so as to stay within the project budget. Construction document stage includes reviews with meetings, pre-bid conference, and construction period services which consist of site visits as required, submittal review and processing with final inspection and project close-out. Area of consideration is within 60 miles of the VA Pittsburgh Health Care System location at 7180 Highland Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15206. Procurement is set-aside for emerging small businesses. An emerging small business is one whose size is no greater than 50% of the size standard applicable to the SIC code of the procurement. The SIC Code is 8712; the Small Business size standard is $2.5 million. Estimated construction cost range is between $250,000 and $370,000. This is not a request for proposal. All interested and responsible firms desiring consideration shall submit current SF-254 and SF-255 forms to the attention of the Contracting Officer no later than 1/30/97. Subject to the availabililty of funds. (0362)

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