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C -- ARCHITECTURAL SUPPORT SERVICES FOR THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT SOL JRCRT-97-0027 DUE 041597 POC Tim Spencer, Contracting Officer (202) 307-1956. This is a total small business set-aside. The SIC Code is 8712. Small business size standard is $2.5 million. The Civil Rights Division (Division) of the Department of Justice requires Architectural Support Services to ensure compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The ADA, among other things, prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability by places of public accommodation through failure to remove architectural and communications barriers that are structural in nature in places of public accommodation when it is readily achievable to do so. The law also establishes technical requirements for new construction of and alterations to places of public accommodations, commercial facilities, and public entities. The Division will be investigating alleged non- compliance in response to administrative complaints and initiating compliance reviews of new construction and alterations projects. In its compliance reviews, the Division will inspect plans for new construction of and alterations to facilities, with a focus on those in particular categories. After the plans have been reviewed for compliance with applicable ADA requirements, the Division will seek to resolve any apparent non-compliance or will decide not to pursue the matter. The Division seeks one architectural firm to provide support services in the investigation of complaints and compliance reviews. These services will include, but not be limited to: reviewing architectural plans to determine compliance with the ADA, performing site survey investigations to gather all data necessary to determine compliance with the ADA, advising architects, general contractors, and owners of ways to modify plans or buildings to comply with the ADA, preparing design proposals and/or cost estimates to illustrate proposed solutions and costs to bring plans or buildings into compliance with the ADA, and providing expert consultation services on complex or specialized facilities. The selected firm shall have specialized knowledge of accessible design and the ADA which includes reviewing architectural drawings, performing site survey investigations, and preparing design work in compliance with Title II and Title III of the ADA and the Standards for Accessible Design. We estimate that the total number of plans and/or site surveys chosen for detailed review during the course of the year will range from 30 to 50. In order to avoid a potential organizational conflict of interest, prior to commencing work on each order from the schedule of services, the selected architectural firm (contractor) shall notify the Division if it has any past, present, or anticipated future role related to any facility or entity that is referred to the firm for investigation. Once the contractor has been requested to commence work on a particular order, the contractor shall not accept any work from the subject of the investigation until all the issues prompting the required work have been resolved. Selection evaluation criteria, with numbers one and two being of equal importance and the rest listed in descending order of importance are: (1) professional qualifications necessary for satisfactory performance of the required services, (2) specialized experience and technical competence in accessible design and the ADA in the type of work required, (3) technical ability to review facilities of all types and sizes with a firm's own resources or those of subcontractors, (4) ability to work simultaneously on a number of delivery orders and complete work within the required times, (5) past performance on contracts with Government agencies and private industry in terms of cost control, quality of work, and compliance with performance schedules, (6) ability to provide the required services throughout the United States with a firm's own resources or those of subcontractors, and (7) demonstrated success in prescribing the use of recovered materials and achieving waste reduction and energy efficiency in facility design. This will be an indefinite quantity contract with an initial period of one year. The Government will have the unilateral right to extend the term for four (4) additional one year periods. FIRMS RESPONDING TO THIS NOTICE MUST SUBMIT AN ORIGINAL, AND ONE (1) COPY OF THEIR SF-254 AND SF-255. Note that we do not have any 254s or 255s on file for this type of work, so only firms that respond to this announcement will be considered. Responses are due by 2:00 p.m. local time on April 15, 1997. Responses received after the established time will be considered late and handled in accordance with the Federal Acquisition Regulation clause 52.215- 10, Late Submissions, Modifications, and Withdrawals of Proposals. See Numbered Note 24. (0065)

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