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C -- LOS ANGELES, CA -- BULK MAIL CENTER EXPNASION, A/E SERVICES SOL 475450-97-A-0034 DUE 041197 POC H.D. Sartain, Procurement Specialist, 901/747-7618 WEB: U.S. Postal Service, http://www.usa.gov/procurement/index.html. E-MAIL: U.S. Postal Service, mjones10@email.usps.gov. The Postal Service will require Architect/Engineer services for an expansion of the Los Angeles, CA -- Bulk Mail Center, located at 5555 Bandini Boulevard. The project consists of investigation, design, drawings, specifications, and proposal documents for an expansion of approximately 220,000 gross square feet at an estimated cost of $17 million to $22 million dollars for the building expansion and $18 to $25 million for the Materal Handling Systems. The basic contract will be for completion of Concept (30%) Design with an option to complete Final (100%) drawings and specifications. Additionally, the contract may contain options for construction administrative services. Architectural/Engineering firms must demonstrate recent comparable experience developing construction documents for the expansion of projects as complex as light industrial processing facilities and the operational systems where the building is occupied and fully operational. The qualifications of firms for this project are as follows: 1) Experience in projects of compatible size and scope in the Los Angeles area; 2) Architectural firm shall have a minimum of seven (7) licensed architects in the office where the work is performed; 3) Consulting engineering firm(s) shall have at least two (2) licensed engineers in each of the following disciplines: structural, mechanical, plumbing, civil, and electrical in the office where work is performed;4) Prime and structural, mechanical, civil, and electrical engineers shall have worked together on at least three (3) projects of similar size and scope, and both prime and consultants have experience and use Autocadd Version 13 or later; 5) Mechanization consultants shall have a minimum of five (5) years experience with mechanization design, such as large parcel sorting system, conveyor system. Comparable projects will be considered as expansion of occupied facilities requiring multiple phased construction and involving the installation of material handling systems with minimal interference with the building operations. The minimum project size is 150,000 gross square feet or greater and costing more than $20 million. Primary consideration will be given to comparable project experience. Firms that have the qualifications to perform the services described above are invited to submit a completed SF255, Architect/Engineer and Related Services Questionnaire for Specific Project, and a completed SF254, Architect/Engineer and Related Services questionnaire, for each of its proposed consultants to the office shown above, received no later than April 11, 1997. The selection will be conducted by using both the submitted SF255s and SF254s. Interested firms with more than one office must indicate on their SF255 the staffing composition of the office in which the work will be performed. Consideration will be given to firms, including consultants, responding to the advertisement in accordance with the following order of preference: (1) 100 mile radius of the Los Angeles, CA area, (2) State of California, and (3) outside the State of California; Architectural and engineering firms will be considered as local only if their sole office is in the local geographical area or they have a local branch office and all the architectural design, coordination, and management of the project will be performed in that office. The mechanization consultant is excluded from the geographical order of preferences. The contract contains a requirement for firms to provide evidence of current errors and omissions insurance of $500,000 per claim. It is prohibited to pay any fee, commission, percentage or brokerage fee to any person or firm contingent upon or resulting from award of a contract for this project. No other general notification of this project will be made. Submissions will not be retained or returned. This is not a request for proposals. (0073)

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