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Z -- SERVICES FOR THE 3 DEPARTMENT OF STATE SITES SOL S-OPRAQ-97-R-0043 DUE 060497 POC Robert R. POWELL, CONTRACTING OFFICER, 703-875-6030 OR HARRY; FLUKE, 703-875-4681 The Department of State requires a contractor to provides services for the operation, maintenance, repair, installations, and alterations of the plumbing, mechanical equipment and systems, electrical equipment and systems, and buildings at 3 Department of State sites -- Main State Building, Washington, D.C.; Blair House, Washington, D.C. and International Chancery Center, Washington, D.C. The principal building is the Main State Building, which has 1.6 million occupiable square feet of space, and has extensive and sophisticated mechanical and electrical equipment and systems. The Contractor is responsible, except for certain Government furnished property, for providing and managing all the administrative and technical services, materials, supplies, and equipment to assure effective and economical completion of the required work. The solicitation shall contain several evaluation factors. Factor No. 1 considers the offeror's or joint venture's past experience within the last 5 years in carrying out comparable work, as well as the quality of the offeror's or joint venture's past performance in carrying out the work. This factor No. 1 is a go/no-go factor that the offeror or joint venture must meet. Any failure to met this factor No. 1 mandates exclusion from further consideration and contact award. The solicitation will require an offeror or joint venture to submit under factor No. 1 the following information for the following items 1 to 6 for at least 3 separate contracts performed within the past 5 years: Item 1 -- Function of facility and gross square footage of occupiable square footage of office or related type space; Item 2 -- Type and size of chillers operated, maintained and repaired, and areas served. Item 3 -- Type and size of equipment used to maintain critical temperatures and humidity, and areas served; Item 4 -- Type and size of electrical distribution systems (EDS) maintained and repaired; Item 5 -- Type and size of uninterruptable power supply (UPS) systems operated, maintained and repaired, and areas served; Item 6 -- Type and size of diesel powered generators operated, maintained and repaired and areas served. A facility is considered comparable in size and function to the Main State Building if it is at least 500,000 occupiable square feet of office or related type space per contract. Warehouse and/or storage buildings are not considered to be of a comparable function, and are not acceptable experience under this solicitation. If the offereor or joint venture cannot meet this minimum size and function requirement, its proposal shall be excluded from further consideration and award. For items 2 through 6 listed above, an offeror or joint venture does not need to have experience for all 6 items for each of the 3 contracts. However for the above items 2 to 6 the offeror or joint venture must have in the aggregate of the 3 contracts experience for each of the 6 items which is of a complexity and scope sufficiently related to the complexity and scope at the Main State Building that demonstrates that the offeror or joint venture has the experience to fully provide the services required under this solicitation. Related experience may be that gained by the offeror for joint venture utilizing its own personnel in the performance of contracts, or gained through the awarding of subcontracts, and the monitoring of the subcontracts. A listing of the major equipment and systems at the Main State Building will be set forth in the solicitation. If the offeror's or joint venture's proposal does not clearly demonstrate sufficiently related experience, the proposal shall be excluded from further consideration and award. The acquisition shall be full and open competition. The Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) code is 1799. The solicitation will be for a contract for a base year and 4 option years. The solicitation will be issued on or about June 4, 1997. Mail requests for a copy of the solicitation may be sent to the address listed in paragraph 7 above, Attn: Harry Fluke. Facsimile (FAX) requests for the solicitation may be sent to (703) 875-5005, Attn: Harry Fluke. Telephone requests will not be accepted. (0126)

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