USPFO for West Virginia, 50 Armory Road, Buckhannon, WV 26201-2396

R -- MULTIDISCIPLINARY ARCHITECT-ENGINEER SERVICES, TYPE A, B, AND C, FOR AN INDEFINITE DELIVERY CONTRACT POC Contact Contracting Officer, MSG Harold R. Rowan, (304) 473-5216, or Contract Specialist, CPT Terry L. Mills, (304) 473-5207 Provide multidisciplinary A-E Services for an Indefinite Delivery Contract, for the 167th Airlift Wing, WV Air National Guard Base, EWVRA-Shepherd Field, Martinsburg, WV 25401-7704. Type "A" Concept Services shall include but not be limited to making investigations, collecting data, surveys, and other fact finding studies as necessary to support the design/renovation of various installation projects. Type "B" Services (Optional) shall include engineering calculations and analysis for complete design, statement of probable cost, complete detailed drawings and technical specifications of such quality and completeness as to be competitively bid by contractors. Type "C" Services (Optional) shall include all personnel, equipment and materials necessary to perform all material data and shop drawings, reviews, complete construction compliance inspections and material testing as required in the construction contract documents. Type "C" Services shall not commence until the start of the project construction foreach project. The contract provides for an initial 12 month period from the date of award, with one optional 12 month period to be exercised at the total discretion of the Government, for a total of not to exceed two years. Individual delivery orders shall not exceed $100,000.00. The total of all orders under each individual contract period shall not exceed $250,000.00 per year, and will have a maximum contract cumulative fee limit of $500K. All drawings shall be in accordance with Executive Order 12770 (25 July 1991) Metric Usage in Federal Government Programs. Significant evaluation factors by which selection will be made are as follows and are listed in order of importance: (1) Professional qualification necessary for satisfactory performance of required services, (2) Specialized experience and technical competence in the type of work required, (3) Capacity to accomplish the work in the required time, (4) Past references on contacts with Government agencies and private industry in terms of cost control, quality of work, and compliance with performance schedules, (5) Location in the general geographic area of the project and knowledge of the locality of the project; provided, that application of this criterion leaves an appropriate number of qualified firms, given the nature and size of the project, (6) Demonstrate success in prescribing the use of recovered materials and achieving waste reduction and energy efficiency in facility design. All firms responding must submit both SF 254 and SF 255 for the prime firm and their consultants or for the Joint Venture and their consultants, to USPFO for West Virginia, Attention: Contracting Officer, MSG Harold R. Rowan, 50 Armory Road, Buckhannon, WV 26201-2396. Firms shall include on their SF 254 the previous work accomplished for the Air National Guard for the past five (5) year period. Firms with more than one office should indicate on the SF 255 the office out of which work will be performed and the staffing composition of that office. The make-up, qualifications and experience of the proposed design team to include outside consulting firms will be evaluated. Therefore, the anticipated design team should be identified. The selected A-E firm shall be ineligible to compete for the A-E design contracts for which they have developed the project book and/or statement of work. This acquisition is Unrestricted. The SIC is 8712 -- Architectural Services. The small business size standard is 2.5 million dollars. Please indicate your business size in block 4 of the SF 254. Responses will be received in the Contracting Office until COB, 30 days from the date of publication of this advertisement. All responsible sources may submit SF 254s and SF 255s which will be considered. In accordance with FAR Part 36, the selection process in FAR Subpart 36.6 will be used to review and evaluate firms. A Preselection Board shall review, evaluate and rank the firms according to the selection criteria. The selection board will hold discussions with at least three of the most highly qualified firms regarding concepts, the relative utility of alternative methods and feasible ways to prescribe the use of recovered materials and achieve waste reduction and energy-efficiency in facility design, and prepare a selection report for the final selection authority who shall make the final selection decision. All firms on the final selection list are considered "selected firms" with which the contracting officer may negotiate in accordance with FAR 36.606. The type of contract shall be Firm fixed Price. This is not a request for a proposal. (0167)

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