Department of Veterans Affairs, Great Lakes Healthcare Systems, Contract Service Center, Bldg. 5, 5000 West National Ave., Milwaukee WI 53295

C -- ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM ANALYSIS DUE 071697 POC Kimberly Cowan-Tucker, Contracting Officer -- (414) 902-5406 E-MAIL: Great Lakes Healthcare System Acquisition Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, COWAN-TUCKER.KIMBERLY@FORUM.VA.GOV. Provide professional engineering services to prepare a short circuit and overcurrent device time-current coordination study of the old electrical distribution system through Building 139 from its point of origin in Building 191 down through the lighting panels for VA Medical Center, North Chicago, Illinois. The complete study shall include a system one line diagram, short circuit and ground fault analysis, and protective coordination plots. All results shall be checked for compliance with the pertinent sections of the National Electrical Code. Short circuit calculation procedures, coordination evaluation guideline etc., shall be in accordance with the applicable American National Standards Institute/Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (ANSI/IEEE) standards. The coordination study shall be prepared by qualified engineers employed by the contract consultant. The consultant may be an approved independent consultant or power systems analysis department of a switchgear manufacturer. Submit two (2) copies each of SF 254 and SF 255 with appropriate data. Selection criteria will be based on 1) past performance on similar projects, maintaining project schedules and project budgets; 2) overall design experience; and 3) Qualifications of staff to be assigned. Project manager is Dick Magin at (847) 688-1900, ext. 3572. Site visits by appointment only. No bid packages are available. This is not a Request for Proposal (RFP). This procurement is unrestricted. ***** (0168)

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