Portland Veterans Medical Center, 3710 South West US Veterans Hospital Road, Portland, OR 97201

C -- OPEN ENDED ARCHITECTURAL SERVICES DUE 081497 POC Rich Hague, Contracting Officer, (503) 273-5210 E-MAIL: hague.richard@portland.va.gov, hague.richard@portland.va.gov. A/E services are required in the area of Architectural/Engineering discipline. Provide comprehensive architect/engineer services for the design of various in-house projects at the Portland & Vancouver Divisions of the Portland VA Medical Center. These services may include but are not limited to full architectural, electrical, mechanical, fire protection, interior design, and health planning services. The scope of work may include the preparation of drawings, specifications, cost estimates, construction period services, site visits, and miscellaneous reports. Contract performance will be for one (Base) year beginning with the date of award, with optional four (4), 1 year extensions. The total contract amount including all option years shall not exceed $1,000,000. Each task order shall not exceed $50,000. Selection Criteria: 1. Professional qualificatins 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 performance on contracts with the VA and other Government agencies in term of cost control, quality of work, compliance with work schedules; 5. Location in the general geographical area of the projects and knowledge of the locality. Area of consideration is limited to a 50 mile radius of the Portland VA Medical Center. A/E must have an existing design production office within the geographic limitation. This is is set-aside for small emerging business. A small emerging business is one whose average annual receipts over the past 3 years is lest than 1.25 million dollars. Interested firms are to submit their SF-254 & SF-255's on or before 3:30 p.m. local time on August 14, 1997 to Contracting Officer, Rich H. (93), P.O. Box 1034, Portland, Oregon 97207. SIC Code is 8712. (0176)

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