National Park Service, Denver Service Center, P.O. Box 25287, Denver, Colorado 80225-0287

C -- INDEFINITE QUANTITY ARCHITECT-ENGINEER CONTRACT FOR LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURAL SERVICES FOR PROJECTS IN NPS AREAS THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES AND ITS POSSESSIONS AND TERRITORIES. SOL 1443-CX-2000-98-009 POC Point of Contact -Marilyn Hogue, Contracting Officer Phone 303 969-2946 E-MAIL: National Park Service, Denver Service Center, contracts_dsc@nps.gov. The National Park Service (NPS), Denver Service Center (DSC) is seeking a firm(s) or organization(s) (team) to provide Landscape Architectural (A/E) services for projects in NPS areas throughout the United States and its possessions and territories. The Government may elect to award a single task order contract or to award multiple task order contracts to two or more sources under this solicitation. The Government reserves the right to award contracts, based on the selection board's final selection list, in order of preference, to the firms considered most highly qualified to perform the work. Each awardee shall be provided a fair opportunity to be considered for task orders to be issued. The Government will use such factors as past performance, quality of deliverables, or other factors that the Contracting Officer, in the exercise of sound business judgment, believes are relevant to the placement of orders. Projects may include, but are not limited to, landscape architectural services for new and existing facilities such as visitor/interpretive centers, administrative facilities, maintenance facilities, single and multi-family housing, cultural landscapes, roads, parking areas, trails and campgrounds. The selected team shall be predominately a landscape architectural firm. In addition to landscape architectural and landscape preservation services, incidental services from other disciplines or consultants may involve architecture; structural, environmental, civil, mechanical, and electrical engineering; transportation planning and design; revegetation; and cost estimating. Include SF-254_s for each of these incidental consultants. All work shall be subject to the review and supervision of the appropriate licensed professional(s) provided by this contract. Additional support services include CADD and word processing services compatible with NPS in-house systems (AutoCad Version 13 or later; Microsoft Word; and Excel). In accordance with Public Law 100-418 and Executive Order 12770, all Federal design work is to be performed using the metric system of weights and measures. Work under this contract may be subject to this requirement. The proposed work may extend over several fiscal years, involving projects at various stages, which will require that the selected firm must be capable of managing a multi-disciplinary team from within the firm or in conjunction with subconsultants and/or NPS design teams. The A/E firm will need to have direct contact with federal, state and local regulatory agencies to assure compliance with regulations, codes and policies. The firm also may need to obtain and furnish various permits (discharge, construction, etc.), and to provide certification of compliance of facilities and/or operations. The firms submitting should also convey their sensitivity to NPS values and standards, and their ability to utilize and incorporate sustainable design principles. (The NPS has adopted "Sustainable Design" as the term for the principle by which future park planning and development will be guided. By definition, this term means meeting present needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. In practice, sustainable design minimizes the short and long term environmental impacts of development activity through resource conservation, recycling, waste minimization and the utilization of energy efficient and ecologically responsible materials and techniques for construction.) The anticipated work may include, but is not limited to the following: (a) Title I Services (Schematic Design and Design Development): project scoping and programming; land use planning; site planning/analysis; site design; cultural landscape inventories; cultural landscape reports; environmental assessments; landscape architectural character studies and surveys; landscape preservation; conceptual, schematic, and preliminary design; code research and analysis; design development; design analysis; energy and life cycle/value analysis; outline specifications; preliminary cost estimates; project phasing/sequencing plans; quality assurance/review; visual simulation including computer imagery, color perspectives, and model building capabilities; desktop publishing; and other Title I services as needed. (b) Title II Services (Construction Document Development): preparation of working drawings; construction specifications; quality assurance/review; constructability analysis; construction cost estimating; value engineering; and other Title II services as needed. (c) Title III Services (Construction Support): site visits, consultation, and construction inspection; review of shop drawings and submittals; assistance in preparation of contract modifications; preparation of Operation and Maintenance Manuals; and other Title III services as needed. The following criteria, in descending order of importance, shall be used in the evaluation of the prospective firms. Please note that these criteria shall be used by the NPS in lieu of the criteria listed under Note 24. 1. Demonstrated professional experience and technical competence (including licensing) of the firm (including its consultants and project personnel), with recent successful projects of similar type and complexity as those anticipated. The types of potential projects are to be used as an indicator of projects under consideration in the future and is not a definitive element of this contract. 2. Past performance on previously completed projects/contracts, similar to the types proposed for this contract, regarding quality, costs, and time schedules. 3. Capacity to respond to expanded or multiple work orders on short notice and within the established schedules, while maintaining a high standard of quality and controlling costs. 4. Demonstration of a sustainable design ethic, philosophy, and approach and the ability of the team to produce viable design solutions that show an awareness and sensitivity to local natural and cultural resources and the global environment. 5. Ability of the team to communicate, coordinate, and facilitate work expeditiously with the National Park Service, to design an entire multi-disciplinary project (or portions thereof) accurately and independently, yet readily integrate into a multi- disciplinary design team managed through the NPS design office located in Denver, Colorado. Emphasis will be placed on the team_s ability to work with multiple entities including federal, state, and local agencies, and other involved concerns. In addition to other factors, offers will be evaluated on the basis of advantages and disadvantages to the Government that might result from making more than one award (i.e. multiple awards). Contract work will be performed under an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract, and task orders will be issued defining the scope of services for each project as funding becomes available. The total of all task orders for the base contract period (one year) will not exceed $1,500,000. Any individual task order will not exceed $250,000. Each A/E prime awarded a contract is guaranteed a minimum of $50,000 during the life of the contract. The term of each contract shall be one year with four one-year options. This procurement is open to small and large business and is subject to Public Law 100-656, the Business Opportunity Development Reform Act of 1988. The National Park Service supports the Department of the Interior_ goals to increase small business participation in its contracting programs. The National Park Service strongly encourages the participation of small business firms including women and minority owned and operated A/E firms and encourages large business firms to include small, women-owned, and disadvantaged business firms as part of their team. Large business firms selected for contract award will be required to submit a subcontracting plan which will separate percentage goals for using small business concerns, women-owned, and small disadvantaged business concerns as subcontractors. The subcontracting plan will need to establish goals for the base and all option years. The government will not indemnify the firm selected against liability involving asbestos or other hazardous materials; that is, no clause holding the firm harmless will be included in the contract. Firms that fully meet the requirements described in this announcement are invited to submit a Letter of Interest and completed Standard Forms 254 for each firm and a Team Standard Form 255 in an original only. Submission of additional supporting material is encouraged, but only to the extent that it graphically (via drawings and photographs) substantiates the relevant project work specifically described on Standard Forms 254/255. In support of the sustainable practices of resource conservation and material recycling, submissions should be concise, make wise use of recycled/recyclable paper and other materials, and be organized in such a manner that the recyclable material can be easily removed after evaluation. To the extent possible, printed/copied double-sided paper documents will be submitted. Responses must be received before 5:00p.m., 30 calendar days from the date of this publication (first work day following a weekend or holiday) in order to be considered for selection. This is not a Request for Proposal. (0295)

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