US Army Engr Dist New Orleans, PO Box 60267, New Orleans La. 70160

J -- OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE OF BUILDING AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEMS AND EQUIPMENT SOL DACW29-98-R-0002 DUE 111797 POC Charles Zammit, Contract Specialist, (504) 862-1164, Kenneth J. Enclade, Contracting Officer, (504) 862-2871 The U.S. Army Engineer District, New Orleans has a requirement for a contractor to operate and maintain the HVAC systems for all buildings located on the District Reservation. The contractor will provide all labor, supervision, tools, equipment, materials, and parts necessary to operate, perform scheduled preventive maintenance, and repair the HVAC systems in accordance with the original equipment manufacturers' specifications. Equipment to be operated and maintained includes but is not limited to: the electrical distribution system, single package heat pumps with supplemental heat strips, central heat pump systems consisting of ceiling mounted air handling units and remote compressor units, gas fired heaters, central air conditioning systems with gas furnaces, 340 ton centrifugal chillers providing chilled water to air handling units supplying variable air volume (vav) boxes, (the maintenance of these large chillers is currently under a separate contract), reciprocating air cooled auxiliary chillers, fan-coil units, an MCC Powers automated control and energy management system (currently maintained under separate contract). The term of the anticipated contract will be for one calendar year and contain options to extend the contract for four additional one year periods. Contractors interested in responding to this request for proposal will be required to make a site visit prior to submission of an offer. Requests for this solicitation should be made in writing to the attention of the point of contact listed above. (0302)

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