Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Procurement & Services(AD13), 1601 Perdido St., New Orleans, LA 70146

C -- ENGINEERING SERVICES SOL 629-065-CI17 DUE 020998 POC Deidre V. Phillips, Contract Specialist, 504-589-5284 Engineering services are required to provide investigation, design surveys, verification of as-built conditions, construction drawings, cost estimates, phasing and estimated construction time required to render a fully developed set of construction documents for the modification of two existing Underground Storage Tanks(UST's) in accordance with VA design criteria. The project is located at the VA Medical Center, 1601 Perdido St., New Orleans, LA. 254's and 255's are being solicited from emerging small business only. 254's and 255's that are not from an emerging small business shall not be considered and shall be rejected. The SIC code for this procurement is 8711 $2.5mil. Emerging Small Business are firms who's gross annual receipts for the preceeding three years have not exceeded $1.25mil. Selection will be based upon recent specialized experience, professional capacity to accomplish work, professional qualifications of staff and consultants assigned to the contract. Interested firms shall submit 254and 255's no later that February 9, 1998 at 4:00pm central standard time. The area of consideration is restricted to firms within the New Orleans metropolitan area. (0007)

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