FBOP, Construction Contracting Section, 320 First Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.

Y -- FIRM-FIXED DESIGN-BUILD CONTRACT SOL RFP-X00-0330 DUE 031898 POC Lula Strunk, Contracting Officer at (202) 307-0954. The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) anticipates award of a Firm-Fixed Price Design-Build contract for the design and construction of a United States Penitentiary to be located in Martin County, Kentucky. The scope of work includes all architectural, engineering, construction and other related services necessary to provide a new federal correctional facility. The proposed project is currently planned to consist of a group of buildings in a "campus plan" arrangement with related site utilities and site development. This High Security facility will have a gross building area of approximately 50,000 square meters and be designed to house and support approximately 1000 inmates. The estimated magnitude of this project is expected to exceed $10,000,000. For consideration on this project the offeror at a minimum must be a firm or joint venture with experience, individually or as a member of a team, successfully and satisfactorily completing a project of similar size and scope. All responsible sources may submit a proposal which will be considered. The architect-engineer portion of this design-build entity must be a firm having an existing major active office, which will have responsibility for performing the design effort, located within the State of Kentucky. Joint ventures for the architect-engineer work will be considered only if the principal or lead firm of the joint venture has an existing major active office located within the State of Kentucky. The design of the architectural and engineering features of the project shall be accomplished or reviewed and approved by architects and engineers registered to practice in their particular field within the State of Kentucky. Participation by consultants and subcontractors located within the State of Kentucky is encouraged. Participation by small, small-disadvantaged, and small woman-owned business is encouraged. The successful offeror will be required to submit a subcontracting plan for this procurement regarding the utilization of small, small-disadvantaged, and small woman-owned businesses. The BOP will be utilizing two-phase Design-Build selection procedures. This notice is not a request for proposals. Interested offerors may request and obtain the Phase One solicitation of the two phase process. Phase One solicitations will be issued on or about March 18, 1998. For consideration on this project offerors must respond to the Phase One solicitation by submitting their qualification proposal approximately twenty days after the solicitation is issued. The Phase One proposal due date will be identified in the Phase One Solicitation. The Phase One solicitation will provide the scope of work, evaluation factors, and submission information for interested contractors to prepare their Phase One qualification proposals. Phase One qualification proposals will be evaluated to determine which firms will be selected for Phase Two. Phase Two participants will submit competitive technical and price proposals as defined in the Phase Two solicitation. Requests for Phase One solicitations should be FAXED and then MAILED to Lula Strunk, Contracting Officer, at the address and phone numbers noted below. Point of contact for inquiries and clarifications is Lula Strunk, Contracting Officer, Federal Bureau of Prisons, Office of Construction Contracting, 320 First Street NW, Room 500-6, Washington, D.C. 20534. (Send EXPRESS Mail to 500 First Street NW, remainder of address as above). The point of contact can be reached at (202) 307-0954 and receive a fax at (202) 616-6055. (0037)

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