Federal Bureau of Prisons, Construction Contracting Section, 320 First Street, NW, Washington, DC 20534

C -- ARCHITECT/ENGINEERING SERVICES FOR SITE INVESTIGATIONS & ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES SOL X00-0334 POC Susan Schwalb, Contracting Officer (202) 307-0954 The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) seeks to negotiate a requirements contract for Architect/Engineer (A&E) services to provide environmental support for the acquisition, design, construction, management, and disposal of real property assets. This contract will consist of a two-year base with three (3) options to renew. A major component of this work involves the investigation of potential sites for construction of new federal prison facilities and sites at existing facilities or institutions to be converted for correctional use. In addition to site investigations, services shall include environmental analyses and reports to meet the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act, as amended, and the National Historic Preservation Act. Also, services may include work to assist the BOP to comply with requirements set forth under CERCLA, RCRA, Federal Facility Compliance Act 1992, Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, National Pollution Discharge Elimination System and any other regulations that effect Federal land or facilities. This may also involve identifying and acquiring required building and operating permits. Potential sites may be located anywhere in the United States or its possessions. Services will be required at multiple sites simultaneously and may be required with short deadlines. Services will be required to conduct and prepare preliminary and detailed site investigations; Environmental Assessments; Draft and Final Environmental Impact Statements; cultural resource surveys; ecological or endangered species surveys; biological assessments; environmental audits; environmental site assessments; and incidental engineering analyses, such as hydrological and geotechnical studies and analyses of water and sewer systems. Additional property related services to be required will be the preparation of boundary and topographic surveys, housing availability studies, appraisals, title opinions, etc. Selection of a contractor will be based on consideration of the following criteria: FIRM'S CAPACITY, CAPABILITY AND MANAGEMENT PLAN (25%): Size and make-up of the firm and consultants; personnel, by discipline, available for the categories of services required; and any relevant equipment, procedures, systems or techniques available to provide these services. QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE OF STAFF (35%): PAST EXPERIENCE WITH CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES IS MANDATORY. Key personnel of the firm and consultants proposed to lead in the provision of the categories of services required-professional qualifications and relevant experience, individually and as a team; and the team's organizational and management approach and plan to provide services of this type; experience by the firm and consultants by the proposed key personnel of the firm and consultants, including: relevant experience with projects of comparable size and complexity; relevant experience with a program of national scope; experience and performance demonstrated by description of recent services required; experience relevant to the major categories of services required. PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE AND PERFORMANCE (35%); Interested parties are advised past performance and experience will be significant factors in the evaluation process; and QUALITY OF PRESENTATION (5%): The conciseness, clarity and completeness of the firm's submittal. Services will be provided primarily to FBOP personnel located in Washington, DC and consideration will therefore be limited to firms or joint ventures, including major consultants, having an existing active office located with Washington, DC, or the surrounding counties of Arlington, Alexandria and Fairfax counties in Virginia; Montgomery and Prince Georges counties in Maryland. The firm and major architectural or engineering consultants must be licensed to practice their respective professions. The firm/joint venture awarded the contract for these services and their major consultant will not be eligible to compete for other A&E or Construction Management Contracts for the BOP while this contract is in force. This restriction may also apply to any subcontractors doing business under this contract for the selected firm/joint venture. Responses shall be made by the completion and submittal of Standard Form, SF 254 and SF 255, and pertinent supplemental data. The data must be concise and address the specific criteria. NOTE: The successful offeror will be required to submit a subcontracting plan for this procurement regarding the utilization of small, small disadvantaged, and small, women-owned businesses. The plan will be incorporated into and made a material part of the contract. A minimum of 20% of the A/E firm's total available subcontracting dollars must be performed by small business concerns. The 20% requirement includes the following: (a) a minimum of 10% of the proposed total subcontracting dollars shall be performed by small disadvantaged businesses and/or small women owned small business concerns, and (b) a minimum of 5% of the proposed subcontracting dollars shall be performed by small disadvantaged businesses. All small business (regardless of socioeconomic status) must meet the definitions cited in FAR Part 19. Total available subcontracting dollars are defined as work other than that performed by the lead A/E firm's forces. Submittals shall be mailed to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Construction Contracting Section -- Room 5006, 320 First Street NW., Washington, DC 20534, attention Susan Schwalb, Contracting Officer and must be received not later than 3:00 PM on May 8, 1998. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS. No telephone requests for solicitations will be accepted. No collect calls will be accepted. (0090)

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