U.S. Postal Service, Kansas City Facilities Service Office, 6800 W. 64th St., Suite 100, Overland Park, KS 66202-4179

C -- ENVIRONMENTAL ARCHITECTURAL AND ENGINEERING SERVICES SOL 193045-99-A-0126 DUE 021099 POC Linda Hoefer 913/831-1855 Ext 704 Proposals Due: 2/10/99 Time: 3:00 PM Solicitation: 193045-99-A-0126 The U. S. Postal Service, Kansas City Facilities Service Office, will be conducting advertising for environmental architectural and engineering services per below. This information is sent to you in advance for your consideration. Should you be interested in this project, please follow the instructions. Send submittals to the attention of Linda Hoefer, Facilities Service Office, 6800 West 64th Street Ste 100, Overland Park KS 66202-4179. Submittal questions regarding this solicitation may be directed to Sabrina Attaluri at (913) 831-1855 Extension 424. Other questions may be directed to Linda Hoefer at 913/831-1855 Ext 704 (E-Mail: lhoefer@email.usps.com) or Vickie Form at 913/831-1855 Ext 437 (E-Mail: vford002@email.usps.gov. PLEASE DO NOT CALL THIS OFFICE TO ORDER A SOLICITATION PACKAGE OR SF 254/255 FORMS. Contract Area: State of Illinois (Only Zips: 620-624, 628-629); State of Iowa; State of Kansas; State of Michigan (Only Zips 498-499; State of Minnesota; State of Missouri; State of Nebraska, State of North Dakota; State of South Dakota; and State of Wisconsin (Only Zips: 540, 546-548). INFORMATION AND EVALUATION FACTORS The Kansas City Facilities Service Office is soliciting contracts for Environmental Architect-Engineer services for the following (but not limited to): Designing and Supervising: asbestos abatement; UST and lead paint remediation; and Perform: real estate investigations (Phase I, TSQ), environmental assessments/impact statements; NEPA assessment; asbestos and lead paint surveys; subsurface investigation; and geotechnical and hydrogeological studies. The Contract will have a minimum aggregate work order value of $5,000.00 and a Not-To-Exceed contract amount (A/E fees) of $2,500,000.00. Individually negotiated work orders will be issued for each project. The resulting contract will be for two years with three additional one-year options, if exercised. Multiple awards may be made for the Kansas City Facilities ServiceOffice for projects in the areas stated above. Any resulting contract may be bilaterally modified to meet changing Postal regulations. Significant evaluation factors include: (A) Location and array of environmental and safety professionals within the covered areas, (B) Capacity of firm to accomplish multiple projects, (C) Past experience on environmental projects, (D) Professional qualifications of staff to be assigned to projects. Firms which possess the qualifications to perform the services described above are invited to submit a completed, current SF Form 255, "Architect-Engineer and Related Services Questionnaire for Specific Project," a completed current SF Form 254, "Architect-Engineer and Related Services Questionnaire," and a completed SF Form 254 for each of its proposed consultants to the office shown above. A pre-selection to identify the most highly qualified firms will be conducted with the combined use of the submitted SF 255 and SF 254. Interested firms with more than one office must indicateon their SF 255 the staffing composition of the office(s) in which the work will be performed. Indicate solicitation number in block 2b, of SF-255. The completed SF 255 should indicate the specific personnel from the responding firm and all consultants expected to do the work on this contract, with resumes for each, professional registrations by state, and experience in this type of work over the past five (5) years. Consideration will be given to firms responding to this advertisement in accordance with the foregoing instructions in the following geographic area(s) and order of preference: (A) Location of office(s) within the states covered (see above list) (B) Elsewhere -- Architectural and engineering firms will be considered local only if their sole office is in the local geographic area or they have a local branch office and all of the architectural design, coordination, and management of the project will be accomplished in that office. There is no restriction on the geographic location of consultants. Proof of errors and omissions insurance, or of the ability to obtain such must be included with the submittal. Participation of bona-fide minority business firms is a consideration in Postal Service selections. It is prohibited to pay any fee, brokerage fee, commission or percentage on any basis to any firm or person contingent upon the award of this contract. Submittals will not be retained or returned. Firms wishing the submittal returned must supply a self-addressed, postage paid envelope. This is not a request for proposal. This office does not supply SF254 or SF255 forms. Offerors are encouraged to submit their proposal(s) by one of the methods offered by the U.S. Postal Service: First Class, Priority or Express Mail. Submittals must be postmarked no later than 2/10/99 at 3:00 PM. Posted 01/11/99 (W-SN286768). (0011)

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