Commander (VPL), U.S. Coast Guard, Maintenance & Logistics Command Atlantic, 300 East Main Street, Suite 600, Norfolk, VA 23510-9102

R -- PROFESSIONAL MARINE ARCHITECTURAL AND ENGINEERING SERVICES SOL DTCG80-99-R-3FA4E4 DUE 060799 POC Ms. Melissa Prestipino, Contract Specialist, (757) 628-4643, or Ms. Marion Veber, Contracting Officer, (757) 628-4633 E-MAIL: For questions regarding this solicitation contact, MPrestipino@mlca.uscg.mil. The Maintenance Logistics Command Atlantic (MLCA), Naval Engineering Division, has a requirement for professional marine architectural and engineering services involving coast guard vessels homeported in the geographical area covered by the MLCA which would be as far east as the Mississippi and as far north as Maine and south to Puerto Rico including the Gulf of Mexico and the Great Lakes. The point of contact is Ms. Melissa Prestipino, Contract Specialist, (757) 628-4643 or Ms. Marion Veber, Contracting Officer (757) 628-4633. The solicitation will be issued to both small and large businesses on a full and open competitive basis. The Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Code applicable to this acquisition is 8711. The size standard for this SIC Code is $13.5 million dollars [annual receipts for the last three years]. Offerors are required to provide all labor, material, equipment, and facility within a fifty mile radius of the MLCA located in Norfolk, VA which is suitable to accomplish the statement of work (SOW). An Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) type contract is anticipated with a base period of twelve months with four, one-year option periods. The resultant contract may include services such as, equipment installation design; condition assessment; engineering feasibility studies; analyses of alternatives; development of designs for alternations; renovations and repairs; including technical documents; specifications; engineering drawings; calculations; various construction engineering services and cost estimating. Individual statements of work will be ordered using task orders. Award will made on best value, in that the responsible offeror whose offer conforming to the solicitation is determined most advantageous to the Government after proposals are evaluated on the following criteria: Technical (key personnel, technical approach, management approach, past performance) and Price. The technical proposal is more important than the price proposal. All responsible offerors are invited to submit a proposal by the closing date set forth herein which will be considered by the agency. "ATTENTION: Minority, Women-Owned and Disadvantaged Business Enterprises (DBEs)! The Department of Transportation (DOT), Short-Term Lending Program (STLP) offers working capital financing in the form of lines of credit to finance accounts receivable for transportation related contracts. Maximum line of credit is $500,000 with interest at the prime rate. For further information, (800) 532-1169. Internet address: http://osdbuweb.dot.gov. See numbered Note 26. Posted 04/16/99 (W-SN321315). (0106)

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