U. S. Postal Service, Facilities Service Office, 6 Griffin Road North, Windsor, CT 06006-0300

Y -- NEW CARRIER ANNEX -- GUILFORD/MADISON, CT SOL 082530-99-A-0109 DUE 071499 POC Catherine C. Delasco, Facilities Contract Specialist, (860) 285-7191 The U. S. Postal Service is soliciting proposals to construct a new USPS-owned 22,000 sf carrier annex on a USPS-owned 7-acre site on Shoreline Drive in Guilford, CT. The building will be of steel frame with brick and block exterior. The work includes, but is not limited to, excavation, site work, paving, utilities and landscaping. The building will be steel frame with a block and brick exterior. The roof will be single ply membrane with tapered insulation; the interior will have a suspended ceiling with recessed lights; the floors will be VCT. The interior will also have various administrative offices and support areas while the majority of the space will be workroom. It will also have a loading dock with approximately four bays; the buidling will house a USPS Criminal Investigation Office, providing closed-circuit television surveillance for the building. The design of the building will not impact wetland areas on the site. The estimated cost of the work is between $2,000,000.00 and $3,000,000.00, with completion within two hundred seventy (270) calendar days after receipt of notice to proceed. Sealed offers will be received in this office prior to, but no later than, 4:00 p.m. on July 14, 1999. Offers will not be publicly opened. The number of offers received, the identity of the offerors, the amount of any offer, or relative standing of the offerors WILL NOT BE DISCLOSED TO ANYONE until award of contract is made. Proposal documents, plans and specifications will be available o/a June 3, 1999 at a cost of $100.00 per set (non-refundable) from the Facilities Service Office, U. S. Postal Service, 6 Griffin Road North, Windsor, CT 06006-0300. Only certified checks or money orders will be accepted, made payable to the Disbursing Officer, U. S. Postal Service (Reference Solicitation No. 082530-99-A-0109). Plans may be inspected at the issuing office and information regarding their availability may be obtained by contacting Catherine Delasco at (860) 285-7191. Questions concerning the technical aspects of theproposal should be directed to Peter Bolton at (860) 521-0752. There will be a preproposal conference for this project on Thursday, June 24, 1999 at 10:00 a.m. at the Facilities Service Office, 6 Griffin Road North, Windsor, CT. Prospective offerors are encouraged to attend. Offerors wishing to visit the site may do so on their own time. Award of this project is contingent upon USPS funding approval, which is anticipated by mid-July. The USPS is imposing an experience requirement on all contractors who submit price proposals for this project. In order to be qualified a contractor must demonstrate proof of being a general contractor for the past five years and must have completed at least three new buildings of the same size and complexity within this time period. Contractors must use the forms provided with the solicitation package for this experience requirement. Offerors will be required to submit their price proposal and experience requirements in two separate envelopes. The contracting officer will review the experience requirements of all offerors. Those contractors who have fulfilled the experience requirement will have their price proposals opened; contractors who have not fulfilled the experience requirement will have their price proposals returned unopened. Award will be made to the lowest offeror who fulfills the experience requirement. Posted 06/01/99 (W-SN337411). (0152)

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