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C -- VA NATIONAL CEMETERY, LEAVENWORTH, KS -- FACILITY RIGHT SIZING & GRAVESITE DEVELOPMENT -- 45 ACRES SOL 897-015 POC For project related questions, Robert J. Frazier, 202-565-9216/for selection process Robert T. Smoot, 202-565-4181 Civil Engineering firm to provide professional services to prepare schematic and design development documents for the demolition of approximately 39 buildings and development of 15,000 gravesites for full casket interments and 1,500 columbarium niches for cremated remains on the land made available by building demolition. Prime architect/engineer should have a licensed/registered landscape architect and a historical preservation specialist as members of the firm, or team, with experience in large institutional campuses, recreational facilities, parks, or cemeteries. Design efforts include, but are not limited to, site and utility (surface and subsurface) surveys, boundary surveys, asbestos abatement, demolition plans, earthwork plans, utility plans, and roadway development plans. The project also includes committal service shelters, signage, site furnishings, fencing, and landscape plantings. The selected firm must have experience in site work, roadway, storm drainage, site utilities, and building demolition. Emphasis will additionally be placed on estimating capabilities and experience in environmental abatement planning and permitting. The contract will include a government option for construction documents preparation, construction period services, and site visits. Applicants must have an established working office within a 100-mile radius of the VA National Cemetery Leavenworth, Kansas, and be licensed in the State of Kansas. No firm will be considered unless an application consisting of a completed SF 255 and other evidence of experience and capabilities the applicant considers relevant is received by the VA A/E Evaluation & Program Support Team (181A) within 30 days of the date of this advertisement. A current SF 254, representing and differentiating between the personnel, experience and capabilities of all involved offices, must be included with the application together with current SF 254s for each proposed consultant's office involved. Applicants will be rated based on the relevant experience of both the firm(s) and assigned individuals, the applicant's capacity to do the work, record of past performance on VA work, geographic consideration, and participation of minority-owned and women-owned consultants, and demonstrated success in prescribing the use of recovered materials and achieving waste reduction and energy efficiency in facility design. Award of contract is dependent upon the availability of funds. This is not a request for a proposal. If subcontracting opportunities exist and the submitting firm is not a small business, the small, small disadvantaged and women-owned business subcontracting goals will be 40% (SB), 7% (SDB), 5% (WOB) respectively of the amount of work consulted out. Note: the "covenant against contingent fee" clause is applicable to this solicitation. *** Posted 06/18/99 (W-SN344795). (0169)

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