U.S. Department of Energy, Strategic Petroleum Reserve Project Management Office, 900 Commerce Road East, New Orleans, LA 70123

C -- ARCHITECT ENGINEERING SERVICES SOL DE-RP96-99PO20100 DUE 091399 POC Joyce B. Francois, Contracting Officer, 504-734-4760; Geri Champagne, Contract Specialist, 504-734-4766 E-MAIL: Architect Engineering Services, joyce.francois@spr.doe.gov">joyce.francois@spr.doe.gov;geralyn.champagne@spr.doe.gov. The selected A-E firm shall furnish Professional General Engineering services in support of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve Project Management Office located in New Orleans, Louisiana. The services will include operations support and maintenance engineering for new and existing facilities (including salt caverns in which oil is stored and then withdrawn), the associated pipelines and terminals; the complete design, inspection, and maintenance support services for the construction of new above- and below-ground facilities for the storage of oil, including distributed control system, electrical power distribution systems, instrumentation systems, associated pipelines, crude oil distribution systems, brine disposal systems, tank farms, roadwork, and building construction; development of conceptual designs and budgets, offshore engineering, fire protection; environmental studies and reports; geotechnical services; soils investigation; review of designs done by others; reliability and quality control of construction; quality assurance audits; and any other incidental services which are to be performed in conjunction with the related projects. The work will involve sites primarily located in Louisiana and Texas, but may also involve work in other states. Notwithstanding the above general scope of work, the Government reserves the right at its option to contract separately for A-E services for any specific task even if similar to that described in the general scope of work. The type of contract will be cost-plus-fixed-fee contract. The contract will be a 2 year base period commencing about March 2000 with three 1-year option extension periods. Current planning envisions a total construction cost of approximately $50,000,000. Prerequisite to consideration for selection includes: (1) ability to comply with equal employment opportunity requirements; (2) financial responsibility, and (3) a willingness to accept Federal and DOE acquisition regulations, cost principles, and corresponding contract provisions and fee policies. The evaluation criteria shall be as follows ranked in order of importance noting that criteria two (2) and three (3) are of equal importance, that criteria four (4) and five (5) are of equal importance, and that criteria six (6) through eight (8) are of equal importance: 1. Specific experiences and qualifications of key and senior personnel in recent comparable work with petroleum facilities, including as required (i) technical skills and abilities in planning, organizing, executing, and controlling within technical, financial, and schedule parameters; (ii) abilities in overall project coordination and management; and (iii) working together as a team. 2. Ability to assign an adequate number of qualified key personnel from its own organization and keep them assigned to this project, including a competent supervising representative, along with the availability of additional competent, employees for support of the project taking into consideration the depth and size of the organization and the volume of workloads. 3. Reputation, experience, and technical competence of firm and proposed consultants and subcontractors in comparable work, including familiarity with petroleum storage and transfer, fluids process engineering, salt dome cavern leaching, brine disposal, retrofit of existing facilities, distributed control system, electrical power distribution, and instrumentation systems. This includes past record in performing work for this and other Government agencies, and private industry. 4. Experience and technical competence of firm and proposed consultants and subcontractors in the use of AutoCad 13, the attribute properties of AutoCad 13, Microsoft Office 97, document storage systems with electronic check in and check out, and capability of a secured high bandwith connection (1.54 Mbps) to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. 5. Commitment of company management in the project and its expected participation and contribution. 6. Proposed project organization, delegation of responsibility, and assignments of authority. 7. Geographic location of firm and familiarity with the area in which the project is located. 8. Adequacy of facilities. If the selected A-E firm is a large business, the A-E shall be responsible for submitting an acceptable small business, HUBZone small business, small disadvantaged business, and woman-owned small business subcontracting plan in accordance with FAR Part 19.7 and that these business concerns shall have the maximum practicable opportunity to participate in contract performance consistent with its efficient performance. Firms must submit two copies of their SF 254 and SF 255, including a proposed organization chart and narrative description of how the organization would function, by close of business September 13, 1999. Joint ventures will be considered. This is not a request for proposal. DOE reserves the right to exclude a selected A-E from future consideration for construction and/or construction management functions for the work covered by this announcement and to limit or terminate the work at any time. Posted 08/10/99 (W-SN365605). (0222)

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