NY Facilities Service Office, 2 Hudson Place, Hoboken, NJ 07030-5502

Y -- REPLACEMENT OF FEDERAL PACIFIC 480V DRAW-OUT POWER DISTRIBUTION CIRCUIT BREAKERS SOL 332495-99-A-0141 DUE 100899 POC Lori E. Savage (201) 714-5444/Simon Cattan (212) 545-6300 The contractor will provide all material, labor, services, equipment, licenses, taxes, and other items necessary for the Replacement of approximately 150 Federal Pacific 480V Draw-out Power Distribution Circuit Breakers located in eight existing double-ended load centers at the New Jersey Int'l & Bulk Mail Center, 80 County Road, Jersey City, NJ. Scope of Work includes, but not limited to miscellaneous repairs, testing, cleaning and touch-up painting of entire load centers (primary 13.2kV section, transformer section and low voltage section). Contractors must meet the following qualifications to be considered for award of the contract. Contractor Qualifications: 1) Shall have a minimum of ten years experience in a combination of performing replacement breaker conversions and/or the manufacture of low voltage power circuit breakers and switchgear, 2) Shall supply evidence of ANSI certification of the circuit breaker element and the completed assembly prior to delivery, 3) Shall have local switchgearservice engineers within a 100-mile radius of the job site, with a minimum of 10 years experience in the maintenance of low voltage switchgear. Name, address, and telephone number of the service office nearest to job site must be provided with the bid proposal, 4) Shall provide a list of five (5) most recent comparable projects which are 100% completed (installed and operational) as well as any current projects. Project listing shall include: name and location; project size, quantities and ratings; client references (name, title, address, phone, e-mail address); description (include a brief narrative of project); and contract values (initial and final). Proposals from qualified contractors will be evaluated based on price and submitted schedule of construction. Bid proposal guarantee of 20% must accompany bid proposals. Attendance at pre-proposal meeting is strongly suggested. Meeting will be held on Monday, September 27, 1999 at 1:30 PM at the New Jersey Int'l & Bulk Mail Center, 80 County Road (Room 276), Jersey City, New Jersey. Solicitation packages will be available on or about September 13, 1999. Solicitation packages may be obtained from Lockwood Greene Engineers, 215 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10016-6023, Contact Person: Simon Cattan or M. Ben Yazbek (Phone: 212-545-6300, Fax: 212-545-6400, E-mail: scattan@lg.com or byazbek@lg.com). Requests for solicitation packages must be accompanied by $150.00 company check or USPS money order made payable to Disbursing Officer, USPS. Payments for solicitation packages are NON-REFUNDABLE. Sealed offers will be received by the U.S. Postal Service, NY Facilities Service Office, 2 Hudson Place -- 5th Floor, Hoboken, NJ 07030-5502, prior to but no later than October 8, 1999 (for overnight delivery we recommend using Express Mail). It is prohibited to pay any fee, commission, percentage or brokerage fee to any person or firm contingent upon or resulting from the award of a contract for this project. PERSONAL VISITS AND PHONE CALLS for the purpose of discussing this projects are not permitted. Offers will not be publicly opened. The number of offers received, the identity of offers received, the amount of any offer or relative standing of the offers will not be disclosed to ANYONE until time of contract award. Award will be made in accordance with Section M of the solicitation. Posted 09/08/99 (W-SN377246). (0251)

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