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

C -- ARCHITECTURAL/ENGINEERING INDEFINITE QUANTITY CONTRACT FOR DESIGN, SITE ADAPTATION, AND CONSTRUCTION ADMINISTRATION USING USPS CADD DESIGN SYSTEM FOR STANDARD PLANS OF NEW POSTAL FACILITIES FOR THE ALBANY NY DISTRICT SOL 082530-00-0019 DUE 121499 POC Jeanne C. Warren, Secretary, A/E Evaluation Board, 860-285-7184 WEB: United States Postal Service, http://www.usps.gov. E-MAIL: United States Postal Service, jwarren3@email.usps.gov. The US Postal Service is seeking Architect and Engineering services primarily for the USPS Albany District's area of responsibility, which is the Albany and Syracuse, NY area, which will consist of site adaptation, verification of design, assembly of drawings, specifications, and proposal documents for CADD based standard plans and working drawings of Post Office Facilities. The USPS CADD Design System is for: Small Standard Building Designs (SSBD) which range from 1,000sf to 8,000sf; and Medium Standard Building Designs (MSBD) which range from 8,500sf to 35,000sf. The estimated total project construction cost is undetermined with individual work orders being negotiated and issued for each project. The contract will include development of drawings based on program requirements provided by the Postal Service. Firms must meet the following requirements: 1)The firm must have a minimum of 30 people (including the use of their consultants) and be multi-disciplined, meaning they must employ both architects and engineers; 2) The firm must have two registered architects and two licensed engineers in the state of New York. This can be accomplished through the use of consultants. At least one of the registered/licensed disciplines must be with the prime firm. The USPS may, at its option, include Title II -- Construction Administrative Services. The USPS, may also at its option, issue work in other areas covered by the Northeast Area Office/Windsor Facilities Service Office. The contract will be subject to negotiation of individual work orders for services for each task. In each instance, total fees for services will not exceed $250,000 for each task. The contract term will be for two years with three one-year renewal options which can bring the duration of the contract to five years. The amount of work for the duration of the contract (5 years) shall not exceed $5,000,000. There is no guaranteed minimum. The USPS reserves the right to make multiple awards. Firms which possess the qualifications to perform the services described above are invited to submit a completed SF255, "Architect-Engineer and Related Services Questionnaire", and a completed SF254 "Architect-Engineer and Related Services Questionnaire for Specific Project" to the address noted above no later than Tuesday, December 14, 1999. Selection criteria will be conducted with the combined use of SF254 and SF255. Interested firms with more than one office should indicate on their SF254 and SF255 the staffing composition of the office in which the work will be performed. Considerations will be given to interested firms according to the following order of preference: 1) Local: the prime firm residing in the Albany District's area (Albany, Syracuse; 2) The State of New York 3) Bordering States; 4) All others. Architectural/Engineering firms will be considered as local only if their sole office is in the geographical area or they have a local branch office and all the architectural design, coordination and management of the project will be accomplished in that office. It is prohibited to pay any fee, commission, percentage or brokerage fee to any person or firm contingent upon, or resulting from award of a contract. Offerors are encouraged to submit their responses by one of the methods offered by the US Postal Service(First Class, Priority, or Express mail) Posted 11/10/99 (W-SN399996). (0314)

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