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C -- ARCHITECT AND ENGINEERING SERVICES GRAVESITE DEVELOPMENT, FORT LOGAN NATIONAL CEMETERY, DENVER, CO SOL 888-029 POC Scope: Jack W. Martin, 202-565-6273/Selection Process: Robert T. Smoot, 202-565-4181 Civil Engineering firm to provide professional services to prepare schematic and design development documents for 66 acres of Fort Logan National Cemetery to provide gravesites and additional improved facilities. Prime architect/engineer should have a licensed/registered architect and landscape architect as members of the firm, or team, with experience in large institutional campuses, recreational facilities, parks or cemeteries. Scope: Gravesite development will create approximately 26,400 casket sites (including 13,200 pre-placed crypts), 7,000 in-ground cremain sites, and 10,000 columbarium niches. Design efforts include, but are not limited to, site and utility (surface and subsurface) surveys, boundary surveys, site clearing, demolition, grading, drainage, fencing, planting, utility distribution systems, lawn irrigation, roadway systems, walks and parking. The project also includes construction of a new Administration Building and renovation of the existing Administration Building to a Public Information Building. The contract will include a government option for contract document preparation, construction period services, and site visits. Applicants must have an established working office within a 100-mile radius of the VA National Cemetery, Fort Logan, Colorado, and be licensed in the State of Colorado. This proposed acquisition is a 100% small business set-aside concern. Firms must indicate in response whether they meet the requirements for a small business concern. 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 he VA A/E Evaluation & Program Support Team (181A) within 30 days of the date of the 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 consultants, and demonstrated success in sustainable design including prescribing the use of recovered materials, achieving waste reduction, and energy efficiency in design. Award of contract is dependent upon the availability of funds. This is not a request for a proposal. Note: the "covenant against contingent fee" clause is applicable to this solicitation. *** Posted 01/13/00 (W-SN415740). (0013)

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