U.S. Army Engineer District, Alaska, Attn: CEPOA-CT-CO, P.O. Box 898, Anchorage, AK 99506-0898 (Physical Address: 2204 Third Street, Room 56), Elmendorf AFB, AK 99506-0898)

C -- INDEFINITE DELIVERY ARCHITECT-ENGINEER SERVICES CONTRACT FOR SOL DACA85-00-R-0009 POC Inquiries: Ms. June Wohlbach, 907/753-5624, Contracting Officer: Ms. Gail West!! 1. CONTRACT INFORMATION: This announcement is open to all businesses regardless of size. If a large business is selected for the contract, it must comply with FAR 52.219-9 regarding the requirement for the subcontracting plan for that part of the contract it intends to subcontract. The FY00 subcontracting goals for this contract are a minimum of 61.2% of the contractor's intended subcontract amount be placed with small businesses, 9.1% small disadvantaged businesses, 5.0% to woman-owned businesses and 1.5% to HUBZone subcontractors. The subcontracting plan is not required with this submittal. All responders are advised that this project may be canceled or revised at any time during the solicitation, selection, evaluation, negotiation and final award. The contract shall be an indefinite delivery firm fixed price with a base period not to exceed 1 year and two option periods not to exceed 1 year each. The amount of work in each contract period will not exceed $250,000. An option period may be exercised when the contract amount for the base period or preceding option period has been exhausted or nearly exhausted. Work will be issued by negotiated firm-fixed price task orders. There will be no specific task order limit except the limit of the contract. Contract award is anticipated for June 00. 2. PROJECT INFORMATION: The AE selected will be required to have sufficient staff, flexibility, and capability to be available on an as-needed basis. Typical types of services to be provided are value engineering and studies of project features and design systems. The services could also include facilitating an early concept 0% to approximately 20% design functional analysis, architectural charrette workshop using VE methodology. The AE shall be capable of completing any study in less than 4 weeks from award of the task order. LOCATION: Primarily Various Locations, Alaska. 3. SELECTION CRITERIA: The following selection criteria are listed in descending order of importance (first by major criterion and then by each sub-criterion). Criteria A-F are primary selection criteria. (A) professional personnel in the following disciplines: In-house: Minimum is 1 team leader who must be a SAVE certified value specialist (CVS). The team leader may be from any discipline. All other disciplines may be subcontracted but must include: architect, civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, and cost estimating. Certain projects may also require a special technical or functional expert and that discipline may also be subcontracted. Responding firms MUST address each discipline, clearly indicate which shall be subcontracted, and provide a separate SF254 and SF255 for each subcontractor necessary. The contractor shall employ, for the purpose of performing that portion of the contract work in the State of Alaska, individuals who are residents of the State, and who, in the case of any craft or trade, possess or would be able to acquire promptly the necessary skills to perform the contract. (B) specialized experience and technical competence in: (1) experience in preparing VE studies as the lead role; and (2) experience leading/facilitating the design charrette process; (C) past performance on DOD and other contracts with respect to cost control, quality of work, and compliance with schedules; (D) capacity to maintain schedules and accomplish required work on three simultaneous delivery orders; Criteria E-H are secondary and will only be used as "tie-breakers" among technically equal firms. (E) location of the firm in general geographical area of the projects and knowledge of locality; (F) volume of DOD contract awards in the last 12 months as described in Note 24; (G) extent of participation of SB, SDB, historically black colleges and universities, and minority institutions in the proposed contract team, measured as a percentage of the estimated effort; and (H) demonstrated success in prescribing the use of recovered materials and achieving waste and energy efficiency in facility design. 4. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS: Firms submitting SF 255s (1 copy only) should include: (1) organization of proposed project team, (2) responsibilities and authority of key project personnel, (3) relationship of project team to overall organization of the firm, (4) a quality control plan, and (5) in block 8c of the SF 255 include a POC and phone number. The 11/92 edition of the forms MUST be used, and may be obtained from the Government Printing Office, by calling the administrative contact named above, or from commercial software suppliers for use with personal computers and laser printers. Submittals must be received at the address indicated above not later than COB (4:00 pm Alaska time) on the 30th day from the date of this announcement. If the 30th day is a Saturday, Sunday, or Federal holiday, the deadline is the close of business of the next business day. Any submittals received after this date cannot be considered. No additional information shall be provided, and no faxed submittals shall be accepted. Solicitation packages are not provided. This is not a request for proposal.***** Posted 02/28/00 (W-SN429148). (0059)

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