Department of State, Office of Acquisition, P. O. Box 9115, Rosslyn Station, Arlington, VA 22219-0244

C -- FIRE PROTECTION SERVICES SOL S-LMAQM-00-R-6033 DUE 060500 POC Contact Mr. Brian Mulcahy, Contract Specialist, (703) 875-6012 The U.S. Department of State (DOS), Office of Logistics Management, on behalf of the Office of Foreign Buildings Operations, is seeking qualified engineering firms or teams to provide overseas fire protection engineering services, which include reduction of fire loss of life, property, and operational capacity, and identifying and mitigating hazardous conditions and fire safety/building code deficiencies. The DOS anticipates awarding up to three indefinite quantity/indefinite delivery contracts. Each contract will consist of a one-year base period with four one-year option periods. The Government guarantees a minimum of $10,000 for the base year and each option year. The total amount of orders issued under the contract shall not exceed $1,000,000 per year. The scope of services under this project include new and existing facilities. The services encompass fire protection engineering studies, development of fire protection system designs, specifications, and cost estimates; project planning, management,and development. The services shall also include study-design packages, design-build packages, project preliminary hazard analysis, topographic and boundary surveys, soil investigations, contractor submittal review, construction field inspection and consultation, Title II services, operation and maintenance support information, and as-built drawing preparation. The firm shall be a fire protection engineering company whose principal duties are fire protection engineering. The firm shall have a minimum of 10 years experience in fire protection engineering. Fire protection engineers shall be from an ABET accredited college. Engineering technicians shall be NICET III certified. NICET III denotes certification from the National Institute of Certification in Engineering Technologies Level III. Project managers and team leaders shall be professionally registered engineers, and have a minimum of five years experience managing and supervising design, consultant, and/or joint venture teams. The required disciplines include, but are not limited to, the following: Project Manager (Registered Engineer), Construction Manager (Registered Engineer), Fire Protection Engineer (Registered Engineer), Fire Protection Engineer (Engineer-in-Training), Fire Sprinkler System Lay-out Technician (NICET III), Fire Alarm System Technician (NICET III), Estimator, CADD Operator, Clerical/Administration. Specifications preparation shall use the MASTERSPEC program; Graphic illustrations shall be prepared using AutoCAD drawing format, release 13 or 14; and project planning and development shall use Microsoft Project planning/scheduling software. Successful offeror(s) including all entities which comprise a joint venture, and all subcontractors, which will require access to classified information, must possess, or be able to obtain a Department of Defense (DoD) Secret facility clearance (FCL) with Secret safeguarding capability in accordance with the National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual (NISPOM), DoD 5220.22-M prior to contract performance (Top Secret clearances will be required at a later date). Appropriately cleared personnel will also be required for contract performance. The DOS will sponsor successful firms for a clearance. This CBD announcement is the solicitation for fire protection services; no other solicitation will be issued. Firms responding to this announcement on or before the closing date will be considered for selection using the following evaluation criteria -- 100 points maximum. a) Professional qualifications necessary for satisfactory performance of required services. Provide information on the technical competence by discipline (education, registration, and experience) of individual team members assigned to provide services to the contract. Specific consideration will be directed to the education, experience, and professional registrations of the fire protection engineers with a minimum of 5 years of full-time experience in fire protection engineering. Partnering with other A-E firms is acceptable when assigned tasks require incidental general engineering services outside of the Fire Protection Engineering field of expertise-30 pts. b) Specialized experience and technical competence in the type of work required. Recent experience (within the past 5 years) of design team members individually, and collectively, as a total team (A-E, Client, Outside agencies) in performing fire protection engineering surveys (including but not limited to general surveys, life safety and equivalency studies); designing fire protection systems (including, but not limited to water based, gaseous based special systems, fire detection and alarm systems); and designing projects to DOS criteria. Provide a description of at least three projects with client references (point of contact and phone number) for which team members provided a significant technical contribution. Indicate how each project is relevant to the work described herein. In matrix form, identify which team members worked on the projects described above. Projects shall be in the left column and team members' names shall be across the top row of the matrix. Also, describe the firm's experience with designated software-25 pts. c) Capacity to accomplish the work in the required time, which includes the ability of the firm to ensure timely response to requests for on-site support with qualified, experienced personnel; capacity of firm to provide personnel and project teams to accomplish multiple, large and small projects simultaneously; and ability to sustain loss of key personnel while accomplishing work within required time limits. Submit an organizational chart with the following information: Principal point of contact, project manager, team leaders, the name of each design team member, all team member's assignments, and the name of at least one alternate for each key person-20 pts. d) Past performance on contracts with Government agencies and private industry in terms of cost control, quality of work, and compliance with performance schedules. Provide a tabular listing of all excellent performance ratings and letters of commendation from both private and Government clients (designate your role: prime, consultant or joint venture partner). These ratings should be dated 1995 or later and should include those for joint venture partners and consultants. Provide a list of projects of various sizes, managed by the proposed project manager(s), that started construction since January 1995 and include the following data: Client's contact, client's need date, design completion date and final cost estimate compared to the contract award amount (note whether bid or negotiated)-10 pts. e) Previous experience with overseas projects and knowledge of foreign building codes, standards and construction practices-10 pts. f) Design Quality Assurance Plan. This shall include an explanation of the firms management approach and commitment to accomplishing numerous small projects (less than $500K), as well as large projects (greater than $500K), its commitment to a quality philosophy, specific quality control process, a portfolio of planning studies and design work (both new construction and upgrades to existing facilities), a listing of present business commitments with required completion schedules, and performance references (include three or more with names and telephone numbers of the contract administrators)-5 pts. Large business firms responding to this solicitation may be required to submit a small business subcontracting plan in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulations Subpart 19.7. The DOS Fiscal Year 2000 subcontracting goals are: small business 40%; small disadvantaged business 5%; small woman-owned business 5%; and HUBZone small business 1.5%. Engineering firms that meet the requirements described in this announcement are invited to submit two copies of the following: a) Standard Form 254 Architect/Engineer and Related Services Questionnaire, b) Standard Form 255 Architect/Engineer and Related Services Questionnaire for Specific Project. Requests for clarification must be submitted, in writing, via e:mail at MulcahyBF@State.Gov, no later than 1:00 p.m., local prevailing time, on May 19, 2000. All submittals must be received no later than 11:00 a.m., local prevailing time, on June 5, 2000. Postal Mailing address: Mr. Brian Mulcahy, U.S. Department of State, A/LM/AQM/RAD, Room L-600, P.O. Box 12248 Rosslyn Station, Arlington, VA 22219. Courier address: Mr. Brian Mulcahy, U.S. Department of State, A/LM/AQM/RAD, Room L-600, 1701 North Fort Myer Drive (17th St. Entrance), Arlington, VA 22209.***** Posted 05/01/00 (W-SN450065). (0122)

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