Federal Prison Camp, Allenwood, Regional Contracting Office, P.O. Box 1000, Montgomery, PA 17752

Y -- DESIGN BUILD CONSTRUCTION OF WITNESS SECURITY HOUSING UNIT SOL 21105-157 DUE 062700 POC Douglas M. Martz, Supervisory Contract Specialist, 570-547-1641, ext.537 The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) anticipates award of a Firm-Fixed Price Design-Build contract for the design and construction of new Witness Security Housing Unit at the Federal Correctional Institution Otisville, New York. The contractor will be required to provide all architectural, engineering, construction, and other related services necessary to complete the project. The proposed project is currently planned to consist of the design and construction of a secure housing unit of approximately 26000 square feet. This unit shall be a stand alone facility and will require all support services including but not limited to a segregation unit, unicor, receiving and discharge and required program spaces. The unit shall be designed to meet the construction and security requirements of a Federal Correctional Institution. Construction shall require Class A construction and shall be located inside a double fence with razor ribbon. The design shall meet the requirements of ACA, NFPA, SMIAS and the BOP design guidelines. The estimated magnitude of this project is more than $10,000,000. Interested offerors must be a firm or joint venture with experience, individually or as a member of a team, satisfactorily completing a project of similar size and scope. The design of the architectural and engineering features of the project shall be accomplished or reviewed and approved by architects and engineers registered to practice within the State of New York. Participation by architect-engineers, consultants, and subcontractors located within the State of New York is encouraged. The architect-engineer portion of this design-build entity must be a firm or joint venture having an existing major active office, which will have responsibility for performing the design effort, located within the State of New York. Joint ventures for the architect and engineering work will be considered only if the principal or lead firm of the joint venture has an existing active office located within the State of New York. The successful offeror will be required to submit a subcontracting plan for this procurement regarding the utilization of small, small-disadvantaged, HUBZone small business and small woman-owned businesses. The BOP will be utilizing two-phase Design-Build selection procedures. This notice is not a request for proposals. Interested offerors may request and obtain the Phase One solicitation of the two-phase process. Phase One solicitations will be issued on or about May 25, 2000. For consideration on this project, offerors must respond to the Phase One solicitation by submitting their qualification proposal by June 27, 2000. The Phase One solicitation will provide the scope of work, evaluation factors, and submission information for interested contractors to prepare their Phase One qualification proposals. Phase One qualification proposals will be evaluated to determine which firms will be selected for Phase Two. Phase Two participants will submit competitive technical and price proposals as defined in the Phase Two solicitation. Requests for Phase One solicitations should be faxed (570-547-6819) or mailed to Douglas M. Martz, Supervisory Contract Specialist, Federal Prison Camp Allenwood, Attn: Regional Contracting, P.O. Box 1000, Montgomery, PA 17752. (Physical address: 1049 Allenwood Camp Lane). The above point of contact can be reached at 570-547-1641, ext 537 or via e-mail at DMARTZ@BOP.GOV The performance period for the Design and Construction is 1120 calendar days. Posted 05/08/00 (W-SN452480). (0129)

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