B -- SPECIAL STUDIES AND ANALYSIS

Notice Date

September 6, 2000

Contracting Office

GSA, PBS, Property Development (4PCC), Suite 2500, 401 West Peachtree St., NW, Atlanta, GA 30365-2550

ZIP Code

30365-2550

Solicitation Number

GS-04P-00-EXD-0085

Response Due

September 25, 2000

Point of Contact

Noel E. Walton Contracting Officer 404-331-4635, Kevin Kampschroer Research Director 202-501-4411

E-Mail Address

RFP (noel.walton@gsa.gov)

Description

The Public Buildings Service desires to receive proposals for research. Research areas cover the business of designing, delivering and operating workplaces and buildings for office workers throughout the United States. Specifically, we are interested in the following areas: 1. The relationship between space and productivity, including actual measured productivity of the people using the space; ability to control aspects of the environment; other indicators of or placeholders for productivity; human resource data affecting productivity, such as absenteeism, retention, etc.; the effects of space on people; and people's perceptions about space. 2. The relationship between kinds of space and longer term costs, including "churn cost" (the cost of reconfiguring or re-designing space to accommodate organizational changes, new employees, new business programs, etc.); total space-related costs; long term operating and maintenance cost. 3. Buildings Management, focusing on customer service, cost and customers' willingness to pay for service levels; methods of achieving greater market clout; support software. 4. Building renovation. Much, if not most of our building renovation work is in historic buildings. The techniques that we have used to modernize these buildings tend to rely on the use of existing materials, often designed for modern buildings. 5. The Future, including industry changes; new services; corporations' real estate practices; new strategic partnerships; how our customers are changing; technological change affecting our products; application of extranets to construction projects; building infrastructure to support mobile, personal or portable telecommunications. 6. The State of Knowledge; a systematic review of what people are publishing, or learning and linking that to how it might affect what we are doing. The PBS has considerable data available for use by researchers. PBS has 7 years of surveys for buildings concerning tennants' satisfaction with a range of services; and extensive data about buildings (size, characteristics, location), occupants, repair work, financials, etc.; both for about 10,000 buildings; 330 million square feet in aggregate. Research proposals using or mining PBS data for new conclusions or correlations are acceptable. Studies relating existing data with new data about our inventory of space are similarly acceptable. Each year, the PBS provides new space to about 60,000 people (approx. 20 million rentable square feet). Many of these new spaces are designed to capitalize on new design methods; new furniture and equipment; experimental spatial arrangements; or non-traditional methods of mechanical conditioning or control. PBS is interested in learning as much as possible from this on-going work. We encourage research proposals addressing any aspects of these projects. Research proposals will be selected on the basis of (a) the soundness of research methods; (b) the quality, experience and background of the researchers; and (c) data management, analysis logistics and technical support. These three will be assessed by a peer review. Final selection and funding of proposals will result from the peer review and the relevance to the business needs of the PBS. A copy of the Request for Proposals may be obtained from either: Noel Walton Kevin Kampschroer Contracting Officer Director of Research GSA PBS, Region 4 GSA PBS, Office of Business Performance 401 W. Peachtree St. Rm. 2513 1800 F Street, NW Rm. 6041 (PX) Atlanta, GA 30365-2550 Washington, DC 20405-0002 (404) 331-4635: voice (202) 501-4411: voice (404) 730-9643: fax (202) 501-3296: fax noel.walton@gsa.gov kevin.kampschroer@gsa.gov Any questions about the Request for Proposals may be addressed to either person listed, in any format (telephone, electronic mail, regular mail, fax). Proposals will be accepted at any time. However, the first peer reviews and decisions will be made about proposals received by September 25, 2000.

Record

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