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Notice Date

December 21, 2001

Contracting Office

Department of the Treasury, United States Customs Service (USCS), Procurement Division, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Room 4.2-E, Washington, DC, 20229

ZIP Code

20229

Solicitation Number

CS-02-015

Response Due

January 15, 2002

Point of Contact

James Lieberman, Contract Specialist, Phone (202) 927-0435, Fax (202) 927-0288, Email james.e.lieberman@customs.treas.gov

Description

If you are interested in responding to the following you must request, in writing for a copy of the RFP or you can E-mail me at james.e.lieberman@customs.treas.gov. Requests by FAX will not be accepted. The solicitation will be issued on or about November 1, 2001 and proposals are due on January 15, 2002. The Department of the Treasury, U.S. Customs Service(USCS), Advanced Training Center, will be built on a 104 acre parcel of land located in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. The project will consist of design for this center, the site development and the construction of the center infrastructure, training areas, and support buildings. Any contract that may be awarded as a result of this procurement action will be a Firm Fixed Price Contract to design and build the project and provide the space planning for the project. The design/build offeror is referred to herein as the Architect/Engineer/Construction/space planner (AEC) Team. The Center shall provide training for up to 200 employees of, the U.S. Customs Service. The AEC Team will be required to guarantee a maximum final total construction cost not to exceed $19.2 million. These buildings shall be arranged in a campus setting that are located relativity close to each other. All buildings shall have an architectural design that is similar to the Harpers Ferry Historic District, and shall retain the natural site environment, wet lands, open fields and woodlands to the maximum extent practicable while providing additional landscaping and landscape buffers, with parking for up to 250 cars. To preserve vistas from the adjacent Harpers Ferry Battlefield Park, all Structures shall be built no higher than the view that School House Ridge can block from this battlefield. The goal is to provide an architecturally significant national advanced training center, completely fitted out to serve the present and future program needs of USCS, offering innovative technologies and features to support modern class rooms, training areas, firing ranges and office space for improved occupant productivity, space flexibility, energy conservation, and reliable utility systems, while ensuring environmental sensitivity. The Advanced Training Center shall be a showcase center for energy and water conservation, and shall utilize passive and active solar or other renewable energy applications, where practicable, and life-cycle cost effective building and system design conforming to Department of Energy 10 CFR 435. The project shall be designed and constructed in accordance with the National Building Code (BOCA), the General Services Administration (GSA) Facilities Standards (PBS PQ 100), and other codes and standards to be specified. The AEC Team shall provide all work necessary to implement the project, including subsoil explorations, preliminary, tentative, and final design plans, specifications, and calculations in Architectural, Interior Design, Space Planning, Programming, Landscape Architecture, Mechanical, Electrical, Civil, Structural, Fire Protection and Life Safety, Geotechnical, and Environmental Engineering, boundary and topographic and boundary surveying, wetland permits, flood plain studies, rough grading plans, earthwork analysis, sediment erosion control plans, site plans, storm drainage and paving plans, storm-water management plans, water and sewer plans and permits, off-site road improvement plans, construction permits, design and construction supervision and contract management, and design and construction quality control, including shop-drawing review, testing and inspection. Architects and engineers shall be registered in the State of West Virginia. Construction contractors shall have valid licenses in the State of West Virginia or the ability to obtain such licenses. The AEC Team shall conduct such surveys, studies and presentations as may be required to secure permits, and regulatory, code, from Jefferson County, West Virginia for the successful execution of the project. Specifications shall be developed using the AIA Master Spec, GSA version. The Architect-Engineer component of the AEC Team shall have the capability of producing all design work in an active production office located within 50 miles north, south, and east of Washington DC or 100 miles west of Washington, D.C. The Contractor shall be required to (a) commence Work under the Base Contract or Option No.1 within 7 calendar days after the date the Contractor receives the notice to proceed, (b) perform the work diligently, and (c) complete the entire project ready for use not later than 440 calendar days from the notice to proceed. The time stated for completion shall include final cleanup of the premises All design plans shall be accomplished using AUTOCAD release 12 computer-aided design/drafting. All offerors that are not small businesses will be required to submit a Small Business and Small Disadvantaged Business Sub-Contracting Plan as part of the Stage II response, for that part of the work it intends to sub-contract in accordance with FAR 52.219. Large Businesses will be evaluated on their commitment to the use of 47.5% for small business; of that 47.5 percent for small business, 6.5% the goal for small disadvantaged business, and 5% is the goal for small business/woman-owned 1% is the goal for HUBZone Small Business, 1.5% is the goal is for Veteran-Owned Small Business as presented in their Sub-Contracting Plan, FAR 52.219 (see Section J for the Sub-contracting plan template). For Large Businesses contract award is contingent upon a Government approved sub-contracting plan. =20

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Record

Loren Data Corp. 20011226/YSOL009.HTM (D-355 SN5158G6)