Department of Veterans Affairs, Ronald J. Adam, Director, A/E Eval. Service (087A), 810 Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20420

C -- CLINICAL BUILDING FOR INPATIENT PSYCHIATRY, VA MEDICAL CE NTER, BATTLE CREEK, MICHIGAN SOL 515-182 POC Contact Point, Dale A. Wegner, (202)233-3209, Contracting Officer, Samuel E. Duncan, (202)233-3716, Additional Contact, Ronald J. Adam, (200)233-3181 Architect or architect/engineer firm to provide professional services for advanced planning and design of a project that may include, but is not limited to: New Clinical Building for Inpatient Psychiatry. This project is designed to address significant Medical Center infrastructure deficiencies in the inpatient psychiatric treatment units. The new clinical building will contain two floors devoted to 120 inpatient psychiatric beds. This will include four 30-bed psychiatric units for acute and intensive care psychiatry. These will be state-of-the-art psychiatric units with appropriate nursing stations, day rooms, treatment rooms, bedrooms, and seclusion and restraint rooms. The units will be utilized for acute inpatient psychiatry, intensive care psychiatry, and geropsychiatry. Total planned square footage associated with new construction is projected to be approximately 78,000 GSF. Construction phasing analysis will be required in order to minimize inpatient medical care disruptions. Required services will include schematics and/or design development, including all appropriate architectural, interior design and engineering disciplines, and a firm estimate of construction cost. The contract will include a government option for construction documents preparation and construction period services. Only firms with in-house architectural services, experienced in the design of similar type projects will be considered. Emphasis will be placed on the estimating capabilities of the applicants. Applicants must have an established working office in the state of Michigan. No firm will be considered unless an application consisting of a completed SF 255 and such other evidence of experience and capabilities the applicant considers relevant, is received by the VA A/E Evaluation Service within 30 days of the date of this advertisement. A current SF 254, representing and differentiating between the personnel, experience and capabilities of all involved offices, must be included with the application together with current SF 254s for each proposed consultant's office involved. Applications will be rated based on the relevant experience of both the firm(s) and assigned individuals, the applicant's capacity to do the work, record of past performance on VA work, geographic considerations and the inclusion of minority-owned and women-owned consultants. Award of a contract is dependent upon the availability of funds. This is not a request for a proposal. If subcontracting opportunities exist and the submitting firm is not a small business, the small and small disadvantaged business subcontracting goals will be 40% and 9% respectively of the amount of work consulted out. Note: the ''covenant against contingent fees'' clause is applicable to this solicitation (0101)

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