Denver Facilities Service Office, U.S. Postal Service, 8055 E. Tufts Ave. Ste 400, Denver, CO 80237-2881

C -- C-ARCHITECTURAL-ENGINEERING SERVICES FOR POSTAL FACILITIES IN THE STATE OF ARIZONA SOL 072976-95-A-0096 DUE 082295 POC Freda Kelley, Administrator (303) 220-6542 or J William Tygret, Project Manager (303) 220-6509. The scope of work may consist of the preparation of construction documents for custom designs and site adaptation of standard designs, cost estimates, assist USPS during solicitation of proposals for construction and perform optional Title II services during construction for surveillance; shop drawing review and approval; preparation of as builts for new postal facilities leased or owned and major repair and alteration projects within the State of Arizona. A/E firms submitting qualifications will be evaluated using the following criteria: 1) Three or more architects in the office registered in the State of Arizona and two or more registered professionals in each of the following engineering disciplines: electrical, structural, mechanical and civil. 2) Experience in the preparation of major repair and alteration projects. 3) Experience in providing high quality services in construction administration as an owner's representative. 4) Experience by the proposing office and their consultants in the site adaptation of an existing design and/or standard plan. 5) Previous owners' referemces. 6) Experience level in the use of AUTOCADD in the preparation of design and construction documents by the A/E firm and all of their consultants. 7) Previous government experience by the proposing office and their consultants. The selected A/E firm or firms may be awarded subsequent services over a period of five years subject to project needs of the Postal Service and the A/E's availability of staff knowledgeable in Postal work, firm workload and high quality of A/E's performance on recent Postal projects. There is a $5,000 guaranteed contract minimum. Award of additional projects may be made without further solicitation for facilities located within the geographical area noted above. Consideration will be given to firms responding to this advertisement in accordance with the instruction in the following order of preference: 1) Phoenix Metro Area. 2) State of Arizona. 3) Out of the State of Arizona. A/E firms will be considered local only if their sole offices are in the specified geographical area or have local branch offices and all architectural design, coordination, and management of projects will be performed in that local branch office. There is no restriction on the geographical location of consultants. Firms that have the qualifications to perform the services described above are invited to submit a completed SF 255, Architect-Engineer and Related Services Questionnaire and completed SF 254 for each of its proposed consultants to the contract specialist and office shown above, to be received no later than 3:00 PM, September 22, 1995. Multiple awards may be made from this solicitation. Selection will be conducted by using the submitted SF 255 and 254s. Interested firms with more than one office must indicate on the SF 255, the staffing composition of the office in which the work will be performed. The contract contains a requirement for firms to provide evidence of current errors and omissions insurance of $200,000 per claim. Participation of Minority-Owned Businesses is a consideration in US Postal Service A/E selections. It is prohibited to pay any fee, commission, percentage or brokerage fee to any person or firm contingent upon or resulting from award of a contract for this solicitation . No other general notification for this solicitation will be made. Submission of SF 254 and SF 255 by USPS mail (Express, Priority, or First Class Mail) is encouraged. Submissions will not be retained or returned. This is not a request for proposal. All offerors are encouraged to submit their proposals by one of the methods offered by the U.S. Postal Service (Express Mail, Priority Mail, or First Class Mail). (0235)

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