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R -- INDEFINITE QUANTITY CONTRACT FOR ARCHITECT-ENGINEER SERVICES ERIE, PA AREA (ZIP CODES 155 AND 157 THROUGH 168) SOL RFP #232098-95-A-0355 DUE 101395. POC Acting Contract Specialist, Lorraine C. Fearrington, (410) 997-6203. The contract for Architect-Engineer services will be for two years, with individual work orders being issued. Each work order will be negotiated as an individual project. Work orders for any one project cannot exceed $12,000.00, and the total contract cannot exceed $400,000.00 for the base term of the contract. The contract may be renewed for three one year periods and increased $200,000.00 per year. The total amount of work ordered over the five-year period may not exceed $1,000,000.00, or be less than $5,000.00. Architect-Engineer firms which meet the requirements described in this announcement are invited to submit: (1) a Standard Form 254, Architect-Engineer and Related Services Questionnaire, (2) a Standard Form 255, Architect-Engineer and Related Services Questionnaire for Specific Project, and (3) any supplemental data. Those submittals must be received by October 13, 1995. The selection will be conducted with the combined use of SF-254 and SF-255. Interested firms with more than one office must indicate on their SF 255 the staffing composition of the office in which the work will be performed. Consideration will be given to interested firms responding to this advertisement in accordance with the instructions and in the following order of preference: 1. Located in the counties of Cambria, Blair or Indiana of the State of Pennsylvania; 2. Located in the zip codes of 155, 157-168; 3. Located in Western Pennsylvania. Architectural and Engineering firms will be considered as local only if their sole office is in the local geographical area or they have a local branch office and all the architectural design, coordination, and management of the project will be performed in that office. The contract contains a requirement for firms to provide evidence of current insurance of $200,000.00 of errors and omissions per claim. Participation of Minority-Owned Businesses is a consideration in U. S. Postal Service Architect-Engineer 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 project. No other general notification for this project will be made. This is not a request for proposal. (254)

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