Facilities Service Office, U.S. Postal Service, P.O. Box 701, Columbia, MD 21045-0701

R -- CONST. MGMT. SUPPORT SERVICES FOR MARYLAND, DE, PA, OH, NJ, D.C. AND POTENTIAL SUPPORT FOR ARCH. BARRIERS COMPLIANCE PROJECTS (HANDICAP ACCESSIBILITY), NATION-WIDE Sol 232098-96-A-0071, Due 121595, POC Purchasing Specialist, D.W. Tokasz (410) 997-6214. The Columbia Facilities Service Office intends to award one or more Construction Management Support Service Contracts that may include support for United States Postal Service Architectural Barriers Compliance Program (Handicap Accessibility), which will be for a two-year base with three, one-year renewal options. Work orders will be negotiated and issued as individual projects. Responses are desired from construction management firms who can perform technical evaluation of a subjective nature and are not subject to precise quantification's. Accordingly selection will depend to a limited degree on the adequacy and completeness of information submitted in response to the solicitation. The Postal Service has assigned evaluation values to each of the elements, listed below, in lieu of assigning values to each item within an element. Thus, the greater the degree of your firm's experience, as reflected in your response to the various data elements, the greater chance to amass a higher technical point. Technical Evaluation Factors: a) Construction Management Experience (30 points); b) Personnel Qualification Standards (20 points); c) General Summary of Requirements (10 points); d) Management Approach (10 points); e) Staffing and Resources (10 points); f) Technical Engineering/Architectural Expertise (10 points); g) Claims Expertise (5 points). and h) Minority Business Enterprise Participation (5 points). Evaluation of proposals shall be a two-step process, wherein, all Cost Proposals shall remain unopened and safeguarded until all Technical Proposals have been evaluated. Where it is deemed necessary in order to complete the technical evaluation process, the evaluation committee may visit Offeror's facilities for the purpose of further determinations relative to any aspect of information furnished in response to the solicitation. Normally, one week notice will be given prior to any office visit. Only those firms whose Technical Proposals are determined to be within the competitive range technically will be identified to the Contracting Officer. The Technical Proposal will be evaluated by a USPS committee of no less than three members. The technical evaluation is ranked without regard to the cost of the proposed services. Each Technical proposal will be ranked numerically by each evaluator, using the factors and point values as shown above. Upon establishment of the list of firms whose Technical Proposal are within the competitive range technically, their Cost Proposal will be opened. Both Technical and Cost Proposals will be used to determine the final selection. 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 project will be made. This is not a request for proposal. (334)

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