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

R -- CONST. MGMT. SUPPORT SERVICES FOR MARYLAND, DE, PA, OH, NJ, DC AND POTENTIAL SUPPORT FOR ARCH. BARRIERS COMPLIANCE PROJECTS (HANDICAP ACCESSIBILITY), NATION-WIDE SOL RFP #232098-96-A-0071. Due 011996. POC Purchasing Specialist, D.W. Tokasz (410) 997-6214. CORRECTION: 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 construction project evaluation of a technical nature. Accordingly selection will depend on the adequacy and completeness of information submitted in response to this solicitation. The Postal Service has assigned relative value to the following list of criteria. Thus the greater degree of expertise reflected by your response to each element, the greater the relative value awarded to your firm: (a) Construction Management experience maximum score, maximum score - 25; (b) Technical personnel qualification, maximum score - 20; (c) Negotiation and Cost control expertise, maximum score - 20; (d) Management approach, maximum score - 10; (e) Staffing resources, maximum score 10; (f) Claims resolution expertise, maximum score - 10; (g) Minority business enterprise, maximum score - 5; to a maximum possible score of 100 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 an Offeror's facility for the purpose of further determination relative to any aspect of information furnished in response to the solicitation. A minimum of one (1) week's 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 (3) 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 is within the competitive range, based on the above technical criteria, then their cost proposal 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 except modifications to this notice in the CBD. All firms that have responded to the previous notice, should be reply. Proposal packages are forthcoming. Telephone calls are discouraged. Please send letters requesting packages to the above address, attention D.W. Tokasz. (353)

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