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C -- INDEFINITE QUANTITY CONTRACT FOR ARCHITECTURAL/ENGINEERING SERVICES FOR REPAIR AND ALTERATION CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS IN THE MIDDLESEX/CENTRAL DISTRICT'S AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY SOL 082530-96-A-0111 DUE 080196 POC Jeanne C. Warren, Secretary, A/E Evaluation Board, 860-285-7184. The US Postal Service is seeking general architectural and engineering services for the preparation of drawings, specifications, cost estimates and construction administration required for small repair and alteration projects for the Middlesex-Central District's area of responsibility. The contract will be subject to negotiation of individual work orders. In each instance, $100,000 has been established as the work order limit per individual project; $500,000 has been established as the total amount of work ordered per 12 month period. The contract will be for two years with three 1-year renewal options which can bring the duration of the contract to five years. The total amount of work for the duration (5 years) of the contract may not exceed $2,500,000. There is no guaranteed minimum. The average work order is estimated between $1,500 and $10,000. The USPS reserves the right to select more than one firm. Firms which possess the qualifications to perform the services described above are invited to submit a completed SF 255, ''Architect-Engineer and Related Services Questionnaire for Specific Project,'' and a completed SF 254, ''Architect-Engineer and Related Services Questionnaire,'' to the office shown above no later than August 1, 1996. Selection criteria will be conducted with the combined use of SF 254 and SF 255. Interested firms with more than one office should indicate on their SF 255 the staffing composition of the office in which the work will be performed. Firms (with the use of their consultants) must have on their staffing the following registered disciplines, who must be licensed in the state of Massachusetts: Architect, Mechanical Engineer, Electrical Engineer. Consideration will be given to interested firms who respond to this advertisement in accordance with the foregoing instruction in the following order of preference: 1) Local, being within a 50 mile radius of North Reading, MA; 2) The state of Massachusetts; 3) All others. 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 of the architectural design, coordination and management of the project will be accomplished in that office. 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. Offerors are encouraged to submit their responses by one of the methods offered by the US Postal Service (First Class, Priority, or Express Mail) (0171)

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