Office of Contracting and Property Management, 955 L'Enfant Plaza, SE, Suite P-114, Washington, DC 20024

C -- CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT SERVICES POC Derek Ross, Acting Assistant Director, (202)287-2158. The Smithsonian Institution intends to contract with a professional construction management firm to manage miscellaneous construction projects primarily in the Washington, metropolitan area, and New York City metropolitan area but also in other Smitshonian Facilities in the U.S. This will be a task order contract for one year with four one-year options. The total contract value will not exceed $3 million for the base year; $4 million for option year 1; $5 million for option year 2; $4 million for option year 3; and $3 million for option year 4 for a potential dollar total of $19 million over a five year period. The firm selected will assist the Smithsonian Institution in performing pre-design, design and construction phase services for selected projects. Pre-design scopes of project will be well defined so that the projects can be designed by an architect/engineer under separate contract to the Smithsonian Institution and the construction work will be performed in conformity with Smithsonian Institution's requirements and completed on schedule. Contractors must meet the following qualification criteria before submittal will be evaluated: Must have successfully completed or be currently working as construction manager on projects that exceed an average value of $100 million in construction value per year for the last three years; and Firm must have an active construction management office in both the District of Columbia and New York City or set-up an office in each city prior to selection in order to be able to respond to task orders anticipated under the contract. Evaluation criteria are: A. Approach to carrying out tasks under the contract; B. Experience and technical capabilities of the firm in construction management (Experience should include construction management for new and renovation projects, and renovation of historically significant projects in the metropolitan D.C. and N.Y. area is highly desirable); and C. Staff Qualifications - Qualified firms should submit a SF-254 and 255 and additional information responding to the evaluation criteria no later than 2:00 P.M. 30 calendar days from date of this publication (first workday following a weekend or holiday) in order to be considered for selection. Submissions should be delivered to Derek Ross, Office of Physical Plant, Construction Division, Smithsonian Institution, 955 L'Enfant Plaza, S.W., Suite 3230, Washington, DC 20024. (0313)

Loren Data Corp. http://www.ld.com (SYN# 0015 19961112\C-0004.SOL)