William Jennings Bryan Dorn Veterans' Medical Center, Chief, Acquisition & Facility Planning Svc (90C), 6439 Garners Ferry Road, Columbia, SC 29209-1639

C -- BURIAL AREA DEVELOP AT FLORENCE NATIONAL CEMETARY SOL 544-027-97 DUE 020497 POC Contract Specialist, Virgil Thompson, (803) 695-6783 Furnish professional Architect/Engineer Services to include preliminary service evaluation of current burial capacities and limitations, associated recommendations, planning, consultation and visits, design work, preparation of contract drawings and specifications, services as necessary for developing approximately a 3 acre area for grave sites as an expansion of Florence National Cemetary. Installation, testing, and inspection of all work for project # 843-CM3-011, "Burial Area Develop" at Florence National Cemetary, Florence, South Carolina. The intent of this project is to upgrade the National Cemetary by adding additional grave sites. The work will include clearing, grubbing, grading, roadways, new entrance, fencing, irrigation, and landscaping. It will also include construction of an approximate 1,800 square foot maintenance building, a committal service shelter and above ground fuel tanks and pumps. Design is to be based on Conceptual Plans to be furnished by the National Cemetary Service. Construction will be designed in order to minimize disruptions to the operations of the Florence Cemetary Service. Construction Cost Range is $250,000 -- $500,000. A/E will be required to provide evidence of professional liability insurance of $1,000,000. Interested firms desiring consideration shall submit appropriate data in numbered Note 24 to the Contracting Officer (90C), A&FP Service, Dorn Veterans' Hospital, 6439 Garners Ferry Road, Columbia, SC 29209 not later than February 4, 1997. This is not a request for proposal. This is a 100% Set-Aside for Emerging Small Business Concerns. An "Emerging Small Business" means a Small Business Concern whose size is no greater than 50 percent of the Numerical Size Standard applicable to the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Code assigned to a Contracting Opportunity. A Concern is small if its average annual receipts for the preceding three (3) Fiscal Years did not exceed 50% of 2.5 million. The Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Code assigned to this project is 8712. Award is subject to Availability of Funds. See Note(s): 24. (0366)

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