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C -- ARCHITECT-ENGINEER SERVICES IN THE STATES OF OHIO, MICHIGAN, MINNESOTA, INDIANA, ILLINOIS, AND WEST VIRGINIA SOL CI-MIDWEST POC Bill Wise, Contracting Officer, 513/366-2025 WEB: Office of Acquisition Management -- Cincinnati Contracts Management Division, http://www.epa.gov/oam/cinn_cmd. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency anticipates awarding a requirements type contract for architectural and engineering services in the States of Ohio, Michigan, West Virginia, Indiana, Illinois, and Minnesota. Specific requirements will be identified in written delivery orders issued by the Contracting Officer. Services which may be required under any resulting contract include surveys, soil borings, investigative reports, design criteria development for projects to be designed by others, estimating, and construction phase services such as inspection/monitoring, review of shop drawings and submittals, and construction testing. Types of projects may include (1) construction phase services for ongoing projects, (2) additions, alterations, and modifications to analytical and research laboratories and vehicle and fuel emissions testing facilities, (3) building systems modification and utilities upgrades, (4) site improvements, and (5) asbestos removal design projects. Firms will be evaluated according to the following criteria, which are listed in descending order of importance: A) Demonstrated experience and technical competence in performing design and construction phase A-E services for analytical and research laboratories and vehicle and fuel emissions testing facilities and support facilities, B) Professional qualifications of proposed key personnel in all architectural and engineering disciplines, C) capacity of the firm to complete delivery orders within a reasonable time period, including depth of professional staff in the required technical disciplines and depth of support staff, D) Demonstrated past performance on contracts of similar size and nature with respect to cost control, quality of work, and compliance with performance schedules, E) Demonstrated success in prescribing the use of recovered materials and achieving waste reduction and energy efficiency in facility design, and F) firm's proximity to the geographical areas of the contract performance. The basic contract period shall be one year, with four (4) one-year option periods. The estimated aggregate value of delivery orders is $750,000 per year. Firms desiring consideration shall mail three (3) copies of Standard Form 254 and three (3) copies of Standard Form 255 for the prime and all team members to the following address: U.S. EPA, Attn: Luther E. Mellen, Chief; Architecture, Engineering and Real Estate Branch (3204), Room G-507, 401 M Street, SW, Washington, D.C. 20460. All information must be received at this address not later than close of business of the 30th calendar day after the date of this announcement. If the 30th day is a Saturday, Sunday, or Federal holiday, the deadline is the close of business of the next business day. Include the solicitation number in Block 2b of the Standard Form 255. This is not a request for proposal. (0135)

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