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C -- SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO, AIR MAIL FACILITY, A/E SERVICES TO DESIGN AN EXPANSION TO THE AMF SOL 475450-98-A-0002 DUE 101797 POC Rita Williams-Humphrey, Purchasing Specialist, FAX 901/747-7408, Phone 901/747-7655 WEB: U. S. Postal Service, www.usps.gov. E-MAIL: U. S. Postal Service, RWILLI10@email.usps.gov. The U. S. Postal Service intends to award a fixed price contract for the investigation, design and preparation of contract documents, for the expansion of an Air Mail Facility of approximately 41,000 gross square feet. The facility is located at the San Francisco International Airport, (Project No. Y70840). The estimated project construction cost range is $20 to $23 million for the Air Mail Facility, including approximately $11.6 million of fixed mechanization. The base contract will be for the 30% design, with a Design Option to proceed to 100% completion; and a separate option for contract administration and inspection services. The qualifications of firms for this project are as follows: (1) Experience in USPS projects, or projects of comparable types such as expansions of distribution and manufacturing facilities. (2) Hazardous material abatement experience (3) Architectural minimum firm size of 5 persons, with a minimum of (2) registered architects located in the office performing the work ; (3) Consulting Engineering firms shall have at least (1) licensed engineer in each of the following disciplines: civil, structural, mechanical, and electrical in the office performing the work; (4) Mechanization consultant may be required; (5) The prime and structural, mechanical, and electrical engineer shall have worked together on at least one previous project; and (5) Autocadd version 13 or later. Firms that have the qualifications to perform the services described previously are invited to submit a completed SF-255 (Architect-Engineer and Related Services Questionnaire for Specific Projects), and a completed SF-254 (Architect-Engineer and Related Services Questionnaire); all qualifications shall be provided on these forms; firms must also submit a complete and current SF-254 for each of its proposed consultants to the office shown above not later than October 17, 1997. The selection will be conducted with the combined use of the submitted SF-255 and the SF-254' s. Interested firms with more than one office must indicate on their SF-255 the staffing composition of the office in which the work will be performed. Consideration will be given to the firms responding to this advertisement in accordance with the following order of preference: (1) within 50 mile radius of San Francisco. 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 the architectural design, coordination, and management of the project will be performed in that office. There is no restriction on the geographical location of consultants, however a local Civil and Structural Consultant is preferred. The contract contains a requirement for firms to provide evidence of current insurance of $1,000,000 of errors and omissions per claim. 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 project. No other general notification for this project will be made. Submissions will not be retained or returned. This is not a request for a proposal. (0260)

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