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C -- MULTIDISCIPLINE ARCHITECT-ENGINEERING SERVICES SOL 1-071-GGK.1443 DUE 032398 POC Sandra M. Glenn, Contracting Officer, Phone (757)-864-2413, Fax (757) 864-8863, Email S.M.GLENN@larc.nasa.gov WEB: Click here for the latest information about this notice, http://nais.nasa.gov/EPS/LaRC/date.html#1-071-GGK.1443. E-MAIL: Sandra M. Glenn, S.M.GLENN@larc.nasa.gov. 1. Contract Information: A/E Public Notice -- Submission is due March 23, 1998. Period of Performance is 365 days. Four 1-year options may be awarded. The proposed contract is open to all interested sources, SIC 8712, $2.5M, Architect-Engineering (A-E) Services. The cumulative estimated Architect/Engineering Design Fee for this contract is $500,000 to $750,000 per year with a maximum FEE of $3.75 million. The total estimated contract value including incidental services is $1,500,000-$2,000,000 per year. The estimated start date for this proposed contract is July 15, 1998. A minimum fee of $25,000 is guaranteed for the base year and each option year. 2. Project Information: Multidiscipline projects located at NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) may include alteration, repair, or new additions to industrial wind tunnel facilities, lab/test facilities, and institutional (administrative and educational facilities). While most design projects will be alteration/repair, some may be new construction. Asbestos, lead paint, and other hazardous waste may exist in some of the projects. The design contract scope will require architectural, mechanical, electrical, civil, structural, and minor environmental disciplines. The work includes preparation of plans with SI-Metric usage (in Autocad Release 14 or later), specifications (using SPECSINTACT system), construction cost estimates, and progress schedules. Other design services include preliminary studies, reports, economic analysis, detailed engineering analysis, feasibility studies, and general drafting. This contract involves significant construction management work. The A-E will be required to annually provide a multidiscipline construction site inspection force and the equipment and materials required to oversee construction work estimated at $15M/year. In addition, professional construction management services such as shop drawing/submittals review, as-built drawings, and full/partial construction contract administration support will be implemented by delivery order. The above contract administration support may include evaluation of contract modification proposals, contractor request for information, progress/payment reviews, and evaluation of contractor claims along with the contract documentation and correspondence required for effective contract administration. The A-E is also required to annually provide on site at LaRC the necessary SPECSINTACT word processor and a file clerk/librarian to support a $15M/year construction program. The A-E shall also annually provide on-site, full-time field surveying personnel to support LaRC s surface and subsurface utility program and digging permit process. The work consists of field work for location, verification, and marking of existing utilities, and obtaining as-built information during the installation of new above and below grade utilities. Types of survey shall include topographic surveys, triangulation, traversing differential leveling, and construction surveying. Global Positioning System (GPS) capability is required. Various drawing sets such as LaRC s subsurface utility drawings, manhole development drawings, electrical distribution drawings, etc. shall be continuously maintained to provide current as-installed information. The capability to maintain drawings and associated information electronically in LaRC s Geographical Information System (GIS) is required. All files and information shall be readily furnished to support LaRC s projects and programs. 3. Selection Criteria: The significant evaluation factors (in order of importance): (1.) Professional Qualifications: Submit a matrix for proposed design team(s) that contains the following data about the member s assignment: Team member s name, firm name (if subcontractor), office location, proposed team assignment, highest education level/discipline (example: BS, mechanical engineering), states of professional registration, number of years of professional experience, number of years with the firm. Also for project managers and team leaders, identify the number of teams (designs, consultants, and joint venture partners) they have managed over the past 5 years. (2.) Specialized Experience: Provide a description of germane, recent projects, with clients, for which team members provided a significant technical contribution. Work on these projects must have been done in the last 5 years. Indicate how each project is relevant to the work described herein. In matrix form, identify which team members worked on the projects described above. Projects shall be in the left column and team member names shall be across the top row of the matrix. Describe the firm s experience in energy conservation, with the SPECSINTACT system, SI-Metric usage, and their cost estimating system. (3.) Past Performance: Provide a tabular listing of all performance ratings and letters of commendation from both private and Government clients (designate your role: prime, consultant, or joint venture partner). These ratings shall be dated 1995 or later and include the following data: client s contact, client s need date, design completion date, and final cost estimate compared to the construction contract award amount (note whether bid or negotiated). (4.) Location and capacity of the firm to timely accomplish the contemplated work: Demonstrate the ability to complete several multidisciplinary contract task orders concurrently (i.e., the impact of this potential workload on the firm s permanent staff, anticipated workload during the contract period, and the firm s history of successfully completed work in compliance with performance schedules). Indicate the firm s present workload and the availability of the proposed team members (including subconsultants) for the specified contract period. Since numerous site visits are required, provide the location of the office primarily responsible for this work. Also, provide a list of recent projects performed by the firm or joint venture partners, and appropriate subcontractors in the Virginia Tidewater/southeastern area. (5.) Quality Control: A-E firms selected for interviews must submit their Design Quality Assurance Plan (DQAP) at the time of the interview, including an explanation of the management approach, an organizational chart showing inter-relationship of management and design team components, specific quality control processes, a portfolio of design work (both new construction and upgrades to existing facilities), a listing of present business commitments and their required completion schedules, financial and credit references, and performance references. (This evaluation factor will not be evaluated during the initial evaluation of 255s and 254s) (6.) Ability to plan, organize, and implement construction management assistance: Demonstrate ability to organize a multidiscipline construction site inspection force to oversee a $15M annual construction program. Include a typical site surveillance plan that indicates inspector support in ensuring technical compliance of on-site work, compliance with safety regulations, compliance with Davis Bacon Regulation (except for labor standards interviews), and compliance with environmental regulations. (7.) Ability to provide field survey support to support LaRC s digging permit program: Approximately 350 digging permits are issued annually in support of the construction and maintenance programs. Provide a staffing plan that includes past experience in the use of electronic equipment used for the location of underground electronic, telephone, water, air, and other utilities. Also address past experience in the use of GPS equipment and any interface with a GIS. (8.) Use of Small or Small Disadvantaged or Women-owned Small Business firms shall also be considered. A-E firms shall address their planned usage of small business, small disadvantaged business, women-owned small business, historically black colleges and minority institutions in Block 10 of the SF 255. A Subcontracting Plan will also be required if a large business firm is selected for negotiation. 4. Submission Requirement: See Note 24 for general submission requirements. (Note 24 is written in detail in any Monday issue of the CBD.) Firms that possess the qualifications to perform the services described above are invited to submit two (2) copies each of completed SF255, Architect-Engineer and Related Services Questionnaire for itself and SF254 for itself and each of its proposed consultants to the office shown above, postmarked no later than March 23, 1998. The selection will be conducted with the combined use of the submitted SF255 and SF254s. Interested firms with more than one office must indicate on its SF255 the staffing composition of the office in which the work will be performed. Elaborate brochures or other presentations beyond those sufficient to present a complete and effective response to this announcement are not desired. It is suggested that the combined SF255 and SF254s submission not exceed 50 pages total. A page is defined as one side of a sheet, 8 1/2 x 11, with at least 1-inch margins on all sides, using not smaller than 12 characters per inch (or equivalent) type. 5. Communicate Concerns: An ombudsman has been appointed to hear concerns from offerors, potential offerors, and contractors during the preaward and postaward phases of this acquisition. The purpose of the ombudsman is not to diminish the authority of the contracting officer, the Selection Board, or the selection official, but to communicate concerns, issues, disagreements, and recommendations of interested parties to the appropriate Government personnel and to work to resolve them. When requested, the ombudsman will maintain strict confidentiality as to the source of the concern. The ombudsman does not participate in the evaluation of proposals, the source selection process, nor the adjudication of formal contract disputes. Before consulting with any ombudsman, interested parties must try to resolve their concerns with the contract specialist or the contracting officer. The LaRC Ombudsman is Belinda Adams. Concerned parties may call Ms. Sandra S. Ray at 757-864-2428. DO NOT CALL THE OMBUDSMAN FOR SOLICITATION REQUESTS/ INFORMATION. FOR SOLICITATION REQUESTS/INFORMATION, CONTACT THE POINT OF CONTACTS (POC) LISTED AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS NOTICE. Concerns, issues, disagreements, and recommendations which cannot be resolved by the installation point of contact nor the ombudsman may be referred to the NASA Agency ombudsman Tom Luedtke at 202-358-2090. (0054)

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