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C -- RICHMOND, VA PROCESSING & DISTRIBUTION CENTER ANNEX -- A/E SERVICES TO EXPAND AND RENOVATE AN EXISTING POSTAL FACILITY SOL 475450-98-A-0060 DUE 082598 POC Bettye Perkins, Facilities Contract Specialist; 901/747-7628 (FAX 901/747-7408) WEB: United States Postal Service, www.usps.gov. E-MAIL: United States Postal Service, bperkins@email.usps.gov. The Postal Service will require Architect/Engineer services to expand and renovate an existing postal facility in Richmond, Virginia. The project consists of investigation, design, drawings, specifications and proposal documents for renovation of an existing facility to provide approximately 260,000 gross square feet; an expansion of approximately 251,000 gross square feet; and a 3-story 1,040-car parking garage. Demolition and soil remediation is also part of the scope of work. USPS mechanization design will be included as part of the work. Also included is the integration of a new Postal Retail Store into the facility. Construction staging and phasing coordination plans in an operating facility will be critical. Entire facility will be made code compliant. Estimated construction cost is $40 million to $50 million. The basic contract will be for completion of the Concept Phase (30%). Additionally, the contract will contain options for design completion and construction administrative services. The qualifications of firms for this project are as follows: (1) Experience in projects of compatible size and scope in the Richmond, Virginia and nearby areas. Experience shall include: (a) Adaptation of buildings to handicapped accessibility; (b) Work designed in harmony with an occupied facility; (c) Hazardous material and soil remediation abatement experience; and (d) Familiarity with 1998 USPS design criteria; (2) Architectural firm shall have a minimum of seven licensed architects in the office where the work is performed; (3) Consulting engineering firm(s) shall have at least two licensed engineers in each of the following disciplines: Structural, Mechanical, Plumbing, Fire Protection, and Electrical in the office where work is performed; (4) Prime and structural, mechanical, and electrical engineers shall have worked together on at least three projects of similar size and scope; and (5) Autocadd Version 13 or later. Comparable projects will be considered as renovation and expansion of operating industrial plants, 200,000 gross square feet or greater, and costing more than $30 million. Firms that have the qualifications to perform the services described above are invited to submit a completed SF255, Architect/Engineer and Related Services Questionnaire for Specific Project, and a completed SF254, Architect/Engineer and Related Services Questionnaire, for each of its proposed consultants to the office shown above, received no later than August 25, 1998. The selection will be conducted by using both the submitted SF255 and SF254s. Interested firms with more than one office must indicate on their SF255 the staffing composition of the office in which the work will be performed. Consideration will be given to firms, including consultants, responding to the advertisement in accordance with the following order of preference: (1) Richmond, Virginia; (2) 25-mile radius of Richmond; and (3) All other. Architectural and engineering firms will be considered as local only if their sole office is in the local geographical areaor they have a local branch office and all the architectural design, coordination, and management of the project will be to performed in that office. The contract contains a requirement for firms to provide evidence of current insurance of $200,000 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 of this project will be made. Submissions will not be retained or returned. This is not a request for proposals. Posted 07/09/98. (0190)

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