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C -- DESIGN UPGRADES TO EXISTING EMERGENCY POWER SUPPLY SYSTEMS SOL 610-15-99 DUE 061599 POC Alan Brown, Contractin Officer Phone 765-677-3178 E-MAIL: Alan.Brown @med.va.gov, alan.brown@med.va.gov. Architectural-Engineering Services are required to provide complete design and engineering services, including all necessary schematics, design development, cost estimate, construction drawings and specifications, meet all applicable requirements including NFPA, VA, and JCAHO. Site survey/study to determine existing deficiencies, design of additional emergency power circuits, upgrade or modification of existing emergency generators if necessary and construction period services. Design completion time is 90 days. Construction cost range is between $100,00 and $250,000. The Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Code is 8711 Engineering Services. The small business size standard is $2.5M. Firms will be evaluated on the following criteria. Criteria numbers one and two are of equal importance, and the other criteria are shown in descending order of importance. (1)Professional qualifications necessary for satisfactory performance of required services including professional registration of members of the firm and outside consultants (2) Specialized experience and technical competence of the team proposed for this project in related areas of the type of work required. (3) Capacity to accomplish the work in the required time. (4) Past performance on contracts with Government agencies and private industry in terms of cost control, quality of work, and compliance with performance aschedules. This list of previous contracts should include the name and phone number of the person who was the point of contact representing the Government or private industry for each contract. (5) Location in the general geographic area of the project (within an 80 mile radius) and knowledge of the locality of prject; provided, that application of this criteria leaves an appropeate number of qualified firms. Architect-engineer firms which meet the requirements described in this announcement are invited to submit completed SF254, Architect-Engineer and related services questionnaire (unless already on file and less than 12 months old) and SF255, Architect-Engineer and related services questionnaire for specific project (required for this project). All information relating to the firm's qualifications must be contained in these Standard Forms. Inclusion by reference to other materials is not acceptable. The Standar Form 255 is limited tot he eleven pages of the form itself plus five additional pages of information concerning the firm's qualifications related to this specific project. Firms responding to this announcement NLT 4:30 PM, 06/15/99 will be considered. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP) Posted 05/12/99 (W-SN330816). (0132)

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