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The USPFO for Oregon and 142nd Base Civil Engineering Office is seeking qualified AE Firms to award a firm fixed price Architect Engineer Contract to perform services to complete a design for the Repair of the Structural Maintenance Shop (SMS), Building 235, Portland Air National Guard Base, Portland, Oregon. Project Number: TQKD982012. Solicitation Number W912JV-11-R-0004.This project is being advertised as a total (100%) Small Business Set-Aside. The size standard determination for this acquisition is based on average annual receipts of not more than $4.5 million over a concern's latest three (3) completed fiscal years. The NAICS Code is 541310. Contract Award is anticipated by June 30, 2011. The magnitude of the construction for this project is between $500,000.00 and $1,000,000.00 as prescribed in the Federal Acquisition Regulation 36.204. Interested offerors are strongly encouraged to read this announcement in its entirety prior to e-mailing or phoning the USPFO for Oregon for additional information. SCOPE OF SERVICES: This A-E effort includes all plant, labor, equipment, appliances, and materials, and provides all necessary travel and services required to compile engineering data, perform hydraulic and flow testing, perform field measurements, take videos and photographs, perform design computations, furnish drawings and technical specifications, incorporate owner and user design review comments periodically as the design is developed, calculate estimated construction costs, perform construction inspection services and provide final cost estimates covering work herein described by the final design and specifications for the alteration/repair of the Structural Maintenance Shop Building 235. Project elements include: Relocate all equipment; furnishings and materials to another facility during repair operations. Replace roof, gutters and downspouts; interior walls and partitions; repair all exterior doors, frames, re-skin and insulate exterior walls/roof; all windows and frames; repair all mechanical and electrical systems and other utilities, lines and conduits; refinish concrete floor. Reinstall all furnishings, equipment, and materials into remodeled facility. Install a fire alarm/protection system and Direct Digital Controls (DDC) System. Air Conditioning : 10 Tons. The A-E will be responsible to provide a type A-I (15%), A-II (35%), B-I (65%), B-II (95%), B-III (100%) submittals that includes construction cost estimates as well Type C inspection services. The selected AE shall accomplish the design services required under the contract so as to permit the award of the contract, using standard Federal Acquisition Regulation procedures for the construction of the facilities designed at a price that does not exceed the estimated construction contract price. Type B and Type C services will be included as options and will be exercised at the discretion of the government. Type B Design Services is subject to statutory six percent (6%) of the estimated construction cost. The 100% drawings and specifications shall be suitable quality and completeness for bidding by a single contractor. The preliminary design schedule is expected not to exceed one hundred and twenty calendar days (120). This schedule does not include days afforded to the government for design reviews. Project elements are required to be designed to meet all Air Force, Air National Guard, NFPA, UFC, OSHA and DEQ regulations and the National Fire Code. In addition, all required or appropriate environmental provisions shall be addressed as well as the compliance with agencies and regulatory documentation which may be required for structural modifications, demolition, asbestos abatement and any other items. Design criteria for this project shall include, but not be limited to the following: Air National Guard Engineering Technical Letters (ANG ETL) including ANG ETL 01-1-1, ANG Design Policy, Tab D (Mar 04 ), and 02-1, ANG Design Objectives and Procedures, Tab C (Dec 02); Air Force Engineering Technical Letter (AF ETL) 02-15, Fire Protection Criteria - New Aircraft Facilities (Dec 02); Unified Facilities Criteria UFC 3-600-01, Fire Protection Engineering for Facilities (26 Sep 06); Air Force Instruction AFI 32-2001; Current State and National codes, regulations and specifications involving architectural, civil, electrical, environmental and mechanical disciplines associated with the design and construction of the project; National Fire Codes published by the National Fire Protection Association; Air Force Instructions (AFI), Army or Air Force Regulation (ARs/AFRs), Army National Guard or Air National Guard Regulations (NGR/ANGR), Pamphlets (NGR/ANGR), and other Government publications required for design of the project will be made available to the A-E by the Government (COR). The AE shall be able to provide 2 hard copies and one electronic (AutoCAD 2009) copy of as built drawings per Tab C, ANG ETL 02-1, Design Procedures. Also provide construction documents in PDF format. The A-E will have access to any historical drawings within the 142 FW files after selection of the A-E. Access to these documents SHALL NOT preclude the A-E from performing the necessary studies and investigative work to design a complete and usable facility in accordance with the project documents. SELECTION CRITERIA: The evaluation board will review the SF 330's submitted in response to this solicitation. The evaluation board will evaluate each potential firm according to the criteria listed below. The government will select the A-E in accordance with FAR Part 36.602-5, Short selection process for contracts not to exceed the simplified acquisition threshold. The government will only conduct one evaluation board and the selection report shall serve as the final selection. Previously collected / submitted SF 330's will be included in the evaluation of this project. The Government will evaluate each potential firm in terms of its - (1) Professional qualifications necessary for satisfactory performance of required services; (2) Specialized experience in energy conservation, pollution prevention, waster reduction, fire protection, cost estimating and the use of recovered materials (3) Capacity to accomplish the work in the required time (4) Past performance on contracts with the National Guard, Department of Defense or Federal Government in terms of cost control, quality of work, and compliance with performance schedules (5) Location in the general geographical area of the project and knowledge of the locality of the project. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS: To be considered for this project all responding firms, including consultants to the primary firm shall submit three (3) hardcopies of the Standard Form 330 Architect-Engineer Related Services Questionnaire Part I and Part II. Submit these required documents no later than 10:00 am P.S.T on Monday, June 6, 2011 to Mr. Pete Newell, PO Box 14350, 1776 Militia Way, Salem, Oregon 97309. Late SF 330's will not be accepted. SF 330's submitted to the 142nd Base Civil Engineering Office will not be accepted. SF 330's that are e-mailed will not be accepted. No material additional materials will be issued and no solicitation package or bidder/plan holder list will be issued. Any questions must be submitted in a Request for Information format (RFI) via electronic mail and reference the project name in the subject line. Please allow 72 hours for a response. RFI's shall be submitted within 3 days of the closing date to ensure a proper response can be provided. MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION: Interested offerors must be registered in the DOD Central Contractor Registration (CCR) database. Firms can register via the CCR internet site at www.ccr.gov or by contacting the CCR Assistance Center (8am - 4pm Eastern Time) 1-888-227-2423. The solicitation and associated information will be available from the Federal Business Opportunities website www.FBO.gov. For security reasons all potential offerors, plan rooms and printing companies are required to register in the Central Contractor's Registration (CCR) and the Federal Business Opportunities (FedBizOpps) in order to view or download the plans or drawings from the web site. DISCLAIMER: The official government website is Federal Business Opportunities www.FBO.gov and the government is not liable for information furnished by any other source. Amendments, if/when issued will be posted to the both above listed websites. This will normally be the only method of distributing amendments prior to closing, therefore, it is the offerors responsibility to check the website periodically for any amendments to the solicitation. Websites are occasionally inaccessible due to various reasons. The Government is not responsible for any loss of internet connectivity or for an offerors inability to access the documents posted on the referenced web pages. The Government will issue no paper copies. The successful A-E shall be able to invoice electronically using Wide Area Workflow procedures. This requirement shall not be waived. Information and instructions can be found at the Wide Area Workflow website at https://wawf.eb.mil/. It is the successful offerors responsibility to ensure that proper access can be obtained to this system. The government will not be held liable for any automation upgrades required to interact with this system.