US ARMY ENGINEER DISTR, ALBUQ, CORPS OF ENGINEERS, 4101 JEFFERSON PLAZA NE, ALBUQUERQUE NM 87109-3435

Y -- SPORTS AND FITNESS CENTER, HOLLOMAN AIR FORCE BASE, OTERO COUNTY, NEW MEXICO SOL DACA47-99-B-0019 DUE 080399 POC Contract Specialist Mary B. Henry (505) 342-3454 (Site Code DACA47) WEB: www.spa.usace.army.mil/cntrct/cont.htm, www.spa.usace.army.mil/cntrct/cont.htm. E-MAIL: mary.b.henry@spa02.usace.army.mil, mary.b.henry@spa02.usace.army.mil. This is a firm-fixed price contract with SIC code of 1542. Competition for this acquisition is unrestricted, open to both large and small business concerns, and may require a subcontracting plan. If a subcontracting plan is required, the following minimum goals are applicable: Small Business Subcontracting -- 61.2%; Small Disadvantaged Business Concerns -- 9.1%; Women-Owned Small Business Subcontracting -- 4.5%; and HUBZone Small Business -- 1.0%. The magnitude of construction is more than $10,000,000.00. The project will consist of the construction of a new, two-story physical fitness center, approximately 7,800 square meters (84,000 SF). The building will provide strength training, basketball, volleyball, racquetball, squash, aerobics, boxing, and indoor lap swimming facilities. The building construction is of masonry bearing walls, concrete columns, and steel beams and bar joists. Some laminated timber is used as a finish only. The foundation system consists of a ribbed mat slab. The exterior is exposed concrete masonry with a standing seam metal roof. The building is fully sprinkled. The site work includes paving, drainage, utilities, and landscaping. The project also includes asbestos abatement and demolition of the existing fitness center building (after completion of the new facility.) Mechanical system includes a gas-fired boiler and air-cooled chiller. Bonding will be required for this acquisition. Questions of a technical nature should be addressed to Joan Coffing at (505) 342-3336. Plans will be issued on or about June 21, 1999, with bid opening on or about August 3, 1999. The cost of plans and specifications is $120.00 per set and is non-refundable. Checks should be made payable to "F&A Officer, UFC, Albuquerque" and mailed to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Contracting Division, 4101 Jefferson Plaza, NE, Albuquerque, NM 87109-3435. For further information on ordering plans and specifications, call Zdenka Hvezda at (505) 342-3456. Bidders are advised that this requirement may be delayed, cancelled, or revised at any time during the solicitation, or final award process, and is subject to the availability of funds. Posted 05/24/99 (A-SN335099). (0144)

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