Federal Prison Camp, Allenwood, Regional Contracting Office, P.O. Box 1000, Montgomery, PA 17752

Y -- DESIGN-BUILD CONSTRUCTION OF HEATING SYSTEMS AND POTABLE WATER SYSTEM SOL RFP 21451-0004 POC W. H. Gensel, Supervisory Contract Specialist, (570) 547-1641, ext 536 The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) anticipates award of a Firm-Fixed Price Design-Build contract for the design and construction of new hot water heating systems and potable water supplies for 62 separate buildings at the Federal Correctional Institution Fort Dix, located in Fort Dix, New Jersey. The contractor will be required to provide all architectural, engineering, construction, and other related services necessary to complete the project. The proposed project is currently planned to consist of replacement of the existing steam supplied hot water system that supplies heating and potable hot water systems for sixty two separate buildings. The total square footage of the buildings included in this work is approximately one million, two hundred and seventy nine thousand square feet. The required services shall include a separate natural gas heating and domestic hot water system for each building. The work shall include all necessary gas service, hot water boilers, hot water heating and domestic hot water piping, and demolition and removal of the existing steam equipment. The estimated magnitude of this project is between $1,000,000 and $5,000,000. Interested offerors must be a firm or joint venture with experience, individually or as a member of a team, satisfactorily completing a project of similar size and scope. The design of the architectural and engineering features of the project shall be accomplished or reviewed and approved by architects and engineers registered to practice within the State of New Jersey. Participation by architect-engineers, consultants, and subcontractors located within the State of New Jersey is encouraged. The architect-engineer portion of this design-build entity must be a firm or joint venture having an existing major active office, which will have responsibility for performing the design effort, located within the State of New Jersey. Joint ventures for the architect and engineering work will be considered only if the principal or lead firm of the joint venture has an existing active office located within the State of New Jersey. The successful offeror will be required to submit a subcontracting plan for this procurement regarding the utilization of small, small-disadvantaged, HUBZone small business and small woman-owned businesses. The BOP will be utilizing two-phase Design-Build selection procedures. This notice is not a request for proposals. Interested offerors may request and obtain the Phase One solicitation of the two-phase process. Phase One solicitations will be issued on or about January 3, 2000. For consideration on this project offerors must respond to the Phase One solicitation by submitting their qualification proposal approximately thirty days after the solicitation is issued. The Phase One proposal due date will be identified in the Phase One solicitation. The Phase One solicitation will provide the scope of work, evaluation factors, and submission information for interested contractors to prepare their Phase One qualification proposals. Phase One qualification proposals will be evaluated to determine which firms will be selected for Phase Two. Phase Two participants will submit competitive technical and price proposals as defined in the Phase Two solicitation. Requests for Phase One solicitations should be faxed (570-547-6819) or mailed to W. H. Gensel, Supervisory Contract Specialist, Federal Prison Camp Allenwood, Attn: Regional Contracting, P.O. Box 1000, Montgomery, PA 17752. (Physical address: 1049 Allenwood Camp Lane). The above point of contact can be reached at 570-547-1641, ext 536. Posted 12/03/99 (W-SN405625). (0337)

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