A/E Services to Improve Sterile Supply & Biomed Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System

This is a sources sought notice for information and planning purposes and shall not be construed as an obligation on the part of the VA. The purpose of this sources sought is to identify qualified businesses, including Service-Disabled Veteran-owned Small Business (SDVOSB) Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB), small disadvantaged businesses (SDB), Women-owned Small Business (WOSB), Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) Small Business, 8(a) Small Business and small business concerns that are interested in and capable of performing the work described herein. The NAICS code is 541310 and the corresponding size standard is $7.0 Million. Your responses to the sources sought will assist the Government in determining the appropriate acquisition method, including whether a set-aside is possible.

The VA Palo Alto Health Care System has a requirement to hire an Architectural Firm to design the complete set of construction documents and administer the construction administration for the expansion, functional re-alignment and deficiency correction of Building 100 basement level, which will house sterile processing services, logistics services, biomedical engineering services, staff support spaces and building support areas.

Interested firms fitting one or more of these Socio-economic categories should send their information by E-mail to megan.barr@va.gov no later than 3:00 PM Pacific Time June 11, 2014. The following information is requested in response to this notice: (1) Type of socio-economic category (e.g. SDVOSB, Small Business, etc.), if firm is a SDVOSB or VOSB, evidence of verification in VetBiz as a SDVOSB or VOSB (SDVOSB and VOSB firms must be verified by the Center for Veteran Enterprises (CVE)); (2) A positive statement of your intention to submit a proposal in response to a solicitation for this project; (3) Evidence of your firm's experience in A/E services for hospital design and hospital infrastructure systems design (please provide contract descriptions and contract dollar amounts); (4) Evidence of your firm's ability to design and administer projects within a complex, active healthcare environment with stringent seismic requirements in the State of California (please provide contract descriptions and contract dollar amounts); (5) Evidence that your firm can respond to and be on site at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System within a four-hour window. All information must be submitted in sufficient detail for a decision to be made on the availability of interested firms fitting one of more socio-economic categories. If adequate interest is not received, this action will not be set aside for SDVOSB, VOSB, WOSB, HUBZone, 8(a) small business or small business firms.