Design/Build Drain, Waste, and Vent (DWV) at the Chancery Building A at the US Embassy Paris, France

The Regional Procurement Support Office Frankfurt, located at the American Consulate General Frankfurt, Germany, hereby provides the following Pre-Solicitation Notice in respect to the issuance of a Request for Proposal (RFP) for:

Design/Build Drain, Waste, and Vent (DWV) and Internal Leader Piping Replacement at the Chancery Building "A" at the US Embassy Paris, France

The proposed work's purpose includes, but is not limited to:

A. Design

1. Develop and provide 60%, 100%, and Final construction drawings, specifications, calculations, reports, etc., required for the installation of the new piping systems, based on ‘Bridging Documents' that will be provided by the U.S. Government . Familiarity with, and use of Projnet is required during design review phase and throughout the entire construction phase. Necessary qualifications and five years of relevant experience required for Project Architect, Mechanical and Electrical Engineers. Required architectural, mechanical, and electrical submittals include floorplans, site plans, mechanical plans incl. HVAC, electrical plans, power plans, lighting plans, and reports.

2. Obtain required licenses and permits (e.g. utility, construction, occupancy).

B. Construction

1. Removal of existing piping for water, sewer, wastewater, and venting (in phases).

2. Removal of hazardous materials, including asbestos-containing materials, e.g.
insulation of existing pipes.

3. Install new piping supporting water, sewer, waste-water and venting.

4. Repair interior finishes, ceilings, walls, flooring to match existing.

C. Overall Performance Period is 485 days, including 120 days for design.

Offerors are asked to attend a pre-proposal conference with Site Visit conducted on or about November 15th, 2016; the exact location, date and time will be provided in the solicitation document. They shall also develop both cost and technical proposals, including time lines, shop drawings and a narrative description of the methods, procedures and materials to be used for the project.

The solicitation may result in the award of a Firm-Fixed Price Construction Type Contract in 2017.

The estimated range for the entire project is between $1,000,000 and $5,000,000. (Note: the FAR range determination has been set up to provide relatively wide ranges only, in order to give potential offerors a general orientation as to the magnitude of the work. However, the specified range is not meant to give any indication as to the Independent Government Cost Estimate for this project, which could be at the lower or the upper end of the range indicated).

Companies interested in the solicitation shall express their interest by written correspondence to the attention of Mr. Anthony Walker at the above e-mail address with copies to:

MullanPC@state.gov & FrankfurtRPSO@state.gov no later than November 07, 2016 using the solicitation number SGE500-17-R-0002 in the subject line. All requests for a copy of the solicitation MUST include the following information: Name of Firm, Name of Contact Person, Telephone and Fax Numbers, and Email Address of Point of Contact as well as the Firm's Complete Physical and Mailing Addresses. The solicitation package/documents shall not be placed on FedBizOpps as the document contains SBU information. Only companies submitting a letter of interest shall receive a copy of the solicitation package/documents when available.

Firms shall be knowledgeable in written and spoken English and possess all appropriate permits and licenses to perform construction work in France. The solicitation package will only be available in the English language.

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