Puerto Rico - New Cemetery A/E SYNOPSIS

SYNOPSIS



The Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Construction and Facilities Management intends to issue Request for Qualifications numbered VA101-14-R-0097 entitled "Puerto Rico - New Cemetery A/E" on or about June 5, 2014. The anticipated Request for Qualifications is 100% set-aside for Small Business. Offerors must have established working offices in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico at the time of submission. This is NOT a solicitation, and NO solicitation documents are currently publically available





BACKGROUND



The selected NAICS codes for this requirement are Landscape Architecture (NAICS 541320) or Civil Engineering (NAICS 541330). The A/E firm must be capable of preparing site acquisition and design documentation including, but not limited to: surveying, soils investigations, master plans, schematic design documents (SD), and design development documents (DD). Prime contractor should have licensed/registered landscape architects as members of the firm, or team, with experience in the planning and design of cemeteries, large institutional campuses, parks and recreational facilities, or similar land development projects. The following additional licensed/registered specialty disciplines should be members of the firm, or team with demonstrable expertise in their respective fields: Water Management/Irrigation specialist, Cost Estimator, Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing Engineers, and Architect. The anticipated contract may include a government options for: construction documents (CD), construction period services (CPS), and site visits.



PROBABLE SCOPE



This project will develop a master plan for 100,000 grave sites across a 250 acre site and schematic documents for approximately 50 acres of the property to support 10 year burial projections (approximately 14,050 gravesites) for the Phase 1 build out. The project will include pre-placed crypts, columbarium niches and in-ground cremains pre-placed urn crypts. Design will include a main entrance area, roadways, irrigation, utilities, landscaping, signage, committal service shelters, memorial walls, combined public information center and administration building, maintenance building complex, honor guard building, parking, public restrooms and temporary structures necessary to operationally support an early construction turnover of a limited number of gravesites.



The completed Phase 1 of the project shall be LEED silver certified and meet all Federal Energy and Sustainability mandates. The purpose of this solicitation is to retain an A/E to prepare master plan of the entire site and SD/DD for the first phase of construction. Special Studies, CD and CPS to support the government during the construction phase are included as options in this contract and may be exercised in the future.



Services under this phase shall include but not be limited to the following: Contract Administration; Site Design including utilities and drainage; Landscape Architecture; Architectural Design; Structural Design; Mechanical Design; Electrical Design; Plumbing Design; Cost Estimating; Energy Impact Studies; Phasing Plans; and Presentations and Review Submissions.