Washington State Multifamily Construction Inspections

The U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) intends to award one contract to provide Construction Inspection services for the state of Washington. The purpose of this contract is to obtain services of a Contract Inspector (CI) who shall perform services as HUD's representative, conducting the required inspections and performing various HUD construction inspection tasks (such as review change orders, payment requests, schedules, request for permissions to occupy, etc.) for HUD. Inspections shall be made to evaluate the builder's and supervisory architect's performance, to report on construction in accordance with the construction contract documents, and to report on conformance with prevailing wages (when applicable) and other construction contract requirements. For Hud construction inspection tasks, the CI shall serve as HUD's construction representative for completing various portions of HUD forms, procedures and other related tasks. The CI's work products ahall provide HUD with the field/site data necessary for HUD to make informed decisions regarding the construction phase of the HUD multifamily mortgage insurance underwriting process.The anticipated performance period is 5 years with a base period of one (1) year and four (4) one-year options.

The anticipated posting date for the solicitation is February 7, 2008. The anticipated closing date for receipt of proposals is March 10, 2008.

Updates, questions and answers, and changes to the posted information will be available at the following websites: FEDBIZOPPS: http://www.fedbizopps.gov/, HUD Current Contracting Opportunities: http://www.hud.gov/offices/cpo/contract.cfm. HUD posts all required notices of its contracting opportunities on the HUD Contracting Opportunities website, which is located at the Internet address listed above.

Point of contact: Barbara Meyer, Contract Specialist, phone (817)978-5400; fax (817)978-5431; email Barbara.A.Meyer@hud.gov