C--Modification No. 2 to Presolicitation Notice - A8078070173 posted on 11/6/06 - National Park Service, Pacific West Regional Office, Architect-Engineer Services, Indefinite Quantity Contract, Civil/Environmental Engineering, PWR-Honolulu Office

Modification to Pre-solicitation Notice Announcement A8078070173 - Posted on 11/6/06 Solicitation N8078070173 Modification No. 2 1. DESCRIPTION, The opening paragraph of the notice is hereby revised to read as follows: The National Park Service (NPS), Pacific West Regional Office (PWR), 1111 Jackson Street, Suite 700, Oakland, California, 94607, is seeking a qualified firm(s) or organization(s) to provide Multi-Disciplinary (civil, environmental, electrical, mechanical, structural, architectural, etc.) Engineering Design Services under an Indefinite Quantity contract for a variety of projects within National Park Service units at locations primarily throughout the State of Hawaii, the Commonwealths of Guam and Saipan and the U.S. Territory of American Samoa. The lead firm(s) selected for contract award will be engineering design firm(s) as the majority of services to be performed under this contract(s) will generally be civil/environmental engineering in nature. The contract type will be firm fixed-priced. The Government may, if appropriate, elect to award a single task order contract or to award multiple task order contracts to one or more sources under this solicitation. The Government reserves the right to award contracts, based on the selection board's final selection list, in order of preference, to the firms considered most highly qualified to perform the work. Each awardee shall be provided a fair opportunity to be considered for task orders to be issued. FAR Part 16 requires that each multiple awardee be given a fair opportunity of consideration for each proposed task order award. In order to provide a fair opportunity and equitable distribution of task orders amongst the awardees, the Contracting Officer will rotate the selection of equally capable awardee based on the location of project, technical capability, capacity, experience, past performance, quality of deliverables, timeliness, and other factors that the Contracting Officer, in the exercise of sound business judgment, believes are relevant to the placement of orders. With respect to the production of plans and specifications (Title II design services), the maximum amount that can be paid to an Architect-Engineer (A/E) is 6% of the estimated cost of construction (41 U.S.C. - 254(b)). In accordance with Department of Interior Acquisition Policy Release (DIAPR) 2004-1, Amendment 1 and its Small Business Competitiveness Demonstration Program (SBCDP) Adjustment of Set-Aside Policy, the NPS has reinstated the use of small business set-asides for A-E Services NAICS Code 541330 - Engineering Services. Accordingly, this acquisition is set-aside for small business concerns. The NAICS Code is 541330. The Small Business Size Standard is $4.5 million. For the purposes of this acquisition, any concern will be classified as small business if its average annual gross revenue for the preceding three fiscal years does not exceed the small business size standard stated herein. 2. Response date of 12/7/06 remains unchanged. - End of Modification -