Design and Administration of Construction Services for a Multi-Building Renovation Project at the Cascades Job Corps Center in Sedro Woolley, Washington

The U.S. Department of Labor/ETA has a requirement for a qualified Architectural/Engineering firm to provide design and construction administration services for a multi-building renovation project at the Cascades Job Corps Center located in Sedro-Woolley, Washington. The services will require seismic upgrades of an existing construction trades training building (13,980 GSF) to IT training and classroom, renovation and seismic upgrades of an existing healthcare training building (13,230 GSF), and renovations to the classroom spaces in the east wing of the existing Administration and Education building. The classrooms and educational training spaces shall be designed employing collaborative learning concepts and criteria. In addition, services include sampling, testing and reporting of asbestos and lead paint presence, development of construction documents for the remediation, and construction administration services during abatement. The estimated price range for construction is between $5,000,000 to $10,000,000 million. Interested offerors are requested to submit a statement of qualifications. Your statement of qualifications should demonstrate the capacity of your firm to perform the required services, and shall include the following information: a. Your submission shall provide examples of design and the administration of construction service provided on two or more major multi-phase renovation projects located at operating educational campuses with a $5M to 10M construction value range performed within the last five years. b. The submission shall also provide design services performed by your firm for two or more educational facility projects employing collaborative learning concepts and criteria for the design of classroom and educational training spaces. c. Your statement of qualifications should demonstrate seismic analysis, design, and the administration of construction services performed by your firm on two or more seismic retrofit projects performed within the last five years. Your previous project examples shall include the location of the project, the project owner, a brief and concise description of the project scope, specialty design consultants employed, a comparison of the construction budget versus construction award value, the final contract amount, and a brief and concise description of the contract administration services provided. Your statement of qualifications will be evaluated based on the following criteria, which is listed in order of importance. 1. Projects Similar in Scope and Value 2. Past Performance 3. Project Location This Notice is for information and planning purposes only and shall not be construed as a solicitation or as an obligation on the part of the Government to issue a Request for Proposals or award a contract. The Government does not intend to award a contract based on responses, nor otherwise pay for the preparation of any information submitted. Entities responding to this Sources Sought Notice should submit the minimum information necessary for the Government to make a determination that the source is capable of satisfying the requirements. The response must be specific to each of the criteria listed above to demonstrate that the respondent is capable. The submissions shall not exceed 20 pages. RESPONSES ARE DUE ON November 9, 2016, BY 2:00 PM EDT, AND MUST BE SUBMITTED ELECTRONICALLY VIA E-MAIL TO garnett.eileen@dol.gov (Eileen Garnett, Contracting Specialist). Acknowledgment of receipt of responses will not be made, nor will respondents be notified of the Government's evaluation of the information received. A determination by the Government to proceed with the acquisition is within the discretion of the Government. Please be advised that telephone inquiries will not be accepted. PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS. A prospective offeror that is interested in obtaining a contract award with the Government must be registered in the Federal Government's System for Award Management (SAM) database, prior to contract award. Additional information regarding contractor registration can be obtained through the following website, www.sam.gov.