Y -- Southern MD P&DC HVAC Upgrade solicitation 512582-06-A-0012

Amendment 2 was issued 9/8/2006 changing period of performance, revising section 01115 phasing work, and including environmental reports for this project. The United States Postal Service intends to award a fixed price construction contract for HVAC renovation of the Southern MD Processing and Distribution Facility (P&DC) in Capital Heights MD. The Scope of Work includes, but is not limited to, providing all labor, equipment, and materials to upgrade the HVAC system in a phased schedule at the Southern MD P&DC per the attached drawings and specifications. This work includes new boilers, air handlers, VAV boxes, roof top package DX units, distribution, and bacnet compliant DDC controls. The scope also includes associated electrical systems work and incidental structural and architectural work with the total construction cost ranging from $9.8M to $10.8M. The contract will be accomplished in five phases with total period of performance of 540 days. A detailed scope of work for this project is included in the solicitation documents. This request for proposal is being issued only to prequalified contractors. Previously, the following the firms were prequalified and are the ONLY ones invited to submit proposals for this solicitation: The Postal Service has qualified in response to solicitation 512582-05-A-0003 the following five construction firms for a fixed price construction contract: James N Gray Company,10 Quality Street,Lexington, KY 40507-1450,Forrest Miller, Program Manager,Tel: 859-281-5000,Fax: 859-252-5300,Email: FMILLER@jngray.com,; The Walsh Group,929 West Adams,Chicago, Illinois 60607,Ric Krause, Vice President,Tel: 312-563-5400,Fax: 312-563-5420, Email: rkrause@walshgroup.com, The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company, 300 East Joppa Road,Baltimore, Maryland 21286,Ron Eisenberg, Division Vice President,Tel: 410-821-1100,Fax: 410-337-5770,Email: ron.eisenberg@whiting-turner.com; Turner Construction Company,,3865 Wilson Blvd.,Arlington, Virginia 22203,Christian E. Jahrling, Vice President and General Manager,Tel: 703-841-5200,Fax: 703-841-5228,Email: cjahrling@tcco.com, bpasquariello@tcco.com; Walbridge Aldinger Company, 613 Abbott Street,Detroit, Michigan 48226,Mr. Ronald Hausmann, President-HCS Group,Tel: 313-442-1350,Fax: 313-234-0550,Email: rhausmann@walbridge.com. The USPS will select the offer that provides the Best Value to the Postal Service, taking into consideration technical and cost related factors. While the above listed five firms have already been furnished a Solicitation Package on CD, others, i.e. subcontractors, material, equipment suppliers and other interested parties can purchase copies of the Solicitation. It is available on a Compact Disks (CDs contain complete solicitation with plans provided in plot file, drawing file and pdf format) or full set of plans and specs ?Hard Copy? with CDs may be purchased. Copies of the solicitation, specification or drawings may be purchased from LDI Reproprinting Center. Orders can be e-mailed to usps@ldireproprinting.com. Order by phone Toll Free 1-877-913-5277. Order by fax 770-491-7375. All technical questions concerning this Solicitation must be sent through any one of the five pre-qualified firms. We will only accept questions from the pre-qualified contractors via e-mail and in ?Word? format and they should be directed to Mr. Bill Powell at bill.powell@usps.gov. Proposals are due by 3:00 PM EST, September 21, 2006 and should be mailed, using one of the services offered by the Postal Service, to Mr. Powell, Supply Management Facilities Portfolio, 4301 Wilson Blvd., Suite 300, Arlington, VA 22203-1840. The USPS encourages the participation of small, minority, and women owned business subcontracts for this project.