[FONT=Verdana]The General Services Administration (GSA) announces its intent to issue a Request for Proposal (RFP) for a negotiated construction requirement to perform contaminant abatement removal and legal disposal of (at a minimum) interior asbestos insulation, Lead-based-paint, potentially PCB containing light ballasts, mercury-laden fluorescent light bulbs and vapor lamps, other contaminants; and demolition of warehouse structures, at the St. Elizabeth’s Campus, Washington, D.C. [/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana]St. Elizabeth's, a National Historic Landmark, is a former mental health hospital that was previously operated by the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The St. Elizabeth’s Campus is located on Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue in the Anacostia neighborhood of Southeast Washington, D.C. The West Campus and a portion of the East Campus have been selected to meet the operational housing needs for the DHS. The West Campus, a 176-acre site, is situated on the "topographic bowl" of the District of Columbia and offers panoramic views of the city. The campus contains 62 historic buildings, 134 character defining landscape features and a historic cemetery, in which soldiers from the Civil War era, as well as former patients, are interred. Prospective Offerors' experience must include, but is not limited to, work performed on historic sites, with the National Historic Preservation Act Section[/FONT][FONT=Verdana] 106 Process and within campus settings. [/FONT]
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The DHS Headquarters consolidation is a construction program involving multiple interdependent projects managed in a coordinated way to obtain benefits and controls not available from managing them individually. The individual projects are expected to include some or all of the following: The U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters; The DHS Headquarters and The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA); Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE), The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and Customs Border Patrol (CBP); a Central Utility/Cogeneration Plant; a National Operations Center (NOC) and various infrastructure projects, including water, gas, sewer, power, and pedestrian and roadway networks.[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana]This will be a firm fixed price contract with an approximate 270 calendar day completion period. The government anticipates awarding a single contract to one 8(a) entity. The estimated cost for this effort is $3.5 million to $5.0 million. [/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana]The work is to be carried out in accordance with GSA standard specification sections: Section 01546-Safety & Health, Section 02089-Small PCB Items and Mercury Lamps, Section 02085- R Asbestos Roofing Removal Procedures, Section 02085 Asbestos Abatement Procedures, Section 02090-Control of Lead-Based Paint.[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana]The Request for Proposal (RFP) will be posted online at the Federal Business Opportunities website http://www.fbo.gov under Solicitation No. GS11P09MKC0061. Proposals will be due approximately 30 days later. A site visit will be conducted about 10-15 days after issuance of the RFP. The date will be finalized when the RFP is posted. The RFP documents will only be available electronically. Potential offerors will be responsible for downloading the RFP documents and for monitoring the website for possible amendments and any additional information. [/FONT]