Description
***UPDATE: The estimated date for the solicitation package to be ready is during the week of June 18, 2007. Please keep checking FedBizOpps.gov for further updates.*** This procurement is for "Replace Fire Alarm System" at the U.S. Customhouse, 610 South Canal, Chicago, Illinois. Briefly, and without force and effect upon contract documents, work of contract can be summarized as follows. The Contractor shall provide all management, supervision, labor, materials, supplies, repair parts, tools, and equipment to provide a new supervised, non-coded addressable, multiplex voice type fire alarm system that is independent and separate from the building?s existing status and temperature control system. New wiring and conduit raceways, terminal cabinets, outlets and mounting boxes, control equipment, alarm and supervisory signal initiating devices, alarm indicating devices, addressable devices, field addressable interface devices, visual and audible notification appliances are also needed. The contractor shall provide the following: New fire alarm speakers and notification devices (Fire Alarm Strobes) shall be so arranged so that each adjacent appliance is on its own separate circuit, i.e., two speaker/strobes circuit per floor. These separate circuits for both speakers and strobes shall be distributed vertically in two separate remote vertical risers. New water-flow detectors, pressure switches, tamper switches for each building sprinkler system. New manual fire alarm pull stations at various locations, new photoelectric smoke detectors in each electrical, main telephone equipment rooms and similar rooms. New smoke duct smoke detectors to initiate shutdown of dedicated air handlers. New fire alarm speakers in stairwells and elevator cabs for manual emergency communication from command center. Remote annunciator panel at the main lobby entrance where fire department enters the building. Computer and system printer to record all alarm, supervisory, and trouble conditions without loss of signal. New smoke detectors in all elevator lobbies and elevator machine rooms, only activation of these detectors shall cause recall of elevators. Automatic voice type fire alarm system that shall be design for total evacuation with pre-recorded messages. Upgraded electrical and mechanical equipment relative to this project where necessary. This is a negotiated procurement and is open to all business concerns. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code is 238210 with a small business size standard of $13.0 million. The estimated cost range for this project is between $1,000,000.00 and $5,000,000.00. The solicitation will be available on or about October 20, 2006. The solicitation cited above can only be obtained by accessing a secure website known as the Federal Technical Data Solution (FedTeDS). 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