In July 2024, the Buffalo District moved its Headquarters from 1776 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14207 to 478 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14202. As part of this move, the District is in the process of renovating some of the buildings at the former location and will ultimately demolish some of the remaining buildings at the former location. Contract W912P421C0022 was awarded on 28 Sep 2021 to MJ ENGINEERING AND LAND SURVEYING PC. The current contract requires the contractor to complete a 100% design to renovate two buildings at the former Headquarters. The Buffalo District intends to issue an out of scope modification to contract W912P421C0022. The modification will require the contractor to perform all necessary professional architectural and engineering services to prepare preliminary (35%), intermediate (65%), pre-final (95%), and final (100%) Plans (Drawings) and Specifications (P&S) and supporting documents for the design of the Demolition of USACE-LRB Buildings 1, 2, 6 & 8 and associated site amenities and utility systems elements. The contractor shall also conduct a design charrette to discuss the final layout of the reservation.

USACE plans to accomplish this modification in accordance with FAR 6.302-1(a)(2)(iii). Under this authority, services may be deemed to be available only from the original source in the case of follow-on contracts for the continued provision of highly specialized services when it is likely that award to any other source would result in substantial duplication of cost to the Government that is not expected to be recovered through competition. The current contractor has extensive knowledge of the site (especially regarding utilities) that was gained through the current contract and bringing in a new contractor would result in a substantial duplication of cost.

If industry has any comments regarding this special notice, please provide comments by 06 Nov 2023 to Walter.Kamad@usace.army.mil