The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) is pleased to announce a Design Excellence opportunity for the selection of an architect/engineer team to design a new U.S. Courthouse in downtown Nashville. The GSA has instituted the Design Excellence Program to procure top-quality design for all its federal buildings projects. The program stresses creativity and streamlines the way GSA hires architects and engineers, substantially cutting the cost of competing for GSA design contracts. The Design Excellence Program operates through the GSA Public Buildings Service.

The courthouse in Nashville will have a gross building area of approximately 390,000 gross square feet with an estimated construction cost of more than $70,000,000. This will be a two-stage Design Excellence opportunity, culminating in an interview with the evaluation board for the short-listed firms.

For more information, read the FedBizOpps announcement. Go to www.fedbizopps.gov, click the Find Business Opportunity "go" button in the upper left corner, and initiate a search for Solicitation GS-04P-02-EXC-0038. (FedBizOpps.gov is the single government point-of-entry for federal government procurement opportunities over $25,000.)

For other information, contact Richard Hillyard, project manager, 630-416-4329, or richard.hillyard@gsa.gov.

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