A Construction Management Support Services (CMSS) supplier monitors the management, coordination, and general direction of the work and progress of a construction supplier. The CMSS supplier maintains a full-time staff at the project site during construction. A CMSS supplier may be retained at any time during the project planning, design, or constricting phase. During the construction phase the CMSS supplier must maintain a full-time staff at the project site.
The Supplying Practices and Handbook P-2, Design and Construction Purchasing Practices, offer guidance regarding publicizing requirements, RFPs, and contracts, which applies to the purchase of construction management support services.
Contracts for construction management support services may be indefinite-quantity contracts or a single fixed-price contract for a single project. In order to facilitate the expeditious assignment of CMSS suppliers to projects where their services are needed, construction management support services contracts are generally awarded as indefinite-quantity contracts requiring the CMSS supplier to provide a range of construction services for multiple construction contracts over a specified period of time and within a specified geographic area. Limitations regarding contract term, dollar limitations, and (delivery) work order limits are issued by the VP, SM, or an authorized designee.
The Postal Service may contract with a CMSS supplier rather than exercising an A/E construction-management option to perform field duties during construction. The CMSS supplier may not prepare working drawings, design, or specification that will be used for construction services.
Guidelines regarding applicable contract clauses and solicitation provisions are provided in Handbook P-2, Design and Construction Purchasing Practices.
See Handbook P-2, Design and Construction Purchasing Practices, for guidance on the evaluation and selection process.
The offeror’s price proposal is a multiplier factor that is applied to each work-day category. The multiplier submitted by the offeror must not be more than two decimal places (e.g., 1.22 or 0.97).
See Handbook P-2, Design and Construction Purchasing Practices, for guidance on the contract award process.
The project manager responsible for monitoring the performance of a CMSS supplier must complete an objective written evaluation using Form 7477-A, A/E’s Performance Design Phase Evaluation, and 7477-B, A/E’s Performance Construction Phase Evaluation, of the supplier’s performance, including any environmental elements, for each project. For further guidance see Handbook P-2, Design and Construction Purchasing Practices.
When the Postal Service requires environmental engineering services such as the design and/or monitoring of environmental mitigation, abatement, or clean-up measures, an engineering supplier should be retained using the procedures applicable to procurement of A/E services. In those cases where a supplier is hired to both design and perform environmental mitigation, abatement, or clean-up measures, the supplier should be retained using the procedures applicable to purchase of design-build services.
