DESIGN, FABRICATION, AND INSTALLATION OF AOC WIDE SIGNAGE

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Congressional leadership and the US Capitol Police (USCP) requested that the signage throughout the campus be replaced to to aid the over 3 million visitors to the Capitol campus.  The signage is to meet the following: signage at entrances are to be consolidated; the visual importance of security and the prohibited items list on the signs have a clear hierachy of information; and that there be a unified aesthetic across the Architect of the Capitol (AOC) campus.  AOC’s Office of the Chief Engineer (OCE) completed a programming phase which gathered all of the stakeholders and developed a concept signage package which includes locations, types, and quantities of signs.

The Contractor shall provide design development, shop drawings, fabrication, and installation for AOC wide signage improvements.  The concept signage package includes nine sign types to be used at approximately 240 locations throughout the Capitol campus. The scope of work is for four separate Task Orders.  Task Order 1  is to provide design services for the modification of the concept design signage package for the Senate jurisdiction only.  Following the approval by Senate leadership, Task Order 2  is to prepare thcan commence which is for the messaging for each sign type at the designated location for each jurisdiction.  Task Order 3 is to prepare shop drawings for each sign at every location.  Task Order 4 is for the fabrication and installation for all of the signs. 

Please see attached Request for Information (RFI) and Draft Statement of Work (SOW).