The General Services Administration, Public Building Service has a requirement for a generator replacement project at the Veterans Affairs (VA) Philadelphia Information Technology Center (PITC)

The General Services Administration (GSA) has a generator replacement project at the Veterans Affairs Regional Office building located at 5000 Wissahickon Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The GSA owned facility provides support for the Veterans Affairs (VA)Benefits Division for the North East region of the country and the Philadelphia Information Technology Center (PITC), a VA Core Data Center.

The building is an approximately 440,000 square-foot, four-story steel frame structure with two of the stories partially below grade. The building was constructed in 1995. The first floor is mainly composed of mechanical and electrical spaces, a fitness center, the GSA office, janitorial contractors’ locker rooms, and a daycare center. The second floor consists of a cafeteria, servery/kitchen, training rooms, a data center (Philadelphia Information Technology Center –“PITC”), a warehouse, mail room, and general office space. The third floor consists of the main entry lobby, a credit union, and general office space. The entirety of the fourth floor consists of general office space.

In addition to the main office building, there is an auxiliary generator building which houses four diesel-generators which provided emergency/standby power to the main office building from 1995 to 2017.These existing generators have failed and are out of service. Two portable rental generators have augmented their function until new permanent generators can be installed. The generator building is an approximately 2,500 square-foot, single story structure.

• The anticipated work to be performed includes electrical, mechanical, fire protection, telecommunications, security, civil, structural, and hazmat
• The existing generators and equipment will need to be removed. VA PITC has established the generator capacity ‘Need’ (‘N’) to be 5000-Amps in order to maximize the capacity of 5000-Amp rated distribution equipment
• Two generators will be synchronized and paralleled to provide the 5000-Amps. This requires that each generator provide at least 2500-Amps of current
• This project will utilize (4) 1750KW, 2187KVA, 2630A generators to provide 2N redundancy.