The District of Columbia (“District”) Department of General Services (“DGS” or “Department”) is issuing this Request for Proposals (“RFP”) on behalf of the DC Department of Employment Services (“DOES”) to engage a design firm to serve as the Architect/Engineer (the “A/E”) to provide a full range of planning, programming, architectural and engineering services for the modernization of a portion of the Joel Elias Spingarn High School to serve as the new home of the DC Infrastructure Academy (“DCIA”) (the “Project”), located at 2500 Benning Road, NE, Washington, DC 20002.