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V -- TRAVEL AGENCY SERVICES SOL 3FBG-W-CM-N-5204 DUE 062995 POC Catherine Maloney or Anne Owens on 202-755-0310. Requirements for the Establishment and operation of a travel management Center for the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the US office of special counsel (osc) in Washington, DC. USDA has an estimated $14,263,036 in official annual air ticket sales, 31,284 air tickets annually, 24% International travel,99% participation in the travel charge card program and requires a 0.74% rebate on official domestic air ticket sales. Osc has an estimated $52,768 in official annual air ticket sales, 143 air tickets annually, 3% International travel, 99% participation in travel charge card program and requires a 0.58% rebate on official domestic air ticket sales. This is a NO-COST contract, as the Government does not pay for travel management Center services, but rather the travel agency receives revenue through commissions received. Osc requires ticket delivery twice daily or on an as needed basis to its location in nwwashington, DC. USDA requires an off-site facility located within 5 Miles of the USDA at 14th & Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, DC and located NO further than two blocks from a metro-rail stop. Travel agents must use the USDA Government transportation system (GVTS) for billing all transportation tickets, including providing magnetic tape or diskette reconciliation of the GVTS account to the USDA office of financial management national Finance Center. The GVTS is more complex than a gta in that the TMC must take American express information, add certain agency specific data (tape layout provided in Solicitation), generate a new magentic tape or diskette which expands billing reconciliation to an agency-by-agency basism and Forward the tape/diskette tot HE national Finance Center (nfc) within 5 days of receipt. The GVTS must be operational for testing purposes within 30 days prior to contract start-up and must be operational on the first Day that the contractor issues USDA tickets; otherwise, there is NO mechanism to pay the contractor. Refunds to the USDA GVTS accounts must be processed within 5 business days from receipt of unused tickets. Ticket delivery is required daily at 10:00 AM and 1:00 PM to approximately 41 offices in Washington, DC and twice daily at 10:00 and 2:00 to Alexandria, VA soil conservation service. Soil conservation has eight (8) Field offices serviced by the Washington, DC TMC and ticket delivery must be provided by guaranteed overnight delivery or prepaids at NO COST/charge to the Government to: Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Tennessee, and Wisconsin. Other NO-COST services shall include: FAX approximately 50 copies ofitineraries/documents per Day to interested parties/travelers throughout thecountry; issue tickets in foreign currencies against gtrs with equivalent fares paid in US dollars; and guaranteed overnight ticket/document delivery. The Solicitation will be issued on or about may 26, 1995, and will Close on or about June 29, 1995. The contract period will be November 1, 1995 or date of award, whichever is later, through September 30, 1996 with four one-year optionperiods. Requests for this Solicitation must be in writing only, and may be faxed to (202) 755-0277 or mailed to the above address. NO phone calls to obtain a copy of the Solicitation will be accepted.(0130)

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