NASA Headquarters, Acquisition Division, Washington, DC 20546 Attn:HWC/Verron M. Brade

X -- LODGING FOR PERSONNEL ON NASA TRAVEL ORDERS SOL D-14148 POC Verron M. Brade tel: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has a requirement to enter into multiple indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contracts (not more than 3) for lodging of personnel traveling to the Washington, DC metropolitan area under NASA orders. Safety and convenience of the travellers is of prime importance. The lodging establishments are required to: (1) provide rooms with a private bath equipped with at least one double bed, telephone, alarm clock or wake-up service and a television; (2) be located within a 10 mile drive/commute to NASA Headquarters; (3) have an attractive appearance both inside and outside--grounds shall be neatly groomed; (4) have one restaurant on-site or co-located under cover; (5) comply with all applicable federal, state, and local laws, codes, and regulations and shall ensure and provide evidence of compliance (e.g. sanitation, safety, fire protection, accessibility for the physically challenged, etc.); (6) have adequate security overall and for each room; (7) inform and collect from guests directly any additional costs such as telephone charges, additional guests, and room service which will not be included in the subsequent contract; (8) notify the Government at least 60 days prior to any ''Black Out'' dates--time frames where NASA personnel could not be accommodated under the term of the contract; (9) mot accept any individual under the terms of this contract who is not on official NASA travel with proper documentation; (10) be within 1 block of a metro station, and/or the hotel will provide courtesy shuttle service to the metro station or NASA Headquarters; (11) take credit card number at time of reservation for Guaranteed Late Arrival (GLA), otherwise no reservations are to be held beyond 6:00pm (no shows shall be charged to individual's credit card. As a minimum NASA expects to guarantee 1,000 room nights per contract over the course of the effort with a maximum dollar value of $10M for the total requirement (maximum will be equally allocated over each contract awarded). The period of performance for the subsequent contract(s) shall be 5 years with no options. Estimated solicitation date is October 2, 1995; firm date for the receipt of offerswill be stated in the RFO. The SIC Code for this requirement is 7011. This procurement is being conducted under the NASA MidRange Pilot Test Program approved by the Office of Federal Procurement Policy on April 16, 1993. All requests for copies of the RFO should be submitted to Verron Brade/Code, NASA Headquarters, Code HWC, 300 E St., SW, Washington, DC 20546. Requests may be faxed to (202) 358-3080 or sent via E-mail to vbrade@proc.hq.nasa.gov. NO TELEPHONE REQUESTS WILL BE ENTERTAINED. The solicitation and any documents related to this procurement will be available over the Internet; these documents will be in ASCII format and reside on a World-Wide Web (WWW) server, which may be accessed using client browsers, such as, MOSAIC. The WWW address, or URL, of the Headquarters Acquisition Division home page is: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/procurement/acquisition/bizops.htm (0255)

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