42d Contracting Squadron/LGC, 50 Lemay Plaza South, Bldg 804, Maxwell AFB, AL 36112-6334

V -- MANAGEMENT AND OPERATION OF COMMERCIAL TRAVEL OFFICE SOL F01600-97-R0025 POC Cheryl Manley-Lott, (334) 953-5611/Dorothy M. Green, Contracting Officer, (334) 953-6461 E-MAIL: 42CONS/lgcw, pamontgomery@max1.au.af.mil. This is a sources sought synopsis; a solicitation is not presently available, however the following description is provided to assist offerors in determining their interest in providing the requested services. Services Non Personal: provide all personnel, equipment, computer hardware and software, tools, materials, supervision and other items or services necessary to perform the management and operation of the commercial travel offices located at Maxwell AFB and Maxwell AFB-Gunter Annex, 187th Tactical Squadron at Dannelly Field, AL and Tyndall AFB in Panama City FL. Services required will support both appropriated organizations and non-appropriated travelers. The non-appropriated portion consists of official and leisure travel service. The non-appropriated portion does not obligate appropriated funds of the United States Government. Non-appropriated funds are generated by the military community through the sale of goods and services and the collection of fees and charges for participation in military community programs. The non-appropriated section of the solicitation does not involve federal tax dollars. Total estimated annual dollar volume is $12.3M. A base period of 24 months is anticipated with six (6) six-month option periods. The estimated performance start date is 01 JUL 98. The proposed contractor will be required to: -make confirmed reservations for all commercial modes of transportation for official travel at lowest available fares/rates making maximum use of available discounts satisfying service at the government contract fare or to satisfy mission requirements, whichever is available. -make adjustments/changes in reservations as requested; provide advance seat assignment, boarding passes, special meal availability. -provide domestic official travel services for official travel consisting of the following: 1) Scheduled commuter and charter airline tickets 2) Bus tickets 3) Train tickets 4) Hotel, motel reservations 6) Car and other vehicle rental arrangements in conjunction with other travel arrangements 7) Travel insurance 8) 24-hour, year-round, toll-free telephone service. -provide international official services to consist of the following: 1) Visa/passport information 2) All airline tickets of regularly scheduled carriers 3) Eurail pass tickets 4) Britrail tickets 5) Regularly scheduled passenger ships 6) Hotel reservations -- all continents 7) Charter flights 8) International driver's license information 9) Travel insurance. -domestic unofficial (leisure) travel services would consist of 1) through 8) under domestic official travel and: 9) Ship tickets to include cruises, fishing/party boat charters and ferries 10) Complete package and custom-tailored tours/vacations of all types. -international unofficial (leisure) travel services would consist of 1) through 9) under international official travel and : 10) Complete tour/vacation packages including car rental. -Provide the full range of travel service, staffing and billing procedures at primary and satellite offices for locations serviced in the contract. Potential offerors are invited to respond with the following information: a. EVIDENCE OF PROGRESSIVE AND RESPONSIBLE EXPERIENCE, both corporate and individual. (1) Discuss the experience that key management personnel possess; number of years of experience in providing volume travel services. (2) Describe present workforce and ability to provide adequate, trained personnel to perform this requirement. b. EVIDENCE OF SUFFICIENT FINANCIAL CAPACITY, working capital and the financial, technical and management resources to perform the contract without financial assistance from the Government. To document this capacity, the offeror shall provide a financial plan and credit history for undertaking the service requirements described herein. Submit a copy of a current (six-month period) financial statement. This statement shall be certified as true, accurate and in accordance with generally accepted accounting practices. c. DESCRIBE COMPUTER EQUIPMENT YOU PROPOSE TO USE in the performance of the contract. Provide information concerning the availability of an adequate number of computer terminals and associated hardware to perform this work ( the requirement is currently being handled with approximately 18 contractor-furnished terminals at various locations at Maxwell and Gunter Annex AF bases and six at Tyndall AFB. The assessment criteria to be used in the solicitation (when issued) are (1) Past Performance and Experience and (2) Compliance with Requirement. For purposes of this procurement, the small business size standard is $1M. The Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Code for this acquisition is 4724. Small Business (SB) concerns should indicate interest in this acquisition by providing to the Contracting Officer, in no later than 10 days of this notice, evidence of capability to perform this requirement and a positive statement of eligibility as a small business concern. If adequate responses are not received from small business concerns, the acquisition will be solicited on an unrestricted basis. Indications of interest from SB concerns without the required information regarding capability and eligibility will not be considered in determining the suitability of this requirement for a SB set-aside. Replies to this notice are solicited from both large and small business concerns. All requests for solicitations must be in writing; facsimile requests are acceptable. Facsimile proposals are not allowed. NO TELEPHONIC INQUIRIES TO THIS NOTICE WILL BE CONSIDERED. It is the Government's intention to utilize a best value source selection method. The Government may revise its acquisition strategy based on industry and/or customer requirements. Once a solicitation is issued and closes, the government intends to separately evaluate proposals for official travel services and proposals for leisure travel services and make multiple awards. Two separate contracts will be awarded. They may or may not be awarded to the same offeror. No further public notice of this requirement is planned until contract award. (0276)

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