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X -- LEASE OR RENTAL OF FACILITIES, ACCOMODATIONS FOR LODGING AND CONFERENCE ROOM RENTAL SOL RFP 98-2 POC ANDRE ADAMS, Contract Specialist, (202) 606-9509 E-MAIL: aadams@peacecorps.gov, aadams@peacecorps.gov. Peace Corps plans to award a requirements contract for a facility that has lodging and conference room for training sessions. The Contractor's facility must: 1) Be within the District of Columbia in the area bounded by 27th St., N.W., on the West; Constitution Avenue., N.W., on the South; 13th St., N.W., on the East and Q St., N.W., on the North. 2) Have private rooms with kitchenette, bathroom, and television set in good working condition for eighteen (18) to twenty-two (22) participants. 3) Have a conference room that can accommodate thirty-five (35) participants, seated at tables in a U-shaped formation. The conference room shall be available twenty-four (24) hours a day for the duration of the training event during the specified dates of the conference and be able to be secured (locked). 4) Have a working telephone line for local-only connection in order to contact the Peace Corps office in the conference room. Peace Corps shall not be billed for local calls from this telephone. 5) Be equipped withan overhead projector, projection screen, 35mm slide projector and carrousel, podium with microphone, and television monitor with video cassette recorder (as needed) in the conference room. 6) Offer daily breakfast in the facility's dining room. The meal shall be nutritionally balanced with a selection of hot and cold entrees, fruit, pastries, juices, coffee, and tea. 7) Provide a continuous beverage service, which includes water, caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee, a selection of caffeinated and decaffeinated teas, and juice. Beverage service must be checked at least twice in the morning and twice in the afternoon and refreshed as needed. 8) Inform participants where calling cards can be purchased if hotel guests are charged for local calls. 9) Provide provision for weekly or as requested linen and housekeeping services in guest rooms. 10) Provide clothes washing and drying services including coin-operated laundry machines available daily for use by all participants. 11) Provide a system whereby telephoneand fax messages can be left for participants with the hotel for delivery to participants about appointment schedules and other matters. 12) Make additional rooms available, should they be needed and the facility has space. The facility shall provide additional rooms at the same rate per room bid for those rooms specified in the contract. 13) Provide safety deposit boxes for all guests. Access shall be made available twenty-four (24) hours per day for the duration of the participants' stay. 14) Be in compliance with the Hotel and Motel Fire Safety Act of 1990. 15) The first conference will be held from May 4, 1998, through May 29, 1998. Participants will arrive on or about May 2, 1998, and depart on or about May 31, 1998. 16) This contract shall include two one year option periods. During each option, an additional conference will be held on or about May 1999 and May 2000. There will be a minimum of eighteen (18) participants during each of the conferences that occurs during the option periods. Those interested in receiving the request for proposal (RFP) must request the RFP in writing. Requests may be faxed to (202) 606-3009, e-mailed to adams@peacecorps.gov, or mailed to the address that appears in this notice. Telephone requests will not be honored. The RFP will be released to the public on or about March 7, 1998. (0049)

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