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R -- PROFESSIONAL, ADMINISTRATIVE, AND MANAGEMENT SUPPORT SERVICES SOL CAFP99SEF0026 DUE 120398 POC Sherman E. Farves 202-501-2769 E-MAIL: Sherman.Farves@gsa.gov, Sherman.Farves@gsa.gov. The General Services Administration/Public Buildings Service/Office of External Affairs is seeking small business vendors whom can provide marketing Consulting Services to the Public Building Service (PBS) to promote goals, products and services to our constituencies. The vendor(s) will be required to conduct industry outreach activities and prepare various outreach strategies in support of the national real estate programs of PBS. The conduct of such services includes market research and analysis, industry outreach strategy development, trade press article placement and development of marketing and communications tools and vehicles. The RFQ is a 100% small business set-aside only (FAR 52.219.6) Sic Code 8742. Award under this RFQ will be made under the best value continuum trade-off process, as described in the Federal Acquisition Regulation 15.101 and 101-1. The best value continuum is defined as an array of source selection strategies and approaches that may be used to reflect the relative importance of cost or price. The source selection approach or combination of approaches that will result in the best value is a case by case determination and can include risk of unsuccessful performance, definiteness of the requirement, amount of development work required, relative importance of technical factors and/or past performance, and cost or price. GSA reserves the right to use trade-off processes if it is deemed in the best interest of the Government. Award of services will be contracted under a Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA)in accordance with Simplified Acquisition Procedures (FAR 13.106). Several awards will be made under the BPA and the successful offerors will be utilized on a rotational basis. The rotation will be based on overall rankings of the selectees in the technical range. An authorized official from the program office will contact the selected awardees on a per job basis. The anticipated period of performance of this BPA will be from date of award to September 30, 1999. The reference numberfor this RFQ is CAFP99-SEF-0026. Small business firms requesting a packet must state the RFQ reference number. Facsimile requests will be accepted on 202-208-4107. NO WALK-INS AND NO TELEPONE REQUESTS WILL BE ACCEPTED. HOWEVER, ONCE YOU FAX IN YOUR REQUEST AND WOULD LIKE TO PICK-UP YOUR PACKET, PLEASE INDICATE IT ON YOUR FAX REQUEST, OTHERWISE THE INFORMATION WILL BE MAILED TO YOU. The mailing address is General Services Administration, 1800 and F Streets, NW., Room B242, Attn: Sherman Farves, Washington, DC 20405. ALL QUOTES ARE DUE AT SAID MAILING ADDRESS NO LATER THAN THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1998 AT 1:30 PM EST., AND ANY QUOTES RECEIVED AFTER THAT DATE AND TIME WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED BY THE GOVERNMENT. SPECIAL NOTICE: ALL OFFERORS MUST HAVE AN OFFICE WITHIN A 50 MILE RADIUS OF WASHINGTON, DC METROPOLITAN AREA. ALL OFFERORS MUST FURNISH PROOF OF A FULLY OPERATIONAL OFFICE WITHIN THE PRESCRIBED RADIUS. Posted 11/10/98 (W-SN270045). (0314)

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