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R -- PROFESSIONAL, ADMINISTRATIVE AND MANAGEMENT SUPPORT SERVICES SOL CAFPDH99-004 DUE 120398 POC Donna C. Hughes 202-219-2439 WEB: Customer Outreach Consulting Services, http://www.usa.gov/procurement/index.html. E-MAIL: donna.hughes@gsa.gov, donna.hughes.@gsa.gov. The General Services Administration/Public Buildings Service/Office of External Affairs is seeking vendors who can provide Customer Outreach Consulting Services to the Public Building Services (PBS). Marketing tools and aids must be designed to broadcast clear and consistent messages of PBS' capabilities, achievements, and strategic directions. The vendor will conduct customer outreach research activities and prepare various marketing and public outreach strategies in support of the national real estate programs of PBS. The conduct of such services includes market research and analysis, public outreach strategy development and development of marketing tools and vehicles. This procurement will be a 100% small business set-aside (FAR 52.219-6). SIC CODE 8742. Award under this Request for Quotation (RFQ) will be made under the Bet Value Continuum trade off process, as described in the Federal Acquisition Regulation 15.101 and 101-1. The Best Value Continuum is defined as the 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, definitiveness 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 a trade off process if it is deemed to be in the best interest of the Government. These services will be contracted under a Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) in accordance with the Simplified Acqusition Procedures (FAR 13-106). The BPA will be on a rational basis. The Rotation will be based on ranking in the technical range. The program office will only contact awardees on a per job basis. The anticipated period of the BPA wil be from date of award to September 30, 1999. The reference number for the RFQ is CAFPDH99-005. Firms requesting a packet must state the reference number. Facisimile requests will be accepted on 202-208-4107. NO TELEPHONE REQUEST WILL BE ACCEPTED. NO WALK INS WILL BE ACCEPTED. ONCE YOUR FAX YOUR REQUEST IN AND IF YOU WOULD TO PICK UP YOUR PACKET, PLEASE INDICATE IT ON YOUR FAX, OTHERWISE THE INFORMATION WILL BE MAILED. The mailing address is General Services Administration, 1800 F Street, NW., RM B-242, Washington, DC 20405. ALL QUOTES ARE DUE NO LATER THAN THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1998 AT 1:30PM E.S.T. ANY QUOTES RECEIVED AFTER THAT DATE AND TIME WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED BY THE GOVERNMENT. SPECIAL NOTE: A REQUIREMENT THAT YOU MUST HAVE AN OFFICE WITHIN A 50 MILE RADIUS OF THE WASHINGTON, DC METROPOLITAN AREA. ALL RESPONDENTS MUST PROVIDE PROOF OF A FULLY OPERATIONAL OFFICE WITHIN THE PRESCRIBED RADIUS. Posted 11/10/98 (W-SN270011). (0314)

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