General Services Administration, 18th & F Sts, N.W., Room B241, Attn. Donna Hughes, Washington, DC 20405

R -- PROFESSIONAL, ADMINISTRATIVE, AND MANAGEMENT SUPPORT SERVICES SOL CAFP99DH003 DUE 120398 POC Donna C. Hughes 202-219-2439 WEB: MARKETING CONSULTING, 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 Marketing Consulting Services to the Public Buildings Service(PBS) to promote goals, products and services to our constituencies. Vendors will need to provide consulting services to assist PBS in developing organizational service positioning sstrategies and devising messages and communications tools targeting these constituencies. Vendors may be required to summarize and synthesize oficial government documents into a single marketing tool or documentand to research and analysis on a given topic in the form of a 2-3 page concept paper or a longer research report. 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 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 the arra of souce 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 wthat 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 perform and cost or price. GSA reservces 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 Simplified Acquisition Procedures (FAR 13.106). The BPA will be on a rotational basis. The rotation will be based on ranking in the technical range. The program office will only contact 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 number for this RFQ is CAFP99DH-003. Firms requesting a packet must state the reference number. Facisimile request will be accpeted on 202-208-4107. NO TELEPHONE REQUEST WILL BE ACCEPTED. NO WALK INS WILL BE ACCEPTED. ONCE YOU FAX YOUR REQUEST IN AND IF YOU WOULD LIKE 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 Streets, 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 AFREA. ALL RESPONDENTS MUST PROVIDE PROOF OF A FULLY OPERATIONAL OFFICE WITHIN THE PRESCRIBED RADIUS. Posted 11/10/98 (W-SN269953). (0314)

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