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X -- NOTICE OF INTENT TO ENTER INTO SOLE SOURCE AWARD TO SUB-SUBLEASE SPACE FOR A CHILD CARE FACILITY POC Sharon Gellineau, Contracting Officer, (202)708-5874 E-MAIL: Click here to contact the Contracting Officer via, sharon.gellineau@gsa.gov. This serves as the Government's notice of intent to enter into a sole source award under the authority of 41 U.S.C. 253(c)(1). GSA intends to partner with the private sector and the DC Government to provide low-cost, quality child care for federal government, municipal government, and private sector employees. The Marriott Corporation has created a nonprofit organization, the DC Child Care Corporation (DCCCC), in order to provide low-cost, quality child care for its employees and the community. Marriott has proposed a partnership among the District Government, the Federal Government, and several local corporations and businesses to provide low-cost, quality child care to the community. GSA's role in the partnership is to sponsor the development and operation of the center under the authority of the Trible Amendment, 40 U.S.C 1902. DCCCC will sublease approximately 12,794 rentable SF of space from the DC Government (leaseholder), for a period of nine years for the purpose of operating a Child Development Center. GSA proposes to sub-sublease a portion of the space in order to enable Federal workers to benefit from the project. The District's role is to sublease the space to the nonprofit and to provide a grant in the amount of $900,000 to offset the cost of design and construction. The child care to be provided to Federal employees' children in this center will be significantly subsidized through fundraising coordinated by the nonprofit, working through an established board of the child care center. This will offer Federal employees the opportunity to access quality, affordable child care. For the project to be successful, specific parameters for the site selection must be met. The site must be in the central business district and must be close to a Metro Station. Further, it must be in close proximity to one of Marriott's hotels as well as in a location convenient to a group of federal and municipal workers who have a need for child care. The success of the project requires that the site be made available at very favorable rates, and it is preferable that the space be currently in the inventory of federally owned or leased space or in DC's inventory of owned or leased space. No adequate federally owned or leased space is available for this purpose. The proposed location of 410 8th Street, NW, Washington, DC, meets all of the requirements and is currently in the DC Government's leased property inventory. It is GSA's intent that DCCCC sublease the space for a period of nine years, and that GSA sub-sublease approximately 1/2 the space to meet its identified federal child care needs. Based on the unique site requirements associated with child care centers (including the availability of at least 6,400 SF on the ground floor); there is no federally owned or leased space available; and private space is not feasible because the financial requirements of this partnership require that the lease rate be minimized, GSA intends to enter into the sub-sublease agreement for the property located at 410 8th Street, NW. The projected opening date is summer 1999. Posted 02/17/99 (W-SN299012). (0048)

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