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R -- OPERATION OF OVERSEAS MILITARY BANKING PROGRAM DRAFT SOLICITATION!! POC Cheryl Marquez, Contracting Officer, E-Mail cheryl.marquez@dfas.mil WEB: Click here to download a copy of the DRAFT RFP, http://www.dfas.mil/aso/. E-MAIL: Click here to submit comments to the Contracting Officer,, cheryl.marquez@dfas.mil. Defense Financial Institutions Services Office, Acquisition Support Organization c/o Defense Finance and Accounting Service Columbus Center 3990 East Broad Street, Building 21, ATTN: Cheryl Marquez Columbus OH 43213-1152 P -- OPERATION OF OVERSEAS MILITARY BANKING PROGRAM DRAFT SOLICITATION. Contact Point, Cheryl Marquez, Contracting Officer, E-Mail address is: cheryl.marquez@dfas.mil The Defense Finance and Accounting Services requests comments from interested financial institutions on a DRAFT Request For Proposal (RFP) solicitation. DFAS will analyze the financial institutions' comments to the DRAFT RFP with the intent to issue a revised formal RFP. The Department of Defense maintains banking branches at 110 DoD installations located overseas for the benefit of DoD personnel stationed in those areas. These banking offices, currently operated and managed by a financial institution under contract provide "full service" banking to DoD military members, civilian employees and other authorized individuals, appropriated and non-appropriated fund organizations, and military disbursing officers. Country areas involved in this DRAFT RFP are Japan, Okinawa, Cuba, Korea, Iceland, United Kingdom, Diego Garcia, Germany, The Netherlands, and Honduras. DFAS intends to negotiate a competitive procurement for all 110 locations for a multi-year period of five years with five-one year options and two-six month option periods, starting in FY 2001. In addition, the DRAFT RFP includes clause 52.217-8, Option to Extend Services (AUG 1989). The proposed contract type is an Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract, with deliveries or performance to be scheduled by placing predominantly Cost-Plus-Fixed Fee task orders, and to a lesser extent, incentive or fixed price task orders. The DRAFT RFP tentativley will be retrievable on or about September 23, 1999 with the final date for receipt of comments to be posted on the web site. Click here to download a copy of the DRAFT RFP on the following DFAS Acquisition WebSite http://www.dfas.mil/aso/ No hard copies of the DRAFT RFP will be furnished. Telephone requests will not be honored. All interested financial institutions may submit comments electronically, which will be considered in preparation of the formal RFP. Click here to submit comments to the Contracting Officer, Cheryl Marquez cheryl.marquez@dfas.mil Posted 09/13/99 (W-SN379376). (0256)

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