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R -- OPERATION OF OVERSEAS MILITARY BANKING PROGRAM SOLICITATION SOL MDA210-00-R-CPB3 DUE 031300 POC Cheryl Marquez, Contracting Officer, (614) 693-4338, E-Mail cheryl.marquez@dfas.mil WEB: Click here to download a copy of MDA210-00-R-CPB3, http://www.dfas.mil/aso/. E-MAIL: Click here to contact the Contracting Officer via, cheryl.marquez@dfas.mil. The Defense Finance and Accounting Services (DFAS) is issuing a Request For Proposal, (RFP) solicitation with the issue date of January 13, 2000 and a closing date of March 13, 2000 on the following web site: http://www.dfas.mil/aso/ A Draft RFP was issued on the aforementioned web site September 24, 1999 requesting that interested financial institutions provide comments to DFAS. These comments were analyzed resulting in the revised 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 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 RFP includes clause 52.217-8, Option to Extend Services (AUG 1989). The proposed contract type is an Indefinite Quantity contract, with deliveries or performance to be scheduled by placing predominantly Cost-Plus-Fixed Fee task orders, and to a lesser extent, incentive, award, and fixed price task orders. A Pre-proposal conference will be held in Columbus Ohio on February 17, 2000 at 10:00 a.m. EST. Written questions for the Pre-proposal Conference are to be sent via mail, E-Mail or Fax to the Contracting Officer no later than February 3, 2000. Site visits of the overseas locations may be scheduled by contacting Keith Westby at (614) 693-4344. Location and details on a Permanent Operations Center (POC) will be designated by the Government within 30 days of the release/issue date of the RFP by an Amendment. Proposal responses/offers to the RFP shall be mailed or handcarried to the applicable address provided in the RFP; the Government will NOT accept E-Mail or Facsimile proposal responses/offers. Posted 01/12/00 (W-SN415471). (0012)

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