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S -- FOOD SERVICE AND HOUSEKEEPING AT THE BRANDON SPRING RESIDENT CENTER SOL RFP R8-02-00-02 DUE 031500 POC Steven E. Mumford (606)745-3128 or Mike Melson (270)924-2067 The Contractor shall furnish all labor and supervision to provide food service and housekeeping at the Brandon Spring Resident Center, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Land Between The Lakes National Recreation Area, Golden Pond, Kentucky. The Brandon Spring Resident Center is open year-round and provides dormitory style lodging and cafeteria style food service to approximately 20,000 overnight and 1,900 day-use guests annually. The Resident Center consists of 1) a Commons Building housing the kitchen/dining room, meeting areas, offices, a laundry, and restrooms; 2) two Dormitories consisting of four units each; and 3) an Activity Building used for meetings, special events, etc. The Center has a capacity of 128 overnight guests housed in eight (8) dormitory units of 16 beds per unit. Occupancy has been approximately 44 percent per year. The food service operation has a seating capacity of 130 guests and serves approximately 60,000 meals (20,000 each of breakfast, lunch and dinner) and 10,000 snacks annually. The food service also caters approximately 9 special events, serving approximately 950 people annually. Housekeeping consists of cleaning the insides of all buildings and policing the immediate area around the outside of each building on a regularly scheduled basis. The housekeeping operation also provides a clean linen service for overnight guests who do not furnish their own. Overnight guests consist of church, civic, school, and special population groups and day-use guests consist of civic, business and family reunion groups. The Contractor will be required to provide personnel to staff the cafeteria style food service operation from 6:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. daily, when groups are in attendance, and provide staffing as needed for day-use groups and special events being catered. The Contractor will be required to provide staffing for housekeeping services, to meet the regularly scheduled cleaning needs on a daily basis and for periodic and annual cleaning tasks. All meals served shall provide a variety of high quality and nutritious foods of appropriate serving size, within the USDA school nutrition guidelines or other specified guidelines. The Contractor will be responsible for ordering, stocking and inventorying all food and supplies, which will be paid for by the Government, and operating within budget parameters provided by the Government. The Contractor shall maintain all facilities in a clean and sanitary condition at all times and in accordance with all federal, state, and local codes and regulations. All housekeeping responsibilities will follow prescribed job tasks for daily and annual cleaning. Performance will be monitored by the on-site facility manager, with customer satisfaction measured by user comments and group evaluation forms. This project will be solicited using Request for Proposal methods for a Base Year and two Option Years. Proposals will be evaluated on past performance, experience, qualifications and price. Approximate value of the base and options is less than $1,000,000. Posted 01/27/00 (W-SN419357). (0027)

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