V -- TRANSPORTATION, TRAVEL AND RELOCATION SERVICES We are conducting market research on a multi-year requirement to provide travel services to include transportation, reservations and ticketing, accommodations and vehicle rental services for Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Camp H.M. Smith and Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii personnel for both Official and associated Unofficial Travel. The purpose of this research is to assist the Government in determining the Commerciality or Non-Commerciality of this requirement. All companies familiar with large commercial travel contracts, particularly those involving more than $6M annual gross ticket sales from a single office, are requested to: 1. Express an opinion on the extent to which a contract for official military travel might be modified to conform to standard commercial practice within the meaning of FAR part 2 definition of "commercial"; 2. Provide copies of commercial terms and conditions on recent large travel services contracts with their corporate customers; 3. Identify specific terms and conditions on recent large travel service contracts with their corporate customers; 4. Comment of tasks required by the Government and the extent to which these services can be met by "commercial practices", specifically: (a) Reconciliation of complex centrally billed accounts (CBA) to the Government's charge card contractor involving the management of dozens of lines of accounting and credits for unused tickets. (Contrast this with an apparent corporate practice for travelers to use individual corporate cards to book travel, with the traveler reimbursed for the travel by the employer.); (b) Required response to mobilization, contingency operations, and evacuation of a large group of military personnel and dependents including transportation for deployed personnel (Contrast this with no known equivalent requirement from their corporate travel customers.) In addition, the Government requires mandatory use of MTMC-approved rental car providers; 5. Provide your catalog or market prices (FAR 2.101 "Commercial"(f)) for these services. A copy of the draft Statement of Work and other documents is available at http://www.cic.pearl.fisc.navy.mil/contract/rfp-rfq/travel_index.html. Responses, recommendations, and comments may be faxed to (808) 473-5750 or e-mail to richard_j_harr@pearl.fisc.navy.mil, to be received no later than 2:00 p.m. (HST), Friday 03 March 2000.***** Posted 02/25/00 (W-SN428650).

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