V -- TRANSPORTATION, TRAVEL, AND RELOCATION SERVICES FAMILIARIZATION OPPORTUNITY FOR CTOs ON THE DEFENSE TRAVEL SYSTEM. The Department of Defense (DoD) announces a Defense Travel System (DTS) familiarization/informational session available to any interested party considering a proposal submission for the DoD DTS Travel Services follow-on solicitation. Interested large and small businesses are encouraged to attend for informational purposes, however, this event is voluntary and participation or non-participation in no way effects any future proposal submission on the DoD DTS Travel Services follow-on solicitation The solicitation, when released, will identify a Defense Travel System (DTS) requirement to provide all personnel, equipment, tools, materials, supervision, and other items and services necessary to perform official travel management services for the DoD. Although the comment period has closed, the draft solicitation is posted for reference on the following web site: http://www.dtic.mil/travelink/. A series of two-day session have been scheduled at Fair Lakes, Virginia. Available start dates are 26 through 29 June, 5 through 6 July, and 10 through 13 July 2000. Each interested party may request one session. DayOne (1100-1700) will be a group session, (for up to five representatives from each of three interested parties ), consisting of a DTS overview and a "hands-on" demonstration of the processes a traveler and an authorizing official will use upon implementation of full DTS. Day-Two will consist of one three-hour individual session (either 0800-1100, or 1130-1430, or 1500-1800) affording the representatives from a single interested party the opportunity to work a series of scripted travel scenarios in concert with DTS PMO and contractor personnel. Each interested party shall forward a request to the DTS PMO address below indicating preferred date and time (for Day-Two) plus an alternate date and time. Every effort will be made to accommodate specific requests, however, available slots will be filled in the order the requests are received. Once confirmation has been provided and accepted by the interested party, the Government reserves the right to deny rescheduling requests. Interested parties are allowed to bring a maximum of five personnel to the sessions. Video cameras, tape recorders or any other type of recording media is not allowed. The demonstration environment will include automation that the commercial travel office may utilize with the DTS such as the DTS software on a PC linked with the Common User Interface (CUI), a Global Distribution System (GDS) and access to the Air Mobility Command's Global Air Transportation Execution System (GATES) reservations software. Interested parties will have the opportunity to view data input and data output from initial travel authorization up to the travel voucher process. Additionally, the interested parties will have the opportunity for hands-on interaction. It is recommended at a minimum that one member of the interested party be prepared to monitor the GDS for processing incoming travel requests and one member of the interested party be prepared to input travel requests into the DTS CUI system. Requests to schedule a session (to include a preference for a primary/alternate date and a specific three-hour session on Day Two) shall be submitted electronically to DTSContracting@osd.pentagon.mil not later than 1600 on 16 June 2000. Additional logistical information will be provided with confirmation of request and be made available on the DTS web site. Questions may be submitted electronically to the DTS PMO. WEB: Draft DoD DTS Travel Services Follow-On Solicitation, http://www.dtic.mil/travelink/. E-MAIL: Click here to contact the Contracting Officer via, alia@mtmc.army.mil. Posted 06/06/00 (W-SN461808).

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