81 CONS/LGCV, 200 Fifth Street, Suite 101, Keesler AFB MS 39534-2101

V -- MANAGEMENT AND OPERATIONS OF COMMERCIA TRAVEL OFFICE SOL F2260097R0069 DUE 080797 POC Reggie E. Temple 601-377-1807 Fax 601-377-1811 Johnson Tullos Contracting Officer E-MAIL: keesler afb ms, REGGIE TEMPLE@cons@/kee-aetc. Management and Operation of Commercial Travel Office -- Provide all personnel, equipment, tools, materials supervision and other items or services necessary to perform the management and operation of the official and unofficial commercial travel offices located at Keesler AFB, MS, Columbus AFB, MS, and Little Rock AFB, AR. Total estimated dollar volume is $8.4M (estimated annual). The estimated dollar volume for official is $5.1M and for unofficial $3.3M. A single solicitation will be issued for both official and unofficial travel service requirements and the government may make multiple awards. Proposals must address official and unofficial travel services separately. Separate evaluation teams will perform evaluations for official and unofficial travel. The period of performance for each contract will be a two-year basic period with six month options, for a total of five years. Contractor to provide domestic travel consisting of the following: (1) Scheduled, commuter and charter airline tickets (2) Charter bus arrangements (3) Train tickets (4) Hotel, motel reservations (6) Car, motor-home and other vehicle rental arrangements in conjunction with other travel arrangements (6) Travel insurance (7) 24-hour, year-round, toll-free telephone service and International services consisting of the following: (1) Visa/passport information (2) All airline tickets of regularly scheduled carriers (3) Hotel reservations, all continents (4) Charter flights (5) International drivers license information (6) Travel insurance. The technical criteria specified below is minimum criteria that will be evaluated and is listed in descending order of importance. Technical information may exceed the minimum criteria a. Have experience and a satisfactory performance record: (1) Evidence of progressive and responsible experience, both corporate and individual. (2) Discuss prior experience acquired under other contracts which would fully substantiate ability to perform this contract for the Air Force. Emphasis should be placed onany comparable experience. All experience pertinent to illustrate performance ability should be included. The data submitted should also include agency name, number of years experience in this type of work, contract period of performance, date of award, dollar amount and a description of the service performed, along with the contract administration offices, phone numbers, and a contract number. b. Have adequate financial resources to perform the contract, or the ability to obtain them: (1) Submit copy of current financial statement. c. Capacity to meet staffing requirements: (1) Discuss the company's ability to acquire the necessary qualified personnel to meet the proposed requirements. d. Discuss the company's ability to continue to provide services during periods of natural disaster and real world contingencies (1) Describe any proposed alternate operating locations. The proposed contract listed here is being considered for 100 percent set aside for small business (SB) or 8a concerns. Interested SB or 8a concerns should as early as possible but not later than 15 days of this notice, indicate interest in the acquisition by providing to the contracting office the information requested above and a positive statement of eligibility as a SB or 8a concern. This information will be evaluated and used to determine competitive set-aside action. If adequate interest is not received from SB or 8a concerns, the solicitation will be issued as unrestricted, without further notice. Therefore, replies to this notice are requested from all business as well as from SB and 8a concerns. Request for solicitation documents from SB or 8a without accompanying information will be considered non-responsive to the request without further consideration. For purposes of this procurement the small business size standard is 1.0 million dollars in total revenues, but excluding funds received in trust for an unaffiliated third party, such as bookings or sales subject to commissions. The commissions received would be included as revenue. (0189)

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