U.S. Marshals Service, Business Services Division, 600 Army Navy Drive, Arlington, VA 22202

W -- LEASE OF AIRCRAFT SOL MS-98-R-0013 POC Cynthia Suter, Contracting Officer, (202) 307-9368 E-MAIL: Click here to contact the contracting officer via e-mail, Cindy.Suter@justice.usdoj.gov. This synopsis provides for a modification to the requirements specified in previous synopsis posted on or around February 7, 1998 and March 27, 1998. The following provides the complete corrected version. The U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) requires the lease of aircraft. All aircraft shall be U.S. registered transport category turbo jet powered meeting stage III noise criteria. The USMS requires the lease of two types of aircraft: 1) Non specific aircraft identified which will be ordered by designated passenger capacity. The cost associated with the lease of this aircraft shall include aircraft, crew, insurance and maintenance. 2) The second type of lease shall be specific aircraft type without crew. The specifically identified aircraft types include the lease of 727 100/200, DC-9 all series, Sabreliner 75A/80 and Lear 25 B-D. The costs associated with the lease for specified aircraft shall include aircraft, insurance and maintenance. For leases of aircraft without crew, properly certified USMS pilots/crew will be used. It is estimated the aircraft for both types of leases will be flown approximately 15 to 30 hours per week. The aircraft will generally depart and return to one of three designated points: 1) Oklahoma City, OK; 2) El Paso, TX; or 3) Alexandria, LA; however, the USMS may require alternative positioning/depositioning sites. Multiple award Basic Ordering Agreements with one base year plus four option years will be awarded to all acceptable offerors. The estimated amount of all orders issued under the resulting basic ordering agreement for the first year will be approximately $5M. After execution of the initial BOAs, the USMS reserves the right to continue to evaluate and execute additional BOAs with qualified firms. The Government will continue to solicit qualified sources on an annual basis through issuance of commerce business daily notice. Only concerns holding basic ordering agremeents will be solicited to participate in the competition(s) for individual orders. This synopsis serves to informpotential offerors of the requirements, as specified above, which will result in orders during the first year of the BOAs. This notice shall be considered to have fulfilled the synopsis requirements set forth in FAR 5.201 for all orders issued during the first year of the resulting BOAs. Request for solicitation MS-98-R-0013 must be in writing and may be requested by facsimile (202) 307- 9695 or e-mail. Since the solicitation will not be issued electronically, please be sure to include your company name, point of contact, mailing address, phone and fax number in your request for solicitation. Telephonic requests will not be honored. IMPORTANT -- All firms who have previously requested a copy of this solicitation need not submit a 2nd request. (0118)

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