5BDE Somerset HS JCLC

The contract supports the Somerset High School Junior Cadet Leadership Challenge (JCLC) from June 8 to June 12, 2026, providing comprehensive meals, lodging, and facility usage for 220 cadets and 40 cadre from 22 schools. All services must be delivered at a contractor’s primary facility located within 150 miles of Somerset, Texas, with the government conducting acceptance at Fort Knox, Kentucky. The contract requires full provision of training infrastructure including high and low ropes courses, zip lines, obstacle and rappelling courses, an orienteering course, and a swimming pool for water safety instruction, along with climate-controlled, gender-separate lodging for all participants under strict occupancy rules: one person per bed and no more than two per room or tent. Bathhouses must be equipped with running hot water, privacy draping, toiletries, and separate facilities for males and females. The contract is priced as a firm fixed price with 9 line items covering cadet and cadre meals, lodging, and program fees, with no established total contract value but a clear mandate that award goes to the lowest priced, responsive quote from a responsible offeror. Evaluation is based solely on price, with a 10 percent HUBZone price preference applied to all offers unless waived or excluded. All contract performance is governed by a detailed Performance Work Statement and Quality Assurance Surveillance Plan that define performance standards and acceptable quality levels. The contractor must furnish all equipment, supplies, labor, supervision, and medical services, and is required to comply with extensive federal regulations including deviations for prohibitions on inverted domestic corporations, convict labor, biobased product reporting, sustainable products, security exclusions, and subcontracting rules. Electronic invoicing through Wide Area WorkFlow is mandatory, with payment processed via SAM-registered electronic business points of contact. The contractor must also enforce key control protocols, physical security measures, labor compliance under Texas wage determinations, and adherence to prohibitions against procurement from sanctioned regions or entities, including the Maduro regime and Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Offers must be submitted via email to designated points of contact by June 2, 2026, using SF Form 1449 with complete pricing for all CLINs, and must maintain current SAM registrations with accurate socioeconomic and defense telecommunications representations. A Contracting Officer’s Representative will monitor performance but holds no authority to obligate funds or alter contract terms.