99 -- Commercial Venture for Sale of Usable Surplus Government Property

This contract involves a multi-year sale of surplus usable government property located across various sites in the Continental United States, including Alaska, Hawaii, and Guam. The process is designed as a two-step sealed bid, beginning with the submission of technical proposals to assess their acceptability. Only those firms with acceptable technical proposals will receive an Invitation for Bid (IFB) in the second step, at which point they can submit their sealed bids for the surplus property. The contract, titled "99 -- Commercial Venture for Sale of Usable Surplus Government Property" and identified by solicitation number 08-0001, was posted on February 4, 2008. It falls under NAICS code 454111, which relates to retail used merchandise stores, indicating the nature of the commercial venture. The Department of Defense's Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service (DRMS) is managing the offering, which targets commercial firms interested in acquiring surplus items deemed usable by the government. The awardee will be responsible for purchasing these items from multiple locations, with the entire process structured to ensure only qualified bidders participate in the final stages.