Commercial Travel Servies

The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Program Support Center (PSC) on behalf of the Department of Defense (DoD), Defense Travel Management Office (DTMO) intends to negotiate and award a sole source bridge contracts under the authority of FAR 6.302-1(a)(2)(iii), for the Defense Travel Area (DTA) 10 - Congressional Legislative Affairs Offices to Omega World Travel, Inc., 3102 Omega Office Park, Suite 1, Fairfax, VA 22031-2400. The Intended procurement is classified under NAICS code 561510 with a Size Standard of $20.5 million. The resultant contract will include all applicable provisions and clauses in effect through the Federal Acquisition Circular (FAC) 2005-83 (effective July 2, 2015). This acquisition is conducted under the procedures as prescribed in FAR 12 - Acquisition of Commercial Items and FAR 13-Simplified Acquisitions. Description The Defense Travel Management Office (DTMO) requires continued support by the incumbent - Omega World Travel with providing official travel management services for DTA 10 - Congressional Legislative Affairs Offices. Purpose and Objectives The DTMO requires the continuation of official travel management and related additional services on a point of sale basis for Department of Defense (DoD) travelers assigned to these DTA 10 Commercial and Legislative Affairs locations. These CTO services are to support official travel activities of authorized DoD travelers who are under the authority of the referenced locations. Official travel is travel (e.g., TDY, PCS, evacuation, travel by Reserve Component members, and civilians on invitational travel orders) in connection with official business of the United States Government and performed under orders at the expense of federal appropriated funds. These CTO services shall be provided using both traditional methods, such as reservations and ticketing for all modes of travel, commercial lodging reservations, rental car arrangements, ticket delivery, and support services, in addition to automated methods using the Defense Travel System (DTS) web portal. In accordance with the original Performance Work Statement (PWS) attached. Period of Performance Base period of six (6) months, October 1, 2015 - March 31, 2016, with up to three (3), four (4) month options from April 1, 2016 - March 31, 2017. This notice of intent to award a sole source bridge contract is not a request for competitive proposals. However, in accordance with FAR 5.207(c)(15)(ii), all responsible sources that feel they can meet the Government's requirements detailed above and in the attached Performance Work Statement (PWS) may submit a capability statement which shall be considered by the agency. Capability Statements shall be tailored to show the Government the offeror is able to meet the specialized requirements of the DTA 10- Congressional and Legislative Affairs sites DTMO Commercial Travel services, and applicable regulations. Responses to this notice shall contain sufficient information to establish the interested parties' bona-fide capabilities for fulfilling the requirements within the PWS, and include: the Dun & Bradstreet Number (DUNS), and the Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN). All offerors must have an active registration in the System for Award Management (SAM) www.sam.gov." A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. The information received will be retained as Market Research. All responses must be received by 4:30pm eastern time on Monday, July 27, 2015, and must reference number 15-PSC-MK-NOI-00008. Responses may be submitted electronically to Margo Katzper via email at Margo.Katzper@psc.hhs.gov, or by U.S. mail to U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Program Support Center, Acquisition Management Services, Twinbrook Place, Suite 400, 12501 Ardennes Avenue, Rockville, MD 20857, Attention: Margo Katzper. Fax responses will not be accepted.