T--Print/Distribute Civilian Enterprise (Fort Hood Sentinel) Newspaper, Fort Hood, Texas

Provide all personnel, equipment, labor, supplies, tools, materials, supervision and other items necessary to print and distribute a civilian enterprise newspaper at Fort Hood, Texas. The base contract period will be for a one full year from date of award plus four one-year option periods. This is a no cost contract. Summary of Performance Work Statement: Within 30 days after award date, the Contractor shall provide personnel who are fully competent in the following areas of duty assignment under the contract: Reporting-writing, photography, newspaper design, pagination, graphics, web page design: Reporter-Writer (s) shall have skills to produce articles and photographs. Reporter-Writer (s) shall have experience covering, reporting and writing news, features and sports on assignment. Reporter-Writer(s) shall have extensive knowledge of digital photography, equipment and techniques. Reporter-Writers shall have extensive journalistic knowledge. Designer/Paginator (s) shall be able to understand and implement modern newspaper design techniques and plan production requirements of future issues and design and layout the paper. Designer(s) shall be able to produce graphic elements to complement stories: Web Editor. Contractor shall provide a graphic artist knowledgeable in the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and other techniques on the World Wide Web. The contractor shall post the paper on the web. Employees shall produce final proofs with coordination and approval of government representatives. The PAO has the responsibility to determine final layout and design to communicate to the audience for which the publication is intended. Training. The Contractor shall provide an experienced, professionally trained staff, fully versed in all phases of the operation of equipment used. Supervision of Contract Employees: The Contractor shall assign a qualified supervisor to monitor the performance of contract employees involved in the preparation, printing and distribution of the newspaper. Neither the Contractor nor Contractor representatives shall solicit advertising in the name of Fort Hood or of the United States Army. The Contractor and its representatives shall conduct all business operations on an ethical and businesslike basis, dealing honestly and fairly will all advertisers or others coming in contact with the Fort Hood Sentinel. The Contracting Officer shall provide the Contractor and his representatives a letter of authorization to be shown to potential advertisers to establish the relationship between the Government and its requirements for a newspaper and the printing firm. The Contractor shall provide no less that 150 news-stands, all labeled Fort Hood Sentinel, for display of the newspaper within 30 days of the signing of this contract. The number of news-stands required may fluctuate with post population changes, but it should not exceed 175. The Contractor agrees to replace and/or repair damaged, destroyed, or lost news-stands. The Contractor shall provide waterproof stands at outdoor locations. The Contractor shall print and distribute weekly a minimum of 25,000 copies which will be metro size (minimum 22 x 13 ). A minimum of 51 issues per year shall be published on Thursday of each week, except Christmas. The Contractor shall provide a minimum selection of 200 different typefaces of both serif and sans serif styles, ranging in size from 6 to 96 points. The Contractor shall digitally enhance, to the best printing quality possible, a maximum of 100 photographs per issue and shall have said photographs scaled to size as required. The applicable North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this acquisition is 511110 with size standards in Number of Employees of 500. The solicitation will be issued/posted electronically and available for viewing at the following web site: http://www.fedbizopps.gov. The solicitation issue date is anticipated to be on or about 5 Sep 2008. All qualified offers may submit their proposal. An Offeror shall submit his/her proposal electronically to e-mail addresses listed below. Questions regarding this solicitation, and/or submission of offers may be sent to Johanna Goodman, Contract Specialist at e-mail address contact@example.gov, phone +1 (555) 000-0000 and CC Susheep Oden, Contracting Officer at e-mail address contact@example.gov, phone +1 (555) 000-0000.