TSA Cafeteria Management Services

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is issuing this Request for Information (RFI) as a means of conducting market research to: (1) identify parties having an interest in and the resources to support TSA's need for cafeteria management services and (2) offer industry partners an opportunity to review and provide feedback on TSA's DRAFT requirements prior to the release of a Request for Proposal (RFP) for this requirement. Your responses to the information requested will provide valuable industry engagement feedback to TSA on ways to improve TSA's DRAFT requirement. TSA reserves the right to utilize information from the responses to this RFI for these purposes. The applicable North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code assigned to this procurement is anticipated to be 722310 - Food Service Contractors. The Product Service Code (PSC) is anticipated to be M1FD "Operation of Dining Facilities". At this time the Government anticipates competing this requirement on the open market. Procurement Background The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is currently headquartered in Arlington, VA and occupies several facilities in the National Capital Region (NCR) to coordinate the agency's operations across the United States. TSA is working in partnership with the General Services Administration (GSA) to acquire a new leased space of up to 625,000 rentable square feet (RSF) in Springfield, VA to consolidate its NCR holdings and thereby reduce its physical footprint. The new TSA Headquarters facility is scheduled to begin occupancy in August 2020 and will be fully occupied by January 2021. The facility is designed to house approximately 3,000 seats for TSA personnel, including the TSA Administrator and his/her executive staff. The facility will include a full service cafeteria to support the TSA workforce at TSA Headquarters. TSA requires a Contractor to establish and operate food service facilities for the purpose of dispensing food, nonalcoholic beverages, and such other items as may be authorized by the Government. Administrative Information A DRAFT Performance Work Statement (PWS) is provided in ATTACHMENT 1 to this notice. This DRAFT PWS details TSA's anticipated requirements for cafeteria management services. THERE IS NOT A SOLICITATION AT THIS TIME. This request for information does not constitute a request for proposals or a promise to contract; submission of any information in response to this market survey is purely voluntary; the government assumes no financial responsibility for any costs incurred. Telephone inquiries will not be accepted or acknowledged, and no feedback or evaluation will be provided to companies regarding their submissions. Submission Instructions If your organization has the potential capacity to perform these contract services, please provide the following information: 1) Organization name, address, email address, Web site address, telephone number, size, and socioeconomic status; 2) Please indicate your ability provide the requirements outlined in the attachment, and your intention to bid on a potential solicitation; 3) Provide a response to the following questions: Is there any information that has not been addressed in the DRAFT PWS that industry partners would need in order to successfully submit a proposal for this potential opportunity? and 4) Feedback in respect to the attached DRAFT PWS, such as suggested areas of improvement, lessons learned from similar projects, areas that may require further clarity, and any questions that the Government should consider before releasing an RFP. Feedback for the DRAFT PWS may be inserted via track changes in the DRAFT PWS or in a separate Microsoft Office 2010 compatible document or Acrobat Adobe PDF. There is no page limitation for feedback. Interested parties who consider themselves qualified to perform the above-listed services are invited to submit a response to this RFI no later than 12:00 PM local Washington DC time on Thursday, September 5, 2019. All responses under this RFI must be emailed to contact@example.gov and contact@example.gov by the date specified in the notice. Responses not received by the closing date and time may not be considered or reviewed by TSA. Questions in support of this RFI will not be entertained.