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This is a Statement of Objectives (SOO) for integrated off-base lodging services for the 726th Air Mobility Squadron (726 AMS) near Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany, effective 23 September 2026.
The Government will award one contract for either Alternative A (200-room block) or Alternative B (100-room core plus surge capacity). The base period runs from 5 October 2026 through 31 December 2026, with three one-month options extending through 31 March 2027. Under Alternative A, the contractor must provide 200 rooms continuously nightly. Under Alternative B, the contractor provides 100 core rooms continuously plus up to 100 additional surge rooms per night at a fixed rate with a not-to-exceed room-night limit, requiring seven calendar days' notice for surge orders. The selected continuous block must be ready by 5 October 2026 at 1500 Spangdahlem local time. Rooms must accommodate transiting aircrews with varying arrival times and lengths of stay typically ranging from 16 to 72 hours. Each traveler occupies a separate room, and purchased capacity—whether occupied or vacant—cannot be sold or assigned to other customers.
The prime contractor must furnish lodging; manage hotel agreements, reservations, and crew placement; pay hotels directly; and invoice the Government. Included services cover management, housekeeping, linen service, maintenance, room access, and one parking space per four rooms at each property. Key technical objectives include maintaining crew integrity (all crew members stay at the same hotel in separate rooms), locating hotels within 40 minutes' drive of Spangdahlem Air Base Front Gate, providing clean rooms with beds, private bathrooms, small refrigerators, and temperature control (22 degrees Celsius with occupant adjustment 17-27 degrees), and ensuring rooms support daytime and nighttime rest with appropriate light reduction and noise control. Hotels must comply with applicable German building, fire, and life-safety requirements. The contractor must provide rapid placement within 30 minutes of assignment notice, manage room access through physical keys, cards, or electronic credentials without requiring traveler smartphone applications or personal payment cards, and maintain 24-hour on-call support. Privacy and operational security objectives require using Government-issued crew and assignment codes instead of names wherever possible, limiting personal data collection to lawfully required information, restricting access to nonpublic lodging information to authorized personnel only, and preventing use of such information for publicity, advertising, or profiling. The contractor must maintain incident-response capabilities with 24-hour reporting contacts and promptly report suspected disclosures, compromised information, or security incidents. Fixed room-night prices must cover all required services with no separate management fee, and invoicing must occur monthly through Wide Area WorkFlow (WAWF) in arrears for furnished and accepted availability. The contractor must submit a Performance Work Statement explaining how it will meet all requirements with measurable standards and methods, plus a separate nonpublic facility annex identifying proposed hotels, room allocations, and capacity commitments. Weekly reports to the Contracting Officer and Contracting Officer's Representative must include daily hotel occupancy status, crew placement records, assignment and access performance, facility conditions, crew feedback, privacy and credential handling, and billing reconciliation. Government physical-security assessments may run in parallel with lodging use only when expressly authorized by AMS, and the contractor has seven calendar days to correct any adverse findings or secure replacement lodging.
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726 AMS | INTEGRATED OFF-BASE LODGING
23 SEP 2026 | Page 1 of 7
STATEMENT OF OBJECTIVES
Integrated Off-Base Lodging Services for 726th AMS
23 September 2026
Edward H. Peterson, USAF Chief, Combat Readiness and Resources Flight, 726th AMS
M. Alexander V. Iturbe, MSgt, USAF Chief, Base Support Flight, 52d CONS
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1. BACKGROUND
The 726 Air Mobility Squadron (726 AMS) requires off-base lodging near Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany, for transiting aircrews. Arrivals and lengths of stay vary, including overnight arrivals and short-notice changes.
Lodging shall preserve crew integrity, timely room access, uninterrupted crew rest, and protection of personnel and operational information.
2. PURPOSE AND SCOPE
2.1. Integrated service. The Government will award one contract for Alternative A or Alternative B. Quoters may provide quotations for both Alternative A and Alternative B but must provide a rationale if only one Alternative is quoted. Regardless of the Alternative selected by the Government, the prime contractor (Prime) shall furnish lodging, manage hotel agreements, reservations, crew placement and support, pay the hotels, and invoice the Government. Hotel agreements shall be in the Prime’s name. The Prime remains responsible for all services, including those performed by its hotel subcontractors.
2.2. Purchased capacity. The two alternatives are described below. A room-night is one room reserved for one night of lodging. Purchased capacity includes occupied rooms and vacant rooms held for Government use. Each traveler shall occupy a separate room. Purchased rooms, regardless of occupancy, shall not be sold or assigned to other customers.
2.2.1. Alternative A—200-room block. Provide 200 rooms continuously throughout the base and each exercised monthly option.
2.2.2. Alternative B—100-room core plus surge. Provide 100 rooms continuously under each x001 CLIN.
The corresponding x002 CLIN provides up to 100 additional rooms per night at a fixed rate, subject to its not-to-exceed (NTE) room-night limit. Written surge orders follow 3.2.4.
Period Lodging nights Alternative A (CLIN) Alternative B (CLINs) Base 5 Oct–31 Dec 2026 200 rooms nightly (0001) 100 core (0001) + up to 100 additional (0002) Option 1 1–31 Jan 2027 200 rooms nightly (1001) 100 core (1001) + up to 100 additional (1001) Option 2 1–28 Feb 2027 200 rooms nightly (2001) 100 core (2001) + up to 100 additional (2001) Option 3 1–31 Mar 2027 200 rooms nightly (3001) 100 core (3001) + up to 100 additional (3001)
The selected continuous block shall be ready on 5 October 2026 at 1500 Spangdahlem local time. End dates include that night, with checkout the next day under the policy stated in the quotation. Consecutive purchased periods shall provide uninterrupted availability without checkout at an option boundary. Monthly options continue the selected alternative under the notice terms in the RFQ. Under Alternative B, each monthly option activates its core and surge CLINs together.
2.3. Included and excluded services. Prices shall include management, housekeeping, linen service, maintenance, room access, and one parking space per four rooms at each property, rounded up. Meals, separately ordered room service, transportation, and personal incidentals are excluded. The Prime shall provide 24-hour on-call support; a full-time employee at the passenger terminal or another Government site is not required. AMS provides traveler processing and transportation.
3. OBJECTIVES
3.1. Technical objectives
3.1.1. Crew integrity. All members of each Government-designated crew shall stay at the same hotel, in separate rooms, throughout their stay. Crews generally have five to seven members; larger crews may occur.
AMS will identify each crew and its size with the assignment notice. The Prime shall maintain enough grouped rooms as crews arrive and depart. Different crews may use different hotels, and there is no maximum number of hotels.
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3.1.2. Location. Each hotel shall be within a 40-minute drive by car of the Spangdahlem Air Base Front Gate.
Show the route and travel-time basis in the quotation. Keeping a crew together takes priority over choosing the nearest hotel; the 40-minute limit still applies.
3.1.3. Room standards. Rooms shall be clean, maintained, and furnished with a bed, private bathroom, and small refrigerator. A double or twin room used by one traveler is acceptable at the quoted price. Heating shall maintain 22 degrees Celsius with occupant adjustment from 17 to 27 degrees. Air conditioning is preferred, but not mandatory. Describe how rooms support daytime and nighttime rest, including light reduction, noise control, and housekeeping schedules. Hotel checkout practices shall not interrupt an authorized stay or delay a traveler’s required return to the base.
3.1.4. Safety and facility review. Hotels shall comply with applicable German building, accommodation, fire, and life-safety requirements. Maintain working room locks, controlled keys or access credentials, and clear emergency exits. The hotel and technology solution shall meet the contract’s supply-chain and telecommunications restrictions. Government physical-security assessments are addressed in Section 6.
3.1.5. Readiness and turnover. The Prime shall manage cleaning, linen replacement, maintenance, and replacement capacity for arrivals at any hour. An occupied, unclean, inaccessible, or unavailable room shall not be counted as ready for a new occupant. Guest changes within purchased capacity shall not result in additional lodging or turnover charges. Use the operating information in Section 5 and identify any limits on same-day reuse or simultaneous turnover in the proposed PWS.
3.2. Reservation, access, and management objectives
3.2.1. Rapid placement. AMS may give assignment notice 30–60 minutes before crew arrival or upon arrival.
Within 30 minutes after notice, the Prime shall provide the complete crew’s hotel name, address, room assignments, and usable check-in/access instructions. AMS shall be able to direct travelers to those rooms without further hotel selection or reservation action. Rooms and access shall be ready when travelers reach the hotel.
The Prime remains responsible for room readiness, lawful registration, working keys or credentials, and on-call assistance. The proposed PWS shall state response and resolution times for access failures, including overnight arrivals and closed reception desks. Retain notification, assignment, access, and corrective-action records with the causes of any delay. AMS remains responsible for passenger processing and transportation.
3.2.2. Access and key management. Physical keys, cards, secure self-check-in, electronic credentials, or a combination may be used. Room access shall not depend on an open reception desk or the traveler having a personal smartphone, application account, loyalty enrollment, or personal payment card. Provide a working fallback for lost or invalid credentials and system or communication failures.
Verify the recipient’s authority and track credential issue, return, replacement, and deactivation using only necessary personal data. Limit access to authorized rooms, areas, and periods. Credentials shall not display military affiliation or appear in public lists. Explain controls for duplicate or reused keys/cards, loss, emergency access, and checkout. Restore failed access promptly without splitting a crew. AMS will obtain hotel keys or credentials as needed for the accepted access process.
3.2.3. AMS interface. The proposed process may use AMS staff to issue and collect prepared keys or credentials. Identify the tasks, custody controls, storage, and forms needed. Government support is stated in Section 5; additional staff, equipment, or network access requires express agreement. AMS identifies crews and assigns purchased capacity. The Prime manages hotel commitments and room readiness.
3.2.4. Additional rooms—Alternative B only. The Prime shall provide every additional room-night ordered under CLIN x002 with at least seven calendar days’ notice. For example, an order issued on 5 October will utilize CLIN 0002 and will require the first requested lodging night to be available by 12 October. Limits are:
100 additional rooms per night for the applicable x002 CLIN; 200 total rooms per night under both CLINs; the remaining quantity of the applicable x002 CLIN.
All nights shall fall within that CLIN’s active period. There is no additional minimum stay or limit on the number of orders.
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The CO or a separately authorized AMS ordering official shall issue orders under CLIN x002 by phone and in writing, or in writing alone. The written order will be sent to the Prime’s designated email address and will identify the contract and applicable CLIN, room quantities, and the first and last lodging nights. The order is binding when the written order is delivered; the Prime’s acknowledgment confirms receipt, but the seven-day timeline begins upon delivery as reported by the email client. Crew distribution and arrival details may follow through the assignment process in 3.2.1.
Ordered room-nights are payable when conforming availability is furnished, whether occupied or not. Quoters may offer more favorable cancellation, reduction, or release terms. Unordered surge capacity does not carry over into subsequent option periods and cannot be considered a purchased quantity. Requests made within seven days of the first requested night require express agreement between the CO and the Prime. Orders for an option period may be issued only after that option is exercised. Orders shall be split if the requested period crosses an option boundary between applicable exercised CLINs.
3.2.5. Capacity management. Maintain access-controlled room status by hotel: occupied, ready, awaiting turnover, or unavailable. Give AMS the information needed for complete-crew placement. Under Alternative B, distinguish core rooms from each surge order and show the remaining x002 balance. Reduced occupancy does not cancel purchased capacity. Routine traveler assignments do not change the contract’s quantities, prices, or periods.
3.2.6. Facility changes and continuity. Hotels may be added or replaced while meeting the contract and Government use directions in Section 6. Do not move or split a crew for the Prime’s commercial convenience.
Coordinate unavoidable moves with AMS to protect crew integrity and rest. Take immediate action to protect life or safety and promptly notify AMS and the CO. Prime-caused shortages, payment disputes, or overbooking shall not create additional Government charges.
3.2.7. Transition. Have the selected continuous block and access/support arrangements ready at the required start time. The quotation shall distinguish firm or award-contingent hotel commitments from unconfirmed availability. For Alternative B, demonstrate how seven-day surge orders will be filled. The Prime shall establish its own hotel agreements and minimize moves of current occupants. The Government will coordinate the end of existing arrangements and any credential handover. Current contracts and deposits do not transfer to the Prime.
Available transition information and provider contacts may be requested from the CO and will be shared consistently with interested sources.
3.3. Privacy and operational-security objectives
3.3.1. Minimum necessary information. Use Government-issued crew and assignment codes instead of names wherever possible. AMS should retain the name-to-code roster; the Prime receives the grouping, headcount, times, and information needed for lodging. Routine invoices and reports shall exclude names, birth dates, identification-document or DoD ID numbers, flight identifiers, mission details, and access credentials. Protect coded records that can be linked to individuals or operations.
3.3.2. Lawful hotel records. Identify personal data a hotel or provider must collect by law, its legal basis, recipients, retention period, and safeguards. Where permitted, travelers shall provide that data directly to the hotel without a duplicate Prime-held record. Follow applicable guest-registration law and identify any claimed exemption for Government review. A booking system’s customary fields alone do not justify collecting personal data.
3.3.3. Need-to-know access and disclosure. Use nonpublic crew assignments, hotel allocations, occupancy, movement patterns, capacity changes, identity mappings, and access information only for contract performance and legal duties. Restrict access by role and need to know. Give each hotel only what it needs and train hotel personnel on these restrictions. Hotels shall not solicit travelers for reward or loyalty programs. Nonpublic information shall not be used for publicity, advertising, resale, profiling, unrelated analytics, or promotions.
Limit necessary disclosures to authorized Government personnel, service providers, authorities, and emergency responders. Lawful and protected reporting remains permitted. Coordinate proposed public release of nonpublic contract information with the CO.
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3.3.4. Systems and communications. Describe storage and processing locations, authorized users, authentication, transmission safeguards, access logs, and access removal. Address paper and digital records, provider access, backups, cross-border processing, and lost connectivity. Public links, open rosters, broad message groups, and public booking profiles shall not expose nonpublic lodging information. Connection to Government networks requires express authorization.
3.3.5. Retention and compliance. Propose the shortest justified retention periods and secure deletion or de-identification. Distinguish routine operational records from required hotel, tax, audit, and preservation records.
Identify data-protection responsibilities of the Prime, hotels, and technology providers. Comply with applicable General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), German law, and contract security/privacy clauses. No classified information is required; handle Government-designated controlled information as directed by the contract.
3.3.6. Incident response. Maintain a 24-hour reporting contact. Promptly report suspected disclosure, compromised lodging information, lost credentials, or security incidents to AMS and the CO; notify them immediately when safety or room access is at risk. Contain the incident, preserve evidence, restore safe access, and report corrective action. State response and notification times in the PWS and complete any required cyber, privacy, or regulatory reports.
3.4. Pricing, invoicing, and acceptance objectives
3.4.1. Fixed-price availability. Fixed room-night prices cover all required lodging, management, access support, turnover, parking, and applicable nonexempt taxes. The Prime is responsible for hotel deposits and supplier payments. The Government pays for conforming reserved availability, including vacant rooms. There is no separate open-ended management fee.
3.4.2. Invoicing and payment. Submit monthly invoices through Wide Area WorkFlow (WAWF), in arrears, for furnished and accepted availability. Identify the active CLIN, lodging dates, room-nights, unit rate, and adjustments. For surge, include the order reference and reconcile quantities to the reservation register. Do not bill unused NTE capacity, an unexercised option, or duplicate room-nights. Use coded records without names or credentials. Payment and remedies for nonperformance follow FAR 52.212-4.
3.4.3. Taxes. The Prime shall administer NATO Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) and other applicable tax-relief documents, with Government assistance as required. Distinguish relief on Government purchases from taxes on hotel purchases. Identify nonexempt taxes and occupancy-dependent charges and prevent duplicate relief or billing.
4. PROPOSED WORK STATEMENT AND SURVEILLANCE
4.1. Proposed PWS. Submit a Performance Work Statement (PWS) with the quotation as instructed in the RFQ. It shall explain how the Prime will meet Sections 2–6, with measurable standards, methods, responsibilities, and Government dependencies. One PWS may cover both alternatives if the differences are clearly identified. A capability statement or restatement of the SOO is not sufficient.
4.2. Supporting information. Include a separate nonpublic facility annex identifying proposed hotels, room allocations, assessment status, and capacity commitments for each quoted alternative. Identify assumptions, limitations, and exceptions. Submit through the method stated in the RFQ.
4.3. Operations and surges. Explain how the service will handle simultaneous crews, overnight arrivals, turnover, and disrupted communications within purchased capacity. Include a pre-performance scenario using fictitious crew codes, a closed reception desk, and failed-credential recovery. Alternative B’s additional room purchases follow 3.2.4.
4.4. Quality control and reporting. Include a concise matrix of performance standards, records, checks and frequency, responsibilities, correction/escalation, and any proposed credits for non-performance. Distinguish the Prime’s quality control from proposed Government surveillance methods. The Government will use this information to finalize its Quality Assurance Surveillance Plan (QASP) and appoint a Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR) to perform contract surveillance.
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Submit one weekly report to the CO and COR by 1200 local time each Monday for the preceding week. A spreadsheet or existing system report is acceptable so long as it includes the following:
Performance area Required outcome and reporting information
Reserved capacity and occupancy
Daily hotel totals: occupied, vacant and ready, and unavailable. Record shortages, duration, cause, and replacement action. For B, separate core and ordered surge capacity and show remaining x002 room-night balance.
Crew integrity and placement
Coded crew identifier(s), group size, hotel, and lodging dates. Identify splits, relocations, assignment exceptions, and AMS-directed use of a hotel pending security assessment.
Assignment, access, and support
Notice and confirmation times, reported access delays, failed credentials, unavailable support, causes, responses, and resolution.
Facility status and crew rest
Assessment status, use conditions, adverse notices, recovery deadlines, and corrective/replacement actions. Include room-condition, housekeeping, turnover, and reported crew-rest problems and resolution.
Crew feedback and complaints
Issues received by the Prime or hotels, including AMS/COR referrals. Include response, corrective action, resolution time, and status. Carry unresolved issues forward.
Privacy and credential handling
Reported disclosures, lost/compromised keys or credentials, and handling failures, with protective and corrective action.
Billing and continuity Reconcile invoices to furnished availability, surge orders, credits, and remaining ceilings. Identify nonconforming capacity and transition/option-readiness issues.
4.5. Customer feedback and surveillance. Provide primary and backup 24/7 support numbers which will be included in documents available to both AMS coordinators and travelers. Those documents will also list the AMS 24/7 line for unresolved issues. The Government will assess referred issues against the contract and supporting records prior to seeking remedial action from the Prime. The PWS shall state support response and escalation timelines.
The COR will review weekly reports, internal logs, and coordinate follow-up actions. The Prime shall provide hotel contacts and arrange direct responses to the COR for matters concerning placement, complaints, and general inquiries. Any corrective actions that may result in increased costs, out-of-scope changes, or require mediation shall be coordinated with the CO.
5. GOVERNMENT OPERATING INFORMATION
Operating requirement Government information
Crew and turnover basis Standard crew size is six though seven is possible for some missions. Rare peaks may reach 30 crew arrivals/departures within 24 hours. Stays normally range from 16 to 72 hours, with longer stays possible.
Government support AMS can provide one member per shift for room assignments, arrival notification, and key/credential distribution. Traveler processing normally takes 30 minutes to one hour. AMS provides transportation between the base and hotels.
Government physical-security review
See Section 6. The Government may recognize existing assessments that remain valid.
Explain how room distribution and turnover arrangements support complete crews under this operating information. Include any replacement capacity that may be needed to maintain purchased availability within the fixed prices.
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6. GOVERNMENT FACILITY ASSESSMENTS
6.1. Assessment and interim use. Government physical-security assessments may run in parallel with lodging use only when expressly authorized by AMS. Detailed criteria are not publicly releasable. Prioritize the allocation of travelers to hotel facilities with current favorable assessments. When an assessed hotel cannot accommodate a complete crew, identify the proposed hotel and pending status to AMS before placement.
Follow AMS’s written use decision under the applicable Government risk-acceptance authority and any CO-issued restrictions. A pending assessment alone does not prevent award.
6.2. Review support. Provide hotel names, addresses, contacts, capacity, intended dates, available compliance evidence, and access for 52 SFS/AT/FP, OSI, and other designated reviewers. AMS coordinates reviews with the AT/FP POC. Restrict assessment information and allocations to authorized recipients.
6.3. Adverse findings. The CO will immediately give written notice of a hotel’s adverse finding, use restrictions, and releasable corrective information. Within seven calendar days, correct the condition, make the hotel ready for reassessment, or secure replacement lodging meeting the other requirements. Prioritize favorably assessed replacements and obtain AMS’s decision for any lodging use still pending assessment/reassessment.
Follow immediate use restrictions and take necessary life-safety action without delay.
6.4. Reassessment and delay. While reassessments are pending, the Government will process at least one ready hotel per 24-hour period after receiving complete notice and access. Report expected delays and continue unaffected service. Delays caused solely by Government review are not contractor nonperformance. The CO and Prime will address delivery, alternative capacity, and adjustments under FAR 52.212-4. The Prime remains responsible for timely information, access, and correction or replacement.
| 1. BACKGROUND |
| 2. PURPOSE AND SCOPE |
| 3. OBJECTIVES |
| 3.1. Technical objectives |
| 3.2. Reservation, access, and management objectives |
| 3.3. Privacy and operational-security objectives |
| 3.4. Pricing, invoicing, and acceptance objectives |
| 4. PROPOSED WORK STATEMENT AND SURVEILLANCE |
| 5. Government Operating Information |
| 6. GOVERNMENT FACILITY ASSESSMENTS |
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| PETERSON.EDWARD.H.1160223673 |
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