B8-Request for Pricing 2023.docx

DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE

MONTANA AIR NATIONAL GUARD

HEADQUARTERS 120TH AIRLIFT WING

2800 AIRPORT AVE B

GREAT FALLS, MT 59404-5570

30 March 2023

MEMORANDUM FOR

FROM: 120 Mission Support Group

SUBJECT: Request for Pricing for Lodging of Airmen for 2023-2024

1. The 120th Airlift Wing of the Montana Air National Guard intends to award several Blanket Purchase Agreements (BPAs) to provide for lodging of approximately 3,600 nights with an estimate of approximately 150 room direct bill nights each day of a drill period for a 12 month period (1 May 2023 – 30 April 2024) in both Great Falls and Helena (less than 10 rooms per night in Helena).

2. A BPA is a simplified method of filling anticipated repetitive needs for supplies or services by establishing “charge accounts” with qualified sources of supply/service. A BPA may be established with more than one supplier for supplies or services of the same type to provide maximum practicable competition.

3. The intent of the 120th Airlift Wing is to award BPAs to more than one company for this requirement to ensure maximum practicable competition and ensure availability of lodging during the monthly training assemblies and during the year as required. This will be an unrestricted acquisition with no set-aside used.

4. The contractor shall provide single and double occupancy hotel or motel rooms if and when called for by the Contracting Officer or designated representative during the period specified.

5. Please provide your most advantageous pricing for the lodging specifications listed above no later than 15 April 2023.

6. Ensure hotels have at least one single station and hard-wired smoke alarm in each guest room, have an automatic fire sprinkler in each guest room for buildings that are four or more stories tall, and are approved for U.S. federal government employees while on official travel. Please see https://apps.usfa.fema.gov/hotel/ for additional information and registration information.

7. Additionally, please be advised that you must be actively registered with the System for Award Management (SAM) in order to be awarded a BPA. Your SAM registration must include the North American Industry Classification 721110. Additional information on the SAM registration can be found at https://www.sam.gov/.

8. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at (406)791-0454 between 7:00 am and 4:30 pm MST, pricing can be sent to christina.hutchins.1@us.af.mil. Thank you for your assistance.

9. The contractor shall provide single and double occupancy rooms at or below the Government Per Diem Rates in accordance with the Joint Travel Regulation. Rates are established annually throughout the federal fiscal year (October through September) of each fiscal year. Rates can be found at https://www.gsa.gov/travel/plan-book/per-diem-rates.

Single Occupancy Rooms Available per training weekend

Rooms Available per training weekend Price

52.222-52 Exemption from Application of the Service Contract Labor Standards to Contracts for Certain Services-Certification.

As prescribed in 22.1006(e)(3), insert the following provision:

EXEMPTION FROM APPLICATION OF THE SERVICE CONTRACT LABOR STANDARDS TO CONTRACTS FOR CERTAIN SERVICES-CERTIFICATION (MAY 2014)

(a) The offeror shall check the following certification:

Certification The offeror does does not certify that-

(1) The services under the contract are offered and sold regularly to non-Governmental customers and are provided by the offeror (or subcontractor in the case of an exempt subcontract) to the general public in substantial quantities in the course of normal business operations.

(2) The contract services are furnished at prices that are, or are based on, established catalog or market prices. An "established catalog price" is a price included in a catalog, price list, schedule, or other form that is regularly maintained by the manufacturer or the offeror, is either published or otherwise available for inspection by customers, and states prices at which sales currently, or were last, made to a significant number of buyers constituting the general public. An "established market price" is a current price, established in the usual course of ordinary and usual trade between buyers and sellers free to bargain, which can be substantiated from sources independent of the manufacturer or offeror;

(3) Each service employee who will perform the services under the contract will spend only a small portion of his or her time (a monthly average of less than 20 percent of the available hours on an annualized basis, or less than 20 percent of available hours during the contract period if the contract period is less than a month) servicing the Government contract; and

(4) The offeror uses the same compensation (wage and fringe benefits) plan for all service employees performing work under the contract as the offeror uses for these employees and for equivalent employees servicing commercial customers.

(b) Certification by the offeror as to its compliance with respect to the contract also constitutes its certification as to compliance by its subcontractor if it subcontracts out the exempt services. If the offeror certifies to the conditions in paragraph (a) of this provision, and the Contracting Officer determines in accordance with FAR 22.1003-4(d)(3) that the Service Contract Labor Standards statute-

(1) Will not apply to this offeror, then the Service Contract Labor Standards clause in this solicitation will not be included in any resultant contract to this offeror; or

(2) Will apply to this offeror, then the clause at FAR 52.222-53, Exemption from Application of the Service Contract Labor Standards to Contracts for Certain Services-Requirements, in this solicitation will not be included in any resultant contract awarded to this offer, and the offeror may be provided an opportunity to submit a new offer on that basis.

(c) If the offeror does not certify to the conditions in paragraph (a) of this provision-

(1) The clause of this solicitation at 52.222-53, Exemption from Application of the Service Contract Labor Standards to Contracts for Certain Services-Requirements, will not be included in any resultant contract to this offeror; and

(2) The offeror shall notify the Contracting Officer as soon as possible if the Contracting Officer did not attach a Service Contract Labor Standards wage determination to the solicitation.

(d) The Contracting Officer may not make an award to the offeror, if the offeror fails to execute the certification in paragraph (a) of this provision or to contact the Contracting Officer as required in paragraph (c) of this provision.

(End of provision)

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