PWS-CAS_Seminar_02-15_Lodging_REV1.docx

NEAR EAST SOUTH ASIA CENTER FOR STRATEGIC STUDIES

PERFORMANCE WORK STATEMENT

for Lodging Services Central Asia Security Seminar 19 July- 30 July 2015

1. Purpose: This PWS details the tasks required for lodging services to support the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies. The contractor will provide lodging services to support a two-week professional seminar to be hosted in the Washington, D.C. and Virginia areas.

1. Scope: The contract requires expert lodging support and services for up to nineteen (19) NESA funded participants. The contractor shall provide an experienced director of sales who has dealt with diverse lodgers.

1. Approach: The contractor shall provide each lodger (NESA participant) with identical, double sleeping rooms of similar size and type with separate work space with desk, drawers and lighting; high speed internet hook-up; refrigerator and microwave.

· Onsite hotel restaurant.

· Located within 4 miles of FT McNair, Washington DC.

· Accommodate late checkout after 3:00pm.

Include a full, hot American breakfast buffet.

· Located in Virginia.

For early arrivals and where space is not immediately available, a holding room/welcome area shall be reserved to help make check-in, check-out process smooth for all participants who might have to wait for clean rooms or check-out to make rooms available for other hotel guests.

It is essential that the hotel has a restaurant and should be capable of providing a full hot American breakfast buffet for each lodger. Hotel manager should be aware of dietary requirements of participants. The participants cannot have any pork products or alcohol prepared/cooked in foods or located on their buffet. The hotel will make every effort to keep pork products in a separate area.

1. Tasks:

4.1 Task 1: Lodging (Deliverables)

The Contracting Officer is the only authorized Government Official that can make changes to or order additional services under any task order issued by DSCA. The contractor shall assign rooms based on actual rooms occupied versus estimated rooms. The contractor shall block up to 19 single rooms for the seminar as requested and the Government shall provide a final list of attendees 1 week (7 calendar days) prior to the start of each seminar. The contractor shall bill the Government for actual rooms utilized versus reserved. If the contractor holds a room and a participant or participants do not occupy that room prior to 6:00 P.M. on the date of scheduled occupancy, the Government will be charged a "no show charge fee" for that day and the remaining days will be cancelled and the Government will not be charged by the contractor for the remaining days of that reservation.

0. NESA participants will be funded by the US Government. Any unfunded participants will pay their own lodging and incidentals. The US Government will pay for those participants funded by the Government. The US Government will provide the hotel a list of funded individuals to facilitate invoicing.

0. The NESA Center will require a total of 19-single rooms for 19-funded participants.

Sunday, July 19 – 5 rooms for early arrival.

Monday, July 20 through Thursday July 30 (10 nights x 19 funded single rooms = Total 190 funded single rooms; Checkout on Friday July 31, 2015.

0. Task 2: Manpower Reporting Requirement: The contractor shall report ALL contractor labor hours (including subcontractor labor hours) required for performance of services provided under this contract for DSCA via secure data collection site. The Contractor is required to completely fill in all required data fields using the following web address: http://www.ecmra.mil/. Reporting inputs will be for the labor executed during the period of performance during each Government fiscal year (FY), which runs October 1 through September 30. While inputs may be reported anytime during FY, all data shall be reported no later than October 31 of each calendar year, beginning with 2013. Contractor may direct question to the help desk at http://www.ecmra.mil

5. Location of Performance: Lodging should be located in Virginia near the Crystal City area and within 4 miles to FT McNair, Washington DC to provide easy access to NESA Training Center, which is located in the National Defense University-Lincoln Hall, 300 5th Ave, S.W. Washington, D.C. 20319

6. Period of Performance: The period of performance is 19 July- 30 July 2015.

7. Security: The security classification of work to be performed under the task order is unclassified.

8. Point of Contact: COR Representative: TBD

All communication will occur between the contractor and the contracting officer. Any requirements from NESA must be addressed to the Contract Specialist, Petra McPherson, Email: Petra.McPherson@dsca.mil.

9. Invoicing Procedures: Invoices are to be submitted electronically via the Internet through Wide Area Work Flow – Receipt and Acceptance (WAWF-RA) system at https://wawf.eb.mil. Contractors must create two documents (Invoice and Receiving Report; i.e. Combo Documents) with a single data entry session.