PESCAA Conference

The 410th Contracting Support Brigade (CSB), Regional Contracting Center (RCC), Joint Base San Antonio - Fort Sam Houston, TX has a requirement for non-personal services to provide lodging, interpretation and translation services in English, Spanish, and Portuguese, technicians, on-site meals for breakfast, lunch, dinner, morning and afternoon refreshments, conference facilities, administrative facilities, audiovisual (AV) equipment, and information technology (IT) requirements, to include Internet service in support of United States Army South (ARSOUTH), Permanent Executive Secretariat of the Conference of the American Armies (PESCAA).

Place of Performance: National Capital Region (NCR), Washington D.C.

Period of Performance: The period of performance of the resultant contract will be from 6 July 2017 - 25 August 2017 for the Preparatory Conference, and 1 October 2017 - 10 November 2017 for the Commanders' Conference.

Type of Set-Aside: The applicable NAICS code is 721110, Hotels (except Casino Hotels) and Motels, and Product or Service Code - V231. This requirement will be solicited unrestricted to obtain full and open competition.

Contract Type: The Government intends to award a single award, firm fixed price contract to fulfill this requirement.

Contract Award Evaluation Criteria: The Government will award a contract resulting from the solicitation to the lowest priced responsible offeror, whose offer conforms to the solicitation in accordance with FAR Part 13. Award is contingent upon force protection inspections.

SAM Registration: All offerors MUST be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) database to be considered for award of a contract. Offerors can obtain further information on SAM via the web site at https://www.sam.gov. There is NO fee to register for this site.

Availability of Funds: Funds are not currently available for this contract for the reason that this is a FY 17 requirement. Due to the competitive standard of the place of performance and variety of other factors that can affect availability of these requirements, sourcing for lodging and other supporting services must be done in advance to ensure the success of these conferences. Funds for this requirement will be potentially available in FY 2017. The Government's obligation under this requirement is contingent upon availability of appropriated funds from which payment for contract purposes can be made. No legal liability on the part of the Government for any payment may arise until funds are made available to the Contracting Officer for this contract and until the Contractor receives notice of such availability in writing by the Contracting Officer.

Closing Response Date: The solicitation will be available on or about 19 September 2016 with an anticipated quote due date of 19 October 2016. The solicitation will be available for download by accessing the Federal Business Opportunities website (https://www.fbo.gov). In order to view this solicitation, prospective offerors are required to self-register their firm with Federal Business Opportunities (https://www.fbo.gov and "register now" under Vendor/Citizens). Amendments, if any, will be available at the same site. Registrants are responsible for the accuracy of the information on the registration list.