Watergate Hotel Lessee, LLC

Watergate Hotel Lessee, LLC, doing business as The Watergate Hotel, is a for-profit partnership located in Washington, D.C., registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) and primarily serving the federal government through hospitality and conference services. The company specializes in providing lodging, meeting space, and audiovisual equipment rental services, with a particular focus on supporting federal agency conference and review activities. Located at 2650 Virginia Ave NW in Washington, D.C., the hotel has established itself as a key venue for government-related meetings and conferences, leveraging its historic location and professional facilities.

Through its federal contract awards, Watergate Hotel Lessee, LLC has exclusively provided logistical support for peer review activities, primarily for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Center for Scientific Review. The company's contracts, all firm fixed price blanket purchase agreement (BPA) call contracts, range in value from approximately $24,000 to $38,000 and involve hosting scientific expert panels that evaluate extramural research grant applications. These contracts have consistently been awarded without any specific set-aside designations and focus on facilitating confidential meetings where researchers assess potential biomedical research funding proposals. The contracts uniformly involve providing temporary accommodations, conference room facilities, and audiovisual equipment to support these critical scientific review processes.

The company holds a significant federal contract indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDV) vehicle, a $100 million blanket purchase agreement awarded by the NIH Office of Logistics and Acquisition Operations, effective from September 13, 2021, through December 31, 2025. This master agreement allows for the issuance of multiple firm fixed price call contracts between $25,000 and $100,000, specifically targeting the provision of temporary accommodations, meeting space, and audiovisual support services in Washington, D.C. The IDV enables Watergate Hotel Lessee, LLC to consistently support the NIH's peer review activities by providing essential logistical infrastructure for scientific expert panels evaluating research grant applications across various biomedical research domains.