NASA/GSFC plans to issue a RFP for a Food and Vending Machine Services Concession Agreement.
This notice is issued by the NASA/GSFC to post a synopsis via the internet, and solicit responses from interested parties for a Concessions Agreement with the Goddard Employees Welfare Association (GEWA) for the operation of two (2) cafeterias, a mobile snack bar, and vending food service operations. GEWA is an employee exchange that supports employees of the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Greenbelt Campus located in Greenbelt, Maryland.
GSFC provides space and earth sciences research, engineering, spacecraft integration and testing, and mission support. On Center are approximately 32 major buildings and 52 smaller buildings which house approximately 12,500 civil servant and contractor employees.
There, the full-service cafeteria (Building 21) is approximately 10,336 square feet with a seating capacity of 402, and the small cafeteria (Building 1) is approximately 5,258 square feet with a seating capacity of approximately 200. The current hours of operation for building 21 cafeteria is 7:30 AM to 2:00 PM, and for building 1, 7:30 AM to 2:00 PM. There are approximately 141 vending machines and 31 microwaves located in 34 buildings throughout the Center and the mobile snack bar which makes approximately 26 stops.
This document is for information and planning purposes and to allow industry the opportunity to verify reasonableness and feasibility of the requirement, as well as promote competition.
Interested organizations may submit their capabilities and qualifications to perform the effort in writing to the identified point of contact not later than 4:30 p.m. local time on 12/11/07. Such capabilities/qualifications will be evaluated solely for the purpose of determining whether or not to conduct this procurement on a competitive basis and/or 8a set-aside. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed effort on a full and open competition basis, based upon responses to this notice, is solely within the discretion of the government.
Oral communications are not acceptable in response to this notice.
Prospective offerors are invited to submit written comments or questions to: Contract Specialist Theresa Stevens via electronic transmission at Theresa.A.Stevens@nasa.gov or by facsimile transmission at 301-286-1679, no later than 4:30 p.m. on 12/4/07. When responding reference NNG08GEWA.
All responsible sources may submit an offer which shall be considered by the agency.
An Ombudsman has been appointed. The OMBUDSMAN for the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is:
Dorothy C. Perkins
Mail Stop 100
Greenbelt, MD 20771
Business Phone: 301-286-5066
This synopsis is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government, nor will the Government pay for the information submitted in response. Respondents will not be notified of the results.
The solicitation and any documents related to this procurement will be available over the Internet. These documents will reside on a World Wide Web (WWW) server, which may be accessed using a WWW browser application. The Internet site, or URL, for the NASA/GSFC Business Opportunities home page is:
http://prod.nais.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/eps/bizops.cgi?gr=D&pin=51
It is the offeror's responsibility to monitor the Internet cite for the release of the solicitation and amendments (if any). Potential offerors will be responsible for downloading their own copy of the solicitation and amendments, if any.
Any referenced notes may be viewed at the following URLs linked below.
http://prod.nais.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/eps/bizops.cgi?gr=D&:pin=51#117173
