FOOD AND SERVICES

DESC: NOTICE OF INTENT TO AWARD A SOLE SOURCE CONTRACT TO HAP ARNOLD CLUB TO PROVIDE MEALS UNDER AUTHORITY OF FAR 6.302. Contractor is HAP Arnold Club, PO Box 6387, March Air Force Base, CA 92518(909) 653-2121. Provide food service to include dining facilities for 15-18 March 2003 (60) breakfasts for a period of 4 days and (60) dinner meals for a period of 3 days. 18 Mar – 3 Apr 2003 (300) breakfast meals for 16 days and (300) dinner meals for 17 days. This Notice of Intent is not a request for Expressions of Interest (EOIs), proposals or quotations. No solicitation document exists and no telephone inquiries will be accepted. No contract award will be made on the basis of EOIs, proposals or quotations received in response to this notice. Interested persons may identify their interest and capability to respond to the requirement, and should furnish detailed data con cerning their capabilities to provide the services sought including pricing data and technical data sufficient enough to determine that a comparable source to the government is available. The Government will be the sole determiner regarding an offeror’s ability to meet all requirements. The government will consider all EOIs received prior to 10 days after date of publication of this synopsis before 1200 PST on that date. A determination by the government not to compete this proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the government. Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. EOIs sent via the U.S. Postal Service should be mailed to Regional Contracting Office, POB 1609, Oceanside CA 92051-1609. EOIs send Federal Express or hand carried must be delivered to Bldg 22180, Camp Pendleton, CA 92055 during weekdays, excluding federal holidays, between the hours of 0730 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. EOIs may be submitted via facsimile to Attn: GySgt J. L. Moore at 760-725-4346. The facsimile transmission must clearly identify this notice and the name of the contracting officer on the first page. Submitters bear the burden of ensuring that the EOI reaches the designated contracting officer on time and should allow a reasonable time for facsimile transmissions to be completed. All pages of the transmission must reach the office before the deadline specified and pages of a facsimile transmission that arrive in the office after the specified deadline will not be considered. The submitter bears the risk of non-receipt of facsimile transmissions and should confirm by telephone that any facsimile was received. This purchase will be u nder Simplified Acquisition Procedures and Other that Full and Open Competition as authorized under FAR 6.302-1. The anticipated award dated is 5 March 2003. Point of contact for this purchase is GySgt J. L. Moore at 760-725-8134