Kemmerer Ranger Station Office/Warehouse

NOTICE TO ENTER INTO A SUCCEEDING LEASE INTEREST SOUGHT The USDA Forest Service, Kemmerer Ranger Station currently occupies office space and related space in a building under lease in Kemmerer, Wyoming that will be expiring in 2015. The Forest Service is seeking to lease approximately 4,936 contiguous rentable square feet of office which must yield a minimum of 3,856 contiguous ANSI/BOMA Office area square feet (OASF); 3,203 rentable square feet of warehouse and yield no less than 9 secured government parking spaces. The lease term requirement is for 20 years; 10 firm and 2 five-year automatic renewals cancellable with a 90 day written notice. The space must be available for occupancy by January 1, 2016. The delineated area is the city limits of Kemmerer, Wyoming. The Forest Service is considering alternative space ONLY if economically advantageous. The Forest Service will use the information it receives in response to this advertisement as a basis to develop a cost-benefit analysis and to determine whether to compete the lease requirement or pursue a sole source justification to remain at its current location. In making this determination, the Forest Service will consider, among other things, the availability of alternate space that potentially can satisfy the Forest Service's requirements, as well as costs likely to be incurred through relocating, such as physical move costs, replication of tenant improvements and telecommunications infrastructure, and non-productive agency downtime. Please send expressions of interest no later than Friday, February 21, 2014, 5:00 MST to: Ann Allan 324 25th St. Ogden, UT 84401 Telephone: 801-625-5832 Fax: 801-625-5365 Email: [email protected] Expressions of Interest must include the following information: • Building name and address and location of the available space within the building; • Rentable square feet available, and expected rental rate per rentable square foot, fully serviced; • ANSI/BOMA office area (ABOA) square feet to be offered, and expected rental rate per ABOA square foot, fully serviced; • Date of space availability; • Building ownership information; • Amount of parking available on-site; • Energy efficiency and renewable energy features existing within the building; • List of building services to be provided. The Forest Service's decision regarding whether to relocate will be based, in part, on information received in response to this announcement.