R -- Air Force Family Child Care Subsidy Program

The 11th Contracting Squadron intends to procure commercial services in support of HQ USAF/ILVY, Pentagon, for the “Air Force Family Child Care Subsidy Program”. The contract will be Firm-Fixed Price with not-to-exceed, cost-reimbursable line items. Period of performance will be a base period (12 months) with four 12-month option periods. This program authorizes Government subsidy of child care costs to military service members. As Air Force Child Development Centers (CDC) operate at capacity, there is a need for care by individual child care providers. The contractor will provide all labor, facility, materials and equipment to manage purchasing and monitoring subsidized child care spaces in Air Force licensed on-base and Air Force affiliated off-base Family Child Care (FCC) homes, world-wide. Duties include,but are not limited to, processing contracts with individual child care providers, collecting time sheets, tracking of services utilized and processing electronic funds transfer (EFT) payments(on a cost-reimbursable basis) to providers. The NAIC Code assigned to this project is 541611 size standard is $6,000,000.00. This is 100% set aside for small business. The Government will award a contract resulting from this solicitation to the responsible offeror whose offer conforming to the solicitation will be most advantageous to the Government, price and other factors considered (Price-Performance Tradeoff source selection procedures). Anticipated posting of solicitation is mid to late June 2003.