TRAVEL MANAGEMENT SERVICES FOR U. S. MISSION ECUADOR

Enclosed is a Request for Quotations (RFQ) for Travel Management Services.  If you would like to submit a quotation, follow the instructions in Section 3 of the solicitation, complete the required portions of the attached document, and submit it to the address shown on the Standard Form 1449 that follows this letter.

The U.S. Government intends to award a contract/purchase order to the responsible company submitting an acceptable quotation at the lowest price.  We intend to award a contract/purchase order based on initial quotations, without holding discussions, although we may hold discussions with companies in the competitive range if there is a need to do so.

The Embassy intends to conduct a pre-quotation conference on September 9, 2025, at 10:00 at the U.S. Embassy Compound located at Av. Avigiras E12-170 y Eloy Alfaro, all prospective quoters are invited to attend.  See Section 3 of the attached Request for Quotations (RFQ). Prospective offerors/quoters should contact  QuitoProcurement@state.gov to confirm attendance providing  names and ID numbers no later than  September 5 at noon.

Direct any questions regarding this solicitation in writing to Mr. Matthew Madden, Contracting Officer, email: QuitoProcurement@state.gov by email during regular business hours before September 16, 2025 at 16:00 hours.

Quotations are due by September 29, 2025 at 08:00 hours (Quito Time). No quotations will be accepted after this time. Proposals must be in English and incomplete proposals will not be accepted.

Your quotation must be submitted electronically to email: QuitoContracts@state.gov by email. It is important to make sure the submission is made in specific size and format; in MS-Word 2007/2010 or MS-Excel 2007/2010 or Adobe Acrobat (pdf) file format. The file size must not exceed 25MB. If the file size should exceed the 25MB, the submission must be made in separate files and attached to separate emails with less than 25MB each.

Separate files with the technical proposal and price proposal must be sent.

In order for a quotation to be considered, you must also complete and submit the following:

1. SF-1449

2. Section 1, Pricing

3. Section 5 Representations and Certifications

4. Additional information as required in Section 3

5. “The Offeror should submit a completed IRS Form W-14, found at www.irs.gov/w14, to ensure compliance with FAR 52.229-11;”

6. Proof of SAM Registration

Offerors shall be registered in the SAM (System for Award Management) database at https://www.sam.gov prior to submittal of their offer/proposal as prescribed under FAR 4.1102. Failure to be registered at time of proposal submission may deem the offeror’s proposal to be considered non-responsible and no further consideration will be given. Therefore, offerors are highly encouraged to register immediately if they are interested in submitting a response to this requirement.