RFP TITLE: DC IVLP Hotel Accommodations
RFP RELEASE DATE: November 3rd, 2023
QUESTION SUBMISSION DEADLINE: November 22nd, 2023
PROPOSAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE: December 1st, 2023
Dates in Washington, DC Program Dates: April 29th, 2024 to May 3rd, 2024
Arrival Date for (~20) Guests: Staggered arrival between April 25th, 2024, and April 26th, 2024
Arrival Date for Remaining Guests (~80): Staggered arrival between April 26th, 2024, and April 29th, 2024
Meridian International Center’s IVLP Team is responsible for administering the U.S. Department of State’s International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP), a professional exchange program. IVLP participants from around the world travel to Washington, DC for the first leg of their U.S. professional exchange program. On average, Meridian administers projects for roughly 1,500 – 2,000 IVLP participants during a single year. To ensure a comfortable stay for the participants when they arrive, the IVLP requires hotel accommodation services in Washington, DC.
The U.S. Department of State’s Towards a More Safe and Secure World – Cooperative Efforts in Combating Transnational Crime Initiative is designed to promote global cooperation in the war against transnational crime. It examines how the U.S. government at all levels, often in cooperation with private-sector institutions such as faith-based organizations and NGOs, works to secure its borders and combat illicit trafficking of persons, arms, and drugs, with particular emphasis on the global trade of synthetic opioids such as fentanyl by transnational criminal organizations. Participants will examine the broad range of policies; operational strategies; and federal, state, and local government and private-sector institutions working to combat transnational crime and guarantee the integrity of cross-border commerce and travel. Participants will explore cooperative international efforts to combat cross-border criminal activity, in addition to services provided domestically and internationally, to assist victims of transnational crimes. Other topics to be addressed include drug trafficking, smuggling, money laundering, and the nexus between transnational crime and terrorism.
Meridian International Center invites submission of proposals from members of the IVLP Preferred Hotel List (PHL)-DC for Towards a More Safe and Secure World – Cooperative Efforts in Combating Transnational Crime Initiative. The visitors are traveling under the auspices of the U.S. Department of State, as are the accompanying Interpreters and Liaisons (I/Ls).
