ARCHITECTURAL SERVICES FOR MASTER PLANNING AND ASSOCIATED STUDIES IDIQ

artment of Commerce, intends to award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) task order contract(s) for Architectural Services for Master Planning and Associated Studies. Refer to Section C �Description/specifications/statement of work� for intended scope of work. NIST contemplates multiple awards of up to three (3) Contracts but reserves the right to award to more or less based on the best interest of the Government. The Period of performance shall be five years, with a base award of one (1) year with up to four (4) additional one-year periods. All work and services will be ordered by issuance of individual firm-fixed priced task orders. The IDIQ contract is estimated to have a base year value of $3,000,000, for a total Contract ceiling over the entire five-year period of performance not to exceed $15,000,000. Note the base year value and option year values are estimates only and not guaranteed. Individual year task order values may or may not exceed the estimated values. The guaranteed minimum for the life of the Contract, is $10,000. This is a 100% set-aside for Small Business firms. Refer to FAR 52.219-14 for limitations on subcontracting. To assure timely and equitable evaluation of proposals, Offerors must follow the instructions contained herein. Proposals must be complete, self-sufficient, and respond directly to the requirements set forth in solicitation. Offerors who fail to submit all required information per the instructions may be deemed non-responsive and may not be considered for award. The following instructions will establish the acceptable requirements for the format and contents of proposals. Submission of Proposals a. The Government will be accepting electronic submission via email only. Offerors are required to submit their proposals electronically via email to the following addresses: i. Michael.Wigfall@nist.gov ii. Guzel.Gufranova@nist.gov iii. Cheryl.Allen@nist.gov b. Offerors shall use the following email subject line �Architectural Services for Master Planning IDIQ and Associated Services c. Electronic submissions shall adhere to the following guidelines: i. Electronic copies shall be submitted in Adobe PDF format only. ii. No password-protected, zipped, or self-extracting files shall be used iii. Files shall not be larger that twenty-five (25) Megabytes (MB). 25MB (including email content and all attachments) is the largest submission that can be received by the Government through email. d. Offerors are encouraged to confirm with the Government that their submissions have been successfully received. It is the sole responsibility of the Offeror to ensure that electronically submitted proposals, revisions and or modifications, reach the Government office designated and by the time specified in the solicitation. 3. All proposals shall adhere to the following format guidelines: a. Cover Page i. Each proposal shall include a Cover Page containing the following information: Solicitation Number and Project Title. Company name, address, Unique Entity ID number, and CAGE number. Name, title, phone number, email address, and signature of the Company Officer with signature authority. b. Page Formatting i. Proposals shall be typed with a minimum one line spacing using 12-point size font on standard-sized paper (8.5�x11�), with 1� margins on all sides. See paragraph 3 (d) for requirements when using 11� x 17� paper. ii. Pages in each proposal shall be numbered sequentially and consecutively. iii. Fonts must be easily readable. Offerors are encouraged to use either Times New Roman (preferred), Calibri, or Arial font. iv. Proposals shall use Portrait oriented pages. Landscape oriented pages are only permitted for tables, figures, charts, and graphs. v. Company name and proprietary information notices must be placed in the top and/or bottom margins. c. Charts, Tables, Figures, Graphs i. Charts, tables, figures, and graphs shall be labeled sequentially and titled. ii. Fonts must be easily readable and no smaller than 8-point size with proportional spacing. iii. Text may be wrapped around. iv. Landscape oriented pages are only permitted for tables, figures, charts, and graphs. d. Firms requesting consideration are required to submit a current Standard Form 330 (Rev. 7/2021). i. Page limitations are noted below. SF 330 has no page limitation except for sections �F� and �H� SF 330 Section �F� EXAMPLE PROJECTS WHICH BEST ILLUSTRATE PROPOSED TEAM'S QUALIFICATIONS FOR THIS CONTRACT is limited to three pages per project. Provide no more than five (5) examples/projects. SF 330 Section H �Additional Information� must not exceed three (3) pages. Any pages past three (3) pages will not be reviewed. All pages shall be single sided. All pages including dividers and cover pages are included in page limitations. Images/maps may be up to 11� x 17�. Over 80% of the 11� x 17� page must be image/map. All other pages shall be 8 �� x 11� Maximum number of pages (excluding SF 330) is 20 pages. 4. Submission due dates: Virtual Site Visit: January 18, 2024, at 10:00am EST RFI Due Date: February 13,2024, at 5:00pm EST RFQ Due Date: March 13,2024, at 1:00pm EST An organized virtual site visit is scheduled for: 10:00am. EST, January 18, 2024. Only one site visit will be conducted. Offerors shall email a list of site visit attendees to Guzel.Gufranova@nist.gov and copy to Cheryl.Allen@nist.gov by 1:00pm. EST, January 16, 2024 with the following information: a. Name as it appears on your Government issued ID. b. Company name. c. Email of a site visit attendee The Government will then send the Webinar details to the emails provided. Attendees must ensure they have good internet connection since joining by phone will not be allowed. When logging in to the site visit, attendees must include their full name. Attendees not including their names will not be allowed access to the site visit. The Government will not share site visit presentation material. The Government plans to share the list of site visit attendees with both interested vendors (as found on www.sam.gov) and site visit attendees if email is provided per 4 (c) above. All RFI�s shall be submitted electronically to Guzel.Gufranova@nist.gov and copy to Cheryl.Allen@nist.gov. A. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS PART I Proposal shall clearly identify the following sections: a. Factor 1 � Specialized experience and technical competence b. Factor 2 � Experience and Team Professional Qualifications c. Factor 3 � Offeror & Team Experience with Treatment of Historic Properties, Federal Sustainable Design, & National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) d. Factor 4 � Past Performance e. Factor 5 � Capacity of the Offeror and proposed subcontractors f. Factor 6 � Location of the firm 2. A joint venture of two or more business concerns may submit an offer as a small business so long as each concern: a. is small under the size standard corresponding to 541310 NAICS code, b. complies with 13 CFR � 125.8 3. The partners to the joint venture in the aggregate must meet the evaluation criteria requirements listed hereto and must meet individual requirements for each partner of the joint venture listed hereto. 4. If submitting as joint venture, Offerors must submit an official joint venture agreement. The contents of the joint venture agreement must comply with 13 CFR � 125.8. 5. Offerors shall include the following information for each factor