NIST Community Resilience Support Services

The NIST Community Resilience Support Services Master IDIQ is a multiple-award contract vehicle designed to provide technical and professional services focused on community resilience, infrastructure safety, and disaster mitigation research. The contract enables the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to issue task orders for specialized scientific and engineering support services related to building safety, infrastructure analysis, and community resilience assessment methodologies. These services encompass a wide range of technical activities including data compilation, statistical analysis, modeling, investigation support, and guidance development to enhance understanding and standards for community and infrastructure resilience.

Task orders under this IDIQ are predominantly awarded to Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) and AECOM Technical Services, Inc., with contract values ranging from approximately $50,000 to $485,000 and typical performance periods between six months to two years. The task orders consistently support NIST's research objectives, with recent work focusing on areas such as hurricane research in Puerto Rico, invasive testing data collection for the Champlain Towers South investigation, wind loading historical reviews, and development of community resilience assessment methodologies. No set-aside designations were used in the observed task orders, and performance locations have included Gaithersburg, Maryland; Albuquerque, New Mexico; Los Angeles, California; and Puerto Rico. The contract vehicle appears to fund scientific and engineering services that contribute to NIST's broader mission of advancing measurement science, standards, and technology to improve national infrastructure resilience.