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SOLICITATION NUMBER

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06/06/2024 10:00

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13a. THIS CONTRACT IS A RATED ORDER UNDER DPAS (15 CFR 700)

14. METHOD OF SOLICITATION

RFQ IFB RFP

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ADMINISTERED BY CODE

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SCHEDULE OF SUPPLIES/SERVICES

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QUANTITY

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AMOUNT

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26. TOTAL AWARD AMOUNT (For Govt. Use Only)

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28. CONTRACTOR IS REQUIRED TO SIGN THIS DOCUMENT AND RETURN COPIES TO ISSUING OFFICE. CONTRACTOR AGREES TO FURNISH AND

DELIVER ALL ITEMS SET FORTH OR OTHERWISE IDENTIFIED ABOVE AND ON ANY ADDITIONAL SHEETS SUBJECT TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS SPECIFIED

29. AWARD OF CONTRACT: REF. OFFER

DATED . . YOUR OFFER ON SOLICITATION (BLOCK 5), INCLUDING ANY ADDITIONS OR CHANGES WHICH ARE SET FORTH HEREIN, IS ACCEPTED AS TO ITEMS:

AUTHORIZED FOR LOCAL REPRODUCTION PREVIOUS EDITION IS NOT USABLE

STANDARD FORM 1449 (REV. 2/2012)

Prescribed by GSA - FAR (48 CFR) 53.212

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RECEIVED INSPECTED ACCEPTED, AND CONFORMS TO THE CONTRACT, EXCEPT AS NOTED:

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PARTIAL FINAL

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Contents

040ADV-24-R-0047

SCHEDULE OF SUPPLIES OR SERVICES

A.1 CONTRACT TYPE

The Government Publishing Office (GPO) intends to issue a single award (Firm-Fixed Price) contract, via Best Value Tradeoff process per MMAR 15.101-1 for Information Technology (IT) to assist with Hardware Lifecycle Refresh of Cisco Next Generation Firewall platform at the GPO.

A.2 SCOPE

The Contractor shall work with agency’s technical team to assist with overall scope of this solicitation. The proposal pricing for this requirement must be single, inclusive price (i.e., include all cost/prices, overhead, G&A, profit, travel, etc.) for required services. Individual orders may be placed on a firm fixed unit price basis. Orders placed against the contract will be in accordance with the MMAR. The terms and conditions of the contract will be incorporated in any resulting order. Only the Government Publishing Office Contracting Officers may place orders against this award.

A.3 PRICE/COSTS SCHEDULE

1. It is understood and agreed that the contractor shall provide Fixed-Price quotes when requested by the CO. The CO will issue Firm-Fixed-Priced contract upon completion of negotiations of contractor quotes.

2. Offerors must complete pricing CLINS below and shall provide with the quote submission to be considered complete.

END OF SECTION A

Section B - Supplies or Services and Prices/Costs

B.1.1 BASE PERIOD: 08/01/2024 thru 07/31/2025

LO

Provide One Year of Maintenance and Technical Support (see section B.2 for details)

MO

Plan of Actions and Milestones (POAMS) and schedule must be negotiated with COR prior to activation of NGFW (See section B.2 for details)

LO

LO

B.1.2 FIRST OPTION PERIOD: 08/01/2025 thru 07/31/2026

(See section B.2 for details)

TOTAL

B.1.3 SECOND OPTION PERIOD: 08/01/2026 thru 07/31/2027

(See section B.2 for details)

MO

(See section B.2 for details)

MO

(See section B.2 for details)

MO

GRAND TOTAL $ _________________

B.2 SUPPLIES OR SERVICES AND PRICES/COST

Initial Term - 12.00 Months | Auto Renewal Term - 0 Months | Billing Model - Prepaid Term | Requested Start Date - 01-Aug-2024 | Requested End Date - 31-July-2025 | Advance Drawdown - 0

Initial Term - 12.00 Months | Auto Renewal Term - 0 Months | Billing Model - Prepaid Term | Requested Start Date - 01-Aug-2024 | Requested End Date - 19-Jan-2025 | Advance Drawdown - 0

Section C - Description/Specifications/Work Statement

C.1 OBJECTIVE

As part of Hardware Lifecycle Refresh task, GPO intends to replace its legacy Cisco Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) with the most recent Cisco NGFW platforms at two (2) geographically separate GPO sites. The existing firewall platform is coming to End of Life and End of Support.

The Government Publishing Office (GPO) is seeking qualified Contractor to provide all hardware components as listed in section B.2 and provide end-to-end installation, configuration, and implementation services. The two (2) GPO locations (GPO Data Center in Northern Virginia and Headquarters locations), including hardware and software maintenance and technical support and provide expert professional services to assist GPO with installation, configuration, and validation testing and operational activation of the new NGFW. The new NGFW System should be installed without disrupting the current GPO system. The intent is to have the new NGFW system replaced and take over all the current functions of GPO firewall system at the two (2) GPO locations (GPO Data Center and Headquarters locations) at the conclusion of the project.

C.2 Technical Requirements

C.2.1 Capacity and Performance

1. 2 x 100Gbps physical interfaces capable of being configured as trunks and sub-interfaces

2. 8 x 10/40Gbps physical interfaces capable of being configured as trunks and sub-interfaces

3. 1/10 Gbps Out of Band management interface

4. Firewall Throughput inner tier > 60 Gbps; outer tier > 40 Gbps

5. Throughput with all Next Gen features running > inner tier > 40 Gbps; outer tier > 20 Gbps

6. TLS decryption > 5 Gbps

7. IPsec VPN throughput > 5Gbps

8. Concurrent connections with full Next Gen inspection > 2 million

9. Maximum new connections per second > 100K C.2.2 Management

1. Centralized management of all the physical and virtual firewall, including cloud-based, in the domain via a multi-faceted GUI based controller.

2. This should include an at-a-glance view of the general health and performance of the environment.

3. Support for Administrative Role Based Access for Authentication and Authorization via a variety of services including

a. TACACS+

b. RADIUS

c. Active Directory/LDAP/Kerberos

d. SAML

e. Multifactor Authentication incorporating the above and second factors from providers such as RSA SecurID, Okta Adaptive, etc.

4. Notifications via email and/or SNMP in reaction to single or a threshold of events occurring on the firewall

5. Built-in optimization tools such as rules shadowing identification, hit counts, rule usage information

6. Built-in troubleshooting tools such as packet captures, traffic tracing

7. Comprehensive logging to remote destinations via Syslog or SNMP, with the ability to filter and transmit specific logs to a variety of destinations, and the ability to take actions such as Block or Alert based on specific log entries.

8. Comprehensive views, via the local management console, of traffic and events occurring on and through the firewalls.

9. Shall provide a set of individual and summarized, canned reports on web browsing activity including: most attempts to access blocked sites by user and highest web traffic (usage) by user.

10. Able to integrate with the Windows Server 2019 environment to correlate AD user and group information with IP addresses.

11. Firewall rules must be exportable from the NGFW in a file format that can be sorted (expanded) and searched by components such as ports, protocols, zones, interfaces, etc. (CSV format is highly desirable; TXT format is required).

12. An API interfaces

13. Interfaced withing SolarWinds for Pro-active Monitoring of uptime of both virtual and physical interfaces as well 24x7 monitoring of all critical services C.2.3 High Availability

1. Ability to run in a hitless high availability scenario either Active/Active or Active/Standby including the ability to selectively decide what constitutes a failure such as specific groups of interfaces, reachability to an external target C.2.4 Access Control

1. Access control based on ports and protocols at a minimum but must also include additional access controls listed below.

2. Access control via well-known applications regardless of port, and the ability to add new applications and customize applications.

3. Access control based on URLs, and also on browsing running on other that the well-known ports of 80 and 443

4. Access control based on source user-id.

5. Support for dynamic local allow and blocklists, and external lists and feeds that can be imported by the firewalls and applied to rules. These lists should include components that can be defined by IP address, URL or user-id. Dynamic Group

6. Expansive URL categorization, and filtering based on these URL categories to control access to inappropriate and dangerous web sites.

7. Web Access Firewall (WAF) functionality (outer tier) or tight integration with a separate WAF is desirable.

C.2.5 Next Generation IPS and Traffic Inspection

1. Automatic Threat feed and IPS signature update

2. Support for

a. Anti-Virus,

b. Anti-Spyware,

c. Data Loss Protection

d. File access control – including multi-level decoding of zipped files

e. Zero-day malware inspection and sandboxing C.2.6 Denial of Service (DoS) Protection

1. Denial of Service protection for individual or aggregate devices.

a. Including SYN, ICMP and UDP flood protection.

b. Protection against reconnaissance such as port scans and hosts sweeps.

c. Packet attacks such as non-SYN initial packets, too large or other malformed packets

d. Protection against Unexpected protocols attacks.

C.2.7 Quality of Service (QoS)

1. Quality of Service (QoS) marking recognition, and the ability to remark, and assign traffic to priority queues based on bandwidth or latency.

C.2.8 Decryption (outer Tier)

1. Selective decryption of outgoing traffic with the ability to bypass by category and exclude by URL domain.

2. Selective decryption of incoming traffic.

C.2.9 DNS Security

1. Comprehensive DNS Security support including;

a. The ability to identify threats being tunneled within DNS traffic.

b. The recognition of newly generated malicious domains created by Domain Generation Algorithms (DGA)

c. Handling of fast-flux domains.

d. Protection against DNS rebinding

e. The ability to take DNS sink-holing action to enable the firewall to create a response to a DNS query for a known malicious domain.

C.2.10 NAT Support

1. Comprehensive NAT support including one-to-one static map, PAT, many-to-many, and translation based on destination port. This should include IPv6 support and IPv4 to IPv6 translation.

C.2.11 Additional Features

1. Support for Policy Based Routing/Forwarding

2. Multicast support.

3. IGP Routing support including EIGRP (preferred) or OSPF. BGP is also desirable.

C.2.12 VPN (Outer Tier)

1. The ability to support Remote Access VPN and Site-to-Site VPN, with a selection of Suite B protocols, and multiple single and two factor authentication options.

C.3 MAINTENANCE AND TECHNICAL SUPPORT

Technical support and system maintenance support for one (1) year for the new enterprise NGFW system are as follows:

1. Shall provide software maintenance for bug fixes, version upgrades, and technical support.

2. Shall provide hardware maintenance to replace failed hardware within four (4) hours of telephone or email notification from GPO that failed hardware has occurred.

3. Shall be available for Online Technical Support 24 hours per day, 7 days per week and Telephone support must be available for emergencies.

NOTE: The installation and testing activities for the new enterprise NGFW system must not disrupt in any way the operations of the existing GPO legacy enterprise firewall system at GPO.

C.4 TRAINING REQUIREMENT

Training for GPO operations staff on the configuration, administration, operations and maintenance of the NGFW system:

1. Provide classroom training for the NGFW system product elements proposed by the successful contractor (instructor /contractor lead).

2. Hands-on exercises and labs required.

3. Government will provide onsite classroom and computer equipment.

4. Provide training for up to 12 GPO personnel.

5. Provide no less than three (3) full days of onsite training (no more than five (5) days of training depending on the level of effort necessary to grasp training concepts). The number of training days shall be sufficient to provide adequate knowledge transfer to GPO staff on the configuration, administration, operations and maintenance of the NGFW system.

6. Training shall consist of configuration, administration, and operational use of the NGFW system, including all functional elements in the GPO’s Statement of Work (SOW) to include web filtering administration, configuration, and operations.

7. Training material shall be in hardcopy workbooks for all GPO personnel attending training, and contractor shall provide: electronic (soft copy; PDF or word) to GPO’s COR.

C.5 Professional Services for Installation, Configuration and Production Activation

Expert professional services to assist GPO in engineering design and layout, installation, configuration, validation testing, perational activation, documentation and knowledge transfer of the new NGFW

1. The contractor shall provide a listing of the total number of hours of professional services proposed, broken down by specialty labor role if that is applicable.

2. The contractor shall describe the process by which their professional services staff will take the existing GPO firewall ruleset and convert that for use in the contractor’s proposed NGFW system, and how many hours of professional services time this is expected to take.

3. The contractor shall provide a proposed project schedule showing all the tasks and length of time in days involved in engineering design, installing, configuring, and validation testing, documenting and then activating the contractor’s proposed NGFW system.

Section D - Packaging and Marking

N/A

END OF SECTION D

Section E - Inspection and Acceptance Terms

· NOTICE LISTING CONTRACT CLAUSES INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE

The following Contract clauses pertinent to this section are hereby incorporated by reference (by Citation, Number, Title, and Date) in accordance with the clause at MMAR 52.252 2 CLAUSES INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE in Section I of this Contract. Full text of the clauses is available at: https://www.gpo.gov

Number Title Date

52.246 4 Inspection of Services Fixed Price Aug 96

52.246 16 Responsibility for Supplies Apr 84

· RESPONSIBLE OFFICIALS

In accordance with the clauses of this contract entitled:

52.246-4 Inspection of Services—Fixed-Price

Inspection and acceptance of services required by the contract will be made by the cognizant COR at Washington, DC. Acceptance of services by the cognizant COR must form the basis for payments to the contractor and will form the basis of the contractor’s permanent performance record with regard to this contract.

· INSPECTION AND ACCEPTANCE

· Scope of Inspection All deliverables will be inspected for content, completeness, accuracy, and conformance with contract requirements by the COR. The scope and nature of this inspection will be sufficiently comprehensive to ensure the completeness, quality, and adequacy of all deliverables.

· Basis of Acceptance

· The basis for acceptance shall be compliance with the requirements and relevant terms and conditions of set forth in the contract. Deliverable items rejected shall be corrected in accordance with the applicable clauses.

· If the Government finds that a draft or final deliverable contains spelling errors, grammatical errors, or improper format, or otherwise does not conform to the requirements stated within this contract, the document may be immediately rejected without further review and returned to the contractor for correction and resubmission. If the contractor requires additional Government guidance to produce an acceptable draft, the contractor shall arrange a meeting with the COR.

· All of the Government's comments on deliverables must either be incorporated in the succeeding version of the deliverable, or the contractor must demonstrate to the Government's satisfaction why such comments should not be incorporated.

· Deliverables will be accepted when all discrepancies, errors, or other deficiencies identified in writing by the Government have been corrected.

· General Acceptance Criteria

· General quality measures, as set forth below, will be applied to each work product received from the Contractor under this contract.

· Accuracy: Work Products shall be accurate in presentation, technical content, and adherence to accepted elements of style.

· Clarity: Work Products shall be clear and concise. Any/all diagrams/excel spreadsheets shall be easy to understand and be relevant to the supporting narrative.

· Consistency to Requirements: All work products must satisfy the requirements of this Statement of Work.

· File Editing: All text and diagrammatic files shall be editable by the Government.

· Format: All reports and document deliverables are to be submitted in English, in electronic copy (in MS Office), with tables, data and calculations in MS Excel. The electronic copy must be in a format as indicated in the Deliverables Table.

E.4 INSPECTION AND APPROVAL OF WRITTEN DELIVERABLES

· Delivery of Written Deliverables

· All monthly reports and deliverables shall be submitted in accordance with the delivery requirements in Section F of this solicitation.

· Approval of Written Deliverables

· Unless otherwise specified in the contract, or by mutual agreement in writing, the GPO will have ten (10) business days to determine if written deliverables are satisfactory. Any deficiencies shall be corrected by the Contractor and incorporated into the final deliverable for resubmission to the GPO within three (3) business days after notification.

END OF SECTION E

Section F - Delivery or Performance

F.1 CLAUSES INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE

This contract incorporates one or more clauses by reference, with the same force and effect as if they were given in full text. Upon request, the Contracting Officer will make their full text available.

F.2 PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE/ORDERING PERIODS

The period of performance is BASE and FOUR OPTION YEARS.

The period of performance and effective ordering period of this contract shall begin on the date of award August 1, 2024 through July 31, 2025 and four (4) option years.

F.3 DELIVERABLE SCHEDULE

The Offeror shall meet the deliverable schedule specified each delivery order.

The contractor’s response must be limited to FIFTY PAGES. Supply files in either of the following formats or as Adobe .pdf files:

· All documentation in MS Word, MS Excel.

· All network diagrams in MS Visio 2000 or better

F.3.1 Delivery Addresses:

US Government Publishing Office (GPO) ATTN: Bias Harrison 732 North Capitol Street, NW Washington, DC 20401

GPO Main Office at 732 North Capitol Street NW, Washington, DC and via authorized remote access to the GPO network. (NOTE: Occasional work at the GPO off-site backup facility, Alternate Computing Facility, ACF, outside Manassas, VA will be required from time to time to support annual Contingency Tests, and contingency operations as may arise.) In addition, occasional work may be required at our local regional facility in Laurel, MD.

F.3.2 DELAY IN DELIVERIES

The contractor shall notify the COR as soon as it becomes apparent to the contractor that a scheduled delivery will be late. The contractor shall submit a written notice to the COR which states the rationale for late delivery, the expected date for the delivery, and the project impact of the late delivery. The COR will review the new schedule and provide guidance to the contractor. Such notification in no way limits any Government contractual rights or remedies including, but not limited to, termination and/or withholding of payment until the deliverables are received and approved by the COR.

END OF SECTION F

Section G - Contract Administration Data

ORDERING ACTIVITY

GPO intends to establish a single award contract. Ordering activities shall follow the contract ordering procedures as stated below.

· Hardware Lifecycle Refresh of Cisco Next Generation Firewall platform services to be furnished under this contract shall be ordered by issuance of the contract issued by the U.S. Government Publishing Office, Acquisition Services. Contract may be placed only by those individuals designated in writing as Ordering Officials by the Director Acquisition Services. After award of the contract, the Hardware Lifecycle Refresh of Cisco Next Generation Firewall platform services ordered under this contract may be ordered by the Contracting Officer or his designee.

· The ordering activity shall forward the requirement or Performance Work Statement (PWS) to the contractor. The contractor may be required to respond to the RFQ within one or two days.

· The Contractor shall provide quick reaction to modifications of, additions to, and/or deletions of TOs resulting from requirements placed upon it by the Government. The Contractor shall also provide timely response in commencing work on fully executed TOs in accordance with dates given in the TOs.

· This contract does NOT obligate any Government funds. The Government is obligated only to the extent of authorized purchases actually made under the contract.

G.1 CONTRACT MANAGEMENT

The Contractor will assume full responsibility for managing personnel during the performance of the contract, and the administration of the contract will require maximum coordination with the GPO’s COR during performance of the contract.

G.2 CONTRACTING OFFICER (CO) AND CONTRACTING OFFICER S REPRESENTATIVE (COR)

Contracting Officer: Rashid Behi U.S. Government Publishing Office Acquisition Services Room: A530 732 North Capitol St NW Washington DC 20401 E mail: abehi@gpo.gov

Contracting Officer s Representative (COR) [TBD To be completed inserted at time of award.]

At the award, the GPO will designate one or more persons as the Contracting Officer s Representative (COR). The COR may be changed at any time by the GPO without prior notice to the Contractor by a unilateral modification to the Contract.

An administrative letter issued by the Contracting Officer which designates the COR will be provided separately to the Contractor at the time of award.

G.3 CONTRACTING OFFICER'S AUTHORITY

The Contracting Officer is the only person authorized to make or approve any changes in any of the requirements of this contract and notwithstanding any provisions contained elsewhere in this contract, the said authority remains solely the Contracting Officer's. In the event the Contractor makes any changes at the direction of any person other than the Contracting Officer, the change will be considered to have been made at the contractor's risk.

G.4 CONTRACTING OFFICER'S REPRESENTATIVE (COR)

The COR is responsible for the technical aspects of the project and serves as technical liaison with the Contractor. The COR is also responsible for the final inspection and acceptance of all products, services, reports, and such other responsibilities as may be specified in this contract. The COR is not authorized to make any commitments or otherwise obligate the GPO or authorize any changes, which affect the Contract price, terms or conditions. Any Contractor request for changes shall be referred to the Contracting Officer directly or through the COR. No such changes shall be made without the expressed prior authorization of the Contracting Officer. If the Contractor performs a service that alters the current cost, quantity, or scope without prior written approval from the CO, the Contractor does so at his/her own risk. The COR may designate assistant COR(s) to act for the COR by naming such assistant(s) in writing and transmitting a copy of such designation through the Contracting Officer to the Contractor.

The COR is not authorized to make any commitments or otherwise obligate the GPO or authorize any changes, which affect the quantity, quality, scope or Contract price. All request for changes shall be referred to the Contracting Officer directly or through the COR. No such changes shall be made without the expressed prior authorization of the Contracting Officer. If the Contractor performs a service that alters the current cost, quantity, or scope without prior written approval from the CO, the Contractor does so at his/her own risk. The COR may designate an alternate COR(s) to act for the COR by naming such alternate(s) in writing and transmitting a copy of such designation through the Contracting Officer to the Contractor.

G.5 INVOICE SUBMISSION, ACCEPTANCE AND APPROVALS

E mail: abehi@gpo.gov

North Capitol & H Streets, NW Mail Stop: FMCS Washington, DC 20401 invoicegpo@gpo.gov

(202) 512 0874

In order to receive payment, deliverables must be accepted and approved by the Contracting Officer s Representative (COR).

G.6 PAYMENT METHOD

Payments under this contract will be made by the GPO by electronic funds transfer (EFT). For additional information please contact Michelle Gibbs at phone: 202 512 0864.

NOTICE: The following solicitation provisions and/or contract clauses pertinent to this section are hereby incorporated by reference:

Materials Management Acquisition Regulation (MMAR) NUMBER DATE TITLE

Payment by Electronic Funds Transfer Other Than

52.232.34 May 1999 Central Contractor Registration

Effective January 1, 1999 payments on all GPO purchase orders will only be made by electronic fund transfer (EFT) unless you are granted a waiver. A waiver can only be granted if you certify below in writing that you do not have an account with a financial institution or an authorized payment agent and return the certification to the Contracting Officer.

G.7 REQUEST FOR WAIVER/CONTRACTOR CERTIFICATION

I certify that I do not have an account with a financial institution or an authorized payment agent.

Signature and Date

G.8 COMPLIANCE WITH REGULATIONS

The Contractor shall meet all applicable local and federal regulations associated with this requirement.

G.9 MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS, NOVATIONS, AND CHANGE-OF-NAME AGREEMENTS

In accordance with MMAR 42.12, if a contractor merges, is acquired, or recognizes a successor in interest to Government contracts when contractor assets are transferred; or recognizes a change in a contractor’s name; or, executes novation agreements and change-of-name agreements, the contractor shall notify the CO and provide a copy of the novation or other any other agreement that changes the status of the contractor.

Title 41 U.S.C. 6305 prohibits the transfer of Government contracts from an awardee to a third party. However, the Government may, when in its interest, novate an awardee’s contract to a third party when there is a transfer of all of the awardee’s assets or the entire portion of the assets involved in the performance of the contract.

For a novation to be approved by the CO, the following elements shall occur:

a. The company shall submit a novation agreement with all the required legal elements in accordance with MMAR 42.12.

d. The novation agreement shall include the transfer of personnel performing work under the contract and any awarded delivery orders, as applicable.

e. The novation agreement shall be determined by the CO to be in the best interest of the Government.

G.10 COMPLIANCE WITH REGULATIONS

The Contractor shall meet all applicable local and federal regulations associated with this requirement.

G.11 NON DISCLOSURE

All contractor’s personnel engaged in this contract must provide a non-disclosure agreement before the award and start date of employment.

NON-DISCLODURE AGREEMENT

A. The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) expressly prohibits the improper use and unauthorized disclosure of confidential or non-public information or documents. I, , agree to be bound by the prohibitions of this agreement and to the terms set forth herein. I agree not to divulge to any unauthorized person any non-public or confidential documents or information to which I have access in the performance of my duties under GPO contract number .

B. In accordance with this agreement, I agree not to divulge to any unauthorized person or release in advance of authorization for its release, any non-public GPO document or any information contained in any such document or any confidential information: (1) protected from disclosure under federal laws or regulations, including but not limited to the Freedom of Information Act and the Privacy Act; or (2) in circumstances where the GPO has determined to accord such information confidential treatment, unless the GPO authorizes the disclosure of such information.

C. For purposes of this agreement, an "unauthorized person" is anyone other than an officer or employee of the U.S. Government Publishing Office, or any co-worker on the contract who has also executed a non-disclosure agreement under the contract or a subcontract pertaining thereto.

D. If there is doubt as to whether a document or information provided under the contract is non-public or confidential, the contractor shall request clarification from the Contracting Officer or other GPO point of contact.

E. Violation of this agreement may result in civil or criminal penalties or termination of my services as a contractor for the , or other applicable penalties under the contract.

CERTIFICATION

I agree to the Terms of this Agreement and certify that I have read and understand the above Agreement. I further certify that the statements made herein are true and correct.

Name: Signature:

Title: Date:

END OF SECTION G

Section H - Special Contract Requirements The following terms and conditions are applicable:

· All services will be initiated within ten (10) calendar days following receipt of a valid order, unless otherwise specified in the order.

· The contractor shall be familiar with Federal Government and GPO acquisition regulations, directives and instructions. If a particular document is required in a specific order, it will be cited within the order's PWS.

· The contractor shall not provide technical direction to any government personnel at any time. Neither shall the Government directly supervise the contractor’s employees. The contractor should conduct day to day supervision of contractor’s personnel wherever the contractor’s personnel are located. All direction of the contractor shall be through the CO of the ordering organization specified in each individual order. Technical "tasking" assignments for the contractor will be transmitted by the Government COR (or Government Task Monitor) to the contract Program Manager.

· The "ordering period" will run for one year and four option years from the date of contract award. The "performance period" will terminate with the end of the fourth option year, unless the ordering CO elects to extend performance as provided under the contract. If the ordering CO elects to extend performance beyond the end of the contract, he/she may extend performance up to six (6) months beyond the end of the order period.

· Cancellation: This contract may be canceled if the contractor fails to perform in accordance with the terms and conditions of the contract, this contract, if deemed as in the best interests of the Government. The contractor must strictly comply with all terms and conditions or the CO may determine that performance by the contractor has been unsatisfactory and cancel this contract.

· Notice of Additional Labor Categories- At the discretion of the Government additional Labor Categories may be used, beyond those identified in the contract. Any additional categories will be discounted NO LESS THAN the discount percentage proposed by the vendor and accepted by the Government at the time of contract award.

· All orders placed against this contract are subject to the terms and conditions, all clauses and provisions in full text or incorporated by reference.

H.1 LABOR-HOUR ORDERS

The following section applies to labor hour contracts issued for performance under this contract:

· The contractor shall furnish all the necessary qualified personnel and management resources to furnish the services set forth in the SOW within the terms specified and at the price(s) stated. All orders will be issued utilizing the labor rates in effect at the time the work is performed.

· For labor hour tasks, each labor category provides guidelines for the technical proficiency required for that labor category (see SOW Section C). The contractor shall be responsible for ensuring that the technical capabilities or skills of each individual assigned to a labor category are met and for maintaining that individual’s technical proficiency.

· It is understood and agreed that in the performance of the contract, the contractor shall use the labor categories and hours specified in each order throughout the performance of the contract.

· The labor categories and hours specified represent the current best estimate of the services to be performed.

H.2 DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION

There shall be no dissemination or publication, except within and between the Contractor and any Subcontractors, of information developed under this contract or contained in the reports to be furnished pursuant to this contract without prior written approval of the Contracting Officer. Language similar to this provision shall be included in all subcontracts to this contract. This provision includes news releases.

H.3 NOTIFICATION OF DEBARMENT/SUSPENSION STATUS

The Contractor shall provide written notice to the Contracting Officer within ten (10) calendar days of being suspended, debarred, or declared ineligible by any Department or other Federal Agency, or upon receipt of a notice of proposed debarment during the performance of this contract.

H.4 PERMITS AND LICENSES

In the performance of work hereunder, the Contractor shall obtain and maintain in effect all necessary permits and licenses required by Federal, State, or local government, or subdivisions thereof, or of any other duly constituted public authority. Further, the Contractor shall obey and abide by all applicable laws and ordinances.

H.5 SUBCONTRACTING RESTRICTION

Except as specifically approved in writing, in advance by the Contracting Officer identified in Section G.3, the Contractor shall not subcontract any work procured hereunder. It is contemplated that approval will be given for subcontracting certain phases of the work when, in the opinion of the COR and the Contracting Officer, such subcontracting will not adversely affect the quality or delivery of the final product nor the difficulty or cost of inspection and testing. Requests for approval to subcontract shall be submitted, in writing, to the Contracting Officer at the address shown in Section G.3.

H.6 INDEMNIFICATION

2. Responsibility for Government-owned or -leased Property and Equipment. During contract performance, the Contractor shall be responsible for all negligent acts or omissions of its employees or agents or the employees or agents of its subcontractor(s). In this regard, the Contractor shall, at no cost to the Government and at the 'Government's option, replace or compensate the Government for any damage to or loss of Government owned or -leased property caused by such negligent acts or omissions.

3. Responsibility for Contractor or Third Party-owned or -leased Property and Equipment. The Contractor shall indemnify the Government against any and all liability claims for loss or damage to any Contractor owned or leased property occurring as a result of negligence or omissions by employees or agents of the Contractor or its subcontractor(s) in connection with the performance of work under the terms of this contract.

4. Responsibility for Property and Equipment Damaged or Lost through no fault of the Contractor or the Government. Property damage or loss that occurs through no fault of either the Contractor, their subcontractors or agents or the Government shall be the responsibility of the party holding title to or having leased the property.

H.7 QUALITY ASSURANCE REPORTS

The Government may at any time request a quality assurance lot report from the Contractor or subcontractors. These reports shall be submitted no later than 48 hours after receiving the Government’s request.

H.8 PROTESTS

An agency protest may be filed with either (1) the Contracting Officer or (2) at a level above the Contracting Officer, with the agency Chief Acquisition Officer (CAO).

Agency protests filed with the Contracting Officer shall be sent to the following address:

U.S. Government Publishing Office c/o Rashid Behi, Contracting Officer Acquisition Services Room A332 Stop: AS 732 North Capitol Street, NW Washington, DC 20401 Agency protests filed with the Chief Acquisition Officer (CAO) shall be sent to the following address:

U.S. Government Publishing Office c/o Timothy J. Matthews, Acting Director of Acquisition Services Room A332, Stop: AS 732 North Capitol Street, NW Washington, DC 20401

If a protest is filed with either the Director of Acquisition or with the Government Accountability Office (GAO), a complete copy of the protest (including all attachments) shall be served upon the Contracting Officer and the GPO General Counsel within one day of filing.

Service upon the GPO Office of the General Counsel shall be made as follows:

Office of the General Counsel U.S. Government Publishing 732 North Capitol Street, NW Room C-814 Stop: GC Washington, DC 20401

NOTE: Procurement Integrity Act and Proprietary Information: MMAR 3.104 Procurement Integrity and MMAR 3.104-4, Disclosure, protection, and marking of contractor bid or proposal information and source selection information.

H.9 AWARD WITHOUT DISCUSSION:

As prescribed by MMAR 52.215-1(f)(4), the Government reserves the right to evaluate proposals and to award a contract or contracts without discussion with Offerors (except for obtaining clarifications as described in MMAR 15.306(a)). Therefore, each Offeror’s initial proposal should contain the Offeror’s best terms from a cost or price and technical standpoint. The Government also reserves the right to conduct discussions if the Contracting Officer later determines them to be necessary.

END OF SECTION H

Section I - Contract Clauses

REGULATIONS GOVERNING PROCUREMENT

The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) is agency of the legislative branch of the United States Government. Accordingly, the Materials Management Acquisition Regulations (MMAR) is applicable to this, and all GPO procurements.

NOTICE LISTING CONTRACT CLAUSES INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE

The following contract clauses pertinent to this section are hereby incorporated by reference in accordance with the MMAR clause at "52.252-2 CLAUSE INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE (FEB 1998) Section I of this contract.

Accordingly, the Materials Management Regulations (MMAR) apply to this procurement together with incorporated MMAR clauses and more recent versions of applicable clauses from the Material Management Acquisition Regulations (MMAR) specifically included as indicated.

MMAR changes apply to solicitation issued on or after the effective date of the change.

Full text of MMAR clauses may be accessed electronically at www.gpo.gov. Full text of incorporated MMAR clauses may be accessed electronically at www.acquisition.gov/mmar/.

Clauses incorporated by reference

Article Number Reference Text 52.212-4 Contract Terms and Conditions-Commercial Items (JAN 2017) 52.229-3 Federal, State, and Local Taxes (FEB 2013) 52.229-652 Taxes-Foreign Fixed-Price Contracts (FEB 2013) 52.232-11 Extras (APR 1984) 52.232-17 Interest (MAY 2014) 52.232-23 Assignment of Claims (MAY 2014) 52.233-3 Protest after Award (AUG 1996) 52.233-4 Applicable Law for Breach of Contract Claim (OCT 2004) 52.243-1 Changes-Fixed Price (AUG 1987) 52.242-17 Government Delay of Work (APR 1984) 52.242-13 Bankruptcy (JULY 1995) 52.242-15 Stop-Work Order (AUG 1989) 52.249-8 Default (Fixed-Price Supply and Service) (APR 1984) 52.246-3 Inspection of Supplies-Cost-Reimbursement (May 2001) 52.244-6 Subcontracts for Commercial Items (NOV 2017)

Clauses incorporated by full text

52.212-5 Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders - Commercial Items (MAY 2002)

(b) The Contractor shall comply with the following MMAR clauses, which are incorporated in this contract by reference, to implement provisions of law or executive orders applicable to acquisitions of commercial items:

(1) 52.222-3, Convict Labor (E.O. 11755).

(2) 52.233-3, Protest after Award (31 U.S.C. 3553).

(c) The Contractor shall comply with the MMAR clauses in this paragraph (b) that the Contracting Officer has indicated as being incorporated in this contract by reference to implement provisions of law or Executive orders applicable to acquisitions of commercial items or components:

U.S.C. 3301 note, 19 U.S.C. 2112 note).