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45600 Woodland Road, VAE-AMD Sterling VA 20166-9216

0044042851140M0126Q0043

Stephanie Brock

787-1151

08/25/2026

09/15/2026 1000 ED

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The United States Department of the

Interior (DOI), Office of Acquisition and Property Management, Marine Minerals

Administration (formerly Bureau of

Safety and Environmental Enforcement

(BSEE) and Bureau of Ocean Energy

Management (BOEM))/Office of Surface

Mining Reclamation and Enforcement

(MMA/OSMRE) Programs, Acquisition

Operations Branch (AOB) anticipates awarding a Purchase Order for MMA

(Legacy BOEM) Alaska Data Management, Geology and Geophysics Data Management

Interpretation. This acquisition is being conducted in accordance with RFO

12.201-1.

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RFQ 140M0126Q0043

COMBINED SYNOPSIS AND SOLICITATION:

This is a Combined Synopsis/Solicitation for commercial products or commercial services prepared in accordance with Part 12. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation. Quotes are being requested and a separate written solicitation will not be issued.

This solicitation is a Request for Quotations (RFQ). This RFQ is issued as a total small business set-aside. The solicitation and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through the Federal Acquisition Circular 2026-01 March 13, 2026.

The Product Service Code (PSC) B529, Special Studies/Analysis – Scientific Data, is applicable to the requirement. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code 541690, Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services, with a small business size standard of $19M, is applicable to the requirement.

This solicitation is being issued by the United States Department of the Interior (DOI), Office of Acquisition and Property Management, Marine Minerals Administration (formerly Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM))/Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (MMA/OSMRE) Programs, Acquisition Operations Branch (AOB). The purpose of this solicitation is to obtain competitive quotations in response to the Government’s requirement: MMA (Legacy BOEM) Alaska Data Management, Geology and Geophysics Data Management Interpretation. As result of this solicitation, the Government anticipates issuing a purchase order to satisfy the requirements.

SECTION 1

PRICING

1.1 GENERAL INFORMATION

The United States Department of the Interior (DOI), Office of Acquisition and Property Management, MMA/OSMRE Programs, Acquisition Operations Branch (AOB) anticipates awarding a Purchase Order for MMA (Legacy BOEM) Alaska Data Management, Geology and Geophysics Data Management Interpretation. This acquisition is being conducted in accordance with RFO 12.201-1.

This requirement is a total small business set-aside (NAICS 541690 Other Scientific and Technical Consulting, Size Standard: $19M).

Note: References to MMA reflect the recently consolidated organization. During the transition period, existing systems, codes, official records, etc. may continue to reference the legacy bureau

BOEM.

1.2 CONTRACT LINE ITEM/PRICING

The specific details and description of the Contract Line-Item Number (CLIN) is described as follows (Quoter shall fill in * and provide information as part of their price quote):

CLIN Description Total FFP

00010

MMA (Legacy BOEM) Alaska Data Management, Geology and Geophysics Data Management Interpretation in accordance with Section 2, Performance Work Statement (PWS)

CLIN 00010 is a Firm Fixed Priced (FFP) CLIN. MMA estimates 1940 hours for the Geoscience Data Specialist and 1940 hours for the Interpretation Geophysicist and Workflow Analyst.

1.3 PARTIAL DELIVERY PAYMENT SCHEDULE

Payment will be made to the Contractor based upon the delivery and acceptance of the deliverables/milestones below: (Quoter shall propose a table when submitting quote. Please include in Price Volume):

Payment No. Deliverable / Milestone Payment Amount 1 Dataset Publication Prioritization Report * 2 Conceptual Data Architecture Report * 3 Archiving and Publication Report *

SECTION 2

PERFORMANCE WORK STATEMENT (PWS)

2.1 BACKGROUND

MMA (Legacy BOEM), within the Department of the Interior (DOI), is responsible for the development and management of U.S. Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) energy and mineral resources in an environmentally and economically responsible way. As defined by the OCS Lands Act, MMA’s responsibilities encompass the management of about 3.2 billion acres offshore the 50 U.S. states, five territories with civilian governments, and significant acreage offshore other U.S. territories. Within MMA, Resource Evaluation maintains a large archive of geological, geophysical, geospatial, engineering, and associated oil and gas data to support offshore energy permitting, exploration, and development.

MMA requires geoscience data management expertise with geophysical, geological, geotechnical, hazard, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) data to support MMA’s offshore energy permitting and leasing missions. MMA requires inventory, management, and archival activities for vast amounts of data (currently around 250 TB) that is obtained through permitting and leasing processes. MMA maintains both electronic and physical data and information. A large variety of applications and systems are critical for MMA to accomplish its conventional energy missions. It is essential that MMA users have access to data and information required for operations and decision making.

2.2 OBJECTIVE

The objective of this contract is to procure two subject matter experts (SMEs) for one year - a geoscience data manager and an interpretation geophysicist with strong workflow optimization experience. The contractor will provide geoscience data and interpretation services to support the permitting and leasing programs, primarily through data management, seismic data loading, and geophysical interpretation activities in support of offshore conventional energy. MMA receives large amounts of geoscience data to support offshore Geologic and Geophysical (G&G) permitting; Fair Market Value (FMV) evaluations; and Exploration, Leasing, and Development activities. SMEs use this data to perform subsurface interpretation, environmental, and engineering plan reviews. MMA identified a need to support both the development of data management best practice workflows to guide our internal processes, as well as a need to perform a wide variety of data management activities to prepare datasets for internal use, publication, and archive. This data management work must be done in a way that supports Federal, DOI, and MMA data management policies while at the same time preparing data assets to be FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable) and readily available for use in decision making.

2.3 SCOPE

The MMA Geoscience Interpretation Toolkit (GIT) supports geoscience data management workflows that are foundational to offshore G&G permitting, leasing, and development. Our key geoscience software includes (but is not limited to) S&P Global Kingdom, SonarWiz, and

Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) ArcGIS Pro. MMA has recently rearchitected our approach to managing geoscience data by moving our working and archive data storage resources to the cloud in Microsoft Azure. Additionally, subsurface and geospatial interpretations have been migrated to virtual machines hosted by Azure to better meet the needs of our SMEs performing analytical work.

MMA shall furnish the necessary personnel, materials, equipment, and software to support geoscience data management and geophysical interpretation and workflow expertise services required to meet or exceed MMA program objectives. Furthermore, given the pace of change in the information technology, geoscience, geospatial, and data management systems marketplace, it is impossible to anticipate how individual data and system requirements, as well as approaches to data workflows and implementations, will evolve over the life of this agreement. MMA will incorporate advances in technology that will allow it to continue to deploy systems that work better and cost less, including the use of cloud services where possible and software changes if needed.

Throughout the life of this agreement, the contractor is encouraged to continuously seek ways to incorporate innovative and emerging technologies and automations that in the most economic and efficient manner improves system and mission performance.

2.4 Program Objectives

Task 1 is intended to support building out the general data management workflows and to prepare data for publication. Task 2 is intended to provide additional resource support to accomplish the work to address future project needs and deadlines more quickly. This future work relies on the use of the new golden project workflows and certain data and datasets for regional-level interpretation.

Tasks will include the following software:

• Kingdom Software Suite o 2D/3DPAK o EarthPAK o VuPAK o Kingdom Data Management

• ArcGIS Pro, Geodatabases, ArcGIS Online, ArcGIS Portal

• QGIS

• Seisee

• SLB Petrel (legacy projects)

• Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio

• Microsoft Office 365 Office Productivity Software including such applications as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

2.4.1 Task 1: Geoscience Data Specialist Support Services

MMA AK needs geoscience data analysis and management services to support its data management program. The Resource Evaluation (RE) Office typically works with datasets derived from instruments used to capture geophysical, geological, geotechnical, hazard, or geospatial data.

Some of these instruments include, but are not limited to, seabed sampling, multibeam echo sounder, sidescan sonar, sub bottom profiler, medium and deep penetration seismic systems, and gradiometer/magnetometer. MMA also works with a large amount of exploration and development well data and associated child data such as deviation surveys, core, MWD well logs, etc.

Additionally, a wide variety of datasets are derived and managed from leasing and development review, including bathymetric data, magnetometer data, side scan sonar data, geologic and hazards assessment data, backscatter data, metocean data, environmental survey data, geotechnical borehole samples, grab/benthic samples, seafloor photography, and high-resolution seismic data.

MMA requires geoscience data specialist support services that can serve as Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), here defined as a recognized authority across multiple areas of expertise such as geoscience, geographic information systems (GIS) and data management. Typical tasks requiring support for the scope of work for Geoscience Data Specialist Services include:

• Organize and import raw seafloor and subsurface geoscience and geospatial data into lease-and regional- extent geoscience projects

• Create Kingdom and ArcGIS Pro projects in the MMA AK specified coordinate system and datum. Project datasets to a common coordinate system and datum for all lease- and regional-extent projects (e.g. Alaska Albers NAD83)

• Integrate legacy projects and datasets into larger region-based projects for interpretation and perform dataset publication activities

• Provide user assistance in creating and maintaining database and storage connections within projects and across workstations

• Perform quality control and data aggregation activities on a wide variety of datasets

• Assist users in populating projects with data from database repositories and file shares

• Assist with populating and managing data within database repositories

• Assist users with population and transfer of data between users, applications, and projects

• Develop data documentation, metadata, and data process flow diagrams

• Assist in developing and performing data inventory and publishing procedures and workflows

• Develop naming conventions and other file management best practices to support receiving, processing, and archiving large volumes of data

• Perform database upgrades and maintenance in coordination with Information

Technology (IT) to ensure proper system functionality, and full and correct data transfer

• Perform evaluations of existing procedures, processes, techniques, and/or systems related to geoscience and recommend solutions

• Coordinate with SMEs and IT staff to configure software application licenses servers

• Prepare and publish datasets according to data publication and archival plans and procedures

• Support administration and troubleshooting of virtual desktops for geoscience users

• Document Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) of applications, systems, data workflows, and other identified mission critical tasks to ensure the capture of institutional knowledge and support MMA continuity of business

• Research emerging computer hardware and software in support of managing a conventional energy geoscience data management and analytic environment

• Assist Data Managers with testing and developing virtual desktop technology by interfacing with IT staff and providing input

• Coordinate, facilitate, and participate in meetings to collect business requirements for both geoscience and geospatial data needs

• Perform needs assessments and other requirement gathering activities to support varied data management planning activities, such as data archival or publication strategies

• Study and understand the business data requirements and potential users of assigned MMA geoscience data workflows

• Identify workflow requirements by interviewing SMEs and analyzing associated applications, data structures, documentation, programming, and operations

• Analyze the business data process, procedures, and desired outputs to identify problems and determine optimal solutions

• Use process/workflow software such as Microsoft Visio or PowerPoint to create process and workflow models and documentation

• Develop data documentation, metadata, and data process flow diagrams

• Develop validated data acquisition, development, interpretation, and publication workflows for geoscience data that meet underlying resource evaluation business processes

• Develop written documentation, such as data management, archiving, and publication plans, and other data management written documentation and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to meet data management program needs

• Develop and document conceptual data architectures and frameworks that guide the long-term prioritization and management of conventional energy data assets

2.4.2 Task 2: Geoscience Data Specialist and Geophysicist Interpretation Workflow

Support Services

In addition to the work in Task 1, MMA needs additional geoscience data and geophysical interpretation and workflow development support to enable the program to meet its goals in having organized data and workflows that can support future work in regional geoscience interpretation and conventional energy development. Thus, we need enhanced capability in processing datasets as outlined in Task 1, in addition to workflow development expertise in master data workflows to ensure we have written standard operating procedures in place for staff and partners working with MMA conventional energy data. Task 2 will support additional lease- and regional-level data and project development but also the development and documentation related to golden/working project workflows.

In addition to geoscience data management tasks under Task 2, MMA requires support for geophysical interpretation and workflow development tasks. Typical tasks required for the scope of work for Interpretation Geophysicist and Workflow Analyst Services include:

• Based upon previous experience with data management in geoscience software, develop and document workflows for managing master, or “golden”, and working data and interpretation projects

• Integrate authored interpretation data from existing application software projects into master projects

• Develop scripts, batch processes, or use software procedures to automate data integration, organization, re-structuring or movement

• Populate geoscience software projects with files derived from a variety of data collection sources and instruments which may differ in quality and timeliness

• Troubleshoot application software projects to identify problems or issues with interpretations or data files

• Integrate and interpret geophysical and geological data and interpolate interpretations into regional-level projects to create displays and maps

2.5 POTENTIAL PROJECT DETAILS

The following projects have been listed as examples of the type of work MMA AK requires SME support for:

2.5.1 Data Archive Reconciliation, Master Project Development, and Golden/Master

Project Workflows

Data Reconciliation: Reconcile all MMA AK shared drive and legacy SLB Petrel project data resources for the Alaska OCS against the IHS Kingdom master projects and G&G Data LifeCycle Toolkit. Perform data mining activities to identify and reconcile missing datasets from shared drives, SharePoint and other locations. When needed, physical records may need to be scanned, digitized, and appropriately transformed to capture historic subsurface knowledge and information. Resolve discrepancies, de-duplicate and update appropriate locations to ensure completeness of record, reference, and working copies. Work with other MMA staff to ensure records management copies are filed/stored/archived appropriately. Work with SMEs to verify the integrity of the long-term OCS data.

Master Project and Dataset Development: Develop or rebuild master North, South, and Bering Sea Kingdom projects that integrate all final data from individual data locations (shared drives, legacy Petrel projects, digitized paper records). Assist with local and regional subsurface interpretation. Consolidate, deduplicate, and archive datasets where appropriate to arrive at a area of interest (AOI) project structure. Work collaboratively with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to version control, understand and document dataset provenance, distinguishing partial or superseded data deliveries from final master datasets. Develop and implement file, folder, and database naming standards that align with MMA policies and are developed collaboratively with MMA and the MMA Data Team. Document meta-data in all appropriate data types.

Golden Project Workflow Development and Documentation: Work with MMA Data Manager and SMEs to develop Kingdom workflows and workflow documentation to support a master, or “golden”, and working (interpretation) project workflow, where gold standard projects are maintained but individual authors leverage the master project as a starting point in their project data reviews and interpretation. Contribute to the development of best practices that utilize Kingdom Data Management (KDM) and other software tools in support of efficient Geophysical and Geotechnical (Geoscience) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) project workflows.

Design workflows to minimize duplication of effort, optimize efficiency during subsurface interpretation and automate ETL/ELT activities.

2.5.2 MMA Data Delivery Inventory, Metadata, and Regional Product Development

Develop Dataset Publication Prioritization and Conceptual Architecture: Perform needs assessments and contribute to prioritization discussions to identify what datasets are published and in what priority order. Assist with metadata completion and review for all created and received products. Assist with interpretation and interpretation reviews of regional products from MMA subsurface data.

Develop MMA Archiving and Publication Plan: Work with MMA Data Manager and SMEs to determine best available publication and archive mechanism per major geoscience and geospatial data type to build a long-term strategy for the MMA archiving process. Archiving process must meet Federal, Departmental and Bureau guidelines and requirements for making data and metadata public when Code of Federal Regulation (CFR) guidelines for conventional energy, G&G permitting, and leasing activities dictate release. Document procedures in a MMA data publication plan that details requirements to publish, archive location, update frequency, data type, format, and other processing details.

Implement Dataset Publication Plan and Procedures: Building upon the publication prioritization and conceptual architecture, work with SMEs and within Federal, Departmental and Bureau guidelines to document and perform processing steps, formatting, and documentation to prepare datasets for publication. Develop and assemble detailed data-set level metadata in Data Catalog, Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata (CSDGM), and International Standards Organization (ISO) 191xx series of metadata standards to support publication/archiving requirements for MMA data.

MMA Data Inventory: Work with Department and Bureau processes for developing, updating, and maintaining the MMA data inventory. Ensure complete coverage of MMA data assets within the inventory. Over time, continue to build the MMA portion of the inventory to include prioritized publication datasets.

2.6 DELIVERABLES

2.6.1 Bi-Weekly Progress Reports

The Contractor shall submit Bi-Weekly Progress Reports starting two (2) weeks after award. The reports shall document next steps and any foreseen blockers and risks. The reports shall be submitted in Adobe PDF or Microsoft Word to the COR via email.

2.6.2 Data Archive Reconciliation Reports

The Contractor shall submit Monthly Data Archive Reconciliation Reports starting 30 days after award. The reports will be submitted to the COR in Microsoft Excel.

2.6.3 Workflow Documentation and Final Report for Golden and Interpretation Project Workflows

The Contractor shall submit Monthly Workflow Documentation as developed or organized with deadlines negotiated with the COR. The workflows shall be submitted to the COR in Adobe PDF or Microsoft word via email.

2.6.4 Dataset Publication Prioritization Report

The Contractor shall submit the Dataset Publication Prioritization Report 270 days after award or within a deadline negotiated with the COR. Submission shall be in Microsoft Word to the COR.

2.6.5 Conceptual Data Architecture Report

The Contractor shall submit the Conceptual Data Architecture Report 270 days after award or within a deadline negotiated with the COR. Submission shall be in Microsoft Word to the COR.

2.6.6 Archiving and Publication Report

The Contractor shall submit the Archiving and Publication Report 330 days after award or within a deadline negotiated with the COR. Submission shall be in Microsoft Word to the COR.

2.6.7 DOI Data Inventory (DDI) Data Cataloging Metadata

The Contractor shall submit DDI Data Cataloging Metadata as developed or organized with deadlines negotiated with the COR. Submission shall be to the COR in text file or another format as agreed upon with the COR.

2.6.8 ISO/FGDC CSDGM Dataset Level Metadata

The Contractor shall submit ISO/FGDC CSDGM Dataset Level Metadata as developed or organized with deadlines negotiated with the COR. Submission shall be to the COR in text file or another format as to be determined.

2.7 ADDRESSES FOR DELIVERABLES

Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR) TBD at time of award

2.8 PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS / METRICS

Performance Objective

Standard Performance Threshold

Method of Surveillance

PRS # 1.

When capturing requirements, Communications are professional, 100% of Meetings or Other Customer Interactions

COR,

Periodic Sampling

Standard Performance Threshold

Method of Surveillance performing needs assessments, or performing other customer interactions, communications shall be professional, respectful, and effective respectful, and effective

COR,

Validated Customer Complaint

PRS # 2

Report documents are reviewed to be complete, accurate, of appropriate scope, and aligned with business and user requirements and needs

Any detailed documents such as reports, workflows, and internal operating procedures are complete, accurate, of appropriate scope, and aligned with business and user requirements and needs

100% of Geoscience Data Documentation and Report Development Activities

COR

100% Inspection

PRS # 3

Artifacts (reports, conceptual and physical data models, process diagrams, metadata, and metadata templates) appropriate to the project are used

Reports, conceptual and physical data models, process diagrams, metadata, and metadata templates are developed and used when appropriate

100% of Project Work COR, Periodic Surveillance

PRS # 4

Work tasks are prioritized, including identification of new work and procedures when necessary

Project staff are effective at prioritizing work tasks and can identify when new work and procedures are required and communicate those with the COR

95% of Project Work COR, Periodic Surveillance

PRS # 5

Golden and interpretation workflows, interpretations, data movement scripts, job batch templates, Golden and interpretation workflows, data movement scripts, job batch templates, Kingdom Data Management (KDM)

95% of Data Movement Activities or Workflows

100% Inspection

Standard Performance Threshold

Method of Surveillance

Kingdom Data Management procedures, and data movement routines are well documented, performant, and meet customer requirements workflow procedures, and data movement routines are well documented, performant, and meet customer requirements

PRS # 6

Presentations, briefings, project plans and status updates are timely and appropriate to the audience

Materials used to provide plans and status updates are timely and appropriate to the audience at all times

95% of Presentations, Briefings, Project Plans, and Status Updates

COR,

Periodic Surveillance

COR,

Validated Customer Complaint

PRS # 7

Geoscience and Geospatial software are used effectively and competently

Software is used effectively and competently to the level of experienced

SME

95% of Geoscience Data Management Tasks

PRS # 8

Appropriate coordinate systems are used when setting up geoscience projects

Coordinate systems are used appropriately and to MMA standards when setting up geoscience application projects

100% of Project Building

COR,

Periodic Sampling

PRS # 9

Workflow models or diagrams reflect software requirements and underlying MMA business processes

Validated workflows meet customer and data management program requirements

95% of Workflow Development Activities

PRS # 10

Tedious and routine reconciliation and other data management activities are approached with attention to detail throughout

When performing data reconciliation activities and data management in general, exercise care, pay attention to details, and document all decisions rigorously

100% of Project Activities

PRS # 11 Any workflow, geoscience project

90% of all Geoscience Data Activities

Standard Performance Threshold

Method of Surveillance

MMA requirements are understood prior to and during all geoscience activities files, conceptual architecture, workflow, or report are based upon valid customer or program requirements

PRS # 12

The best and most efficient software approaches are matched to the customer requirements during workflow development

Care is taken to determine the most effective technology approach based upon thorough review of requirements and comprehensive understanding of available approaches within the MMA software resources available

100% of Workflows COR, Periodic Surveillance

COR,

Validated Customer Complaint

PRS # 13

Conceptual Architectures align with MMA business processes

Conceptual architectures are developed to meet identified program requirements

95% of Architecture Development Activities

PRS # 14

Metadata is complete to a minimum standard and meets any additional program requirements

Complete development of metadata attributes

95% of Metadata Development Activities

COR,

Periodic Surveillance

COR,

Validated Customer Complaint

PRS # 15

Scripting or template building activities are completed effectively with well-structured code, comments, and documentation

Expertise maintained with coding or template development and documentation. Best practices used at all times

100% of Data Movement Activities

PRS # 16

Geoscience or Geospatial applications are used when appropriate, and when best matched to business, workflow, and user requirements

Functionality in geoscience or geospatial application requirements are understood and implemented when appropriate

95% of Data Management Activities

Standard Performance Threshold

Method of Surveillance

PRS # 17

Appropriate publishing formats and repositories are identified when preparing and implementing the Archiving and Publication Report

Archiving and Publication Report aligns with Federal, DOI, and MMA format requirements.

Publication plan must meet federal requirements for open data

100% of Publication COR, PRS # 18

Data migration and reconciliation activities are accomplished with minimal rework

Effective implementation of data migration activities

95% of Data Movement Activities

COR,

Periodic Surveillance

COR, Customer Validated Customer Complaint

SECTION 3

GENERAL PURCHASE ORDER TERMS AND CONDITIONS

3.1 PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE

The period of performance for this requirement is one year from date of award, XX-XX-2026 through XX-XX-2027 (TBD at time of award).

3.2 PLACE OF PERFORMANCE

Performance must take place at the following:

MMA (Legacy BOEM) Alaska Facility 3801 CenterPoint Drive Anchorage, AK 99503

3.3 ADMINISTRATIVE POINTS OF CONTACT

3.3.1 Contracting Officer

Stephanie Brock Email: stephanie_brock@ios.doi.gov

3.3.2 Contracting Officer’s Representative

TBD AT TIME OF AWARD

3.4 INVOICE FREQUENCY AND PAYMENTS

Invoices shall be submitted in accordance with Section 1.4 Partial Delivery Payment Schedule.

3.4.1 Electronic Invoicing and Payment Requirements – Invoice Processing Platform

(IPP) (FEB 2021)

Payment requests must be submitted electronically through the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Invoice Processing Platform System (IPP).

"Payment request" means any request for contract financing payment or invoice payment by the Contractor. To constitute a proper invoice, the payment request must comply with the requirements identified in the applicable Prompt Payment clause included in the contract, or the clause 52.212- 4 Contract Terms and Conditions - Commercial Items included in commercial item contracts. The IPP website address is: https://www.ipp.gov.

Under this contract, the following documents are required to be submitted as an attachment to the IPP invoice: None https://www.ipp.gov/ https://www.ipp.gov/

The Contractor must use the IPP website to register access and use IPP for submitting requests for payment. The Contractor Government Business Point of Contact (as listed in SAM) will receive enrollment instructions via email from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (FRBSTL) within 3

- 5 business days of the contract award date. Contractor assistance with enrollment can be obtained by contacting the IPP Production Helpdesk via phone (866) 973-3131 or email IPPCustomerSupport@fiscal.treasury.gov.

If the Contractor is unable to comply with the requirement to use IPP for submitting invoices for payment, the Contractor must submit a waiver request in writing to the Contracting Officer with its proposal or quotation.

3.5 DIAR 1452.201-70 AUTHORITIES AND DELEGATIONS (SEP 2011)

(a) The Contracting Officer is the only individual authorized to enter into or terminate this contract, modify any term or condition of this contract, waive any requirement of this contract, or accept nonconforming work.

(b) The Contracting Officer will designate a Contracting Officer's Representative (COR) at time of award. The COR will be responsible for technical monitoring of the contractor's performance and deliveries. The COR will be appointed in writing, and a copy of the appointment will be furnished to the Contractor. Changes to this delegation will be made by written changes to the existing appointment or by issuance of a new appointment.

(c) The COR is not authorized to perform, formally or informally, any of the following actions:

(1) Promise, award, agree to award, or execute any contract, contract modification, or notice of intent that changes or may change this contract;

(2) Waive or agree to modification of the delivery schedule;

(3) Make any final decision on any contract matter subject to the Disputes Clause;

(4) Terminate, for any reason, the Contractor's right to proceed;

(5) Obligate in any way, the payment of money by the Government.

(d) The Contractor shall comply with the written or oral direction of the Contracting Officer or authorized representative(s) acting within the scope and authority of the appointment memorandum. The Contractor need not proceed with direction that it considers to have been issued without proper authority. The Contractor shall notify the Contracting Officer in writing, with as much detail as possible, when the COR has taken an action or has issued direction (written or oral) that the Contractor considers to exceed the COR's appointment, within 3 days of the occurrence.

Unless otherwise provided in this contract, the Contractor assumes all costs, risks, liabilities, and consequences of performing any work it is directed to perform that falls within any of the categories defined in paragraph (c) prior to receipt of the Contracting Officer's response issued under paragraph (e) of this clause.

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(e) The Contracting Officer shall respond in writing within 30 days to any notice made under paragraph (d) of this clause. A failure of the parties to agree upon the nature of a direction, or upon the contract action to be taken with respect thereto, shall be subject to the provisions of the Disputes clause of this contract.

(f) The Contractor shall provide copies of all correspondence to the Contracting Officer and the

COR.

(g) Any action(s) taken by the Contractor, in response to any direction given by any person acting on behalf of the Government or any Government official other than the Contracting Officer or the COR acting within his or her appointment, shall be at the Contractor's risk.

3.6 CONTRACTOR PERSONNEL

3.6.1 Qualified Contractor Personnel

The Contractor shall provide the following personnel:

Geoscience Data Specialist The Geoscience Data Specialist is designated as Key by the Government. The Geoscience Data Specialist must have a bachelor's degree in geology, geophysics, geography, physical science, earth science, or related field, plus 20 additional semester hours in any combination of mathematics, physics, chemistry, biological science, structural, chemical, civil, mining or petroleum engineering, computer science, planetary geology, comparative planetology, geophysics, meteorology, hydrology, oceanography, physical geography, marine geology, and cartography. The Geoscience Data Specialist will have senior-level professional knowledge and experience using geoscience interpretation software applications including but not limited to IHS Global Kingdom, SLB Petrel, and Seisee along with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) applications such as ArcGIS Pro or QGIS and SQL Server Management Studio with a special emphasis on data management. This includes working with geophysical, geological, geotechnical, hazard, or geospatial data that are commonly used in conventional energy permitting processes in a variety of native, processed, and derived formats. The Geoscience Data Specialist must have experience with data standardization, organization, automation, manipulation, migration, analysis, and interpretation, experience with programming languages SQL and python is preferred.

Interpretation Geophysicist and Workflow Analyst The Interpretation Geophysicist and Workflow Analyst is designated as Key by the Government.

The Interpretation Geophysicist and Workflow Analyst must have a bachelor's degree in geology, geophysics, geography, physical science, earth science, or related field, plus 20 additional semester hours in any combination of mathematics, physics, chemistry, biological science, structural, chemical, civil, mining or petroleum engineering, computer science, planetary geology, comparative planetology, geophysics, meteorology, hydrology, oceanography, physical geography, marine geology, and cartography. The Interpretation Geophysicist and Workflow Analyst will have senior-level professional knowledge and experience using geoscience interpretation software applications including but not limited to S&P Global Kingdom, and SLB Petrel, along with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) applications such as ArcGIS Pro or

QGIS and SQL Server Management Studio with a special emphasis on master interpretation workflow development. This includes understanding best practices for the development of interpretation products in master/golden projects and working geoscience project flows, managing project authorship, and batch processing and integration of derived and interpreted datasets into master, authoritative, or golden projects. The Analyst will be responsible for working closely with the Geoscience Data Specialists and Geoscience Business Data Analyst to develop, test, and implement the proposed workflows and to ensure all workflow documentation is completed and aligned with industry best practices. Experience with programming languages SQL and python is preferred.

3.6.2 Key Personnel

The following individuals are considered to be essential to the work being performed under this Purchase Order:

Name Position

TO BE COMPLETED AT TIME OF AWARD

3.6.3 Substitution of Key Personnel

(a) The contractor agrees to assign those persons identified above and who are necessary to fulfill the requirements of the contract as key personnel. No substitutions shall be made except in accordance with this clause.

(b) Personnel considered essential (“key personnel”) to the work performed under the contract shall be mutually agreed upon by the contractor and the Government and will be specified in the contract. During the first 90 calendar days of the contract, the Contractor shall make no substitutions of key personnel unless the substitution is necessitated by illness, death, or termination of employment. Prior to removing, replacing, or diverting any of the specified individuals, the contractor shall promptly notify the Contracting Officer (CO) and provide the information required below:

(c) All proposed substitutions shall be submitted to the CO for approval at least 15 calendar days in advance of the proposed effective date (unless substitution is necessitated by sudden illness, death, or termination of employment in which case notice shall be within five (5) calendar days of the effective date) and must provide the information as stated herein.

(d) All requests for substitutions shall be in writing unless otherwise agreed to by the CO and shall include a complete resume for the proposed substitute and any other information required by the CO to permit effective evaluation of the proposed substitutions’ qualifications.

(e) Requests for substitution of “key personnel” above must also provide a detailed explanation of the circumstances necessitating it and sufficient information for the CO to evaluate the impact of the substitution on contract performance.

3.7 NO PAYMENT FOR UNAUTHORIZED WORK

No payments will be made for any unauthorized supplies and/or services, or for any unauthorized changes to the work specified herein. This includes any services performed by the Contractor of their own volition or at the request of an individual other than a duly appointed Contracting Officer.

Only a duly appointed Contracting Officer is authorized to change the specifications, terms, and conditions under this effort.

3.8 NON-PERSONAL SERVICES

This contract is for non-personal services as defined in FAR 37.101 under which the personnel rendering the services are not subject, either by the contract/order’s terms or by the manner of its administration, to the supervision and control usually prevailing in relationships between the Government and its employees.

Personnel assigned to render services under this contract shall at all times be employees of the Contractor (or a subcontractor) and under the direction and control of the Contractor.

Notwithstanding any other provisions of this order, the contractor shall at all times be responsible for the supervision of its employees in the performance of the services required hereunder.

The Contractor and/or the Contractor’s employees: (1) shall perform the services specified herein as an independent contractor, not as employees of the government; (2) shall be responsible for management and administration of the work required and bear sole responsibility for complying with any and all technical, schedule, or financial requirements or constraints attendant to the performance of this contract; (3) shall be free from supervision or control by any government employee with respect to the manner or method of performance of the services specified; but (4) shall, pursuant to the government’s right and obligation to inspect, accept or reject the work, comply with such general direction of the CO, or the duly authorized representative of the CO, as is necessary to ensure accomplishment of the contract objectives.

If the Contractor finds clarification necessary with respect to the scope of services to be performed or the manner in which the services are to be performed hereunder, the Contractor shall request clarification from the CO in writing.

Employees of the Contractor (or a subcontractor) must make clear, in dealings with the public, federal employees, or other contractors, that they are not federal employees. To minimize possible confusion, the Contractor’s (or subcontractor) employees are not permitted to wear clothing or other items, apart from the official identity credential, bearing the name, logo, or seal of the Government agency while performing work under this contract/order.

3.9 ORGANIZATIONAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST

(a) It is the policy of the Department of the Interior to avoid contract/purchase order awards which could create potential conflict of interest. While the Government has not identified an existing conflict of interest, a conflict could arise or develop after purchase order award. For purposes of this clause, a conflict of interest is defined as when the Contractor or any subcontractors or teaming arrangement partners have business, financial, real property, mineral rights, or other interests, as well as professional activities that create conflicting roles which could potentially bias a Contractor’s judgment or result in unfair competitive advantage to the Contractor, and thus impede the Government’s objective to obtain an impartial, technically sound and objective performance of this contract.

(b) Any request for waiver from the terms of this contract provision shall be directed in writing to the Contracting Officer and shall include a full description and justification of the required waiver.

(c) The Contractor, or any of his officers or representatives, shall not involve himself in any situation during performance of this contract which may result in conflicts as contemplated in Paragraph (a) above. Failure to comply with this provision may be cause for termination of this contract for default.

(d) The Contractor must disclose any interest which may develop after contract award which may result in his placement in a conflicting role with his performance of this agreement. Failure to comply with this provision may be cause for termination of this contract for default.

(e) The Contractor shall include this clause, including this paragraph in all subcontracts and consultant agreements; however, subcontractors and consultants shall be directed to send any requests for waiver to the Contractor who shall then inform the Contracting Officer as described in (a) above.

3.10 RELEASE OF NEWS INFORMATION

No news release (including photographs and films, public announcements, denial or confirmation of same) on any part of the subject matter of this effort shall be made without the prior written approval of the CO.

3.11 DOI-AAAP-0050, v02 CONTRACTOR PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT

REPORTING SYSTEM (DEC 2015)

FAR 42.1502 directs all Federal agencies to collect past performance information on contracts.

The Department of the Interior (DOI) has implemented the Contractor Performance Assessment Reporting System (CPARS) to comply with this regulation. One or more past performance evaluations will be conducted in order to record your contract performance as required by FAR 42.15.

The past performance evaluation process is a totally paperless process using CPARS. CPARS is a web-based system that allows for electronic processing of the performance evaluation report. Once the report is processed, it is available in the Past Performance Information Retrieval System (PPIRS) for Government use in evaluating past performance as part of a source selection action.

We request that you furnish the Contracting Officer (CO) with the name, position title, phone number, and email address for each person designated to have access to your firm's past performance evaluation(s) for the contract no later than 30 days after award. Each person granted access will have the ability to provide comments in the Contractor portion of the report and state whether or not the Contractor agrees with the evaluation, before returning the report to the Assessing Official (AO). Information in the report must be protected as source selection sensitive information not releasable to the public.

When your Contractor Representative(s) are registered in CPARS, they will receive an automatically generated email with detailed login instructions. Further details, systems requirements, and training information for CPARS is available at https://www.cpars.gov/.

Within 60 days after the end of a performance period, the AO will complete an interim or final past performance evaluation, and the report will be accessible at https://www.cpars.gov/.

• Contractor Representatives may then provide comments in response to the evaluation or return the evaluation without comment.

• Your comments should focus on objective facts in the AO's narrative and should provide your views on the causes and ramifications of the assessed performance.

• All information provided should be reviewed for accuracy prior to submission.

• If you elect not to provide comments, please acknowledge receipt of the evaluation by indicating "No comment" in the space provided, and then selecting “Accept the Ratings and Close the Evaluation”.

• Your response is due within 60 calendar days after receipt of the CPAR. On day 15, the evaluation will become available in PPIRS-RC marked as “Pending” with or without comments and whether or not it has been closed.

• If you do not sign and submit the CPAR within 60 days, it will automatically be returned to the Government and will be annotated: "The report was delivered/received by the contractor on (date). The contractor neither signed nor offered comment in response to this assessment."

The following guidelines apply concerning your use of the past performance evaluation:

• Protect the evaluation as source selection information. After review, transmit the evaluation by completing and submitting the form through CPARS. If for some reason you are unable to view and/or submit the form through CPARS, contact the CO for instructions.

• Strictly control access to the evaluation within your organization. Ensure the evaluation is never released to persons or entities outside of your control.

• Prohibit the use of or reference to evaluation data for advertising, promotional material, pre-award surveys, responsibility determinations, production readiness reviews, or other similar purposes.

If you wish to discuss a past performance evaluation, you should request a meeting in writing to the CO no later than seven days following your receipt of the evaluation. The meeting will be held in person or via telephone or other means during your 60-day review period.

A copy of the completed past performance evaluation will be available in CPARS for your viewing and for Government use supporting source selection actions after it has been finalized.

3.12 DATA USE, DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION, AND HANDLING OF

SENSITIVE INFORMATION

The Contractor shall…