B08_Solicitation_Requirements_140L0626Q0011.pdf

Solicitation Requirements 140L0626Q0011

Requirement: RFQ for a firm-fixed priced contract for Digital Access to Subscriptions for the BLM Library.

Document Version: 05/20/2026_V1

1. Instructions

This is a commercial request for quote, pursuant to the attached SF1449. Please review the entire request and all attached documents:

• SF1447 140L0626Q0011

• Solicitation Requirements 140L0626Q0011

• Statement of Work 140L0626Q0011

• Full Title List 140L0626Q0011

The Contractor is asked to provide the unit and total price for all 60 subscriptions identified on the "Full Title List 140L0626Q0011". All titles must be included in the quote. Partial quotes will not be considered.

Please submit responses by 06/05/2026, 17:00 MT, via SAM.gov.

Email submissions will NOT be accepted.

2. Scope

The BLM Library requires a service contract for corporate subscription management to provide a single point of content to over 60 subscription titles, access to seamless e-content IP recognition, subscription renewal management, and customer service to address all technical issues.

3. Period of Performance

Please provide pricing for a 12-month (one year) base period, plus two 12-month (one year) option periods:

• Base Period: 06/01/2026 – 05/31/2027

• Option Year 1: 06/01/2027 – 05/31/2028

• Option Year 2: 06/01/2028 – 05/31/2029

4. Contract Type

Firm Fixed Price

5. Administration

The contracting officer is the only government official who is authorized to enter into any delivery order and modify the order.

Government POCs:

Casey Carlson Contract Specialist casey_carlson@ios.doi.gov

Contracting Officer Laura Egli laura_egli@ios.doi.gov

Contracting Officer Representative Charis Cooper ccooper@blm.gov

6. Delivery Schedule / Period of Performance

BLM-OC NOC, Division of Resource Services Library Services Section Bldg 50, DFC, PO Box 25047 Denver, CO 80225-0047 US

Delivery of subscription services will be a mix of digital and physical delivery, as determined by each individual subscription title.

7. Government Furnished Equipment (GFE)/ Government Furnished Information (GFI)

None

8. Packaging, Packing, and Shipping Instructions

The contractor shall ensure that all items are preserved, packaged and marked in accordance with best commercial practices to meet the packing requirements of the carrier and to ensure safe and timely delivery at the intended destination.

9. Inspection and Acceptance Criteria

Inspection and acceptance shall take place at a government location by the government.

10. Accounting and Appropriation Data

Funds are available for award. Any accounting and appropriation data shall be displayed on the award form.

11. Additional Terms and Conditions – Provisions and Clauses

Provisions by Text

FAR 52.201-1 Acquisition 360: Voluntary Survey (Sep 2023)

(a)All actual and potential offerors are encouraged to provide feedback on the preaward and debriefing processes, as applicable. Feedback may be provided to agencies up to 45 days after award. The feedback is anonymous, unless the participant self-identifies in the survey. Actual and potential offerors can participate in the survey by selecting the following link: https://www.acquisition.gov/360.

(b)The Contracting Officer will not review the information provided until after contract award and will not consider it in the award decision. The survey is voluntary and does not convey any protections, rights, or grounds for protest.

It creates a way for actual and potential offerors to provide the Government constructive feedback about the preaward and debriefing processes, as applicable, used for a specific acquisition.

FAR 52.252-1 - Solicitation Provisions Incorporated by Reference (1998)

This solicitation incorporates one or more solicitation provisions 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. The offeror is cautioned that the listed provisions may include blocks that must be completed by the offeror and submitted with its quotation or offer. In lieu of submitting the full text of those provisions, the offeror may identify the provision by paragraph identifier and provide the appropriate information with its quotation or offer. Also, the full text of a solicitation provision may be accessed electronically at this/these address(es):

https://www.acquisition.gov/browse/index/far

DIAR 1452.280-4 - Indian economic enterprise representation (FEBRUARY 2021)

(a) The offeror represents as part of its offer that it [ ] does [ ] does not meet the definition of Indian Economic Enterprise (IEE) as defined in DIAR 1480.201 and that it intends to meet the definition of an IEE throughout the performance of the contract. The offeror must notify the contracting officer immediately in writing if there is any ownership change affecting compliance with this representation.

(b) Any false or misleading information submitted by an enterprise when submitting an offer in consideration for an award set aside under the Buy Indian Act is a violation of the law punishable under 18 U.S.C. 1001. False claims submitted as part of contract performance are subject to the penalties enumerated in 31 U.S.C. 3729 to 3731 and 18 U.S.C. 287.

Provisions by Reference

FAR 52.204-7 – System for Award Management (Nov 2024)

FAR 52.204-8 - Annual Representations and Certifications (MARCH 2026)

FAR 52.204-16 - Commercial and Government Entity Code Reporting (Aug 2020)

FAR 52.204-24 - Representation Regarding Certain Telecommunications and Video Surveillance Services or Equipment (Nov 2021)

FAR 52.204-26 - Covered Telecommunications Equipment or Services-Representation (Oct 2020)

FAR 52.212-1 – Instructions to Offerors – Commercial Products and Commercial Services (May 2024)

FAR 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certifications—Commercial Products and Commercial Services

(OCTOBER 2025)

FAR 217-5 – Evaluation of Options (JULY 1990)

FAR 52.252-5 - Authorized Deviations in Provisions (Nov 2020)

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Clauses by Text

DOI AAAP-0050 V3 - Notice to Contractors, Contractor Performance Assessment Reporting System (December 2015)

1) 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.

2) 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 CPARS for Government use in evaluating past performance as part of a source selection action.

3) 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.

4) 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/.

5) 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/.

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

b) 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.

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

d) 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”.

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

f) 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."

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

a) 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.

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

c) 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.

7) 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.

8) 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.

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. 5

(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.

(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.

DOI-AAAP-0028 - Electronic Invoicing and Payment Requirements - Invoice Processing Platform (IPP) (February 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 52.212-4Contract 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: Contractors internal invoice.

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 email.

IPPCustomerSupport@fiscal.treasury.gov or phone (866) 973-3131.

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.

FAR 52.217-8 - Option to Extend Services (Nov 1999)

The Government may require continued performance of any services within the limits and at the rates specified in the contract. These rates may be adjusted only as a result of revisions to prevailing labor rates provided by the Secretary of Labor. The option provision may be exercised more than once, but the total extension of performance hereunder shall not exceed 6 months. The Contracting Officer may exercise the option by written notice to the Contractor within 15 days of contract expiration.

FAR 52.217-9 - Option to Extend the Term of the Contract (Mar 2000)

(a) The Government may extend the term of this contract by written notice to the Contractor within 5 Calander days of contract expiration; provided that the Government gives the Contractor a preliminary written notice of its intent to extend at least 30 Calander days before the contract expires. The preliminary notice does not commit the Government to an extension.

(b) If the Government exercises this option, the extended contract shall be considered to include this option clause.

(c) The total duration of this contract, including the exercise of any options under this clause, shall not exceed 60 months.

FAR 52.252-2 Clauses Incorporated by Reference (1998)

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. Also, the full text of a clause may be accessed electronically at this/these address(es):

https://www.acquisition.gov/browse/index/far

Clauses by Reference

FAR 52.204-9 - Personal Identity Verification of Contractor Personnel (JAN 2011)

FAR 52.204-13 System for Award Management Maintenance (OCT 2018)

FAR 52.204-25 - Prohibition on Contracting for Certain Telecommunications and Video Surveillance Services or Equipment (NOVEMBER 2021)

FAR 52.204-27 - Prohibition on ByteDance Covered Application (JUNE 2023)

FAR 52.212-4 – Contract Terms and Conditions – Commercial Products and Commercial Services (NOV 2023)

FAR 52.212-5, Contract Terms and Conditions Required To Implement Statutes or Executive Orders—Commercial Products and Commercial Services (MAR 2026) (DEVIATION FEB 2025)

FAR 52.222-90 - Addressing DEI Discrimination by Federal Contractors (MARCH 2026)

FAR 52.223-23, Sustainable Products and Services (MAY 2024) (DEVIATION FEB 2025)

FAR 52.244-6, Subcontracts for Commercial Products and Commercial Services (OCTOBER 2025) (DEVIATION

FEB 2025)

FAR 52.252-6 Authorized Deviations in Clauses (NOVEMBER 2020)

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