PRE-SOLICITATION NOTICE

SOLICITATION NO. 140R4026R0021

HYDROLOGICAL DATABASE (HDB) SUPPORT SERVICES IDIQ

100% TOTAL SMALL BUSINESS SET-ASIDE

The United States Bureau of Reclamation, Upper Colorado Basin Contracting Office (UCCO) Project, Operations and

Modeling Group (POMD), will post a solicitation for the services described in this document. This pre-solicitation notice is not a request for proposal, an invitation for bids, or a request for quotation and does not bind the Government in any way. The Government is not responsible for, nor will it reimburse, costs associated with a response to this notice. This pre-solicitation notice satisfies the applicable requirements of FAR Part 5, Publicizing Contract Actions.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

The Bureau of Reclamation requires Hydrological Database (HDB) Support Services under a five-year, single-award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract. HDB is a mission-critical, Oracle-based hydrologic database and decision-support environment used by multiple Reclamation regions and area offices for hydrologic data collection, storage, quality control, modeling, reservoir and water-delivery operations, water accounting, environmental analysis, reporting, and public and internal data sharing. The contractor will provide qualified personnel to maintain, support, troubleshoot, secure, document, and enhance the HDB production and test/development environments. The contract will consist of one 12-month base period and four 12-month option periods, for a total potential five-year ordering period. The current acquisition milestone plan targets award on January 20, 2027.

The Principal Components of the Work are as follows:

1. On-demand HDB technical support, including urgent operational support

2. Database system maintenance, troubleshooting, diagnosis, and restoration

3. Oracle database operations, administration, SQL/PLSQL programming, and related application support

4. HDB development, testing, integration, deployment, source-code maintenance, and enhancements

5. Support for OpenDCS, DECODES, the Computation Processor, TSTool, RiverWare interfaces, Red Hat

Enterprise Linux, and HDB-POET

6. Development and maintenance of public and internal APIs, visualization tools, automated data-sharing solutions, and HDB data-editing tools

7. Technical documentation, monthly status reporting, user-group coordination, and transferable knowledge management

8. Compliance with Department of the Interior and Federal cybersecurity requirements, including applicable SSDF, SDLC, NIST, and FISMA standards

NAICS, SMALL BUSINESS SIZE STANDARD, AND PSC

The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this procurement is 541511, Custom Computer

Programming Services, with an associated small business size standard of $34.0 million. The Product Service Code (PSC) is DJ01. This acquisition will be conducted as a 100% Total Small Business Set-Aside.

PROCUREMENT INFORMATION AND COMPETITION

This acquisition will be procured in accordance with the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 12, Acquisition of

Commercial Products and Commercial Services, and Part 15, Contracting by Negotiation. A Request for Proposal (FAR

15.102) will be posted via https://sam.gov, providing for competition as a 100% Total Small Business Set-Aside and resulting in the award of one indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract. The source selection will use a

Lowest Price Technically Acceptable (LPTA) approach in accordance with FAR 15.103-2. Technical proposals will be https://sam.gov/ evaluated on an acceptable/unacceptable basis against the minimum requirements stated in the solicitation; acceptable proposals will not be comparatively ranked and no tradeoff will be performed. Award will be made to the responsible small business concern submitting the lowest evaluated price among technically acceptable proposals, subject to a determination that the price is fair and reasonable. Task orders are anticipated to be primarily firm-fixed-price, with limited time-and-materials/labor-hour task orders used only when the extent or duration of the work cannot be estimated accurately in advance and the applicable determination and findings is completed.

SOLICITATION RELEASE DATE

A FREE electronic copy of the solicitation is expected to be released on October 5, 2026. Please be aware that this is an anticipated release date, and the actual release date may vary. The solicitation will be accessible through https://sam.gov by searching the project name or solicitation number. All project information such as amendments, documents, and updates will solely be distributed through the sam.gov website. As such, it is the sole responsibility of interested parties to monitor the site for any changes.

SYSTEM FOR AWARD MANAGEMENT

To be considered for award, offerors must be fully registered in the System for Award Management (https://sam.gov) and show an Active Registration Status by the proposal due date identified in the solicitation.

POINT OF CONTACT

The primary point of contact for this procurement is Mr. Kyle Goddard, Contract Specialist. He can be reached by e-mail at kgoddard@usbr.gov. The Contracting Officer is Ms. Lynette H. Rock. Any communication regarding this procurement must be made in writing via e-mail and include solicitation number 140R4026R0021 and the HDB Support Services project name in the subject line. Telephonic inquiries will not be accepted or acknowledged.

mailto:kgoddard@usbr.gov