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Section B - Supplies or Services and Prices

ITEM NO SUPPLIES/SERVICES MAX

QUANTITY

UNIT UNIT PRICE MAX AMOUNT

0001 300,000 Job

SURVEY RESEARCH STUDIES

FFP

BASE PERIOD

The Contractor shall provide a range of activites related to survey research, including sampling, traditional and electronic survey instrument development, conducting survey research studies, study analysis reporting and public outreach campaign management.

Services will be ordered pursuant to the provisions of the "Ordering" and "Ordering Limitations" Clauses of the Contract. The Government's requirements will be stated and ordered by way of the issuance of individual task orders to the Contractor.

The effective ordering period under this Base Year is for a period of 12 months, commencing from the Date of Award.

Under the Base Period of the Contract, the Government must stisfy a minimym ordering obligation in the amount of $9,000.00 for services.

Orders may be issued orally, by facsimile, or by electronic commerce methods, to include email.

PURCHASE REQUEST NUMBER: W81G6650620301

MAX

NET AMT

UNIT UNIT PRICE MAX AMOUNT

0002 300,000 Job

OPTION SURVEY RESEARCH STUDIES

FFP

OPTION PERIOD I

This is an Option Period designated under the Contract. Should the Government determine that exercising the Option is the most advantageous method of fulfilling its requirements, the Option Period will be awarded by way of a formal modification to the Contract in accordance with FAR 52.217-9. The period of performance will be for 12 months following the expiration date of the Base Period.

Permitting that Option Period 1 is exercised, the Government’s minimum ordering obligation for said Option Period will be $9,000.00 for survey research services.

Orders may be issued orally, by facsimile, or by electronic commerce methods, to

UNIT UNIT PRICE MAX AMOUNT

0003 300,000 Job

OPTION SURVEY RESEARCH STUDIES

FFP

OPTION PERIOD 2

This is an Option Period designated under the Contract. Should the Government determine that exercising the Option is the most advantageous method of fulfilling its requirements, the Option Period will be awarded by way of a formal modification to the Contract in accordance with FAR 52.217-9. The period of performance will be for 12 months following the expiration date of Option Period 1.

Permitting that Option Period 2 is exercised, the Government’s minimum ordering obligation for said Option Period will be $9,000.00 for survey research services.

UNIT UNIT PRICE MAX AMOUNT

0004 300,000 Job

OPTION SURVEY RESEARCH STUDIES

FFP

OPTION PERIOD 3

This is an Option Period designated under the Contract. Should the Government determine that exercising the Option is the most advantageous method of fulfilling its requirements, the Option Period will be awarded by way of a formal modification to the Contract in accordance with FAR 52.217-9.

The period of performance will be for 12 months following the expiration date of Option Period 2.

Permitting that Option Period 3 is exercised, the Government’s minimum ordering obligation for said Option Period will be $9,000.00 for survey research services.

UNIT UNIT PRICE MAX AMOUNT

0005 300,000 Job

OPTION SURVEY RESEARCH STUDIES

FFP

OPTION PERIOD 4

This is an Option Period designated under the Contract. Should the Government determine that exercising the Option is the most advantageous method of fulfilling its requirements, the Option Period will be awarded by way of a formal modification to the Contract in accordance with FAR 52.217-9.

The period of performance will be for 12 months following the expiration date of Option Period 3.

Permitting that Option Period 4 is exercised, the Government’s minimum ordering obligation for said Option Period will be $9,000.00 for survey research services.

CONTRACT CAPACITY

CONTRACT VALUE

The overall value of the Contract is NOT TO EXCEED (NTE) $1.5M. Should the ordering period under the Base Year prior to the exhaustion of capacity ($300K), the remaining capacity may be carried forward to Option Period

1. Should the Government fully utilize the capacity under the Base Period prior to the expiration of its ordering period, the Government reserves the right to exercise Option Period 1 earlier than stated in the Bid Schedule. The procedures for carrying forward capacity, as described within this paragraph, apply to the out-years included in the Bid Schedule.

-----Orders may be issued orally, by facsimile, or by electronic commerce methods (to include email).

Section C - Descriptions and Specifications

SCOPE OF WORK

Survey Research Studies and Public Outreach in Support of Water Resource Related Projects and Activities

Project Objectives. The objectives of the resulting contract are:

The U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, Chicago District (USACE) seeks proposals from experienced individuals and small businesses (“Contractor(s)”) to support a range of activities related to survey research, including sampling, traditional and electronic survey instrument development, conducting survey research studies, study analysis reporting and data management, and public outreach campaign management in support of water resource-related projects and activities. The objectives of the resulting contract are:

i. To conduct a series of survey research studies in order to provide primary source data on water resource related projects and activities at selected locations, primarily in the Greater Chicagoland and Northwest Indiana area and secondarily within the boundaries of the Great Lakes and Ohio River Division:

a. comparison of flood, storm and erosion damage to control conditions;

b. environmental impacts of flood and coastal storm damage;

c. post-flood and post-storm damage assessment surveys;

d. water-related recreation;

e. current and potential future demand for, and willingness to pay for specified facilities and services.

The work involves survey instrument design and development, survey planning, conducting and administering surveys, analysis of quantitative and qualitative survey data, and production of reports communicating the survey analysis.

ii. To design, populate and maintain a database with appropriate schema to aggregate population/sample data, survey responses, and relevant metadata from different survey modes (phone, mail, in-person interviews, internet/web/mobile web/sms/smartphone application) and allow for data interoperability among popular statistical analysis, document processing, spreadsheet, website, and geographic/geospatial information system (GIS) software packages.

iii. To develop and implement an effective public relations plan that includes community outreach and social media recruiting to foster the effective collection of data. Identification of geographic locations and demographics of interest for solicitation of survey responses, as well as optimal modes of survey delivery, shall be included in the public relations plan. This plan would include identification of target markets (individuals and communities) based on past survey responses, storm event activity, and local interest, and develop public awareness and outreach campaigns to collect additional survey data in these markets. The activities pertaining to this objective, as identified in task orders, may involve travel to locations determined by the COR.

Description of Work.

A professional survey research vendor (full service, with fully integrated functions) (“Contractor(s)”) is required with documented experience in conducting large-scale studies, including Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices (KAP) studies, employing random digit dialing (RDD) and utilizing existing computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI), computer-assisted self interviewing (CASI) (including web-based, e-mail-based, and mobile device-based CASI) capabilities with full-time interviewers in combination with automated interviewing processes.

Support facilities and personnel must include necessary equipment to conduct interviews and process survey responses; full-time supervision to monitor interviewers for quality control; sample design and questionnaire construction specialists, principal/officer assigned as project director/primary liaison between agency and vendor, hardware sufficient to provide study findings in a form compatible with Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS), Statistical Analysis Systems (SAS), and Stata software package data formats. All products and documents created by the contractor under this contract are the sole property of the United States Government.

All new survey instruments must be submitted for approval by the United States Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and be consistent with guidelines for OMB-approved questionnaires and USACE, Engineering Regulation 1165-2-503 (Resources Policies and Authorities Office of Management and Budget Clearance for the Questionnaires for U. S. Army Civil Works Studies and Projects, 31 October 2007) in order to be administered.

Survey instruments typically utilize a combination of open- and closed-ended questions. Capability for compilation of open-ended questions requiring qualitative data analysis (QDA) software would be beneficial.

The Contractor shall provide all personnel, materials, facilities, and other supplies and non-personal services necessary to conduct research services as defined in this Scope of Work (SOW) for the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers. The Contractor will be responsible for conducting attitude and opinion surveys in support of various water resources activities. The Contractor shall perform to the standards in this contract.

The primary area of performance of work is the Greater Chicagoland and Northwest Indiana region, including Cook, Dekalb, Dupage, Lake, McHenry, Kane, Kendall, Winnebago, Will, Grundy, and Kankakee Counties in Illinois and Lake, Porter, and LaPorte Counties in Indiana. Services may also be required in the larger Great Lakes Region, including northeastern Minnesota, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, northern and eastern Wisconsin, Michigan, northern Ohio, northwest Pennsylvania, and northern New York.

Task Orders.

Projects will be issued to the contractor by task orders issued against the awarded contract.

As work becomes available, the incumbent contractor will be responsible for providing the Government a cost proposal in response to the Government’s Request for Proposal (RFP) and Scope of Work (SOW). Upon receipt of the Contractor’s cost proposal, the Government will determine if the proposal is fair and reasonable. If the proposal is found to be fair and reasonable, a task order will be awarded to the contractor for the work described in the respective SOW. If the initial cost proposal is considered unreasonable, the Government will enter into negotiations.

After successful negotiations, the contractor will be awarded a task order.

Commencement, Prosecution, and Completion of Work.

The contractor is required to prosecute the awarded work systematically with faithfulness and diligence in order to complete and deliver the work within the timeframe specified by the individual task order.

For proposed work outside of the Chicago District boundaries, the contractor shall apply the rates established by the awarded contract, e. g. direct labor, materials, supplies, indirect cost; rates for travel will vary depending on the location outside of the boundaries of the Chicago District.

END OF SCOPE OF WORK

RATE SCHEDULE

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PROJECT DIRECTOR 1 HR

PROJECT MANAGER 1 HR

DATA COLLECTION SUPERVISOR 1 HR

COMPUTER ANALYST 1 HR

CODING

SPECIALIST/PROGRAMMER

1 HR

SAMPLING SPECIALIST/STATISTICIAN 1 HR

FIELD INTERVIEWER 1 HR

FIELD SUPERVISOR 1 HR

COMMUNITY OUTREACH

SPECIALIST

1 HR

09 A A OVERHEAD RATE (NON-PHONE

SURVEYS)

09 A B PROFIT RATE NEGOTIATED PER TASK ORDER

09 A C TRAVEL Limited to the Government Joint Travel Regulations

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MISCELLANEOUS MATERIALS NEGOTIATED PER TASK ORDER

PRINTING SUPPLIES - BLACK &

WHITE

NEGOTIATED PER TASK ORDER

PRINTING SUPPLIES - COLOR NEGOTIATED PER TASK ORDER

EQUIPMENT NEGOTIATED PER TASK ORDER

SUBCONTRACTS NEGOTIATED PER TASK ORDER

TELEPHONE CHARGES - LOCAL

CHICAGO AREA

TELEPHONE - LONG DISTANCE

OUTSIDE CHICAGO AREA

Section E - Inspection and Acceptance

CLAUSES INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE

52.246-4 Inspection Of Services--Fixed Price AUG 1996

Section F - Deliveries or Performance

52.242-15 Stop-Work Order AUG 1989

Section I - Contract Clauses

52.203-6 Alt I Restrictions On Subcontractor Sales To The Government

(Sep 2006) -- Alternate I

OCT 1995

52.204-4 Printed or Copied Double-Sided on Postconsumer Fiber Content Paper

MAY 2011

52.204-9 Personal Identity Verification of Contractor Personnel JAN 2011 52.204-10 Reporting Executive Compensation and First-Tier

Subcontract Awards

JUL 2013

52.204-13 System for Award Management Maintenance JUL 2013 52.204-16 Commercial and Government Entity Code Reporting JUL 2015 52.204-18 Commercial and Government Entity Code Maintenance JUL 2015 52.209-6 Protecting the Government's Interest When Subcontracting

With Contractors Debarred, Suspended, or Proposed for Debarment

AUG 2013

52.209-9 Updates of Publicly Available Information Regarding Responsibility Matters

JUL 2013

52.209-10 Prohibition on Contracting With Inverted Domestic Corporations

DEC 2014

52.212-1 Instructions to Offerors--Commercial Items APR 2014 52.212-3 Alt I Offeror Representations and Certifications--Commercial

Items (MAR 2015) Alternate I

OCT 2014

52.212-4 Contract Terms and Conditions--Commercial Items MAY 2015 52.212-5 (Dev) Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement

Statutes or Executive Orders--Commercial Items (Deviation 2013-O0019)

MAY 2015

52.217-8 Option To Extend Services NOV 1999 52.219-6 Notice Of Total Small Business Set-Aside NOV 2011 52.219-8 Utilization of Small Business Concerns OCT 2014 52.219-14 Limitations On Subcontracting NOV 2011 52.222-3 Convict Labor JUN 2003 52.222-21 Prohibition Of Segregated Facilities APR 2015 52.222-26 Equal Opportunity APR 2015 52.222-37 Employment Reports on Veterans JUL 2014 52.222-40 Notification of Employee Rights Under the National Labor

Relations Act

DEC 2010

52.222-41 Service Contract Labor Standards MAY 2014 52.222-43 Fair Labor Standards Act And Service Contract Labor

Standards - Price Adjustment (Multiple Year And Option Contracts)

MAY 2014

52.222-50 Combating Trafficking in Persons MAR 2015 52.222-55 Minimum Wages Under Executive Order 13658 DEC 2014 52.223-18 Encouraging Contractor Policies To Ban Text Messaging

While Driving

AUG 2011

52.225-13 Restrictions on Certain Foreign Purchases JUN 2008 52.227-1 Authorization and Consent DEC 2007 52.227-2 Notice And Assistance Regarding Patent And Copyright

Infringement

DEC 2007

52.232-9 Limitation On Withholding Of Payments APR 1984 52.232-11 Extras APR 1984

52.232-33 Payment by Electronic Funds Transfer--System for Award Management

JUL 2013

52.233-1 Disputes MAY 2014 52.233-3 Protest After Award AUG 1996 52.242-13 Bankruptcy JUL 1995 52.243-1 Alt I Changes--Fixed Price (Aug 1987) - Alternate I APR 1984 52.244-6 Subcontracts for Commercial Items APR 2015 52.246-25 Limitation Of Liability--Services FEB 1997 52.249-2 Termination For Convenience Of The Government (Fixed-

Price)

APR 2012

52.249-8 Default (Fixed-Price Supply & Service) APR 1984 52.252-5 Authorized Deviations In Provisions APR 1984 52.253-1 Computer Generated Forms JAN 1991 252.201-7000 Contracting Officer's Representative DEC 1991 252.203-7000 Requirements Relating to Compensation of Former DoD

Officials

SEP 2011

252.203-7002 Requirement to Inform Employees of Whistleblower Rights SEP 2013 252.203-7005 Representation Relating to Compensation of Former DoD

Officials

NOV 2011

252.203-7998 (Dev) Prohibition on Contracting with Entities that Require Certain Internal Confidentiality Agreements—Representation.

(DEVIATION 2015-O0010)

FEB 2015

252.203-7999 (Dev) Prohibition on Contracting with Entities that Require Certain Internal Confidentiality Agreements. (DEVIATION 2015- O0010)

FEB 2015

252.204-7003 Control Of Government Personnel Work Product APR 1992 252.204-7015 Disclosure of Information to Litigation Support Contractors FEB 2014 252.205-7000 Provision Of Information To Cooperative Agreement Holders DEC 1991 252.209-7004 Subcontracting With Firms That Are Owned or Controlled By

The Government of a Country that is a State Sponsor of Terrorism

DEC 2014

252.209-7992 (Dev) Representation by Corporations Regarding an Unpaid Delinquent Tax Liability or a Felony Conviction under any Federal Law - Fiscal Year 2015 Appropriations

DEC 2014

252.225-7012 Preference For Certain Domestic Commodities FEB 2013 252.226-7001 Utilization of Indian Organizations and Indian-Owned

Economic Enterprises, and Native Hawaiian Small Business Concerns

SEP 2004

252.232-7003 Electronic Submission of Payment Requests and Receiving Reports

JUN 2012

252.232-7010 Levies on Contract Payments DEC 2006 252.239-7001 Information Assurance Contractor Training and Certification JAN 2008 252.243-7002 Requests for Equitable Adjustment DEC 2012 252.244-7000 Subcontracts for Commercial Items JUN 2013 252.247-7023 Transportation of Supplies by Sea APR 2014

CLAUSES INCORPORATED BY FULL TEXT

52.203-16 Preventing Personal Conflicts of Interest (DEC 2011)

(a) Definitions. As used in this clause--

Acquisition function closely associated with inherently governmental functions means supporting or providing advice or recommendations with regard to the following activities of a Federal agency:

(1) Planning acquisitions.

(2) Determining what supplies or services are to be acquired by the Government, including developing statements of work.

(3) Developing or approving any contractual documents, to include documents defining requirements, incentive plans, and evaluation criteria.

(4) Evaluating contract proposals.

(5) Awarding Government contracts.

(6) Administering contracts (including ordering changes or giving technical direction in contract performance or contract quantities, evaluating contractor performance, and accepting or rejecting contractor products or services).

(7) Terminating contracts.

(8) Determining whether contract costs are reasonable, allocable, and allowable.

Covered employee means an individual who performs an acquisition function closely associated with inherently governmental functions and is--

(1) An employee of the contractor; or

(2) A subcontractor that is a self-employed individual treated as a covered employee of the contractor because there is no employer to whom such an individual could submit the required disclosures.

Non-public information means any Government or third-party information that--

(1) Is exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552) or otherwise protected from disclosure by statute, Executive order, or regulation; or

(2) Has not been disseminated to the general public and the Government has not yet determined whether the information can or will be made available to the public.

Personal conflict of interest means a situation in which a covered employee has a financial interest, personal activity, or relationship that could impair the employee's ability to act impartially and in the best interest of the Government when performing under the contract. (A de minimis interest that would not ``impair the employee's ability to act impartially and in the best interest of the Government'' is not covered under this definition.)

(1) Among the sources of personal conflicts of interest are--

(i) Financial interests of the covered employee, of close family members, or of other members of the covered employee's household;

(ii) Other employment or financial relationships (including seeking or negotiating for prospective employment or business); and

(iii) Gifts, including travel.

(2) For example, financial interests referred to in paragraph (1) of this definition may arise from--

(i) Compensation, including wages, salaries, commissions, professional fees, or fees for business referrals;

(ii) Consulting relationships (including commercial and professional consulting and service arrangements, scientific and technical advisory board memberships, or serving as an expert witness in litigation);

(iii) Services provided in exchange for honorariums or travel expense reimbursements;

(iv) Research funding or other forms of research support;

(v) Investment in the form of stock or bond ownership or partnership interest (excluding diversified mutual fund investments);

(vi) Real estate investments;

(vii) Patents, copyrights, and other intellectual property interests; or

(viii) Business ownership and investment interests.

(b) Requirements. The Contractor shall--

(1) Have procedures in place to screen covered employees for potential personal conflicts of interest, by--

(i) Obtaining and maintaining from each covered employee, when the employee is initially assigned to the task under the contract, a disclosure of interests that might be affected by the task to which the employee has been assigned, as follows:

(A) Financial interests of the covered employee, of close family members, or of other members of the covered employee's household.

(B) Other employment or financial relationships of the covered employee (including seeking or negotiating for prospective employment or business).

(C) Gifts, including travel; and

(ii) Requiring each covered employee to update the disclosure statement whenever the employee's personal or financial circumstances change in such a way that a new personal conflict of interest might occur because of the task the covered employee is performing.

(2) For each covered employee--

(i) Prevent personal conflicts of interest, including not assigning or allowing a covered employee to perform any task under the contract for which the Contractor has identified a personal conflict of interest for the employee that the Contractor or employee cannot satisfactorily prevent or mitigate in consultation with the contracting agency;

(ii) Prohibit use of non-public information accessed through performance of a Government contract for personal gain; and

(iii) Obtain a signed non-disclosure agreement to prohibit disclosure of non-public information accessed through performance of a Government contract.

(3) Inform covered employees of their obligation--

(i) To disclose and prevent personal conflicts of interest;

(ii) Not to use non-public information accessed through performance of a Government contract for personal gain;

and

(iii) To avoid even the appearance of personal conflicts of interest;

(4) Maintain effective oversight to verify compliance with personal conflict-of-interest safeguards;

(5) Take appropriate disciplinary action in the case of covered employees who fail to comply with policies established pursuant to this clause; and

(6) Report to the Contracting Officer any personal conflict-of-interest violation by a covered employee as soon as it is identified. This report shall include a description of the violation and the proposed actions to be taken by the Contractor in response to the violation. Provide follow-up reports of corrective actions taken, as necessary. Personal conflict-of-interest violations include--

(i) Failure by a covered employee to disclose a personal conflict of interest;

(ii) Use by a covered employee of non-public information accessed through performance of a Government contract for personal gain; and

(iii) Failure of a covered employee to comply with the terms of a non-disclosure agreement.

(c) Mitigation or waiver. (1) In exceptional circumstances, if the Contractor cannot satisfactorily prevent a personal conflict of interest as required by paragraph (b)(2)(i) of this clause, the Contractor may submit a request through the Contracting Officer to the Head of the Contracting Activity for--

(i) Agreement to a plan to mitigate the personal conflict of interest; or

(ii) A waiver of the requirement.

(2) The Contractor shall include in the request any proposed mitigation of the personal conflict of interest.

(3) The Contractor shall--

(i) Comply, and require compliance by the covered employee, with any conditions imposed by the Government as necessary to mitigate the personal conflict of interest; or

(ii) Remove the Contractor employee or subcontractor employee from performance of the contract or terminate the applicable subcontract.

(d) Subcontract flowdown. The Contractor shall include the substance of this clause, including this paragraph (d), in subcontracts--

(1) That exceed $150,000; and

(2) In which subcontractor employees will perform acquisition functions closely associated with inherently governmental functions (i.e., instead of performance only by a self-employed individual).

(End of clause)

52.203-17 CONTRACTOR EMPLOYEE WHISTLEBLOWER RIGHTS AND REQUIREMENT TO INFORM

EMPLOYEES OF WHISTLEBLOWER RIGHTS (APR 2014)

(a) This contract and employees working on this contract will be subject to the whistleblower rights and remedies in the pilot program on Contractor employee whistleblower protections established at 41 U.S.C. 4712 by section 828 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013 (Pub. L. 112-239) and FAR 3.908.

(b) The Contractor shall inform its employees in writing, in the predominant language of the workforce, of employee whistleblower rights and protections under 41 U.S.C. 4712, as described in section 3.908 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation.

(c) The Contractor shall insert the substance of this clause, including this paragraph (c), in all subcontracts over the simplified acquisition threshold.

52.204-19 INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE OF REPRESENTATIONS AND CERTIFICATIONS (DEC

2014)

The Contractor's representations and certifications, including those completed electronically via the System for Award Management (SAM), are incorporated by reference into the contract.

52.216-18 ORDERING. (OCT 1995)

(a) Any supplies and services to be furnished under this contract shall be ordered by issuance of delivery orders or task orders by the individuals or activities designated in the Schedule. Such orders may be issued from the date of contract award through the ending date of the contract.

(b) All delivery orders or task orders are subject to the terms and conditions of this contract. In the event of conflict between a delivery order or task order and this contract, the contract shall control.

(c) If mailed, a delivery order or task order is considered "issued" when the Government deposits the order in the mail. Orders may be issued orally, by facsimile, or by electronic commerce methods only if authorized in the Schedule.

52.216-19 ORDER LIMITATIONS. (OCT 1995)

(a) Minimum order. When the Government requires supplies or services covered by this contract in an amount of less than $1,000.00 the Government is not obligated to purchase, nor is the Contractor obligated to furnish, those supplies or services under the contract.

(b) Maximum order. The Contractor is not obligated to honor:

(1) Any order for a single item in excess of $300,000.00;

(2) Any order for a combination of items in excess of $900,000.00; or

(3) A series of orders from the same ordering office within 45 days that together call for quantities exceeding the limitation in subparagraph (1) or (2) above.

(c) If this is a requirements contract (i.e., includes the Requirements clause at subsection 52.216-21 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR)), the Government is not required to order a part of any one requirement from the Contractor if that requirement exceeds the maximum-order limitations in paragraph (b) above.

(d) Notwithstanding paragraphs (b) and (c) above, the Contractor shall honor any order exceeding the maximum order limitations in paragraph (b), unless that order (or orders) is returned to the ordering office within 5 days after issuance, with written notice stating the Contractor's intent not to ship the item (or items) called for and the reasons.

Upon receiving this notice, the Government may acquire the supplies or services from another source.

52.216-22 INDEFINITE QUANTITY. (OCT 1995)

(a) This is an indefinite-quantity contract for the supplies or services specified, and effective for the period stated, in the Schedule. The quantities of supplies and services specified in the Schedule are estimates only and are not purchased by this contract.

(b) Delivery or performance shall be made only as authorized by orders issued in accordance with the Ordering clause. The Contractor shall furnish to the Government, when and if ordered, the supplies or services specified in the Schedule up to and including the quantity designated in the Schedule as the "maximum". The Government shall order at least the quantity of supplies or services designated in the Schedule as the "minimum".

(c) Except for any limitations on quantities in the Order Limitations clause or in the Schedule, there is no limit on the number of orders that may be issued. The Government may issue orders requiring delivery to multiple destinations or performance at multiple locations.

(d) Any order issued during the effective period of this contract and not completed within that period shall be completed by the Contractor within the time specified in the order. The contract shall govern the Contractor's and Government's rights and obligations with respect to that order to the same extent as if the order were completed during the contract's effective period; provided, that the Contractor shall not be required to make any deliveries under a task order following 12 months from the ending date of the Contract.

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 60 days;

provided that the Government gives the Contractor a preliminary written notice of its intent to extend at least 30 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 5 years.

52.219-28 POST-AWARD SMALL BUSINESS PROGRAM REREPRESENTATION (JULY 2013)

Long-term contract means a contract of more than five years in duration, including options. However, the term does not include contracts that exceed five years in duration because the period of performance has been extended for a cumulative period not to exceed six months under the clause at 52.217-8, Option to Extend Services, or other appropriate authority.

Small business concern means a concern, including its affiliates, that is independently owned and operated, not dominant in the field of operation in which it is bidding on Government contracts, and qualified as a small business under the criteria in 13 CFR part 121 and the size standard in paragraph (c) of this clause. Such a concern is ``not dominant in its field of operation'' when it does not exercise a controlling or major influence on a national basis in a kind of business activity in which a number of business concerns are primarily engaged. In determining whether dominance exists, consideration shall be given to all appropriate factors, including volume of business, number of employees, financial resources, competitive status or position, ownership or control of materials, processes, patents, license agreements, facilities, sales territory, and nature of business activity.

(b) If the Contractor represented that it was a small business concern prior to award of this contract, the Contractor shall rerepresent its size status according to paragraph (e) of this clause or, if applicable, paragraph (g) of this clause, upon the occurrence of any of the following:

(1) Within 30 days after execution of a novation agreement or within 30 days after modification of the contract to include this clause, if the novation agreement was executed prior to inclusion of this clause in the contract.

(2) Within 30 days after a merger or acquisition that does not require a novation or within 30 days after modification of the contract to include this clause, if the merger or acquisition occurred prior to inclusion of this clause in the contract.

(3) For long-term contracts--

(i) Within 60 to 120 days prior to the end of the fifth year of the contract; and

(ii) Within 60 to 120 days prior to the date specified in the contract for exercising any option thereafter.

(c) The Contractor shall rerepresent its size status in accordance with the size standard in effect at the time of this rerepresentation that corresponds to the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code assigned to this contract. The small business size standard corresponding to this NAICS code can be found at http://www.sba.gov/content/table-small-business-size-standards.

(d) The small business size standard for a Contractor providing a product which it does not manufacture itself, for a contract other than a construction or service contract, is 500 employees.

(e) Except as provided in paragraph (g) of this clause, the Contractor shall make the representation required by paragraph (b) of this clause by validating or updating all its representations in the Representations and Certifications section of the System for Award Management (SAM) and its other data in SAM, as necessary, to ensure that they reflect the Contractor's current status. The Contractor shall notify the contracting office in writing within the timeframes specified in paragraph (b) of this clause that the data have been validated or updated, and provide the date of the validation or update.

(f) If the Contractor represented that it was other than a small business concern prior to award of this contract, the Contractor may, but is not required to, take the actions required by paragraphs (e) or (g) of this clause.

(g) If the Contractor does not have representations and certifications in SAM, or does not have a representation in SAM for the NAICS code applicable to this contract, the Contractor is required to complete the following rerepresentation and submit it to the contracting office, along with the contract number and the date on which the rerepresentation was completed:

The Contractor represents that it ( ) is, ( ) is not a small business concern under NAICS Code 541190- assigned to contract number .

(Contractor to sign and date and insert authorized signer's name and title).

52.222-4 CONTRACT WORK HOURS AND SAFETY STANDARDS - OVERTIME COMPENSATION.

(MAY 2014)

(a) Overtime requirements. No Contractor or subcontractor employing laborers or mechanics (see Federal Acquisition Regulation 22.300) shall require or permit them to work over 40 hours in any workweek unless they are paid at least 1 and 1/2 times the basic rate of pay for each hour worked over 40 hours.

(b) Violation; liability for unpaid wages; liquidated damages. The responsible Contractor and subcontractor are liable for unpaid wages if they violate the terms in paragraph (a) of this clause. In addition, the Contractor and subcontractor are liable for liquidated damages payable to the Government. The Contracting Officer will assess liquidated damages at the rate of $10 per affected employee for each calendar day on which the employer required or permitted the employee to work in excess of the standard workweek of 40 hours without paying overtime wages required by the Contract Work Hours and Safety Standards statute (found at 40 U.S.C. chapter 37).

(c) Withholding for unpaid wages and liquidated damages. The Contracting Officer will withhold from payments due under the contract sufficient funds required to satisfy any Contractor or subcontractor liabilities for unpaid wages and liquidated damages. If amounts withheld under the contract are insufficient to satisfy Contractor or subcontractor liabilities, the Contracting Officer will withhold payments from other Federal or Federally assisted contracts held by the same Contractor that are subject to the Contract Work Hours and Safety Standards statute.

(d) Payrolls and basic records.

(1) The Contractor and its subcontractors shall maintain payrolls and basic payroll records for all laborers and mechanics working on the contract during the contract and shall make them available to the Government until 3 years after contract completion. The records shall contain the name and address of each employee, social security number, labor classifications, hourly rates of wages paid, daily and weekly number of hours worked, deductions made, and actual wages paid. The records need not duplicate those required for construction work by Department of Labor regulations at 29 CFR 5.5(a)(3) implementing the Construction Wage Rate Requirements statute.

(2) The Contractor and its subcontractors shall allow authorized representatives of the Contracting Officer or the Department of Labor to inspect, copy, or transcribe records maintained under paragraph (d)(1) of this clause. The Contractor or subcontractor also shall allow authorized representatives of the Contracting Officer or Department of Labor to interview employees in the workplace during working hours.

(e) Subcontracts. The Contractor shall insert the provisions set forth in paragraphs (a) through (d) of this clause in subcontracts that may require or involve the employment of laborers and mechanics and require subcontractors to include these provisions in any such lower tier subcontracts. The Contractor shall be responsible for compliance by any subcontractor or lower-tier subcontractor with the provisions set forth in paragraphs (a) through (d) of this clause.

52.222-17 NONDISPLACEMENT OF QUALIFIED WORKERS (MAY 2014)

(a) Service employee, as used in this clause, means any person engaged in the performance of a service contract other than any person employed in a bona fide executive, administrative, or professional capacity, as those terms are defined in 29 CFR part 541. The term ``service employee'' includes all such persons regardless of any contractual relationship that may be alleged to exist between a contractor or subcontractor and such persons.

(b) The Contractor and its subcontractors shall, except as otherwise provided herein, in good faith offer those service employees employed under the predecessor contract whose employment will be terminated as a result of award of this contract or the expiration of the contract under which the service employees were hired, a right of first refusal of employment under this contract in positions for which the service employees are qualified.

(1) The Contractor and its subcontractors shall determine the number of service employees necessary for efficient performance of this contract and may elect to employ fewer employees than the predecessor Contractor employed in connection with performance of the work.

(2) Except as provided in paragraph (c) of this clause, there shall be no employment opening under this contract, and the Contractor and any subcontractors shall not offer employment under this contract, to any person prior to having complied fully with this obligation.

(i) The successor Contractor and its subcontractors shall make a bona fide express offer of employment to each service employee as provided herein and shall state the time within which the service employee must accept such offer, but in no case shall the period within which the service employee must accept the offer of employment be less than 10 days.

(ii) The successor Contractor and its subcontractors shall decide any question concerning a service employee's qualifications based upon the individual's education and employment history, with particular emphasis on the employee's experience on the predecessor contract, and the Contractor may utilize employment screening processes only when such processes are provided for by the contracting agency, are conditions of the service contract, and are consistent with Executive Order 13495.

(iii) Where the successor Contractor does not initially offer employment to all the predecessor contract service employees, the obligation to offer employment shall continue for 90 days after the successor contractor's first date of performance on the contract.

(iv) An offer of employment will be presumed to be bona fide even if it is not for a position similar to the one the employee previously held, but is one for which the employee is qualified, and even if it is subject to different employment terms and conditions, including changes to pay or benefits. (See 29 CFR 9.12 for a detailed description of a bonafide offer of employment).

(c)(1) Notwithstanding the obligation under paragraph (b) of this clause, the successor Contractor and any subcontractors (i) may employ under this contract any service employee who has worked for the contractor or subcontractor for at least three months immediately preceding the commencement of this contract and who would otherwise face lay-off or discharge, (ii) are not required to offer a right of first refusal to any service employee(s) of the predecessor contractor who are not service employees within the meaning of the Service Contract Labor Standards statute, 41 U.S.C. 6701(3), and (iii) are not required to offer a right of first refusal to any service employee(s) of the predecessor contractor whom the Contractor or any of its subcontractors reasonably believes, based on the particular service employee's past performance, has failed to perform suitably on the job (see 29 CFR 9.12(c)(4) for additional information). The successor Contractor bears the responsibility of demonstrating the appropriateness of claiming any of these exceptions.

(2) In addition, any Contractor or subcontractor that has been certified by the U.S. Small Business Administration as a HUBZone small business concern must ensure that it complies with the statutory and regulatory requirements of the HUBZone Program (e.g., it must ensure that at least 35 percent of all of its employees reside within a HUBZone). The HUBZone small business Contractor or subcontractor must consider whether it can meet the requirements of this clause and Executive Order 13495 while also ensuring it meets the HUBZone Program's requirements.

(3) Nothing in this clause shall be construed to permit a Contractor or subcontractor to fail to comply with any provision of any other Executive order or law. For example, the requirements of the HUBZone Program (see FAR subpart 19.13), Executive Order 11246 (Equal Employment Opportunity), and the Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 may conflict, in certain circumstances, with the requirements of Executive Order 13495. All applicable laws and Executive orders must be satisfied in tandem with, and if necessary prior to, the requirements of Executive Order 13495, 29 CFR part 9, and this clause.

(d)(1) The Contractor shall, not less than 30 days before completion of the Contractor's performance of services on the contract, furnish the Contracting Officer with a certified list of the names of all service employees working under this contract and its subcontracts at the time the list is submitted. The list shall also contain anniversary dates of employment of each service employee under this contract and its predecessor contracts with either the current or predecessor contractors or their subcontractors. Where changes to the workforce are made after the submission of the certified list described in this paragraph, the Contractor shall, in accordance with paragraph (e) of this clause, not less than 10 days before completion of the services on this contract, furnish the Contracting Officer with an updated certified list of the names of all service employees employed within the last month of contract performance. The updated list shall also contain anniversary dates of employment, and, where applicable, dates of separation of each service employee under the contract and its predecessor contracts with either the current or predecessor Contractors or their subcontractors.

(2) Immediately upon receipt of the certified service employee list but not before contract award, the contracting officer shall provide the certified service employee list to the successor contractor, and, if requested, to employees of the predecessor contractor or subcontractors or their authorized representatives.

(3) The Contracting Officer will direct the predecessor Contractor to provide written notice (Appendix B to 29 CFR chapter 9) to service employees of their possible right to an offer of employment with the successor contractor.

Where a significant portion of the predecessor Contractor's workforce is not fluent in English, the notice shall be provided in English and the language(s) with which service employees are more familiar. The written notice shall be—

(i) Posted in a conspicuous place at the worksite; or (ii) Delivered to the service employees individually. If such delivery is via email, the notification must result in an electronic delivery receipt or some other reliable confirmation that the intended recipient received the notice.

(e)(1) If required in accordance with 52.222-41(n), the predecessor Contractor shall, not less than 10 days before completion of this contract, furnish the Contracting Officer a certified list of the names of all service employees working under this contract and its subcontracts during the last month of contract performance. The list shall also contain anniversary dates of employment of each service employee under this contract and its predecessor contracts either with the current or predecessor Contractors or their subcontractors. If there are no changes to the workforce before the predecessor contract is completed, then the predecessor Contractor is not required to submit a revised list 10 days prior to completion of performance and the requirements of 52.222-41(n) are met. When there are changes to the workforce after submission of the 30-day list, the predecessor Contractor shall submit a revised certified list not less than 10 days prior to performance completion.

(2) Immediately upon receipt of the certified service employee list but not before contract award, the contracting officer shall provide the certified service employee list to the successor contractor, and, if requested, to employees of the predecessor contractor or subcontractors or their authorized…