Presolicitation Notice for Support for Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership

The Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has a requirement to acquire technical support for the MEP Program to review and analyze its tool, services, training materials, and collateral materials within the MEP Growth Services framework, for the purpose of determining utilization, barriers to adoption, developing recommendations for needed additions, improvements, refinement, and integration of the portfolio of MEP Business Growth and Innovation services. The specific tasks pursuant to this effort are described in the Statement of Work and Task Order Number 1 included in the solicitation. It is anticipated that the solicitation for this work will be issued on or about April 13, 2012, using FAR Part 15, Contracting by Negotiation. The Government anticipates the award of an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract with a five year term, resulting in fixed price task orders, on or about June 22, 2012. The competitive solicitation, all amendments, and any questions and answers related to this procurement will be made available via the Internet at http://www.fedbizopps.gov. The solicitation will only be available via the Internet at the above website. Potential offerors are responsible for accessing the website. Interested parties must respond to the solicitation in order to be considered for award of any resultant contract. There is no written solicitation document available, telephone requests will not be honored, and a bidders list will not be maintained. Potential offerors are requested to direct all questions via e-mail to divya.soni@nist.gov. To be eligible for award, offerors MUST be registered with the Central Contractor Registry: www.ccr.gov and have completed its representations and certifications found online at http://orca.bpn.gov. THIS REQUIREMENT IS SET-ASIDE FOR SMALL BUSINESSES ONLY. The North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) code for this acquisition is 541611, and the size standard is $7.0M.