SOURCES SOUGHT
R -- Sources Sought Notice for Services to Investigate Mechanical Properties of Concrete Under Sustained Loading
- Notice Date
- 11/21/2024 7:48:32 AM
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541330
— Engineering Services
- Contracting Office
- DEPT OF COMMERCE NIST GAITHERSBURG MD 20899 USA
- ZIP Code
- 20899
- Solicitation Number
- NIST-SSN-25-7300162
- Response Due
- 12/3/2024 7:00:00 AM
- Archive Date
- 12/18/2024
- Point of Contact
- Lauren P. Roller, Phone: 3019753062
- E-Mail Address
-
lauren.roller@nist.gov
(lauren.roller@nist.gov)
- Description
- SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE Notice ID Number: NIST-SSN-25-7300162 Title: Sources Sought Notice for Champlain Towers South Investigation: Services to Investigate Mechanical Properties of Concrete Under Sustained Loading Department of Commerce Advanced Acquisition Planning (AAP) Entry Number: Not Applicable BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE The purpose of this sources sought notice is to conduct market research and identify potential sources of commercial products/services that satisfy the Government�s anticipated needs. The National Construction Safety Team (NCST) investigation into the partial collapse of the Champlain Towers South requires subject matter expertise and testing of concrete materials. Support is required to conduct tests on concrete materials to assess the strength of the material under long-term sustained loads. Please see Attachment 1: Draft Statement of Work for details. NIST is seeking information from sources that may be capable of providing a solution that will achieve the objectives described above. HOW TO RESPOND TO THIS NOTICE Submit the response by email to the Primary Point of Contact and, if specified, to the Secondary Point of Contact listed in this notice as soon as possible, and preferably before the closing date and time of this notice. Please note that to be considered for award under any official solicitation, the entity must be registered and �active� in SAM at the time of solicitation response. In responding to this notice, please DO NOT PROVIDE PROPRIETARY INFORMATION. Please include only the following information, readable in either Microsoft Word 365, Microsoft Excel 365, or .pdf format, in the response: Provide the complete name of your company, address, name of contact for follow-up questions, their email, their phone number and, if your company has an active registration in https://sam.gov, your company�s Unique Entity ID (UEI). Identify the services and/or equipment that your company sells that can meet the objectives addressed in the BACKGROUND section of this notice. Identify any aspects of the NIST market research notice, including instructions, and draft minimum specifications in the BACKGROUND section you cannot meet and state why. Please offer suggestions for how the market research notice and draft minimum specifications could be made more competitive. For the NAICS code listed in this notice: Indicate whether your company is (a) a small business or (b) other than small business. See the Table of Small Business Size Standards and the associated .pdf download file for small business size standards and additional information. If you believe the NAICS code listed in this notice is not the best NAICS code for the type of product addressed in this notice, identify an alternative NAICS code that you believe would be more appropriate for the planned procurement. If the recommended services and/or equipment are available for purchase on any existing Federal Supply Schedule contract(s) or other contracts against which NIST may be able to place orders, identify the contract number(s) and other relevant information. Identify any customers in the public or private sectors to which you provided the recommended or similar equipment. Include customer(s) information: company name, phone number, point of contact, email address. Provide any other information that you believe would be valuable for NIST to know as part of its market research for this requirement. State if you require NIST to provide additional information to improve your understanding of the government�s requirement and/or would like to meet with NIST representatives to discuss the requirement and the capabilities of the identified equipment. The responses shall not exceed three (3) pages including all attachments, charts, etc. QUESTIONS REGARDING THIS NOTICE Questions regarding this notice may be submitted via email to the Primary Point of Contact and the Secondary Point of Contact listed in this notice. Questions should be submitted so that they are received by 11/26/2024. If the Contracting Officer determines that providing a written amendment to this notice to document question(s) received would benefit other potential respondents, the questions would be anonymized, and a written response to such question(s) would be provided via an amendment to this notice. IMPORTANT NOTES This notice is for market research purposes and should not be construed as a commitment by NIST to issue a solicitation or ultimately award a contract. There is no solicitation available at this time. This notice does not obligate the Government to award a contract or otherwise pay for the information provided in response. NIST reserves the right to use information provided by respondents for any purpose deemed necessary and legally appropriate. Any organization responding to this notice should ensure that its response is complete and sufficiently detailed to allow the Government to determine the organization�s capability. Respondents are advised that the Government is under no obligation to acknowledge receipt of the information received or provide feedback to respondents with respect to any information submitted. After a review of the responses received, a synopsis and solicitation may be published on GSA�s eBuy or SAM.gov. However, responses to this notice will not be considered an adequate response to any such solicitation(s). Thank you for taking the time to submit a response to this request!
- Web Link
-
SAM.gov Permalink
(https://sam.gov/opp/856e3aa8465447f48cdd77e55aa3df94/view)
- Place of Performance
- Address: USA
- Country: USA
- Country: USA
- Record
- SN07272664-F 20241123/241121230117 (samdaily.us)
- Source
-
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