Inactive Total Small Business Set-Aside (FAR 19.5)

SEE ATTACHMENT FOR FULL SOLICITAION TO INCLUDE PROVISIONS AND CLAUSES This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in FAR Subpart 12.6 - Streaml... SEE ATTACHMENT FOR FULL SOLICITAION TO INCLUDE PROVISIONS AND CLAUSES This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in FAR Subpart 12.6 - Streamlined Procedures for Evaluation and Solicitation for Commercial Items, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; quotations are being requested, and a separate written solicitation document will not be issued. Simplified Acquisition Procedures will be utilized in accordance with the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 13.5 Test Program for Certain Commercial Items. This solicitation is a Request for Quotations (RFQ). The solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 2019-01, effective January 22, 2019. The associated North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) code for this procurement is 541690 with a small business size standard of $15M. This acquisition is being procured 100% set aside for small business. Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) clause 52.219-14, Limitation on Subcontracting, incorporated by reference herein, applies to this procurement. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Material Measurement Laboratory (MML), Biomolecular Measurement Division (BMD) is responsible for the development of chemical databases to accomplish NIST’s mission to carry out collection, compilation, critical evaluation, publication and sale of standard reference data in accordance with Public Law 90-396. 90th Congress, H.R. 6279, July 11, 1968. To carry out this responsibility, the BMD has a requirement for a contractor to evaluate electron ionization (EI) mass spectral data. Examples of evaluation methods are set forth in the attached two documents: (1) “The Critical Evaluation of a Comprehensive Mass Spectral Library”, published in the Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, 1999, volume 10, pages 287-299 and (2) “Mass Spectral Library Quality Assurance by Inter-library Comparison." Journal of The American Society for Mass Spectrometry 2017, volume 28. pages 733-738. The Government’s requirement is for performance of quality control measures to support the development of the Mass Spectral Library. Quality control means reducing errors in the library and ensuring the library has a publication-quality appearance. Quality control involves evaluating electron ionization (EI) mass spectral data and evaluating the compound identification information that is attached to the mass spectral data.