Inactive Total Small Business Set-Aside (FAR 19.5)

The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Nation Ocean Service (NOS) has a requirement to provide brand name Apple iMac/MacBook Pros for the Communications and Education Division (CED) of... The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Nation Ocean Service (NOS) has a requirement to provide brand name Apple iMac/MacBook Pros for the Communications and Education Division (CED) of NOS’s Management and Budget (MB) Office located at NOS Headquarters in Silver Spring, MD. The anticipated procurement will be a Firm-Fixed-Price contract. This is a pre-solicitation notice that a solicitation is scheduled to be released via Contract Opportunities (www.SAM.gov) on or around 14 July 2023. This is not a request for quotations. This announcement is a pre-solicitation notice only and is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government, implied or otherwise, to issue a solicitation or award a contract. Set-aside status: 100% small business set aside. The North American Industry Classification Standard (NAICS) code for this project is 334118 (Computer Terminal and Other Computer Peripheral Equipment Manufacturing) with a size standard of 1000 employees. In order for contractors to conduct business with the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, the contractor must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) database. Information on registering in SAM may be obtained by calling (866) 606-8220 or via the internet at http://www.sam.gov. When available, the solicitation documents for this project will be accessible via Contract Opportunities at www.SAM.gov. No CDs or hard copies will be available. Offerors are responsible for checking the referenced page for any update(s) to the Notice. The Government is not responsible for any loss of internet connectivity or for an offerors inability to access the document posted at the referenced website. To NOAA Contractors Subject: NOAA Transition to the Invoice Processing Platform Electronic Invoicing System Effective October 1, 2023, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will transition contractor payment requests to an electronic invoicing system. The Invoice Processing Platform (IPP) is a secure, web-based electronic invoicing system provided by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service in partnership with the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (FRSTL). The IPP is available at no cost to commercial vendors and independent contractors doing business with NOAA. The IPP website address is https://www.ipp.gov. Action to take: If you are already enrolled in the IPP: If your company is already registered to use the IPP, you will not be required to re-register. Upon implementation of NOAA’s Business Applications Solution, invoices for the identified contract(s) must be submitted electronically through the IPP system. If you are NOT already enrolled in the IPP: If your company is not registered to use the IPP, when NOAA initiates the enrollment process, your point of contact in SAM.gov will receive registration instructions via email from ipp.noreply@mail.eroc.twai.gov. Please add ipp.noreply@mail.eroc.twai.gov to your address book so you do not disregard these instructions or mistake them for spam. You will receive two emails from the IPP Customer Support: The first email will contain an initial administrative IPP User ID. The second email will contain a temporary password. Vendors must log in with the temporary password within 30 days. Contractors can create additional user accounts, including administrators, after initial login. Registration is complete when the initial administrative user logs into the IPP website using the initial administrative IPP User ID and temporary password and accepts the rules of behavior. Vendor Training Vendor training materials, including a first-time login tutorial, are available on the IPP.gov website. After logging in to the IPP application, users can access guides with step-by-step instructions for all IPP capabilities, including creating and submitting invoices and setting up email notifications. Monthly live webinars provide a great opportunity to learn system basics and ask the IPP team questions about the application. Additional Support For assistance with the application, IPP users can call the IPP Customer Support team at (866) 973-3131, Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time, or send an email to IPPCustomerSupport@fiscal.treasury.gov. Vendors can also find answers to frequently asked questions on the Vendor FAQ page of the IPP.gov website.