Inactive Total Small Business Set-Aside (FAR 19.5)

This announcement constitutes a Request for Quote (RFQ) in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 13 - Simplified Acquisition Procedures. This procurement will be a Total Small Busi... This announcement constitutes a Request for Quote (RFQ) in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 13 - Simplified Acquisition Procedures. This procurement will be a Total Small Business Set-Aside in accordance with FAR Subpart 19.5. The NAICS code is 541618 - Other Management Consulting Services. The Government anticipates award of a Firm Fixed Price contract with a 12 month Period of Performance. Award will be made based on the best value to the Government using Comparative Analysis in accordance with FAR 13.106-2 Evaluation of quotations or offers. No paper copies of the solicitation will be issued. No paper copies of proposals will be accepted. Offerors are responsible for themselves to check SAM.gov for amendments to this solicitation. Questions should be addressed to the Primary Point of Contact listed for this announcement. The Government will consider all correspondence but will not issue individual responses. If appropriate, answers to questions from offerors will be added via amendment to this solicitation. No questions will be accepted via telephone. No individual meetings with offerors will be scheduled. Voicemails or requests for meetings will not receive a response. Questions received after the deadline for questions may or may not receive a response. USACE's Institute for Water Resources (IWR) seeks services and support supporting the Mekong River Commission (MRC) in the development of a Shared Vision Planning (SVP) webtool. The MRC is an intergovernmental organization for regional dialogue and cooperation in the Lower Mekong River Basin, established in 1995 based on the Mekong Agreement between member countries - Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand and Vietnam. The organization serves as a regional platform for water diplomacy and a knowledge hub of water resources management for the sustainable development of the region. USACE currently has a formalized agreement with the MRC to collaborate on a wide range of water resources management efforts. The MRC regional office is headquartered in Laos and each member country has their own committee office within their countries’ borders. SVP is a process that requires the collaborative development of a decision support tool – herein referred to as the SVP tool. The SVP tool is designed to support the Mekong River Commission (MRC) Basin Development Strategy (BDS) 2021-2030 at both the national and regional levels. The tool is being designed to enhance the ability by member countries to integrate and examine data from various MRC databases. The purpose is to provide access to data that facilitates dialogues across sectors and countries and serve as part of the MRC toolkit in support of the Basin Development Plan outcomes. As a result, it is very important to facilitate a collaborative development process of the SVP tool, which ensures the tool is designed for the user needs. This contract will facilitate member country participants the ability to come together, collaborate, provide inputs to the tool’s implementation, and begin using the tool to conduct social, economic, and environmental modeling analysis of principle basin development scenarios. This activity implemented by USACE is part of the US Department of State Mekong US Partnership (MUSP) to promote regional stability and security by strengthening cooperation on shared water ways viable to tens of millions of people in Southeast Asia. See the attached Solicitation and Performance Work Statement for additional information.