Solar Satellite Argos Transmitter Tags - Quantity

The contract solicitation 140G0125Q0200 issued by the USGS Office of Acquisition and Grants in Reston, Virginia, under the Department of the Interior, seeks the procurement of seven Solar Satellite Argos Transmitter Tags through a Total Small Business Set-Aside as defined under FAR 19.5, with the NAICS code 334419 indicating a small business size standard of 750 employees. The solicitation, issued on August 13, 2025, with responses due by August 21, 2025, is structured as a commercial item acquisition under FAR Part 12 and utilizes Standard Form 1449 for offer submission. The performance location is at the USGS Eastern Ecological Science Center in Laurel, Maryland, with deliveries split into two phases: seven units to be delivered by August 12, 2025, and five additional units by July 27, 2026. Delivery is FOB destination, meaning title and risk transfer upon arrival at the delivery site. The contract invokes essential FAR commercial item clauses including 52.212-1, 52.212-3, 52.212-4, and 52.212-5, which define terms, conditions, and statutory compliance requirements for commercial acquisitions, with attachments for 52.212-3 and 52.212-5 explicitly noted. Inspection and acceptance occur at the destination point, governed by these clauses requiring conformity to contract specifications. The Department of the Interior’s Office of Acquisition and Grants is the administrative point of contact, with invoices to be submitted to their Reston address, though payment office codes and accounting data such as AAC, TAS, or ACRN remain unpopulated. No Contracting Officer’s Representative or technical point of contact is identified, and while socioeconomic certifications are available for offerors—including HUBZone, SDVOSB, WOSB, EDWOSB, and 8(a)—no affirmations of such status are documented in the provided data. The contract form includes no unit pricing, total value, or option periods, and no special requirements such as security clearances, key personnel, or OCI prohibitions were specified. Offerors must use the SF-1449 form without narrative page limits, submitting either by physical mail or email to the Reston