R--EARTHMRI WKSHP POSTER BOARDS DISPLAY

The contract awards the rental, delivery, setup, and teardown of poster board displays for the 2026 Earth MRI Workshop at the USGS National Center in Reston, Virginia, with a primary performance period from September 21 to September 25, 2026. The contractor must supply thirty 8-foot by 4-foot, two-sided poster board units, along with sixty cups for pushpins and six hundred pushpins, ensuring all units are spaced a minimum of four feet apart and secured using Velcro or pushpins. Setup is scheduled for September 21 between 7:30 AM and 12:00 PM ET, with teardown required on September 25 from 12:00 PM to 3:00 PM ET. The solicitation is a total small business set-aside under NAICS code 339940, requiring offerors to be certified as small businesses and complete all representations and certifications electronically via SAM.gov under FAR 52.212-3 and 52.204-19. Offers must be submitted as a single PDF file by July 10, 2026, at 1:00 PM EDT and must include firm-fixed pricing that accounts for all components, with any additional charges clearly itemized. The award will be made to the most advantageous offer based primarily on price, with technical acceptability and past performance considered but significantly less important than cost. The contract includes two optional line items for the FY27 and FY28 workshops, with anticipated exercise dates on July 1, 2027, and July 1, 2028, respectively, and the government may evaluate the total price of the base and all options when making an award. All payments must be processed electronically through the Treasury’s Invoice Processing Platform (IPP), and contractors must enroll in the system within three to five business days after award, receiving instructions from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Invoices must be submitted no later than 90 days after the performance period ends, and unexpended funds may be unilaterally deobligated after 120 days. The contract incorporates numerous FAR clauses regarding whistleblower rights, prohibitions on confidential agreements, combating human trafficking, child labor, sustainable products (with a deviation effective February 2025), accelerated payments to small business subcontractors, and electronic funds transfer. Technical direction is provided by a liaison who