Fine Art Photography Services for the National Museum of the Marine Corps - UPDATED w/Q&A 19 May 2026

This contract is an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) award for fine art photography services at the National Museum of the Marine Corps, issued under solicitation M00264-26-Q-0026 as a total small business set-aside under NAICS code 541922. The period of performance spans five years from June 12, 2026, to June 11, 2031, with an estimated workload of up to 300,000 units over the ordering period, though no specific unit prices or total contract value are provided in the solicitation. Offerors must submit a completed pricing table detailing charges for location photography, per-work imaging, 3D artifact capture, digital retouching, and fine art reproduction on a per-square-inch basis, all of which must be firm-fixed price. All work is performed on-site at the Museum Support Facility in Quantico, Virginia, where fragile artifacts housed under glass or plexiglass must be photographed using safe, conservation-compliant methods. Deliverables include high-resolution TIF files sized for 60-inch output at 300 DPI with a minimum file size of 75 MB, archival-quality fine art reproductions, and a complete digital archival record, all subject to approval by the Technical Point of Contact. The solicitation mandates strict conformance to technical specifications outlined in the Performance Work Statement and requires compliance with numerous Federal Acquisition Regulation and Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement clauses, including those governing unique item identification under MIL-STD-130 using 2D Data Matrix symbology, safeguarding covered defense information per NIST SP 800-171, compliance with Buy American provisions, and prohibitions on human trafficking and inverted domestic corporations. Offerors must be certified small businesses in the System for Award Management and must provide their Unique Entity Identifier and CAGE code. Submissions must be sent electronically via email to the designated contracting officers by 11:00 a.m. EST on May 28, 2026, and must include all required attachments, including the pricing table and QA document. Evaluation will follow the lowest price technically acceptable method, where technical compliance is a pass/fail threshold and award is made to the lowest-price offer among those deemed acceptable. Acceptance of all deliverables occurs at the Museum Support Facility, and invoicing must occur through Wide Area WorkFlow using approved document types. The contract includes