Mapping Essentials – Drone Package - Lubbock TX

This solicitation, numbered 1232SA26Q0482, is a combined synopsis and request for quotation issued under FAR Part 12 for the procurement of a commercial unmanned aircraft system and multispectral sensor package, specifically the Astro Max Mapping Essentials drone with Sentera 6X multispectral sensor or equal alternatives. The acquisition is a total small business set-aside under NAICS code 336411, with a size standard of 1,500 employees, and is restricted to responsible small business sources. All offered products must meet or exceed the salient performance, functional, and physical characteristics of the named brand-name items, and full traceability to the original equipment manufacturer is required, supported by a Certificate of Conformance. The delivery is scheduled for F.O.B. destination at USDA PA Plant Stress & Germplasm Development in Lubbock, Texas, with a mandatory delivery window of 30 days following contract award. Proposals must be submitted electronically via email to shane.pope@usda.gov no later than 0800 Central Time on May 5, 2026. Contract awards will be made on a lowest price technically acceptable basis, with technical acceptability and past performance evaluated before price. Technical acceptability requires strict compliance with the specified product characteristics and supporting documentation, and failure to meet these criteria disqualifies an offer. Past performance is assessed as acceptable, neutral, or unacceptable, with an unacceptable rating eliminating an offeror from consideration. Price is reviewed only after technical and past performance thresholds are met, with the lowest compliant offer selected. The contract will be firm fixed price, and all items must be new, OEM-approved, and shipped in packaging ensuring integrity and traceability without reliance on military standards but in compliance with FAR 52.246-15. Offerors must hold a current UEI and CAGE code, be registered in SAM, and affirmatively certify compliance with various federal requirements including Buy American, anti-trafficking, whistleblower protections, and prohibitions on certain DEI practices. Security requirements prohibit the use of certain telecommunications equipment and mandate basic safeguarding of government information systems. No options, key personnel clauses, or organizational conflict of interest provisions are specified, and the contracting officer is Shane M. Pope, with the administrative office located in Beltsville, Maryland.