NADP/NTN Monitoring station site PA18

This solicitation, identified as RFQ 140G0126Q0175, is a total small business set-aside issued by the U.S. Geological Survey under the Department of the Interior for the operation of a wet atmospheric monitoring station in Clinton County, Pennsylvania, designated as site PA18 within the National Atmospheric Deposition Program’s National Trends Network. The contract requires a small business contractor to perform weekly site visits to collect, process, and ship precipitation samples using USGS-provided prepaid FedEx 2nd Day Air mailers to the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene in Madison, Wisconsin, while simultaneously collecting, processing, and transmitting associated meteorological data including precipitation gage readings. Routine maintenance, inspections, and necessary repairs to the station’s equipment—an automatic wet/dry precipitation collector, a weighing rain gage with anchor base, and an event recorder—must be conducted in full compliance with provided Operations Manuals. The base period of performance runs from July 1, 2026, to June 30, 2027, with four optional one-year renewal periods extending through June 30, 2031, totaling a potential five-year contract duration with a maximum extension of six months under the option to extend services clause. Pricing must be submitted as firm-fixed and accompanied by a technical quotation package in PDF format. Vendors must be registered in the System for Award Management and meet all small business size standards to be eligible to respond. Quotations must include proof of business size classification, a valid SAM Unique Entity Identifier, and a signed SF-18 form, and are due no later than 1:00 PM EST on June 19, 2026, via email to the Contracting Officer. All questions must be submitted by June 12, 2026, using a single designated point of contact; phone inquiries and late submissions will not be accepted. Contracting obligations include compliance with multiple FAR clauses covering small business subcontracting, labor standards, equal opportunity, paid sick leave, minimum wage requirements under Executive Order 14026, privacy training with Alternate I, accelerated payments to small business subcontractors, and the Buy American Act. Invoicing must be processed through the Invoice Processing Platform, with payment governed by the Prompt Payment Act and OMB regulations, and must include detailed information such as TIN, contract line item number, shipping details, and designated payment recipient. The Government reserves the right to inspect and