66--Portable Liquid Sampler IAW Salients FY26 REQ# 15760 HIF STK# 7042552

The contract is for the procurement of twenty ISCO 6712 portable liquid samplers under a firm-fixed-price arrangement, with delivery required 30 days after receipt of order to the USGS HIF facility in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The acquisition is designated as a total small business set-aside governed by FAR Part 12 as a commercial item, with no numerical pricing provided in the solicitation but structured under Standard Form 1449. The solicitation number is 140G0126Q0120, issued on April 27, 2026, with offers due by April 30, 2026, and the award notice was posted on May 15, 2026. The NAICS code is 334519 for other instrumentation manufacturing, and the procuring office is the USGS Office of Acquisition and Grants in Reston, Virginia. The contract includes mandatory FAR clauses covering commercial item terms, whistleblower protections, Buy American requirements, child labor prohibitions, trafficking in persons mitigation, and electronic funds transfer for payments. Contract administration is managed by Daniel Galvin as the Contracting Officer, with invoicing required via the Treasury’s Invoice Processing Platform, and delivery governed by F.O.B. Destination terms placing all risk and cost on the contractor until receipt at the consignee’s facility. Acceptance is contingent on conformity to salient characteristics defined in the solicitation, with inspection occurring upon delivery. The contractor must maintain SAM registration and CAGE code currency, meet nonmanufacturer rule requirements, and comply with commercial and government entity coding standards. No specific packaging, preservation, marking, or bar-coding standards are detailed beyond general alignment with carrier requirements or referenced military standards accessible via the ASSIST website. No technical performance specifications or detailed scope of work are included in the publicly available text, and key personnel, security clearances, option periods, and organizational conflict of interest provisions are not specified. Evaluation is based on technical compliance as acceptable or unacceptable and overall price reasonableness in a trade-off process, not LPTA, favoring the most advantageous offer when considering both technical and cost factors.