Dear Offeror: Thank you for submitting your proposal to Smithsonian Institution for the Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Consulting Services Contract. This was a highly competitive request for proposal, with forty-five offerors providing proposals. Please accept this letter as pre-award notice of exclusion from the competitive range. The Evaluation Board has completed their evaluations and have selected the following firms for IDIQ contracts: Firm Name Arc Aspicio, LLC Cohn Reznick Deloitte Consulting, LLP Grant Leading Technology HG & Co IA LLC Peregrine Technical Solutions, LLC Powersolv RevTek Solutions The Obscidion Group Aditi The Smithsonian Institution thanks you for the interest expressed in this solicitation and for responding to our requirements. Although your firm was not selected, we hope that you will remain interested in working with the Smithsonian Institution and that you will continue to respond to all solicitations of interest to your company. If you would like a debriefing, you must request one in writing within three (3) days from the date of this notice. You can email your request, questions or concerns to Christine Grant at
[email protected]. =================================================================================================== The Smithsonian Institution is providing this Notice of a Pending Solicitation. The Request for Proposal (RFP) 333302-23RF-0010033 will be Posted on or about June 2023. The Smithsonian will be seeking proposals for an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity Contract (“IDIQ) to provide consulting services to various Smithsonian facilities. The applicable North American Industry Classification Codes (“NAICS”) is 541611 Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services, size standard is $24.5 million. This announcement is full and open to all businesses regardless of size. The contract awarded will be firm-fixed-price IDIQ contract with no Minimum Contracting Work/Amount Guarantee. This is not going to be set aside for small business but they are welcome to apply. Our department focuses on the contracting procedures for acquiring goods and services (other than simplified acquisitions) necessary for furthering the mission of Smithsonian Institution. The objective is to award a One (1) year contract with Nine (9) one-year options to provide all supervision, labor, materials, and equipment necessary to provide enterprise-wide business consultant services to the Smithsonian for all business areas which may include, but are not limited to, those areas set forth below. As required by the Smithsonian through separate Work Orders, successful offeror(s) shall provide all supervision, labor, materials, and equipment necessary to provide enterprise-wide business consultant services to the Smithsonian for all business areas which may include, but are not limited to, those areas set forth below. Offerors may propose on one or more of the business areas listed below. Each Work Order will contain a scope of work and specifications that will indicate the general and specific works required of successful offeror(s) for the following: Business Process Improvement Analysis Financial Controls Financial Management Governance Best Practices Health and Environmental Management Human Resource Management Information Technology Management Inventory Management Internal and Operational Controls Personal Property Asset Management Policy Development Research and Benchmarking Strategic Planning Supply Management Eighty-five (85) percent of work is anticipated to be in the Washington, DC metropolitan area, which includes Maryland and Virginia. The remaining fifteen (15) percent of the work is anticipated to be other geographical locations where Smithsonian Institution facilities which includes, but not necessarily limited to, Arizona, Florida, Hawaii, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Panama. All contractors must be registered in the SAM (System for Award Management) Database https://www.sam.gov prior to contract award pursuant to FAR provision 52.204-7. Therefore, prospective offerors are encouraged to register prior to the submittal of qualifications /proposals. The guidelines for registration in SAM are also available at: https://www.fsd.gov/gsafsd_sp?id=gsafsd_kb_articles&sys_id=9a5fb2171bc26110860e62cfe54bcb76 THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS.