SPECIAL NOTICE
R -- Notice of Intent - ISBM membership
- Notice Date
- 2/27/2017
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 813920
— Professional Organizations
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Acquisition Management Division, 100 Bureau Drive, Building 301, Room B130, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899-1410, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20899-1410
- Solicitation Number
- NB480000-17-01301
- Archive Date
- 3/24/2017
- Point of Contact
- Divya Soni, Phone: 3019756394
- E-Mail Address
-
divya.soni@nist.gov
(divya.soni@nist.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) intends to negotiate, on a sole source basis, under authority of FAR 13.106-1(b) (1), with the Pennsylvania State University, Institute for the Study of Business Markets (ISBM) for a Government membership. ***** NIST's Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) has an on-going need for professional development and in business-to-business marketing as the bulk of the program's work is with manufacturing businesses. The program and its centers need to better understand how business-to-business marketing, which is significantly different from consumer marketing, relates to and affects the next generation manufacturing strategy activities of MEP and its client manufacturing companies. MEP needs to enhance its knowledge of B2B marketing and incorporate that knowledge into the program on an on-going basis. Sole source determination is based on the need to renew a Government membership in the Institute for the Study of Business Markets. The membership includes access to a network of researchers and fellow practitioners, who can help solve marketing challenges, access to customizable professional development programs designed for B2B executives committed to finding next-generation ways to address evolving marketing issues, access to high-impact customer analytics projects, working with ISBM's researchers to build customer analytics capability and facilitating individualized coaching on a range of B2B topics and 1-2 hour connections with ISBM fellows for advice, counsel, direction and ideas on pathways forward. This membership is only available from Pennsylvania State University. *****The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this acquisition is 813920- Professional Organizations, with a size standard of $15M. ****** A determination by the Government whether to compete the proposed acquisition based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. *****Interested parties that believe they could satisfy the requirements listed above for NIST may clearly and unambiguously identify their capability to do so in writing on or before the response date for this notice. This notice of intent is not a solicitation. Any questions regarding this notice must be submitted in writing via email to Divya Soni at divya.soni@nist.gov. All responses to this notice of intent must be submitted so that they are received at divya.soni@nist.gov no later than March 9, 2017 at 8:00 AM Eastern Time.
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- SN04415172-W 20170301/170227234128-937363a654ab123453f4e5d989a04007 (fbodaily.com)
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