SPECIAL NOTICE
R -- National Hydropower Association Membership
- Notice Date
- 10/10/2019
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 813920
— Professional Organizations
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, BOR - All Offices, Denver Federal Center, Building 67, Room 380, Denver, Colorado, 80225, United States
- ZIP Code
- 80225
- Solicitation Number
- 140R8120Q99000
- Archive Date
- 10/30/2019
- Point of Contact
- Dyllan Lial, Phone: (303) 445-2492
- E-Mail Address
-
dlial@usbr.gov
(dlial@usbr.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This is an Intent to Sole Source notice. The National Hydropower Association (NHA) 2.0SCOPE Reclamation's objective is to acquire contractor services to facilitate collaboration and information sharing with hydropower industry peers - including federal water resource and energy management agencies (e.g. US Army Corps of Engineers, Department of Energy), regulatory agencies (e.g. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission), as well as non-federal stakeholder groups - including public and investor-owned utilities, independent power producers, manufacturers, and academics. Specifically, procurement will continue a partnership between Reclamation and NHA to more effectively meet our hydropower mission area objectives. membership fees will only be used for programs, publications, and services listed in Paragraph 3. Since 1977, the following restriction has been included in every Interior Department Appropriations Act (Act): "No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be available for any activity or the publication or distribution of literature that in any way tends to promote public support or opposition to any legislative proposal on which congressional action is not complete." The GAO has explained that "[a] government contractor lobbying with its own corporate (i.e., nonfederal) funds would generally not violate the appropriation act restriction." GAO Redbook § 12, Membership Fees p. 4-211. Under the terms of the contract, NHA will not be permitted to use Reclamation funds for lobbying activities. 3.0OBJECTIVES Procurement allows Reclamation to partner with NHA to procure annual membership services and receive all membership benefits therefrom. Annual membership services include: 3.1Access to the Operational Excellence Program and supporting tools. 3.2Access to NHA committees and councils and related publications. 3.3Access to the NHA resource library and hosted publications. 3.4Access to NHA events (e.g. annual conference and workshops). 4.0TASKS NHA will grant Reclamation membership status and deliver membership services. 5.0DELIVERY NHA to deliver annual membership services to Reclamation. As noted in Paragraph 3, these services include access to the Operational Excellence Program and supporting tools, access to NHA committees and councils and related materials, access to the NHA resource library and hosted documents, and access to NHA events (e.g. annual conference and workshops). Annual membership services are to be delivered uninterrupted throughout the membership service year, beginning January 1. 6.0PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS SUMMARY GOVERNMENT-FURNISHED PROPERTY. No government furnished property will be provided under this agreement. SECURITY. As determined by Reclamation, NHA may be required to sign a non-disclosure agreement establishing, in part, dissemination rights and restrictions for Reclamation data provided in support of NHA programs, committee, councils, and other activities. PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE. Base Year: January 1, 2020 - December 31, 2020 Option Year 1:January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021 Option Year 2: January 1, 2022 - December 31, 2022 Option Year 3: January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2023 Option Year 4: January 1, 2024 - December 31, 2024
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