The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a Multiple Award, Indefinite-Delivery Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) contract for professional Architect Engineering (A/E) services procured in accordance with the Brooks A/E Act, Public Law 92-582, as implemented in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 36.6. The North American Industry Classification System Codes (NAICS) for this acquisition are Architect or Architect/Engineer firms with an approved NAICS code of 541330 Engineering Services, with a small business size standard of $25,500,000.00 in average annual receipts. The contract awards have an effective/ordering period of six (6) years. Each award has a minimum guarantee of $500 and the Contractors' maximum order obligation will be $30 million for a single order. The total contract ceiling cumulative of all MATOC awards when combined, is $400 million. All work and services will be ordered by issuance of individual firm-fixed-price (FFP) task orders. Per FAR 16.505(b)(1), NIH will comply with the order level requirement to provide fair opportunity consideration. Notwithstanding the fair opportunity requirements set forth in 41U.S.C. 4106(c), NIH reserves the right to consider set-asides on an order-by-order basis as allowed in FAR 19.502-4(c). NIH may compete any orders solely amongst all the small businesses. NIH may issue orders directly to one IDIQ holder to meet the minimum guarantee. Small business awardees may compete against other-than-small business awardees for an order that is not set aside. Task order awards will follow the Brooks Act Procedures outlined in FAR Part 36.602. Orders set aside for small business shall have limitations on subcontracting as follows - By submission of an offer and execution of a contract, the Offeror/Contractor agrees that it will not pay more than 50 percent of the amount paid by the Government for contract performance to subcontractors that are not similarly situated entities. “Similarly situated entity,” as used in this MATOC, means a first-tier subcontractor, including an independent contractor, that has the same small business program status as that which qualified the prime contractor for the award; and is considered small for the NAICS code the prime contractor assigned to the subcontract the subcontractor will perform. Any work that a similarly situated entity further subcontracts will count towards the 50 percent subcontract amount that cannot be exceeded. A joint venture agrees that, in the performance of the contract, the applicable 50 percent specified in the paragraph above will be performed by the aggregate of the joint venture participants. Other-than-small-businesses have negotiated a small business subcontracting plan, acceptable by the Government, and incorporated into their respective IDIQ Contracts. Contract holders are expected, in good faith, to participate in task order competitions and, if successful, to deliver quality projects on time and on cost, to include management and …