AGC Patent Legal Services

1. Introduction/Purpose The Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) Office of Chief Counsel has a requirement for patent-related legal services across the entire patent life cycle per Attachment 1, Draft Statement of Work (SOW).

2. Incumbent Contractor (if applicable) This is a new requirement.

3. Nature of Competition The acquisition strategy for the procurement has not been determined at this time; however, either an unrestricted competition or a set-aside will be chosen depending on the responses to this Market Survey. The FAA may award this effort under an existing contract vehicle and utilize this notice's results to determine if that is appropriate. The acquisition strategy for the procurement has not been determined at this time. The strategy will be chosen depending on the responses to this Market Survey. The FAA may award this effort under an existing contract vehicle and utilize this notice’s results to determine if that is appropriate.

4. Standard Language This is not a Screening Information Request or Request for Proposals of any kind; The FAA is not seeking or accepting unsolicited proposals; The FAA will not pay for any information received or costs incurred in preparing the response to the market survey; Any costs associated with the market survey submittal are solely at the interested vendor's expense; All vendors responding to this announcement are responsible for ensuring that the documents submitted contain the appropriate proprietary marking.

Any proprietary information submitted must be explicitly and conspicuously marked by the respondent as proprietary. If appropriately marked, such information will not be released to the public by the FAA, except as required under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) or any other applicable law, regulation and/or policy.

The Government may transfer documents provided by a respondent to any department or agency within the Executive Branch if the information relates to matters within the organization's jurisdiction; The FAA has the option of conducting one-on-one communications as deemed appropriate without the obligation to hold communications with all respondents; Providing a response to this Market Survey neither qualifies respondents for, nor excludes respondents from, responding to the resulting SIR, if any; Respondent participation in any informational session is not a promise of future business with the FAA;

5. North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code The NAICS Code for this procurement is expected to be 541199- All Other Legal Services with a size standard of $20.5M.

6. Submittal Requirements for Market Survey Responses to this Market Survey should include the following elements and must be no longer than five pages.

(a) Please provide relevant technical Capabilities: Please provide relevant technical capabilities that demonstrate the ability to satisfy the requirements set forth in the attached draft SOW.

(b) Existing Acquisition Vehicles: Please indicate if your company can satisfy this requirement utilizing an existing contract vehicle (i.e., eFAST, GSA, etc.). If so, please provide an appropriate point of contact and adequate details.

(c) Other Information: Please provide business size, type, any socio-economic status, other applicable information, comments on the requirements, or general feedback for the FAA's consideration for planning this acquisition.

7. Delivery of Submittals All responses to this market survey must be submitted by 2:00pm (Eastern Time) on April 16, 2024. Submissions received after this time and date will be considered late and may not be reviewed. All submittals, including attachments, should be submitted in electronic format (email) to Warren Connley at Warren.E.Connley@faa.gov. Please include the Market Survey title in the e-mail submission. No telephone calls will be accepted. There is no question and answer period for this Market Survey.

8. Attachments (1) Draft Statement of Work