# Programmatic Legal Services

Canonical: https://abierto.us/opportunities/nb1300002500856

- Solicitation number: NB130000-25-00856
- Notice type: Justification
- Status: Awarded to Clifford Chance US LLP
- Department: Department of Commerce
- Agency: National Institute of Standards and Technology
- Contracting office: Department of Commerce NIST (1333ND)
- NAICS: 541199 All Other Legal Services
- Product or service code: R418 Legal Services
- Place of performance: Washington, District of Columbia
- County: District of Columbia (FIPS 11001). https://abierto.us/counties/district-of-columbia-dc-11001
- City: Washington. https://abierto.us/cities/washington-dc-1150000
- First posted: April 10, 2025
- Last posted: April 10, 2025
- SAM.gov: https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/e2ac735ef96c4779a3d262e3fb1187dd/view

## Description

The Department’s Office of the General Counsel (OGC) requires programmatic legal support services to advise and assist OGC on legal aspects of the CHIPS Program. Under this task order, the contractor shall perform the following tasks:

**a. Task 1 - Primary CHIPS Forms:** The contractor shall render advice concerning and update, revise, and maintain the primary CHIPS forms used in debt transactions, including but not limited to the principal form of Loan Guarantee Agreement, as directed by Office of the Chief Counsel for Semiconductor Incentives (OCCSI). The revisions and updates to the Loan Guarantee Agreement should be drafted in close cooperation with the point of contact from OCCSI.

**b. Task 2 - Ancillary Form Transaction Documents:** The contractor shall render advice concerning and update, revise, and maintain ancillary form transaction documents for debt transactions, including but not limited to the principal form of the intercreditor agreement, guaranty agreements, security agreements, collateral agency agreements, legal opinions, and disbursement requests.

c. Task 3 – Other Section 9902 Assistance and Advice as Required: The contractor shall render advice and assistance on material, policy, legal and/or Department-specific issues that may arise in the course of the CHIPS Program and such other matters concerning the interpretation or implementation of Section 9902 of the 2021 NDAA and the CHIPS Act of 2022, as may be requested by OGC.

## Award on USAspending

- Recipient: Clifford Chance US LLP (UEI LYKJJL9GH1S7)
- Contract: 1333ND23DNB130005
- Obligated: $0.00
- Competition: Full and Open Competition, 12 offers received
- Link: award number 1333ND23DNB130005 equals the contract number; same awarding office 1333ND (high confidence)
- Record: https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_IDV_1333ND23DNB130005_1341/


## Publications

- April 10, 2025: Justification. Notice e2ac735ef96c4779a3d262e3fb1187dd. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/e2ac735ef96c4779a3d262e3fb1187dd/view

## Points of contact

- Gina Lee, gina.lee@nist.gov, 3019758334
- Monica Brown, monica.brown@nist.gov, 3019750642

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