Parking Services

NOTICE OF INTENT – SOLE-SOURCE ACQUISITION

Notice No.: 75N98027Q00078

The National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), intends to award a Firm-Fixed-Price Purchase Order to Vend Park for parking services at 6700B Rockledge Drive, Bethesda, Maryland.

Description of the Requirement

NHGRI requires parking spaces for its Federal employees and contractor personnel assigned to or supporting operations at 6700B Rockledge Drive. The requirement consists of access to 40 unreserved parking spaces and 6 reserved parking spaces for a Base Period and three (3) Option Periods.

The parking spaces must be located within the 6700B Rockledge Drive complex to ensure employees and contractor personnel have convenient, reliable, and secure access to their assigned work location. The location of the parking facility is an essential requirement because personnel must be able to access the building through an appropriate and accessible route while meeting the facility's security and operational requirements. The contractor shall provide parking access cards to authorized personnel to facilitate access to the designated parking spaces throughout the period of performance.

Justification for the Proposed Sole-Source Acquisition

The Government intends to solicit from a single source pursuant to FAR 6.302-1, Only One Responsible Source and No Other Supplies or Services Will Satisfy Agency Requirements.

Vend Park is the proposed source because it owns and operates the only parking facility within the 6700B Rockledge Drive complex capable of meeting NHGRI's parking requirements. The Government's requirement is specific to this location due to the need to provide Federal employees and contractor personnel with parking that supports secure, accessible, and reliable access to their assigned work facility.

The availability of parking within the complex is essential to the Government's operational needs. Parking facilities located elsewhere in the surrounding area do not provide an equivalent solution because they cannot meet the Government's requirement for parking within the complex and the associated access requirements for personnel reporting to 6700B Rockledge Drive. Requiring employees and contractor personnel to park at alternative facilities would not provide the same level of direct access to the building and would not satisfy the Government's location-specific security and accessibility requirements.

Additionally, the requirement for both reserved and unreserved parking spaces, together with controlled access through parking access cards, must be met at the designated facility. Vend Park is the only identified source with the ability to provide the required parking spaces and associated access at this location.

Based on the Government's market research, no other responsible source has been identified that can provide the required parking spaces within the 6700B Rockledge Drive complex while meeting the Government's security, accessibility, and operational requirements. Therefore, the Government has determined that Vend Park is the only known source capable of satisfying the agency's minimum needs and that no other available source can meet the requirement.

Response Information

This notice is not a request for competitive quotations or proposals. However, interested parties that believe they can satisfy the Government's requirements may submit a written capability statement demonstrating their ability to provide all required parking spaces and meet the specified location, security, accessibility, access, and operational requirements.

Capability statements must specifically address the interested party's ability to provide 40 unreserved parking spaces and 6 reserved parking spaces within the 6700B Rockledge Drive complex, including the ability to provide the required parking access cards and meet the Government's location-specific requirements.

The Government will review and evaluate all timely submitted capability statements to determine whether another responsible source is capable of meeting the Government's minimum requirements and whether a competitive acquisition is appropriate.

The Government anticipates making an award approximately five (5) calendar days after the closing date of this notice, unless the Government determines that another responsible source is capable of satisfying the requirement.

Capability statements must be submitted electronically to haunp@mail.nih.gov no later than 9:00 a.m. EDT on November 21, 2026.

Please reference Notice No. 75N98027Q00078 in the subject line of the submission.