FY 2026 Rental Survey Sources Sought

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Background The U.S. Department of the Interior, through the Interior Business Center (IBC) Quarters Program, aims to assist federal agencies in meeting rental rate requirements as mandated by the Office of Management and Budget Circular A-45. This circular requires that federal employees living in government housing pay rent comparable to similar private rental market units in their nearest community. The IBC has an ongoing need for rental market data collection, which is essential for developing statistically valid base rental rates for approximately 17,000 federal housing units. Work Details The contractor will be responsible for collecting rental market data from specific communities across 3 to 5 survey regions each year, totaling approximately 3,100 to 4,400 rental market comparables from 150 to 200 communities annually. Key tasks include: 1. **Community Medical and Dental Services**: Verify the availability of general practice medical and dental services in each surveyed community before proceeding with rental data collection. If no services are available or if they do not accept new patients, data collection for that community will cease. 2. **Community Rental Unit Comparables**: Collect detailed data on private rental housing units including houses, apartments, mobile homes, and trailer pads. The contractor must ensure accurate data collection through methods such as internet research and interviews with property managers and tenants. The contractor will not perform property appraisals but will collect existing market values without physically entering rental units. Period of Performance The contract will involve ongoing annual data collection efforts over multiple years as part of a cyclical survey process where each region is surveyed once every four years. Place of Performance Data collection will occur across various designated communities within the established survey regions. Bidder Requirements Bidders must demonstrate capabilities related to the requirements outlined in the Statement of Work (SOW), including past experience as a prime contractor or subcontractor within federal/state/local government or commercial environments over the past three years. They must provide detailed references including agency names, contract numbers, total values, periods of performance. Incumbent Analysis (see Incumbents section for more detail) This opportunity appears to have a confirmed incumbent based on contract 140D0422C0001 awarded to Delta-21 Resources for $560,277 (11/01/21–10/31/26), which involved collecting rental market data (comparables) from specific communities for use in IBC statistical regression models under OMB Circular A-45. The current FY 2026 sources sought similarly requires ongoing annual collection of private rental unit comparables across designated survey regions, using comparable data collection methods such as internet research and interviews. The described work aligns closely with a continuation of the same rental survey/comparables effort used to support rent-setting.