SPECIAL NOTICE
A -- Sole Source Notice of Intent- Phase II of DARPA BOLT Testing Evaluation Studies - Justification for Other than Full and Open Competition
- Notice Date
- 7/31/2013
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541720
— Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Acquisition Management Division, 100 Bureau Drive, Building 301, Room B129, Mail Stop 1640, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899-1640, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20899-1640
- Solicitation Number
- NB774010-13-03161
- Archive Date
- 8/22/2013
- Point of Contact
- Keith Bubar, Phone: 3019758329
- E-Mail Address
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keith.bubar@nist.gov
(keith.bubar@nist.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Justification for Other than Full and Open Competition Synopsis : The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Acquisition Management Division, on behalf of the NIST Information Technology Laboratory (ITL), intends to negotiate directly with Fors Marsh, LLC; Arlington, VA, on a sole source basis under the authority of FAR 6.302-1 "Only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements," for contractor services in support of completion of Phase I of the DARPA Broad Operational Language Translation (BOLT) studies. Description of Services : The purpose of this requirement is to procure contractor support in completing Phase 2 of the DARPA BOLT Program translation evaluations. Five studies shall be investigated in phase 2 and are described below. Study 1 is the primary S2S study that shall investigate system capabilities of performing full speech-to-speech translation with error clarification capability. Studies 2 and 3 are designed to be diagnostic S2S studies. Studies 4 and 5 shall investigate system translation capability for T2T Egyptian Arabic and Chinese, respectively. Sole Source Justification : Please see the attached Justification for Other than Full and Open Competition. Responses : The anticipated NAICS Code is 541720 with a Size Standard of $19.0 million. NIST anticipates negotiating and awarding a firm-fixed-price purchase order to Fors Marsh, LLC for this requirement. Interested parties that believe they could satisfy the requirements listed above for NIST may clearly and unambiguously identify their capability to do so in writing on or before the response date for this notice. This notice of intent is not a solicitation. Information submitted in response to this notice will be used solely to determine whether competitive procedures could be used for this acquisition. Any questions regarding this notice must be submitted in writing via email to Keith Bubar at keith.bubar@nist.gov. All responses to this notice of intent must be submitted so that they are received at keith.bubar@nist.gov no later than August 7, 2013 at 12:00 PM Eastern Time.
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