AWARD
D -- Sole Source Justification
- Notice Date
- 9/30/2013
- Notice Type
- Award Notice
- NAICS
- 541511
— Custom Computer Programming Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Agriculture, Rural Development, Procurement Management Division, 1400 Independence Ave., S.W., Mail Stop 0741, Washington, District of Columbia, 20250
- ZIP Code
- 20250
- Solicitation Number
- AG-31ME-S-13-0012
- Archive Date
- 10/15/2013
- Point of Contact
- Kesha Mumford, Phone: 2026920115
- E-Mail Address
-
kesha.mumford@wdc.usda.gov
(kesha.mumford@wdc.usda.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Award Number
- AG-31ME-C-13-0009
- Award Date
- 9/30/2013
- Awardee
- Pitney Bowes
- Award Amount
- $99,500
- Description
- Rural Development currently utilizes proprietary Pitney Bowes hardware and software for our automated mail processing that supports both Rural Development and the Farm Service Agency. The software that supports the Pitney Bowes hardware must be Pitney Bowes certified or void existing multi-year contractual warranties. The current Pitney Bowes contract provides all the necessary programming, software, parts, equipment, personnel, labor, and material necessary to maintain the following Pitney Bowes System. The Pitney Bowes System is defined as Flowmaster, DF Works, Group 1 Software, (SteamWeaver, MailStream Plus, and Finialist) including software licenses, software upgrades, servers and data links to write to both. The software we are acquiring from Pitney Bowes has been tested as compatible with current Pitney Bowes software, hardware, and USDA mainframe processing. For the reasons cited above, this procurement must be sole sourced to Pitney Bowes. Without significant reinvestment in mail preparation software, hardware, and consulting services, any other product is not in the best interest of the Government. Any deviation from our current automated mail processing environment will have significant adverse impact that will impact cost and schedule to meet the USPS mandate of January 2014 for the full Intelligent Mail barcode implementation.
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/USDA/RD/PMD/AG-31ME-S-13-0012/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: On-site requested meeting will be performed at the following address at USDA, Rural Development, 4300 Goodfellow Boulevard, St. Louis, Missouri. Other meetings and support will be performed through web meeting technology and conference calls., United States
- Record
- SN03207026-W 20131002/130930234647-3bed993b0d42516409308fbf1f967867 (fbodaily.com)
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