SPECIAL NOTICE
J -- On-site preventative and remedial maintenance and repair services and usage clicks for Stralfors printers, Stralfors unwinders, and PageStream Printers from MCS Services Inc.
- Notice Date
- 10/14/2014
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 811212
— Computer and Office Machine Repair and Maintenance
- Contracting Office
- Social Security Administration, Office of Budget, Finance, Quality and Management, Office of Acquisition and Grants, 1540 Robert M. Ball Building, 6401 Security Boulevard, Baltimore, Maryland, 21235, United States
- ZIP Code
- 21235
- Solicitation Number
- 3303-15-1097
- Archive Date
- 10/17/2014
- Point of Contact
- Katie M.H. Cornelia, Phone: 4109667511
- E-Mail Address
-
Katie.Cornelia@ssa.gov
(Katie.Cornelia@ssa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This is not a request for quotations or an announcement of a forthcoming solicitation, but merely notification of the Social Security Administration's (SSA) intent to issue, on a sole-source basis, a firm fixed-price purchase order to MCS Services Incorporated for on-site preventative and remedial maintenance and repair services of Government-owned equipment, as well as corresponding usage clicks (per month). The equipment is two (2) Stralfors 102 Roll High Speed Rewinder Printers, two (2) Stralfors 52 Roll High Speed Unwinders, and four (4) PageStream Twin Printers model 500. This equipment is located in Baltimore, MD. This service is only available from its producer/manufacturer and not through dealers or distributors. Under Federal Acquisition Procedures (FAR) Part 6.302.1, only one responsible source and no other supplies or sources will satisfy agency requirements for the above - cited maintenance. The period of performance will be for three months. SSA has Government-owned High Speed Printers located at the National Computer Center. MCS Services Incorporated provides maintenance of this hardware to SSA. The maintenance of this hardware product is necessary so that SSA's technical staff will have continued use of this hardware and these Unwinders are a critical part of the Notice insertion process. Maintenance is mandatory, since these are operations essential items. This hardware needs to be operations 24x7, 365 days preventative and remedial maintenance for Government-owned PageStream equipment. MCS Services Incorporated is the only company with access to proprietary parts. Division of Batch Operations Production Control (DBOPC) does have a refreshment lifecycle replacement for these PageStream printers. Since these are operations essential items and SSA must maintained them until replaced. These PageStream Printers is proprietary hardware. MCS Services Incorporated does not use resellers, and it is the only vendor with access to the source codes. Consequently, no other contractor can provide the hardware replacement parts and services. This requirement is utilizing procedures in FAR Part 12 - Acquisition of Commercial Items in conjunction with procedures in FAR Part 13. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed requirement based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will normally be considered for the purposes of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. The Government does not intend to pay for information provided in response to this publication. Written responses to this Notice shall contain sufficient documentation to establish a bona fide capability to fulfill this requirement. If no affirmative responses are received by 2:30PM EST on 10/16/2014, in accordance with FAR 13-106-1(b)(1) negotiations will be conducted with MCS Services, Inc. as the only source and a purchase order will be issued without any additional notices being posted. Respondents should refer to 3303-15-1097. All responses must be submitted to Katie Cornelia via email to Katie.Cornelia@ssa.gov.
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- Record
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