SPECIAL NOTICE
70 -- Notice of Intent
- Notice Date
- 8/5/2015
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 511210
— Software Publishers
- Contracting Office
- Social Security AdministrationOffice of Acquisition and Grants26 Federal Plaza Room 40-160New YorkNY10278
- ZIP Code
- 10278
- Solicitation Number
- SSA-NOI-15-0026
- Archive Date
- 8/11/2015
- Point of Contact
- ANGELA LEE
- E-Mail Address
-
ANGELA.LEE@SSA.GOV
(ANGELA.LEE@SSA.GOV)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The Social Security Administration (SSA) intends to negotiate solely with Syncsort, Inc. located at 50 Tice Boulevard, Woodcliff Lake, NJ 07677 for maintenance of Syncsort and Zen Group Trace software and expansion of mainframe software licensing. The authority for this acquisition is set forth in 41 U.S.C. ? 1901, as implemented by the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 13.5 - ?Test Program for Certain Commercial Items?. The acquisition is ?commercial? in nature, as defined at FAR Section 2.101, and will be solicited using FAR Part 12, as well as the procedures outlined at FAR 13.500. The basis for restricting competition is unique supplies available from one source. Syncsort, Inc. is the copyright holder for Syncsort software. Only Syncsort, Inc. has the right to license this software. Furthermore, only Syncsort, Inc. has legal access to the source code necessary to provide software maintenance. SSA intends to establish a firm fixed-price purchase order for Syncsort's proprietary Syncsort and Zen Group Trace software maintenance with a period of performance consisting of a one year Base Period and four one-year Option Periods. Written responses to this notice shall contain sufficient documentation to establish a bona fide capability to fulfill this requirement. This is not a request for quotation, and the Government does not intend to pay for information received. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed order based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. The Government will not notify respondents of the results of the information received. All submissions in response to this notice must be submitted electronically via email to Angela.Lee@ssa.gov by 12:00 PM EST on August 10, 2015. No telephone calls regarding this matter will be accepted nor returned.
- Web Link
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- Record
- SN03824744-W 20150807/150805235056-84d41e55a6cc2d9c83f6f30595e8e39f (fbodaily.com)
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