SOLICITATION NOTICE
70 -- Software Renewal - Package #1
- Notice Date
- 2/21/2017
- Notice Type
- Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
- NAICS
- 511210
— Software Publishers
- 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
- SSA-RFQ-17-1111
- Archive Date
- 2/24/2017
- Point of Contact
- Sherrie Williams, Phone: 4109659540, Jane W Quinn, Phone: 4109659588
- E-Mail Address
-
sherrie.williams@ssa.gov, jane.quinn@ssa.gov
(sherrie.williams@ssa.gov, jane.quinn@ssa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- FAR Agency Clauses and Provisions Informal Justification Solicitation The Social Security Administration (SSA) intends to negotiate solely with Nuance Communications, Inc., located 1 Wayside Rd, Burlington, MA, 01803-4609. For software and maintenance under the authority of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 13.106-1(b)(1)(i) "Contracting officers may solicit from one source if the contracting officer determines that the circumstances of the contract action deem only one source reasonably available..." SSA uses OmniPage to perform Optical Character Recognition of documents stored in the DMA management system. OmniPage is proprietary software and maintenance are only available from Nuance Communications, Inc., who is the sole source provider of the required software maintenance. Open Software Technologies Inc., has access to the source code necessary to provide the required maintenance subscription composed of version upgrades and updates, bugs fixes and patches order for OmniPage. Nuance Communications, Inc., OmniPage software maintenance for the period of 12 months. Written responses to this Notice shall contain sufficient documentation to establish a bona-fide capability to fulfill this requirement. Submissions shall not exceed 5MB. This is not a request for quotation. 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 in writing via email to sherrie.williams@ssa.gov no later than 10:00am noon Thursday February 23, 2017. Telephone calls regarding this matter will neither be accepted nor returned.
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/SSA/DCFIAM/OAG/SSA-RFQ-17-1111/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: 6401 Security Blvd, Baltimore, Maryland, 21235, United States
- Zip Code: 21235
- Zip Code: 21235
- Record
- SN04409810-W 20170223/170221235722-2e9370495a06f3cb9fdc2059ff5529b7 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
-
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