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SAMDAILY.US - ISSUE OF SEPTEMBER 26, 2025 SAM #8705
SPECIAL NOTICE

99 -- Notice of Intent to Sole Source SSMC Emergency Radio Network

Notice Date
9/24/2025 9:37:53 AM
 
Notice Type
Special Notice
 
Contracting Office
NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION US
 
ZIP Code
00000
 
Response Due
9/19/2025 2:00:00 PM
 
Archive Date
09/26/2025
 
Point of Contact
Emi Sato, Megan Whipple
 
E-Mail Address
emi.sato@noaa.gov, Megan.Whipple@noaa.gov
(emi.sato@noaa.gov, Megan.Whipple@noaa.gov)
 
Description
Agency and contracting activity Department of Commerce, NOAA Acquisition and Grants Office (AGO), Office of the Chief Administrative Officer (OCAO) Description of supplies or services required to meet agency needs The Silver Spring Metro Center (SSMC) Campus emergency radios, radio programming, batteries, and one year maintenance agreement for WAVE control box, repeaters, and panic buttons. The SSMC emergency radio network facilitates emergency communication amongst all Line/Staff Offices at the SSMC Campus. Identification of the limited source(s) to be solicited. Mobile Communications America, Inc. P.O. Box 491810 Lawrenceville, GA 30049 Supporting Rationale For purchases not exceeding the simplified acquisition threshold, 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 in accordance with FAR 13.106-1(b)(1)(i). Programming for all radios (300+ in operation), panic buttons (60+ in operation), radio repeater, and the WAVE control box is proprietary to the vendor. The vendor custom-designed the programming architecture for the SSMC campus, and it resides on premises within the aforementioned system infrastructure. Due to the nature of radio communication, the programming must reside on premises. The programming ensures that radios are interoperable only with other radios in the network.; delineates building-specific, security-specific, facilities/engineering-specific, and incident response-specific channels; manages simultaneous radio transmissions; provides priority access to radio bandwidth to designated emergency personnel; and allows for unique programming of individual pieces of hardware, which is essential for directing first responders and security guards during an emergency. Purchasing additional hardware from any other vendor that does not have access to the proprietary programming architecture would require the entire system to be reconstituted from scratch and hundreds of pieces of existing hardware reprogrammed, during which time the radio network would be inoperable. This process would necessarily repeat anew every time successive awards are made to another vendor. This is unacceptable given the mission-criticality of the radio infrastructure to the SSMC Campus operations. Due to the complexities of the existing infrastructure and associated custom, proprietary, on-premises programming required to ensure operation of the SSMC emergency radio network, as well as the prohibitive replacement cost associated with deviating from the current vendor, equipment, and associated network, only one source is capable of meeting the requirement.
 
Web Link
SAM.gov Permalink
(https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/baf2a95600004dbcb4e5d2244160a0fa/view)
 
Place of Performance
Address: Silver Spring, MD, USA
Country: USA
 
Record
SN07602705-F 20250926/250924230044 (samdaily.us)
 
Source
SAM.gov Link to This Notice
(may not be valid after Archive Date)

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