SOLE SOURCE PROCUREMENT NOTIFICATION This serves as a "Notice of Intent" to issue a sole source contract to Datacomm Sciences, Inc. This contract is in support of the implementation of the mission critical Trust Asset and Accounting Management System (TAAMS) for the Department of the Interior, Office of the Special Trustee, Office of Trust Funds Management (OTFM) and the Bureau of Indian Affairs' (BIA) effort of data cleanup and migration, part of the Secretary of Interior's High Level Implementation Plan. This sole source procurement is under the authority of FAR 6.302-1 Only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements due to substantial duplication of cost that is not expected to be recovered through competition and unacceptable delays in fulfilling the agency requirement for data cleanup and migration. Datacomm Sciences, Inc.'s data cleanup effort will continue at the TAAMS implementation and pilot site -- Billings Area Office and the Northern Cheyenne Agency. Services associated to thissole source contract will consist of site assessment, project documentation, pre-conversion data cleanup, and post-conversion data cleanup, for remaining BIA sites. It is critical that the cleanup effort continue uninterrupted in order to adhere to the crucial TAAMS' conversion deadline. Delays could have a negative impact on the on-going litigation facing the Secretary of Interior, regarding Indian Trust beneficiaries. This notice of intent is not a request for proposals, nor a solicitation for offers. Posted 03/19/99 (W-SN310497).

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