SOURCES SOUGHT
D -- US Department of the Interior/National Business Center is seeking businesses having the ability to provide one year software subscription renewal licenses from International Business Machines for ILOG CPLEX Developer Edition subscription renewal.
- Notice Date
- 4/11/2011
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- Contracting Office
- US Dept of the Interior - National Business Center Acquisition Services Division, Denver BranchP.O.Box 272040 Denver CO 80227
- ZIP Code
- 80227
- Solicitation Number
- D11PS40282
- Response Due
- 4/15/2011
- Archive Date
- 4/10/2012
- Point of Contact
- Brian W Workman Contracting Officer 3039697737 Brian_Workman@nbc.gov;
- E-Mail Address
-
Point of Contact above, or if none listed, contact the IDEAS EC HELP DESK for assistance
(EC_helpdesk@NBC.GOV)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- U.S. Department of the Interior/National Business Center Information Technology Directorate is seeking businesses having the ability to provide one year (1yr) software subscription renewal licenses from International Business Machines (dba IBM) for ILOG CPLEX Developer Edition software and support renewal. This requirement involves maintaining existing warranties and/or not violating the use of the proprietary software.Firms shall provide a written notice containing a description of how they would provide this service. Notices shall contain a point of contact with phone number. This information will be evaluated and used to determine if a competitive opportunity exists.This notice represents the Government's only official notice of this procurement action. The Government intends to award a sole-source annual renewal subscription contract to IBM. All sources responding shall submit information relating to their business status for NAICS 541519. A firm is considered small if its size standard does not exceed 500 employees.This solicitation does not commit the government to pay any costs for the preparation and submission of a proposal in response to this sources sought announcement.Interested parties must respond by 12:00 pm mountain time 04/15/2010. 1452.215-71 Use and Disclosure of Proposal Information USE AND DISCLOSURE OF PROPOSAL INFORMATION -- DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (APR 1984) (a) Definitions. For the purposes of this provision and the Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552), the following terms shall have the meaning set forth below: (1) "Trade Secret" means an unpatented, secret, commercially valuable plan, appliance, formula, or process, which is used for making, preparing, compounding, treating or processing articles or materials which are trade commodities. (2) "Confidential commercial or financial information" means any business information (other than trade secrets) which is exempt from the mandatory disclosure requirement of the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. 552. Exemptions from mandatory disclosure which may be applicable to business information contained in proposals include exemption (4), which covers "commercial and financial information obtained from a person and privileged or confidential," and exemption (9), which covers "geological and geophysical information, including maps, concerning wells." (b) If the offeror, or its subcontractor(s), believes that the proposal contains trade secrets or confidential commercial or financial information exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act, (5 U.S.C. 552), the cover page of each copy of the proposal shall be marked with the following legend: "The information specifically identified on pages ______ of this proposal constitutes trade secrets or confidential commercial and financial information which the offeror believes to be exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act. The offeror requests that this information not be disclosed to the public, except as may be required by law. The offeror also requests that this information not be used in whole or part by the government for any purpose other than to evaluate the proposal, except that if a contract is awarded to the offeror as a result of or in connection with the submission of the proposal, the Government shall have the right to use the information to the extent provided in the contract." (c) The offeror shall also specifically identify trade secret information and confidential commercial and financial information on the pages of the proposal on which it appears and shall mark each such page with the following legend: "This page contains trade secrets or confidential commercial and financial information which the offeror believes to be exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act and which is subject to the legend contained on the cover page of this proposal." (d) Information in a proposal identified by an offeror as trade secret information or confidential commercial and financial information shall be used by the Government only for the purpose of evaluating the proposal, except that (i) if a contract is awarded to the offeror as a result of or in connection with submission of the proposal, the Government shall have the right to use the information as provided in the contract, and (ii) if the same information is obtained from another source without restriction it may be used without restriction. (e) If a request under the Freedom of Information Act seeks access to information in a proposal identified as trade secret information or confidential commercial and financial information, full consideration will be given to the offeror's view that the information constitutes trade secrets or confidential commercial or financial information. The offeror will also be promptly notified of the request and given an opportunity to provide additional evidence and argument in support of its position, unless administratively unfeasible to do so. If it is determined that information claimed by the offeror to be trade secret information or confidential commercial or financial information is not exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act, the offeror will be notified of this determination prior to disclosure of the information. (f) The Government assumes no liability for the disclosure or use of information contained in a proposal if not marked in accordance with paragraphs (b) and (c) of this provision. If a request under the Freedom of Information Act is made for information in a proposal not marked in accordance with paragraphs (b) and (c) of this provision, the offeror concerned shall be promptly notified of the request and given an opportunity to provide its position to the Government. However, failure of an offeror to mark information contained in a proposal as trade secret information or confidential commercial or financial information will be treated by the Government as evidence that the information is not exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act, absent a showing that the failure to mark was due to unusual or extenuating circumstances, such as a showing that the offeror had intended to mark, but that markings were omitted from the offeror's proposal due to clerical error.
- Web Link
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Lakewood, CO
- Zip Code: 80235
- Zip Code: 80235
- Record
- SN02421306-W 20110413/110411234019-36a2adefd6a65c4ac7d063df63d7ac15 (fbodaily.com)
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