SPECIAL NOTICE
99 -- Intent to Sole Source Machine Foreign Language Translations Systems (MFLTS) Software Licenses
- Notice Date
- 10/14/2015
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 511210
— Software Publishers
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Army, Army Contracting Command, ACC - APG - Aberdeen Division C, 6001 COMBAT DRIVE, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, 21005-1846, United States
- ZIP Code
- 21005-1846
- Solicitation Number
- W56KGY-16-C-0001
- Archive Date
- 11/14/2015
- Point of Contact
- Prettina Biedenkapp, Phone: 4438614809
- E-Mail Address
-
prettina.j.biedenkapp.ctr@mail.mil
(prettina.j.biedenkapp.ctr@mail.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This announcement is to notify of the Government's intent to award a contract as an "Other than Full and Open Competition" basis as authorized by Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 6.302-1, "Only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements." The United States Army Contracting Command-Aberdeen Proving Ground (ACC-APG)- on behalf of the Product Director Machine Foreign Language Translation System (PD MFLTS), anticipates a Sole Source contract award for the procurement of 150 MFLTS software licenses. This notice of intent is not a request for proposals. A determination by the Government not to compete this contract action lies solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive requirement. The closing date for this synopsis is 30 October 2015 at 4 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time. Raytheon BBN Technologies is the OEM and sole source for acquiring MFLTS software licenses. The software licenses, supports the Government's developed, MFLTS system. The system is a software only system consisting of open architecture software and language component software modules that are integrated, scalable, tailorable, interoperable, user-friendly, easily deployable, and available to all of the Department of Defense (DoD). MFLTS provides a two-way speech-to-speech (S2S) translation capability and a two-way text-to-text (T2T) translation capability for machine-printed and electronic text for the initial capability. MFLTS initial capability provides speech language modules (Iraqi Arabic and Pashto), text language modules (Modern Standard Arabic) and Base Security and Checkpoint Operation domains in web-enabled, mobile and portable configurations. Please direct all questions and concerns to Prettina Biedenkapp at prettina.j.biedenkapp.ctr@mail.mil. Responses to this posting must be submitted in writing via email only.
- Web Link
-
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Army Contracting Command-ACC-APG-Division C, 6001 Combat Drive, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, 21005, United States
- Zip Code: 21005
- Zip Code: 21005
- Record
- SN03921407-W 20151016/151014234304-147e744db874e0558880050a45a5f31c (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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