SOURCES SOUGHT
70 -- Primer software
- Notice Date
- 3/9/2016
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 511210
— Software Publishers
- Contracting Office
- HPOD US Environmental Protection Agency William Jefferson Clinton Building 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, N. W. Mail Code: 3803R Washington DC 20460 USA
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- RFQ-DC-16-00114
- Response Due
- 3/24/2016
- Archive Date
- 4/8/2016
- Point of Contact
- Maravilla, Brent
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Office of Research and Development (ORD), intends to procure a commercial software, Primer 7.0 and Permanova+, that will be available for EPA employees. This is a on a sole source basis with the Primer-E Ltd. under the authority of 41.U.S.C. 253 (c), FAR 6.302-1. The Primer-E Ltd. is the sole and exclusive publisher of the software. The software provides methods for analysis, ecological data, which is the standard for marine community and biodiversity research. This includes non-metric ordination and permutation tests with extensive manuals method for utilizing MS excel and access spreadsheets. The software download is to be delivered within 10 business days, and no support services are provided so there is no period of performance. Any firm that believes it is also capable of providing the software (or software with equivalent features) in response to this notice shall provide a capability statement and indicate that the firm is challenging the statement that the Primer-E Ltd. is the sole provider and distributor of the software. All questions and/or responses shall be directed to Brent Maravilla via email at maravilla.brent@epa.gov by March 24, 2015. Any emails shall include PRIMER in the subject line. The contracting officer will not respond to telephone inquiries. The estimated value of the acquisition is $5,662.
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- Record
- SN04044252-W 20160311/160309235121-c0afd3cb34e1ed728e8c7aaf872b11fb (fbodaily.com)
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