SOURCES SOUGHT
D -- EXELIS Interactive Data Language (IDL) and Environment for Visualizing Images (ENVI) image analysis software support
- Notice Date
- 6/8/2016
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541519
— Other Computer Related Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Eastern Acquisition Division - Kansas City, 601 East 12th Street, Room 1756, Kansas City, Missouri, 64106, United States
- ZIP Code
- 64106
- Solicitation Number
- NWWY2000-16-00140
- Archive Date
- 7/2/2016
- Point of Contact
- Shelley Smith, Phone: 816-426-2066
- E-Mail Address
-
shelley.smith@noaa.gov
(shelley.smith@noaa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Eastern Region Acquisitions Division-Kansas City office intends to negotiate, on a sole source basis, under the authority of FAR 13.106-1(b)(1), with Exelis Visual Information Solutions, Inc., a subsidiary of Harris Corporation in Boulder CO, for 35 EXELIS Interactive Data Language (IDL) and Environment for Visualizing Images (ENVI) image analysis software licenses for the National Water Center (NWC) located in Chanhassen, MN. Service will be for a base year and four 1-year option periods. Sole Source Justification ENVI is a state of the art image processing system designed to provide comprehensive image processing, exploitation and analysis of satellite and airborne remote sensing data. The NWC Chanhassen location relies solely upon this software for satellite data image processing and must renew license maintenance agreements in order to support its operations and provide guidance products and services to the NWS field offices. The NWC Chanhassen location relies on IDL as a modeling framework programming language and must renew license maintenance agreements in order to sustain operational support of NWS forecast offices by providing snow related guidance products and services. It is cost, operations, and human resource prohibitive to use software other than IDl and ENVI. Several thousand lines of IDL based software would have to be refactored in order to maintain an operational posture and the NWC Chanhassen location image processing staff would require retraining if ENVI were replaced by another product. Per a letter received from Harris Corporation, they are the exclusive manufacturer, developer, direct sales channel and distributor for IDL and ENVI software in the United States. They have no authorized resellers. Sources Sought This sources sought notice is not a request for competitive offers and no solicitation package is available. However, firms that believe they can provide the required maintenance may submit substantiating documentation in writing within five days of this notice. Responses can be faxed to Shelley Smith at (757) 664-3633 or sent via e-mail to shelley.smith@noaa.gov. Documentation will be evaluated solely for the purpose of determining whether or not to conduct this procurement on a competitive basis. A determination by the Government not to conduct a competitive procurement, based upon response to this notice, is solely within the discretion of the Government. Oral communications are not acceptable in response to this notice. DOC, Eastern Region Acquisitions Division-Kansas City requires that all contractors doing business with this office be registered with the System for Award Management (SAM). No award can be made to a company not registered in SAM. For additional information and to register in SAM, please access the following web site: www.sam.gov. To register, all contractors must have a Dun and Bradstreet number. A Dun and Bradstreet number may be acquired free of charge by contacting Dun and Bradstreet on-line at http://www.dnb.com/eupdate or by telephone at (800)333-0505.
- Web Link
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- Place of Performance
- Address: National Water Center, 1735 Lake Drive West, Chanhassen, Minnesota, 55317, United States
- Zip Code: 55317
- Zip Code: 55317
- Record
- SN04143421-W 20160610/160608234957-5fa11555b7e4941358edf3d29471ff92 (fbodaily.com)
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