SPECIAL NOTICE
70 -- Notice of Intent
- Notice Date
- 3/2/2017
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- Contracting Office
- Social Security Administration Office of Acquisition and Grants 1540 Robert M. Ball Building 6401 Security Blvd Baltimore MD 21235
- ZIP Code
- 21235
- Solicitation Number
- SSA-NOI-17-1007
- Archive Date
- 3/7/2017
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The Social Security Administration (SSA) intends to negotiate solely with International Business Machines, Inc. (IBM) 3710 Rockledge Drive Bethesda, MD 20817, for a firm fixed-priced order for (quantity 25) IBM 9910-E66 Uninterruptible Power Systems (UPS) manufactured by Eaton Corporation. This action is in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 13.106-1(b) (1)(i) śContracting officers may solicit from one source if the contracting officer determines that the circumstances of the contract action deem only one source reasonably available..." The 9910-E66 UPS is the only UPS that meets the agency ™s IBM i Power system UPS requirements because of the unique hardware and software integration between the 9910-E66 UPS Power System Hardware, and the agency ™s IBM i Operating System (OS). The unique integration, and warranty support under the premium Eaton-Powerware Five-Year Gold Plan warranty package, via a single point of contact through the IBM Call Center, is only available from IBM. Written responses to this Notice shall contain sufficient documentation to establish a bona-fide capability to fulfill this requirement. Submissions shall not exceed 5MB. This is not a request for quotation. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed order based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. The Government will not notify respondents of the results of the information received. All submissions in response to this notice must be submitted in writing via email to Dennis Failing at Dennis.Failing@ssa.gov no later than 12:00pm noon Monday March 6, 2017.
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/SSA/DCFIAM/OAG/SSA-NOI-17-1007/listing.html)
- Record
- SN04421442-W 20170304/170302235833-97bb5fa195cb55870e0614829bc8903e (fbodaily.com)
- Source
-
FedBizOpps Link to This Notice
(may not be valid after Archive Date)
| FSG Index | This Issue's Index | Today's FBO Daily Index Page |