Open_Market_JOFOC-FBO.pdf

INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE

SOLE SOURCE JUSTIFICATION—SIMPLIFIED ACQUISITIONS (OPEN MARKET)

1. Requester

2. Estimated Cost:

3. Requisition No.:

114634

4. Company Name (include address):

TBD

5. Performance Period:

Base Option Yr 1 Option Yr 2

6. Description of Supplies/Services:

MindManager works like a virtual whiteboard, unlike flipcharts and sticky notes. You can quickly capture ideas, then just drag and drop to organize them into themes. This helps drive guided brainstorming which challenges the team to start developing clearly defined ideas of quality and quantity. Ideas using sets of words, images, and question cards help spark the brainstorming process which can then be categorized, sorted, and refined.

MindManager uses templates, pre-built map topics, and simple task creation tools which helps details be added.

Assignment resources, due dates can be edited, and priority updates of deliverables can be modified.

MindManager gathers input and gain alignment for key business decisions by mapping out all aspects of business plans in a single view for budgets, forecasts, and strategies. Formulas can be defined and applied to topics throughout, so results of changes to budgets and forecast calculations can be seen instantaneously. Formulas can be built with multiple functions and operators.

435168 - Mindjet MindManager Enterprise Perpetual License

600838 - Mindjet MindManager Enterprise MSA Band 50-99 1 year subscription

7. Authority Permitting a Sole Source Acquisition: FAR 13.106-1(b)(1)—Contracting Officers (COs) may solicit from one source if the CO determines that the circumstances of the contract action deem only one source reasonably available.

Check the appropriate authority from the list below:

[ X ] Only one responsible source; or brand-name specification.

[ ] Unusual and compelling urgency.

[ ] Industrial mobilization, engineering, developmental or research capability, exclusive licensing agreement, or expert services.

8. Describe why only one source can perform the required work. What sets MindManager apart is that, it is designed for large and enterprise size businesses like BEP. MindManager integrates extremely well with Microsoft Office’s suite of produc ts, which are used exclusively at BEP. For example, Excel spreadsheet can be imported into a mind map by other mind mapping software, however MindManager allows updates on the map to also be changed in the Excel spreadsheet while others do not. MindManager links individual Outlook e-mails to your mind maps. The ability to pull the contents of individual e-mails into your maps – as well as the ability to link back to the location of those e-mails within Outlook – is extremely useful. Other mind mapping software does not have this function.

MindManager also integrates with Microsoft SharePoint. MindManager maps can be shared via the BEP SharePoint platform, which makes it possible to extract task data from your map and upload it to SharePoint. This function does not work seamlessly among the other mind mapping software.

Finally MindManager has the ability to run a multitude of customized reports, which are important for BEP’s project managers and project stakeholders.

9. Describe the informal market survey and the results, or state why a market survey was not conducted.

Market research was conducted on Google.com, GSA.gov and Mindjet’s official website which listed many small businesses, authorized resellers of the software.

10. Requester Signature & Title: Virginia Cochran Phone No.:

Date:

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Requester Signature

11. CO Certification: I determine the circumstances of this acquisition deem only one source reasonably available.

Aleta Dust CO Signature

Phone No.: Date:

12. Small Business Specialist (SBS) Certification (if over $25,000): Latonya D. Bowman

SBS Signature

Phone No.: Date:

Rev. 2/2015