A13 JUSTIFICATION FOR SOLE SOURCE PROCUREMENT.docx
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This document is a Justification for Sole Source Procurement for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)'s National Program of Cancer Registries (NPCR). The sole source procurement is for Information Management Services, Inc. (IMS) to provide SEER*Stat network database hosting services, which is the primary statistical software used for cancer data evaluation and statistical calculations. The software, originally developed by the National Cancer Institute, enables critical functions such as calculating cancer incidence and mortality rates, survival estimates, prevalence, and projection analyses.
The sole source justification emphasizes that IMS is the only vendor with access to the SEER*Stat network system, capable of hosting network-based databases with restricted user access for multiple CDC users and approved external researchers. The government intends to award a firm fixed price contract under FAR 12.102(a), with interested parties having 15 days from the notice's issuance to identify their capabilities or submit responses. The procurement falls under NAICS code 541512 for Computer Systems Design Services, and the final determination to proceed as a sole source contract remains at the government's discretion.
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JUSTIFICATION FOR SOLE SOURCE PROCUREMENT
1) Other facts supporting sole source procurement:
a. What can this product/service do that other products/services cannot do?
CDC’s National Program of Cancer Registries (NPCR) utilizes the software product SEER*Stat for data evaluation and statistical calculations; i.e., cancer incidence and mortality age-adjusted rates; survival, prevalence, projection estimates, and joinpoint. The SEER*Stat software was developed by the National Cancer Institute, under contract with Information Management Services, Inc. (IMS), and is the method by which official Federal statistics on cancer are generated. This is also the primary statistical software used in each state cancer registry and researchers. Even though the software is publicly available, the mechanism for hosting network-based databases (loading and deleting databases and providing restricted user access) is maintained by IMS only.
b. What other products/services were considered and why did they not meet the need?
No other services were considered because no other vendor has access to the SEER*Stat network system to host these databases.
2. Program Office efforts to seek potential offerors:
Access to the SEER*Stat network system is not available by any other vendor. The SEER*Stat network system is required to allow restricted access by multiple CDC users as well as approved researchers from outside CDC. Therefore, other offerors were not sought.
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