B01 Notice of Intent to Sole Source_ESRI.docx

NOTICE OF INTENT TO SOLE SOURCE

Notice of Intent to Sole Source Software and Support Contract with Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc.

The US Army Corps of Engineers Reachback Operations Center (UROC), CEERD-ZBT-U has determined a need for GIS support services from the ESRI Professional Advisor Services, which is available through a current GSA contract with an existing GSA Schedule Pricelist. Esri’s most current Multiple Award Schedule (MAS), GSA Contract No. GS-35F-253CA.

Work to be performed:

• ArcGIS Enterprise Cloud Migration – Continue to provide technical guidance to UROC with regards to migrating UROC’s ArcGIS Enterprise implementations to a cloud environment. This technical guidance may include supporting any of the following actions:

o System Migration & Merge Planning:

. Refining the existing cloud compute environment system architecture design to support deploying ArcGIS Enterprise.

. Developing an implementation plan to build out the new system architecture and configure the Esri software for the new environment.

• Define tasking and schedule to execute the build out.

. Planning a technical approach to migrate and merge system content from multiple legacy ArcGIS enterprise deployments to the new cloud environment.

• ArcGIS Enterprise Portal content migration assessment.

• Develop a content migration and merge plan.

• Develop scripts to support content migration and merging from multiple legacy ArcGIS Enterprise implementations.

o System Migration & Merge Execution . Executing the system implementation plan.

o Prepare for the cloud migration taskings as defined in the implementation plan Executing the system migration and merging.

o Post-Migration and Merge . Post-migration & merge system health check.

o Conduct a post-migration performance tuning assessment and health check on the migrated ArcGIS Enterprise deployments.

. Post-migration performance tuning.

• Make configuration adjustments as indicated in the performance tuning assessments.

. Post-migration security hardening.

• Harden migrated ArcGIS Enterprise deployments as needed.

• Review and Update UROC’s Geospatial Strategy – Assist UROC’s review of its current geospatial strategy and update as needed. Assess current objectives and supporting goals.

• ArcGIS Operations Automation and Scripting Support – Assist UROC with writing scripts to simplify and optimize ArcGIS Enterprise systems maintenance procedures and with writing scripting tools to simplify cross domain and server migrations.

• Design and configure ArcGIS executive dashboard web applications – Assist UROC to configure out-of-the-box web applications that support building dashboards populated with data managed and maintained in the ArcGIS Enterprise deployments.

Implementation support under this proposal is expected to be provided remotely and include, but not be limited to, the following subtasks:

• ArcGIS systems architecture design assistance

• ArcGIS database architecture design assistance

• ArcGIS software deployment and configuration guidance

• ArcGIS system administration guidance

• ArcGIS data management guidance

• ArcGIS data production and map product workflow guidance

• ArcGIS application configuration guidance

• ArcGIS capabilities extension assistance

• ArcGIS ad-hoc technical support, best practices, and technology knowledge transfer for other yet-to-be-defined topics

It is determined that ESRI is the only vendor capable of meeting the Government’s requirement. There are no existing contracts available nor is this service available from any mandatory source such as the DoD Enterprise Software Initiative (ESI). It is recommended that a sole source award be made to ESRI. A different company cannot be used, because ESRI is the one that developed and produced the proprietary software being used by the US Government. The professional services required are exclusive in nature and covered by ESRI copyright. No one outside of ESRI has the authority to manipulate ESRI source code. This software is integrated into multiple U.S. Army applications and the required support services are not available from other software providers.

The Government intends to procure from only one source under the authority of RFO 6.103-1(b) This notice of intent is for information purposes only.

This notice is not a request for competitive quotes or proposals. A solicitation will not be issued. However, all responsible sources may submit a capability statement, proposal, or quotation, which shall be considered by the agency. The information submitted must be provided in sufficient detail to demonstrate the vendor’s ability to fulfill this requirement. The contractor must also provide a description of their past experience in fulfilling requirements which are the same or similar to this requirement and references for each.

Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. A determination by the Government not to compete this requirement on a full and open competition basis, based upon responses to this notice, is solely within the discretion of the government. Verbal communications are not acceptable in response to this notice. Responses to this requirement may be submitted to Kwamaine Clark at kwamaine.d.clark@usace.army.mil. The solicitation number shall be included in the subject line of the e-mail submission. Responses must be received no later than 12:00 PM CST, Friday, August 14, 2026.

PSC Code: R499 NAICS Code: 334111 Primary Contact: Kwamaine Clark Kwamaine.d.clark@usace.army.mil 601-634-3895

Secondary Contact:

LaShanda Areghan Lashanda.d.areghan@usace.army.nil