Brand Name Justification_Redacted.pdf

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Source Selection Information � see FAR 2.101 and 3.104

SINGLE SOURCE DETERMINATION USING

SIMPLIFIED ACQUISITION PROCEDURES (SAP)

FOR AN ACTION NOT EXCEEDING THE SIMPLIFIED ACQUISITION THRESHOLD

(AUTHORITY: FAR 13.106-1(b)(1))

NF-FR7300-22-00927

1. Agency and contracting activity. Department of Commerce, NOAA Acquisition and Grants Office (AGO), Western Acquisition Division, Southwest Fisheries Science Center (SWFSC), Antarctic Ecosystem Research Division (AERD).

2. Description of services required to meet agency needs (including the estimated value).

The requirement is to provide Echoview acoustic software Maintenance and Technical Support (MATS) for a one year service renewal for licenses SFSC1 and SFSC2 at the Southwest Fisheries Science Center, with four option years (

This will allow the AERD to accomplish its mission of analyzing acoustic data for use in Antarctic krill stock assessments according to the methods approved of by the 25 member nations of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR).

3. Identification of the brand name to be solicited.

Echoview Software PTY, LTD. for a Maintenance and Technical Support (MATS) for Echoview acoustic analysis software For a Sole Source Action, Brand Name. DUNS 749281622

4. Supporting rationale. Only one brand name is reasonably available as detailed below:

Echoview is a Brand Name software. Since Echoview is accepted software agreed upon by 25 nations of CCAMLR, another software would not meet the requirements needed for the USA to provide Antarctic krill acoustic biomass estimates for its mission.

Echoview Software PTY, LTD is uniquely qualified to provide these services to the Antarctic Ecosystem Research Division based upon the following:

a. They helped develop the software with CCAMLR during the first international Antarctic krill biomass estimate in Antarctica in 2000. They have continued to work with the countries involved with CCAMLR, including the USA, to better develop the software. Echoview software is the internationally agreed software for use in Antarctic krill acoustic biomass estimates. Echoview is the only commercially available software that can import data from all commercially available scientific echosounders as well as provide multiple- frequency data processing and unique synthetic echogram generation for the purpose of taxa delineation. We know of no other software which has been used for over the past 20 years at the SWFSC that can process the data and keep consistency.

b. They are the Brand Name provider with access to Echoview source code and the only company able to supply software upgrades and technical support under Echoview maintenance services (MATS).

c. Previous contract #s are WE133F17SU0225 (base and four option years), WE133F16SE0152, and WE133F15SE0290.