FAR 13 Single Source or Brand Name Justification Less Than SAT v2 signed.pdf

United States Department of Agriculture Limited Source/Brand Name Justification

FAR 13.106-1(b)(1) – Simplified Acquisitions

1. Identification of the agency and the contracting activity.

Contracting Activity :

Eric Schnitzler USDA, FSIS, ASD, Procurement Management Branch 5601 Sunnyside Avenue, Beltsville, MD 20705-5230

Requesting Activity:

Daniel Pogosian USDA, FSIS, Office of the Chief Information Officer

2. Description of supply or service required to meet the agency’s needs.

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has a requirement for a system to be used for Label Submission and Approval System. LSAS was developed with the integration of the Aspose and Atalasoft software. The Aspose.Words for .NET is an advanced class library for .NET that enables you to perform a wide range of document processing tasks directly within your .NET applications. The Aspose.Pdf for .NET is a PDF document creation and manipulation component that enables your .NET applications to read, write and manipulate existing PDF documents without using Adobe Acrobat. It also allows you to create fonts and manage form fields embedded in a PDF document. The Atalasoft Dotlmage is the only full-featured .NET Imaging SOK that is royalty-free for desktop applications. Server deployments require only a per-server license. The Atalasoft Dotlmage PDF Reader Add-On quickly decodes PDF documents into color or grayscale raster images, seamlessly plugging into Dotlmage and associated image viewing components as an image decoder.

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3. The rationale or circumstances for limiting competition.

Per service representative from Atalasoft, maintenance renewal for Atalasoft products could be purchased only directly from Atalasoft.

4. A description of the market research conducted and the results or a statement of the reason market research was not conducted.

The contract specialist conducted a search of various government wide acquisition vehicles such as GSA Advantage and NASA SEWP. Resellers were not found on either government wide acquisition vehicle.

In addition, Atalasoft confirmed they have no resellers, and FSIS previously completed this action as a sole source procurement.

5. Estimated price, including all options, if applicable.

$26,659.50

6. Recommended source(s).

Atalasoft, Inc.

Certifications

Supporting data that is the responsibility of technical or requirements personnel and which form the basis for this justification are accurate and complete to the best of my knowledge.

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The information contained in this justification is accurate and complete to the best of my knowledge and belief and in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation 13.106-1(b)(1), I hereby determine the circumstances described above deem only one source, or limited sources, reasonably available and competition is precluded for the reasons indicated in this document.

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