Intent to award sole source.pdf

The 42nd Contracting Squadron at Maxwell AFB, AL hereby gives NOTICE OF INTENT TO AWARD A SOLE SOURCE to International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) to provide a subscription to the Military Balance+ databases in order to fill the research needs of Air University's students, faculty, and staff in accordance with the attached Statement of Requirement (SOR).

Brief Description of Requirement: Military Balance+ provides in- depth information and statistics on defense analysis. It contains extensive information on defense personnel, equipment, budgets, deployments, and military operations. The database details military forces, their deployments and missions for more than 170 countries. The database includes searchable data on the numbers and types of equipment used by military forces and non-state armed groups from around the world, and provides users with a way to compare the statistics between multiple entities. Weapons and systems procurement numbers are also searchable, and include contracts and orders by type of equipment.

Military Balance+ provides an essential research capability in support of the Professional Military Education (PME) research needs of Air University students, both resident and distance learners.

Military Balance+ “is exclusively produced, maintained and sold by the IISS. No other company has or can obtain the capabilities to provide access to this database.

Period of Performance: 30 September 2025 – 29 September 2030

Place of Performance: Maxwell AFB, Air University Library

The Primary North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code is 519290 - Web Search Portals and All Other Information Services.

There will be no written solicitation issued. This is an intent to purchase a sole source procurement under the authority of FAR 6.302-1. This will be a Firm-Fixed Price (FFP) contract utilizing Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 13, Simplified Acquisition Procedures.

The contractor needs to be registered in the DoD System for Award Management (SAM).

Register via the SAM website https://www.sam.gov, and also be eligible to process invoices through Wide Area Workflow (WAWF). Register via the WAWF website https://wawf.eb.mil.

Those capable of meeting the requirement IAW the SOR are requested to provide the following information in their response: 1) Current capability that demonstrates your company's ability to meet the above requirement, 2) Company name, point of contact, e-mail address, telephone and fax numbers, type of business and size, Cage Code and UEI number. IMPORTANT NOTES: 1) Information submitted will not be returned to the respective respondents. Oral submissions of information are not acceptable and will not be accepted in response to this notice.

2) Respondents may respond via e-mail no later than 4 August 2025, 12:00 pm, Central Standard Time (CST) to Samantha Millington, samantha.millington.1@us.af.mil; (334) 953-5611 and LaChandra Thompson, lachandra.thompson@us.af.mil; (334) 953-6569.

https://www.sam.gov/ https://wawf.eb.mil/ mailto:samantha.millington.1@us.af.mil mailto:lachandra.thompson@us.af.mil

If no responsible, responsive offers are received by the above date, a sole source contract will be issued to International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) under the authority of FAR 6.302-1.