JA Market Research - Notice of Intent to Brand Name.pdf

THIS SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY.

THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR BIDS/PROPOSAL.

PROJECT: W912DR23X0U2W(NOI) - Interior Renovations for Building 350 at Letterkenny Army Depot, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania

No reimbursement will be made for any costs associated with providing information in response to this notice or any follow-up information requests.

This is a SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE for Market Research ONLY to determine the availability of Brand Name Items.

The United States Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District intends to include the following proprietary items in a request for proposal for a construction contract acquisition under the authority of FAR 6.302-1(c) – brand name descriptions. This project may include a Brand Name only component, as described below, unless the results of this sources sought notification indicates otherwise.

This notification serves three purposes: (1) to notify potential Offerors of the Government's intent to solicit a brand name only component under a future construction project; (2) to identify potential sources that can provide the brand name only item and/or equivalent; (3) notification of the Army's intent to contract sole source for a Brand Name Only if the market is unable to provide 'equivalent' products.

In the event no equivalent equipment exists, the Brand Name Only justification will be issued pursuant to FAR 6.302-5(a)(2)(ii). A subsequent market survey will not be published in support of a Justification and Approval (J&A) for sole sourcing the resultant product(s) or system(s) in the event an equivalent product is not submitted for consideration. In such instances, the brand name or equal component will be embedded in the construction project. Only that part of the project requiring brand name components will be sole sourced if no sources are able to prove an equal product.

SUMMARY OF REQUIREMENT: The construction project will include Brand Name only equipment as follows:

1. SIGCOM DTX Fire Alarm Radio Transmitter to be sole sourced by SIGCOM Communications Letterkenny Army Depot currently has an obsolete SIGCOM Fire Alarm Receiving Station. The use of a transmitter manufactured by any other company would result in the inability of the Letterkenny Fire Department to receive and decode fire alarm signals from this building.

2. UltraVoice Electronic Controller to be sole sourced by Federal Signal Corporation. The existing BIG VOICE system in use throughout Letterkenny Army Depot and is manufactured by Federal Signal Corporation. The use of equipment manufactured by any other company would result in the inability to annunciate BIG VOICE announcements through the interior speakers.

Interested vendors must show clear and convincing evidence that alternatives to the specified items exist. Interested vendors wishing to be considered by the Government as described above must provide a copy of its brochure and any other capability statements/ data no later than 03 April 2023, 11:00 AM EST, to Contract Specialist, Aisha Boykin, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District, Contracting Division, via email to aisha.r.boykin@usace.army.mil mailto:aisha.r.boykin@usace.army.mil

This is a market survey and notification of intent only. This is not a request to respond to a solicitation. A determination by the Government to compete this proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the direction of the Government.