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NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION

NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER

RECOMMENDATION AND DETERMINATION TO SOLICIT FROM ONE SOURCE

I recommend that NASA, NASA Shared Services Center negotiate with Stream only for unlimited number of concurrent live streams in support of the Total Solar Eclipse of 2017. The total estimated cost of this effort is and the estimated period of performance or lead-time for delivery is by June 2017 for the main event in August 2017.

This recommendation is made pursuant to FAR 13.106-1(b)(1), for the acquisition of supplies or services determined to be reasonably available from only one source. Competition is impractical for the following reasons:

To our knowledge, Stream is the only company that can meet all of these requirements:

1. An infinite number of concurrent live streams with infrastructure that can withstand the necessary bandwidth and offer failsafe measures

2. A tailored webpage front-end interface for NASA with no ads

3. A mobile-friendly responsive view for varying screen sizes, including phones, tablets, laptops, and desktop computers

4. A secure and robust network to protect against unwanted intrusion from anyone regardless of location and with the ability to block specific internet protocol (IP) addresses and spheres of IP address space for security reasons

5. Ability to select or not select incoming live stream feeds for security purposes before stream is posted to the front end webpage

6. 508 compliancy including a compliant player, video captioning, and website design and navigation

7. Archiving capability of live streams for future recorded playback

8. A US company

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Pursuant to FAR 5.101(a)(1), the proposed contraction action was not placed on FedBizOpps as oral solicitation will be used to solicit quotation.

I hereby accept the above stated recommendation and determine that the circumstances of the contract action deem only one source reasonably available.

Contracting Officer