NOI_to_Sole_Source__TCRGP_U_of_Arizona_1.docx
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This document is a Notice of Intent to Award a Sole Source Contract from the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) to the University of Arizona. The contract, valued at $38,400 for one year, aims to establish a Land Grant University partnership with Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute (SIPI) to support rural development and tribal community research.
The project's key objectives include enhancing institutional infrastructure, facilitating faculty collaborations with research institutions, addressing food, agricultural, natural resources, and human sciences concerns in reservation communities, and providing research opportunities for American Indian students. The sole source contract will be awarded under NAICS code 541715 for Research and Development in Physical, Engineering, and Life Support Sciences, with Jeff W. Morris serving as the Contracting Officer.
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NOTICE OF INTENT TO AWARD A SOLE SOURCE CONTRACT. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR QUOTE
The Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) intends to enter into a sole source Firm-Fixed Price contract with the University of Arizona under the authority of FAR13.106-1(b)(1). The circumstances of this contact action deem only one source is reasonably available.
Selected Vendor:
University of Arizona 845 North Park Avenue, Room 538 Tucson, AZ 85721
BIE has a need for a Land Grant University “partner” at SIPI. This requirement seeks to expand rural business opportunity and rural quality of life with access to capital, improved infrastructure, broadband access and connectivity, and support for workforce availability. This project will 1) enhance the institutional infrastructure and faculty expertise in planning and carrying out appropriate applied research projects that address concerns and needs of tribal and reservation communities; 2) forge better institutional and faculty collaborations with other land-grant institutions as well as with USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and other research institutions of higher learning; (3) address the food, agricultural, natural resources, and human sciences (FANH) concerns of reservation communities through scientific inquiry and discovery; and (4) give American Indian students better prospects for employment and educational achievement by engaging them in laboratory, and/or field research domestically or internationally in the food, agriculture, and natural resource sciences.
The anticipated cost is $38,400.00 for one (1) year. A solicitation will not be made available, and no technical questions will be answered for this requirement. The NAICS code for this acquisition is 541715 – Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Support Sciences (Except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)
Point of Contact:
Jeff W. Morris, Contracting Officer Email: jeff.morris@bie.edu
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