Notice of Intent - ArcGIS.pdf

Notice of Intent to Award Sole Source Contract

Title: Notice of Intent to Award Sole Source – ArcGIS Licenses Renewal

Agency: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Operating Division: Assistant Secretary for Financial Resources (ASFR) Contracting O ice: O ice of Mission Acquisition Solutions (OMAS)

NAICS Code: 541519 – Other Computer Related Services PSC Code: 7A21 - IT and Telecom - Business application software (perpetual license software)

Notice

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Assistant Secretary for Financial Resources (ASFR), O ice of Mission Acquisition Solutions (OMAS), intends to award a sole-source, firm-fixed-price contract to:

• Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (“ESRI”) 380 New York Street Redlands, CA 92373-8100 for the renewal of annual subscriptions and licenses for the following commercial software products listed on the attachment: SOW-ArcGIS_07-10-2026.

The anticipated contract will consist of a one-year base period from 09/02/2026 through 09/01/2027.

This acquisition is being conducted using the authority of FAR 12.102, Restricting Competition, under the procedures of FAR Part 12.

Description of Requirement

The requirement is for the annual renewal of subscriptions and licenses supporting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) O ice of the Chief Information O icer (OCIO) Statistical License Management Team. The existing ArcGIS Software license maintains and processes annual license renewals for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) agencywide.

Sole-Source Rationale

The required software is owned and developed by the Environmental Systems Research Institute company (ESRI). ESRI maintains propietory ownership of the product and does not supply the product through resellers. The ArcGIS software product provides the CDC with mapping software used by personnel to create mapping and spatial data analysis on public health data. The software provides contextual tools to compile analysis of data arising in many applications. The software is developed by ESRI and o ers the advantage to collect, manage data, create professional maps, perform traditional and advanced spatial analysis.

ESRI is the only source that creates and shares map analytics and data collection and studies critical to the needs of the CDC mission.

Responses to this Notice

This notice is not a request for competitive quotations or proposals. It is a notice of the Government's intent to award a sole-source contract.

Interested parties may submit a capability statement demonstrating their ability to satisfy the Government's requirement. Capability statements must clearly demonstrate the vendor's ability to provide the required products and services described above, or an equivalent capability that fully satisfies the Government's minimum requirements without disruption to ongoing operations.

Capability statements shall be submitted electronically within three (3) calendar days of the date this notice is posted.

Responses shall be submitted via email to the Contract Specialist:

Matthew Fein, matthew.fein@hhs.gov

The Government will review all timely responses received solely for the purpose of determining whether another responsible source is capable of meeting the Government's requirement. Responses that do not su iciently demonstrate the capability to satisfy the Government's requirements may not be considered.

If no a irmative responses are received that demonstrate the capability to meet the Government's requirements, HHS intends to proceed with award to ESRI without further notice.