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Notice of Intent to Sole Source

THIS IS A NOTICE OF INTENT TO AWARD A SOLE SOURCE CONTRACT AND IS NOT A REQUEST FOR COMPETITIVE QUOTES. U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Joint Administrative Operations, Acquisition & Property Operations, Information Technology Services Acquisitions located at 5275 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, VA 22041 has issued a Request for Proposal for a firm fixed price contract for strategic implementation support and guidance launching a new content management system. USFWS intends to award a firm fixed price sole source contract under the authority of FAR 6.302-1 only one responsible source to:

Limina Application Office, LLC 350 Terry Street, Suite 300B Longmont, CO 80501

The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this requirement is 541512 Computer Systems Design Services; the business size standard is $30,000,000.

The objective of this follow on sole source award is for the augmentation of staff resources to support the push for an EOY launch of a newly developed Drupal content management system. These services include: 1. Content factory creation and operation, 2. Automated content loading operations, 3. System integration Support (from the content side) 4. Content Infrastructure and Governance Management, 5. Training and Onboarding of New Users. The subject matter expertise and knowledge of the FWS environment provided by this contractor cannot be obtained via another contractor in order to achieve the desired release schedule.

Limina has been instrumental to the Service through extensive requirements gathering and strategic planning, design phases, implementation and continues to be a crucial part of facilitating bringing those designs to life with their in depth knowledge of how the Service functions. With over four years of history of engagement, and the historical project knowledge Limina has, it is essential to the Service to not lose this knowledge base, and eliminate a substantial duplication in cost and effort.

Continuing the effort with another contractor would cause inevitable setbacks due to the enormous scope of the effort. It is anticipated it would take approximately three months to fully onboard a new contractor into the role of Limina currently possess in guiding the Service through this system transformation. Limina's ability to efficiently train the Service’s employees on the use of the CMS, and facilitate the design concepts they engaged in developing first hand will be impossible to replicate.

The implementation work on this requirement is not the exact same work as conducted under previous contracts, but is a logical follow-on to the development contracts. The ability to continue work with the development contractor allows the Service to start production earlier and utilize the extensive knowledge base Limina has, to ensure the Service can meet their mission in a timely manner and with high quality. Going with anyone other than Limina at this point in the project will would cause increased costs and unacceptable delays in fulfilling the government’s requirement and ensuring FWS meets our mission.

Limina Application Office, LLC is the only source that can provide integration services on their proprietary system. Allowing full and open competition will create substantial duplication of costs to the Government that is not expected to be recovered through competition and unacceptable delays in fulfilling the agency's requirements.

This synopsis does not constitute a solicitation; however, if any interested party believes they can meet the above requirement, it may submit a statement of capabilities. The statement of capabilities must be submitted in writing and must contain clear and convincing evidence that competition of this requirement would be advantageous to the Government. If parties choose to respond, any cost associated with preparation and submission of data or any other cost incurred in response to this announcement are the sole responsibility of the respondent and will not be reimbursed by the Government.

Capability statements shall be submitted by e-mail ONLY as a Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF attachment to the following address: William_fluharty@fws.gov. The email subject line shall state, "FWS Content Management System."

NO TELEPHONE REQUESTS/OFFERS WILL BE HONORED