Panopto Lecture Capture Notice of Intent to Sole Source.pdf

Sole Source Notice

The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) is the Nation's federal health sciences university and is committed to excellence in military medicine and public health during peace and war. We provide the Nation with health professionals dedicated to career service in the Department of Defense and the United States Public Health Service and with scientists who serve the common good. We serve the uniformed services and the Nation as an outstanding academic health sciences center with a worldwide perspective for education, research, service, and consultation; we are unique in relating these activities to military medicine, disaster medicine, and military medical readiness. USU is located in Bethesda, MD on the grounds of the Naval Support Activity Bethesda.

The mission of the USU is to provide the highest quality education programs in the health sciences to those selected individuals who demonstrate dedication to a health profession career in the Uniformed Services.

Intent to Sole-Source: USU intends to award a sole-source, firm-fixed-price contract with a base year and up to four option years to Panopto, Inc. for a Panopto Platform Software package for lecture recording, screencasting, video streaming, and video content management software.

Intended Recipient: Panopto, Inc. 600 River AVE STE 100, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15212-5994

Sole Source Justification: As an educational institution located in the state of Maryland, USU maintains a membership with the Maryland Educational Enterprise Consortium (MEEC). MEEC offers centrally coordinated and negotiated procurement opportunities for member organizations to gain economic advantage and value in the acquisition of products and services that are beneficial to the educational enterprise. MEEC has an agreement with five authorized resellers for lecture capture software (LCS) packages exclusively offered to MEEC members. Per the MEEC website, MEEC members have the option to select the LCS system provider that best fits their institutions’ needs. Panopto, Inc. is one of five authorized resellers of the lecture capture software products specifically bundled for educational institutions belonging to the MEEC organization and is the only reseller offering a Fed-RAMP on-premise LCS solution that meets DoD compliance requirements. Additionally, USU is already using Panopto software and hardware. Switching to a different platform would require data conversion and the configuration and deployment of specialized hardware components, resulting in a tremendous learning curve for the user community and a significant disruption to daily lecture capture services and student test preparation. The Panopto Platform Software package will be procured in accordance with the procedures of FAR Part 13.106-1(b)(1)(i).

This is NOT a request for Quotes.

In accordance with 5.207(c)(16)(i), all responsible sources may submit a capability statement, proposal, or quotation, which shall be considered by the agency. Responses to this notice must demonstrate clear and convincing evidence that competition would be advantageous to the Government, would not be cost or time prohibitive, and that the interested potential Offeror can supply the Government’s needs as stated above. Information received will be considered for the purposes of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement.

The Government will not be responsible for any costs incurred by responding to this notice.

See Notice of Intent to Sole Source for response date and contact information.