Redacted Sole Source Justification 143041-25-0034.pdf

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Source Selection Information – see FAR 2.101 and 3.104

SINGLE SOURCE DETERMINATION USING

SIMPLIFIED ACQUISITION PROCEDURES (SAP)

FOR AN ACTION NOT EXCEEDING THE SIMPLIFIED ACQUISITION THRESHOLD

(AUTHORITY: FAR 13.106-1(b)(1))

Requisition Number 143041-25-0034

1. Agency and contracting activity. Department of Commerce, NOAA Acquisition and Grants Office

(AGO), Fish Ecology Division and NOAA-Fisheries

Description of supplies or services required to meet agency needs (including the estimated value). The requirement is to provide a Plankton Imaging system (PlanktonScope) at a total cost of $127,000. This will allow the Fish Ecology Division at the Northwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA-Fisheries to accomplish its mission of Ecosystem Based Fisheries Management

3. Identification of the single source or the brand name to be solicited.

Sig.ai Inc. 8623 SE 78th St. Mercer Island, WA 98040. Yong Huang yong.huang@sig.ai

4. Supporting rationale. Only one source or brand name is reasonably available as detailed below:

• Sig.ai Inc. developed this specific camera system that takes high resolution images of plankton. They have developed the hardware and are the sole proprietors of the PlanktonScope that has the ability to be deployed in a moored setting.

• They are also the developers and sole proprietors of the software written to operate the PlanktonScope, and employ pretrained classification models for plankton species identification from imagery.

• If the Fish Ecology Division cannot obtain the PlanktonScope from Sig.ai then we will not be able to fill a critical gap in our understanding of how ocean conditions affect the high frequency variability in the plankton community that provides food for protected species.

5. Market Research.

No market research was performed because this piece of equipment is only manufactured by a single company.

6. Technical/Requirements Representative Certification

I certify that this requirement constitutes the Government’s minimum needs and the supporting data provided herein is accurate and complete to the best of my knowledge and belief.

Jennifer Fisher Date

(Insert PR/RFQ number, as applicable)

Source Selection Information – see FAR 2.101 and 3.104

7. Science Director’s Certification

Science Director Date

8. Contracting Officer’s Certification

I hereby determine that the circumstances of this action deem only one source is reasonably available. This determination is accurate and complete to the best of my knowledge and belief.

(Insert name) Date