Sole Source Letter Management Concepts - United States Coast Guard 07.15.26.docx

This is a Sole Source Justification Letter from the United States Coast Guard's General Counsel supporting a non-competitive procurement for a copyrighted training course. The letter confirms that Management Concepts holds exclusive intellectual property rights to the "Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Federal Decision-Making (4614)" training course and has not licensed this course to any other entity. Consequently, Management Concepts is identified as the sole vendor capable of delivering the course and providing completion certificates. The letter is dated July 15, 2026, and includes contact information for Steven Simpson, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary, at Management Concepts' Tysons Corner, Virginia office.

This justification supports a Notice of Intent to Award a sole-source purchase order to Management Concepts Inc. by the United States Coast Guard's Surface Forces Logistics Center under Simplified Acquisition Procedures. The solicitation (52000SP260026939) invites interested parties to submit capability statements demonstrating their ability to provide a training program fully equivalent in scope, learning objectives, instructional depth, and curriculum delivery to the specified copyrighted course. The government is conducting market research to identify alternative sources while pursuing the sole-source procurement based on the unique and proprietary nature of the curriculum, as documented in the attached Statement of Work and Sole Source Justification.