SPECIAL NOTICE INTENT TO SOLE SOURCE.pdf

SPECIAL NOTICE – INTENT TO SOLE SOURCE

410th Contracting Support Brigade, Regional Contracting Center – Americas, intends to award a sole source contract to United Computer Products Co., CAGE: 05BL5. This procurement is being conducted in accordance with FAR 13 Simplified Acquisition Procedures. The contract will be firm-fixed-price.

U.S. Army South is conducting a replacement of current OPTIA portable workstations. The OPTIA and its successor systems are authorized to operate on the SOUTHCOM domain. No comparable equipment was found through market research to meet both salient characteristic and have authorization to operate on the required domain. Any substitution with possible alternatives would require a lengthy authorization process of up to a year in length with no guarantee of approval. In turn, this would cause the programs supported by this system to not be available during that time resulting in mission failure.

Line # Manufacturer Description Quantity

1 OPTIA Dual Xeon Rugged Workstations

- (2x) 24" 4K LCD display

- Corner Shock Protector, Air intake filter

- Alum Peripheral and IO door

- Wired USB Keyboard and mouse System Configuration

- Dual Intel 2nd Generation 2.2GHz Scalable Xeon 4214, 12C/24T

- 64GB DDR4 ECC System Memory

- Slim Removable USB Blu-Ray DVD Writer

- Quadro RTX 4000 PCIe 3.0 x 16 with

8GB GDDR6

- (2) Removable 1TB 2.5" Enterprise SSD (Configured as RAID 1 for OS and Applications)

- (4) Removable 3.84TB 2.5" Enterprise

SSD

(Approx. 15.36TB Raw Storage)

- 8 Port LSI MegaRAID 9460 PCIe Array Controller (Supported RAID Level: 0,1,5,10, 50 and 60)

- Dual Port Gigabit Ethernet

- (6) USB 3.0 Type-A, (1) USB 3.1 Type- C, (1) USB 3.1 Type-A

This Notice of Intent is not a request for competitive quotes. If a firm believes it can meet the requirement it must furnish information about its products and services to include authorization to operate on the required domain, as well as references from other customers who are using these products and service, to the Contracting Officer no later than 5:00PM CST, September 23, 2020. Supporting evidence must be furnished in enough detail to demonstrate the ability to comply with the above requirements. Information must be sent to the Contracting Officer SSG Charles Prihoda at charles.e.prihoda.mil@mail.mil. Verbal responses will not be considered. Responses received will be evaluated however; a determination by the

Government not to compete the proposed procurement based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. If no responses are received, the Contracting Officer will proceed with the sole source contract with United Computer Products Co.