Informal_SSJ-PDFNET.docx

INFORMAL SSJ

The Enterprise-wide Redistributable for Core SDK for Windows software is proprietary software licensed by PDFTRON Systems Inc. As such, PDFTRON Systems Inc. has an exclusive right and does not authorize resellers or other entities to maintain the Enterprise-wide Redistributable for Core SDK software in use at SSA facilities. The product will be used by the Office of Telecommunications System Operations infrastructures – Document Conversion Engine (DCE), Employee Records Express (ERE) and Health IT (HIT.)

Currently DCE procured 10 licenses (SS00-12-50111) PDFNet Core SDK for Windows exclusively to perform PDF to TIFF conversions. In order to grow the environment, the licensing of PDFNet Core SDK for Windows must be expanded to an Enterprise-wide Redistributable for Core SDK for Windows software that would allow the SSA’s infrastructures more flexibility in providing the forms, publications, identity issues and DCE, ERE and HIT.

Because of the proprietary nature of the acquisition, the authority for soliciting competition FAR 13.106-1(b) (i) “Contracting officers may solicit from one source if the contracting officer determines that the circumstances of the contract action deem only one source reasonably available (e.g., urgency, exclusive licensing agreements, brand-name or industrial mobilization).”