2021 Central Arizona Fault Studies

THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR COMPETITIVE QUOTES

NOTICE OF SOLE SOURCE INTENT

The Bureau of Reclamation, Acquisition Operations Branch, intends to award a Firm Fixed Price Commercial Item purchase order to the Arizona Geological Survey at the University of Arizona for the fault studies of Sugarloaf and Carefree faults located in central Arizona. Reclamation has found the Arizona Geological Survey to be the only source able to successfully provide the services that will satisfy the agency's requirements based on their extensive experience and previous mapping.

The awarded purchase order will be for a period of 24 months. A Determination to Solicit From a Single Source is being prepared. The Government anticipates award in April of 2021. The statutory authority for other than full and open competition is 10 USC 2304 (c)(1), only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements.

Vendors that have questions regarding the sole source nature of the requirement or vendors that believe they can fully provide the required services are encouraged to identify themselves and give written notification to the Contract Specialist, Amanda Somerville, within 5 calendar days of this notice.

Responses to this notice can be e-mailed to asomerville@usbr.gov. All responses should include the vendor's Duns and Bradstreet (DUNS) Number and Tax Identification Number (TIN). The NAICS code for this effort is 541360 Seismic Geophysical Surveying Services with a size standard of $16.5 million.

A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed action based on the responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether or not to conduct a competitive procurement.

Any contractor interested in doing business with the Federal Government must register in the System for Award Management database prior to submission of an offer. SAM is a Federal Government owned and operated FREE website at www.beta.sam.gov.

All invoices for this procurement must be submitted through the Department of Treasury's Invoice Processing Platform located at www.ipp.gov.

Questions regarding this can be directed to Contract Specialist, Amanda Somerville, asomerville@usbr.gov.