7A--PETRA SOFWARE LICENSE RENEWAL Notice of Intent
Closed Special Notice Posted
- Solicitation number
- 140G0325Q0057
- Agency
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Office of Acquisitions and Grants
US Geological Survey, Department of the Interior
- Responses due
- Set-aside
- No set-aside
Opportunity facts
- NAICS code
- 541511 Custom Computer Programming Services
- Points of contact
Notice details come from SAM.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
The US Geological Survey (USGS), specifically the California Water Science Center, has issued a Special Notice for a Petra Software License Renewal. The notice indicates the agency's intent to award a purchase order directly to IHS Markit for a software license critical to their petroleum geological research and groundwater development activities. This is a single-source procurement for a proprietary software that enables comprehensive data storage and analysis of geological formations and well data. The software is essential to the USGS's mission and is uniquely capable of importing and analyzing petroleum industry information such as digital well logs, formation maps, and core data. The notice is being published in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Subpart 5.2 requirements.
The primary purpose of this Special Notice is to satisfy regulatory requirements and provide transparency for a non-competitive procurement of the Petra software license. Contractors are permitted to submit responses or inquiries, though the government retains sole discretion on competition. Specific submission instructions require electronic mail responses to rlujan@usgs.gov, which must be received by March 24, 2025, at 0800 hrs central time. Hardcopy or web portal submissions will not be accepted. The procurement falls under NAICS code 541511 for Custom Computer Programming and PSC code 7A21 for IT and Telecom Business Application Software. While this is not a competitive solicitation, all responsible parties may submit a quotation for consideration. The software license is crucial for supporting the USGS's cooperative program investigating potential interactions between oil and gas development activities and groundwater resources.
Notice text
Petra Software License Renewal
NOTICE OF INTENT
This is a notice of intent to solicit from a single source.
The US Geological Survey (USGS) intends to award a purchase order to IHS Markit for Petra Software License Renewal.
The USGS, California Water Science Center, has a large cooperative program designed to determine where oil and gas development activities may affect groundwater users. Petra is the software currently being used by our petroleum geologists to store a wide range of information about geological formations and well data and enables a wide range of data analyses in support of interpretations. The need for access to the data available by this license is vital to the efforts of this program and to the USGS mission. IHS Markit is the software developer; no resellers exist.
Award will be made in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 13.106-1(b) and the procedures at FAR Part 12 entitled, Acquisition of Commercial Items and Commercial Services.
Petra is a proprietary software only available from IHS Markit. The software is unique in terms of its capability to import and use information produced by the petroleum industry such as digital well logs, formation maps, and core data in combination with analytical tools to speed standard petrophysical interpretations.
The purpose of this notice is to satisfy the requirements of FAR Subpart 5.2. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive quotes. However, all responsible parties may submit a quotation which shall be considered by the agency. No solicitation will be issued. A determination not to compete this action based upon responses received is in the sole discretion of the Government.
The NAICS code 541511 Custom Computer Programming, standard size 34 and PSC 7A21 IT and Telecom ¿ Business Application Software (Perpetual License Software) apply to this announcement.
Responses or inquiries shall only be accepted through electronic mail addressed to rlujan@usgs.gov and must be uploaded and received in their entirety no later than March 24 2025 at 0800 hrs central time. Responses submitted by hardcopy or the any web portal shall not be accepted or considered.
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