AJ14--Intent to sole source

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The Department of Veterans Affairs, North Texas VA Medical Center, intends to negotiate on a sole source basis, pursuant to FAR 6.302-1, with iMedris for continued access to iMedris database while the VA is in process of reformatting to transfer data into a new VA-wide system. VANTHCS Office of Research Development is using IMEDRIS software for Protocol Compliance of all approved Research Basic and Clinical Studies. This service helps to manage compliance and streamline the documentation review and evaluation process. The purpose of this contract is to continue to use IMEDRIS until IRBNet, the VA s National Protocol Compliance Contract is operational and active at VANTHCS. iMedRIS maintains the exclusive technology and platform for the iMedRIS database currently used by VANTHCS. This proposed contract is to continue utilizing the services offered by iMedRIS, therefore, no other vendors can meet this requirement. This is a notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals; however, any responsible source who believes it is capable of meeting the requirement may submit a capability statement to the contracting office no later than March 26th, 12PM, EST. Interest/capability statements may be sent to Lynn Portman at lynn.portman@va.gov. No telephone responses will be accepted. A determination not to compete the proposed requirement based upon the responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government.