Blackboard Hosting and Licensing Service

The 42nd Contracting Squadron at Maxwell AFB, AL hereby gives NOTICE OF INTENT TO AWARD A SOLE SOURCE to Blackboard Inc. to provide Air University with Hosting and Licensing Services in accordance with (IAW) the attached Performance Work Statement (PWS).
Brief Description of Requirement: The contractor shall provide Hosting and Licensing for up to 28,000 users.
Period of Performance: 25 March 2019 - 24 March 2022
Base Period: 25 March 2019 - 24 March 2020
Option Year 1: 25 March 2020 - 24 March 2021
Option Year 1: 25 March 2021 - 24 March 2022
Place of Performance: Contractor's Facility.
The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code is 518210, Software Publishers.
There will be no written solicitation issued. This is an intent to purchase a sole source procurement under the authority of FAR 6.302-1. This will be a Firm-Fixed Price (FFP) contract utilizing Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 13, Simplified Acquisition Procedures.
The contractor needs to be registered in the DoD System for Award Management (SAM). Register via the SAM website https://www.sam.gov, and also be eligible to process invoices through Wide Area Workflow (WAWF). Register via the WAWF website https://wawf.eb.mil.
Those capable of meeting the requirement IAW the PWS are requested to provide the following information in their response: 1) Current capability that demonstrates your company's ability to meet the above requirement, 2) Company name, point of contact, e-mail address, telephone and fax numbers, type of business and size, Cage Code and DUNS number. IMPORTANT NOTES:
1) Information submitted will not be returned to the respective respondents. Oral submissions of information are not acceptable and will not be accepted in response to this notice. 2) Respondents may respond via e-mail no later than 30 Jan 19, 12:00 pm, Central Standard Time (CST) to MSgt Samuel Hudson, samuel.hudson@us.af.mil; (334) 953-3879 or Mr. Mark Restad , mark.restad.1@us.af.mil; (334)-953-3521.
If no responsible, responsive offers are received by the above date, a sole source contract will be issued to Blackboard Inc. under the authority of FAR 6.302-1.
This requirement is for Fiscal Year (FY) 19 and is subject to FAR 52.232-18 Availability of Funds..