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Added: Dec 03, 2015 2:25 pm The U.S. General Services Administration, Federal Acquisition Service, Assisted Acquisition Service (GSA/FAS/AAS) on behalf of GSA's Office of Government-wide Policy (OGP), Office of Information, Integrity, and Access (OIIA) intends to negotiate and award, on a sole source basis, a Firm Fixed Price (FFP) contract to VeriSign Inc. to acquire registry and registrar services to continue support of OIIA's responsibilities for managing the .gov generic Top Level Domain (.gov gTLD). These services support the operations, management, and maintenance of the .gov gTLD registry and registrar function, in compliance with 41 CFR 102-173. The scope of the program extends to all U.S. Government entities - federal, state, and local governments, and native sovereign nations. Verisign is uniquely positioned in that it currently has all required security and technical controls in place to conduct all required tasks and no other vendor has a current Authority to Operate (ATO) for this requirement. The anticipated period of performance will be 12 months. This acquisition will be processed in accordance with simplified acquisition procedures in FAR Part 13.106 (b) and is exempt from the requirements of FAR Part 6, Competition Requirement. The North American Industry Classification System code is 518210 and the business size standard is $32.5 million.

This notice IS NOT a request for competitive quotations. However, the Government will consider all offers received no later than December 18, 2015 at 4:00 PM Eastern Standard Time. The Government will not be responsible for any cost incurred in offer preparation. A determination by the Government not to compete the proposed procurement action based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. Questions shall be directed to Fred Thomas, Contract Officer, in writing via email at Frederick.Thomas@gsa.gov.