GoCD Enterprise License, National Institutes of Health

This is a Notice of Intent, not a request for proposal. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), intends to negotiate on an other than full and open basis with ThoughtWorks Inc., Chicago IL to procure GoCD Enterprise Software License for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases' (NIAID) Operations and Engineering Branch (OEB) of the Office of Cyber Infrastructure and Computational Biology (OCICB).

GoCD is used to provide visibility over end-to-end workflow. Its Value Stream Map allows NIAID to track a change from commit to deploy at a glance. It provides easily seen upstream causes and downstream effects. Items to be procured:

Go Support and Commercial add-ons (251-500 pipelines) QTY: 1

The statutory authority for this sole source requirement is 41 U.S.C. 1901 (a) (1) as implemented by FAR 13.106-1 only one responsible source and no other supply of service will satisfy agency requirements. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL. All responsible sources that could provide comparable services may submit a capability statement that will be considered by email (subject line to reference NOI-RML-D-1906116) to Bevin Feutrier at bevin.feutrier@nih.gov, by 5:00 pm eastern standard time September 10, 2018. All responses received by the closing date of this synopsis will be considered by the Government. A determination not to compete this requirement, based upon responses to this notice, is solely within the discretion of the Government.

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