Intent to Award - OASIS App Design

The United States Geological Survey intends to award a non-competitive contract in accordance with FAR Subpart 13.5 Simplified Procedures for Certain Commercial Items, for the development of OASIS water modeling application (https://www.hazenandsawyer.com/publications/oasis-modeling-for-water-people/) for Mobile and Perdido River basins, to Hazen and Sawyer D.P.C. (Hazen and Sawyer) located in Denver, Colorado. The work is to be delivered to the Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center located in Nashville, Tennessee, to be delivered within one year from the date the Contractor receives the purchase order, with two one-year option periods thereafter.

Hazen and Sawyer is the only known source for this requirement. OASIS has been used to develop decision-support frameworks for several river basins in the Southeastern parts of United States. Utilizing OASIS for developing a decision-support framework for these river basins will provide a common platform of operation for federal and state resource managers to use for water resources decision making. Hazen and Sawyer own all rights to OASIS.

The proposed contract action is for services for which the Government intends to solicit and negotiate with only one source under the authority of FAR 13.501(a). All responsible sources may submit a response to this notice by the response due date of this announcement which shall be considered by the agency. However, this notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals or quotations. Information received will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. A firm-fixed price award will be made on or about 12/21/2021.

The NAICS code is 541511. The size standard is $30.0 million.

Questions must be submitted in writing to Daniel Galvin at dgalvin@usgs.gov (reference no. 140G0122Q0014 in the subject line).