Intent to Sole Source IHS Global, Inc. , - IHS Exclusive Electronic Subscription Delivery of Standards Platform for Technical Standards Systems (NTSS)
Closed Special Notice Posted
- Solicitation number
- 80MSFC21Q0010
- Agency
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Marshall Space Flight Center
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Responses due
- Set-aside
- No set-aside
Opportunity facts
- NAICS code
- 518210 Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services
- Place of performance
- Redstone Arsenal, Alabama 35802, United States
Notice details come from SAM.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
This Special Notice from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Marshall Space Flight Center intends to award a sole source contract to IHS Global Inc. The objective is to provide agency-wide electronic access to technical standards and metadata from various Standards Developing Organizations needed for design engineering efforts through IHS Global's proprietary Engineering Workbench platform.
The Notice seeks to award a 12-month contract to IHS Global Inc. to acquire seven electronic subscriptions from standards bodies including IPC, AIA, AWS and ECIA. Interested parties may submit capabilities and qualifications by July 23, 2021 to be evaluated for conducting a competitive procurement. However, the decision to award sole source is at the Government's discretion. Under FAR 13.501(b)(1)(i), NASA intends to acquire the commercial subscriptions through IHS Global's exclusive licensing agreements with the standards developers.
Notice text
NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) has a requirement to award a contract for the services and products for the implementation and support of an Agency-wide electronic Web-based Technical Standards Platform for accessing technical standards and related information via the NASA Technical Standards System (NTSS). The objective of the platform is to provide Agency- wide users with effective access to technical standards and the standards metadata from various Standards Developing Organizations (SDOs) needed for Design Engineering efforts.
NASA/MSFC intends to award the standards subscription platform on a sole source basis with IHS Global Inc. for 12 months. IHS Global Inc., has an exclusive right-to-sell the standards content being procured through their proprietary platform called “Engineering Workbench”. The standards content that IHS Global Inc. provides through their platform has been negotiated with the SDOs via an exclusive licensing agreement between IHS Global Inc. and the following SDOs of interest:
IPC/Collection Online (Association Connecting Electronics Industry)
AIA/NAS current & Historical Collection Online ( Aerospace Industry Association) AIA/NAS/3D (NonMem) Act/Online (Aerospace Industry Association)
AWS Collection Online (American Welding Society) ECIA
Parts Intelligence
BOM Intelligence (Bill of Materials)
Under the authority of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 13.501(b)(1)(i), NASA/MSFC intends to award a new contract to acquire seven (7) electronic subscriptions from the SDOs as listed above for twelve (12) months.. The Government intends to acquire these commercial items pursuant to FAR Part 12.
Interested organizations may submit their capabilities and qualifications to perform the effort electronically via email to remonda.j.stevens @nasa.gov or deborah.l.robertson@nasa.gov no later than 23 July 2021 by 9:00 AM CST. Such capabilities/qualifications will be evaluated solely for the purpose of determining whether or not to conduct this acquisition on a competitive basis. A determination by the Government not to compete this acquisition on a full and open competition basis, based upon responses to this notice, is solely within the discretion of the Government.
NASA Clause 1852.215-84, Ombudsman, is applicable. The Center Ombudsman for this acquisition can be found at http://prod.nais.nasa.gov/pub/pub_library/Omb.html
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