Notice of Intent to Award Sole Source

The Aberdeen Proving Ground (Huachuca Division), Contracting Office in Fort Huachuca, AZ intends to issue a written request for quotation and resulting sole source contract to Unique Communications, Inc. to provide for the Configuration Accounting Information Retrieval System (CAIRS) Theater Telephone Management Systems (TNMS) and continuation of brand name warranty of CAIRS.Net. This application allows operators to more efficiently monitor analyze, troubleshooting and optimize the performance of the existing Telephone network in support of United States Army Europe (USAREUR) and the 5th Signal Command 5SC (T)) area of operations (AOR). CAIRS.Net is a proprietary product of Unique Communications Inc. and Unique is the only company that provides the source code services for the Cairs.Net product line. Unique is also the sole provider of technical support services including certification training, system configuration, configuration trouble shooting, and general support task. Award to any other source would result in loss of daily operations and all software updates and upgrades would cease and money to the Government that is not expected to be recovered through competition. The anticipated award date is 27 September 2017. This action is being taken in accordance with FAR Subpart 13.5- Simplified Procedures for Certain Commercial Items. A determination by the Government not to compete the proposed procurement action based upon responses to this notice is solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement.
THIS NOTICE IS NOT A REQUEST FOR COMPETITIVE QUOTES and a solicitation will not be issued. However, inquiries or concerns must be addressed in writing to kari.l.pelton.civ@mail.mil and charles.l.friend.civ@mail.mil no later than 10:00 am (Arizona time) on August 17, 2017. Telephone requests will not be accepted.