Notice of Intent to Sole Source

The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) intends to award a sole source fixed-price purchase order to B&D restaurants for the purchase of 1,000 McDonald¿s Gift Cards for Riverside Indian School students for the 2017-2018 school year. These will be used to purchase meals for the students during their off campus trips when participating in academic, athletic, and extra curricular activities. This will accommodate approximately 700 students for the school year.



B&D Restaurants DBA McDonald's is active in SAM registration and allows us to purchase a large quantity of the gift cards. In addition, McDonald¿s has locations throughout the state and

surrounding states for the student's use during off-campus trips and or traveling to and from home to the school. The school does purchase gift cards from other restaurant vendors.



No competition is being sought. B&D restaurants is the only known vendor that can supply the required gift cards.



The services will be for a period of performance of twelve months.



This is a special notice prepared in accordance with the format in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 5.2 Synopses of Proposed Contract Actions. A solicitation will not be posted. However, any firm that believes it can meet this requirement may give written notification to the Contracting Officer within 15 days of publication of this announcement. Supporting evidence must be in sufficient detail to demonstrate the ability to comply with the requirement. Responses received will be evaluated; however, a determination by the Government to compete the proposed procurement based on the responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. The BIA intends on proceeding with awarding a fixed price purchase order B&D restaurants.



Point of contact for this requirement is Catherine Ashford at 405-247-1508, or via email at:

Catherine.ashford@bia.gov



Address:

BIA

SPRO ¿ Contracting

PO Box 368

Anadarko, OK 73005