Notice of intent to sole source, adding the State of Georgia to STCHealth’s contract for Connecting Immunization Information System (IIS) Products to the IZ Gateway and to CDC for Data Reporting

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) intends to solicit and negotiate a modification to a contract with STCHealth, LLC (“STCHealth”), 411 S 1st St, Phoenix, Arizona 85004-2754, for sole source work.

This notice is provided in accordance with FAR 5.203(a).

CDC’s existing contract with STCHealth, contract no. 75D30122C14743, is part of a CDC initiative to achieve immunization information system (IIS) modernization requirements. Through this contract, CDC procures information technology services from STCHealth for STCHealth to operate and maintain the IIS system changes that have been made to its IIS products to enable IIS connectivity to the Immunization (IZ) Gateway, a message router that provides a single connection point to all participating IIS. This contract also provides for enhancing STCHealth’s IIS products to support reporting (external to the IZ Gateway) routine vaccination data to CDC and automating the reporting (external to the IZ Gateway) of COVID-19 vaccination data to CDC. Further, this contract involves enhancing STCHealth’s IIS products to connect to new IZ Gateway functionality including, but not limited to, the multi-jurisdictional query function and data submission to CDC via the IZ Gateway.

This modification supports adding the State of Georgia to the list of IIS jurisdictions supported by this contract.

The authority permitting other than full and open competition is FAR 6.302-1, "Only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements." STCHealth is the only entity capable of performing these services in support of the State of Georgia’s IIS because the IIS software it provides to the State of Georgia is proprietary. Therefore, the software and system changes contemplated in this requirement can only be performed by the software owner, STCHealth.

All responsible sources my submit a capability statement, proposal, or quotation to Joshua Houston, Contract Specialist, at joshua.houston@cdc.hhs.gov, which shall be considered by the agency. The deadline for submissions is August 21, 2023, at 4:30pm Eastern time.

The Government will review any/all information submitted to determine if other responsible sources exist that could provide this requirement. Information received in response to this announcement will be used solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement.